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Yale skated twice as many Bay Staters as the Crimson squad it pounded, 6-2, last night at Ingalls Rink. Eight of the 19 Eli participants call Massachusetts their home, and they all call Harvard their rival...

Author: By Mike K. Nobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Expatriates | 2/2/1985 | See Source »

...papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Harvard spent the bulk of the first 45 in the Eli half of the pitch, looking for weaknesses to exploit in the Yale defense...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Booters Roll On, Blank Elis, Prepare for Battle With UConn | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...play of the 8-play, 67-yard drive was a 38-yard bullet from Eli quarterback Mike Curtin to Kevin Moriarty...

Author: By Jeffrey A.zucker, | Title: Yale Nukes Harvard, 30-27; Penn Left Atop the Ivy Pile | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

Mistakes continued to plague the Crimson in the second half. In fact, less than a minute into the third periods, a swarming Eli defense caused a White fumble...

Author: By Jeffrey A.zucker, | Title: Yale Nukes Harvard, 30-27; Penn Left Atop the Ivy Pile | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

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