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...sort of a psychological thing with Harvard," says Eli stickwoman Molly Pyle. "You start to see them as the enemy." Among "the enemy" is sister Jennifer, who plays on Harvard's JV team. Jennifer was recruited by both Harvard and Yale; she could have gone to either school...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Playing The Game year round | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Even more motivation comes when a thinner package from one admissions office makes the choice of schools for an athlete. One such Eli made the All-Ivy team three straight years. "He always played his best game against us," McLaughlin recalls. "He later told me he used to read his rejection letter from Harvard before he played us each time...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Playing The Game year round | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...does the host team get a partisan crowd, it also gets to set the rules. Last year the Winthrop women's soccer team chose to play on a field hockey field, with only six players a side. Yale's Silliman College squad took the game more seriously, and the Eli captain objected that the rules were ridiculous...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: The Friday afternoon rivalries | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...football team in the Ivy League and the music in the trainer's room switches from "Rock the Casbah" to Yale fight songs. Somehow, Lapham Field House in front of the Yale Bowl hasn't yet been converted into a morgue, or some other purpose appropriate for the worst Eli squad in the school's history...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: They bombed in New Haven | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...certainly be enshrined right up there with the 1-7 1940 and 1941 squads (which both lost to Harvard), make no mistake about it. No Yale team before this fall ever lost eight games in a row nine. If you include last year's loss at Harvard). No previous Eli squad has ever lost eight times in one season...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: They bombed in New Haven | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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