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While the Eli linemen held Penn's defense at bay, Yale's running backs broke for 429 yards, setting a team record with 32 consecutive first downs...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Three Teams Share Top Ivy Slot | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...Eli ground game was so over-powering that quarterback Bob Rizzo was rarely forced to pass. Out of a total of 450 total offensive yards, 390 were delivered by the Yale running backs...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Brown Moves Into First Slot; Ivy Football Race Heats Up | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

Pagliaro popped for six yards in the third quarter to give Yale a 7-0 lead, then scampered 75 yards later in the period to make it 14-0., After a Lehigh tally, Greg Hall grabbed a 15-yard scoring strike from Eli quarterback Bob Rizzo to close things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Keeps on Rolling; Cornell Drops Tenth Straight | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

From the time it was first founded, the U.S. has been the world's foremost innovator. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: American Ingenuity: Still Going Strong | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...attic, Rhoads has assembled and put on view priceless originals: the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803; the Homestead Act of 1862, which opened the West; the Monroe Doctrine (actually two widely spaced references in President James Monroe's 1823 annual message); the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; patents for Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794) and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1876); the 1919 Treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Pilgrims in the Archives | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

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