Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various conceptions, all amazingly inaccurate, of the scene of Saturday's battle royal, call to mind the fact that it is some years since old Eli has had the privilege of entertaining in its peculiar arena Be all this as it may, Lampy in spite of its years is a very lively paper, and may I in closing add that a certain venerable canine is not dead...
Parke H. Davis '93, the famous historian and statistician of football, on Saturday evening after watching Princeton "leave old Eli trailing in the dust," remarked: "Don't get the idea into your head that Princeton defeated Yale today because the Blue team was weak. I have been watching Yale teams for 32 years, and the 1920 Eli eleven is one of the strongest that I have ever seen Princeton piled up 20 points against its opponents because it played super-football." --Daily Princetonian...
There's never an Eli can teach us to play...
...funeral ode we sing to Eli Yale...
...Anyone who has played against Yale knows that regardless of the early season scores Yale is a different animal when cornered in the Bowl than when playing away from home. The Eli team has everything to win and nothing to lose. In defeating Harvard, they have their only possible way of making their season a success, and the weight strength and savageness of a cornered Yale team is not to be underrated. There is not one of us who knows the inside workings of the game but realizes that we have got the toughest game of the season...