Word: elis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing before the watchful eyes of Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Yale prexy Bart Giamatti, a psyched-up Cornell squad--"We felt we had a much better team than the record showed," a delirious coach Bob Blackmun said after the same--outran, outtackled and outplayed an Eli eleven that, by all accounts, had a bad practice week and wasn't up for the game...
Somehow, the team seems to go flat at the same time the opposition gets fired up. Ask Christie Littlejohn or Michele Somes--two Eli forwards who found seams in the usually airtight Crimson defense to notch early goals...
...stunts, camera stunts. Rush is always present playing little tricks, making a subliminal point with a telling camera angle, making some point (often lost on the viewer) with a shock cut to another scene. And he always makes sure you know he's there. We see the god-director Eli Gross flying around in a camera crane high against a bright blue sky, making grand proclamations in his Shakespearian high camp, and when he blows a bubble with his gum it pops with an immediate cut to the thunderous roar of a war scene on the movie set. Rush...
...Tiger coach who predicted a one-two Princeton finish, and the Eli coach who figuared on at least two of the top four finishers wearing blue, there were some bitter words to swallow. For Harvard there was only the sweet taste of victory, all the sweeter because it was unexpected...
YALE 16, UCONN 6--Last week's Eli trouncing of Brown was no fluke. Carm Cozza annually puts an outstanding squad together, and this year it's a hungry bunch, still wounded by the humiliation inflicted by the Crimson. The Bulldogs won't lost many this year...