Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material, say correspondents, while satisfactory, is not up to the mark of the days when Tad Jones was playing, or even of the 1916 squad. Thus Yale goes back to the old cry of wolf. Here we have one sign at least of a return of that old Eli system which accomplished so much to the wailing of duly accredited Jeremiahs. Considering that Tad Jones is at the helm at New Haven, and that Johnny Field, Ted Lilley and other veteran foxes are assisting him, we will do well not to take too much store by the probable tenor...
...matter of fact, the glowing things that New Haven scribes said about Yale's material last year were justified. The material was good and the Eli eleven of 1919 was just a shade short of being everything that the ardent well-wishers of the Blue could have hoped for. In the Princeton game only a break toward the end of the game, when Yale was taking chances to break a tie, enabled Princeton to win, while the Tigers earlier were obliged to resort to a long field-goal chance to top the score. In the Harvard game Yale had three...
...until the Cornell game on May 24 that Yale recovered from her slump, when she defeated the Ithacans 9-3. Although the Eli batsmen made but one more hit than Cornell, the New Haven nine won by a score of 9 to 3, because the Cornell team did not come through in the pinches...
West Virginia proved an easy mark for the Yale batsmen. But her neighbors from the South, the University of Virginia nine, had another story to tell. Breaking the Eli's winning streak, she defeated them 1-0. The game was a pitchers' duel between Harrison of Yale and Kelly of Virginia. The southern university, scored the only run of the game by a clever squeeze play after a triple by Burnette. The batteries were: Yale, Kelly and Peters; Virginia, Harrison and G. Kuyk...
Yale made its runs in the first four innings, getting two in the first frame, one in the second, two more in the third, and four in the fourth. Maloney of Cornell, who started the game, was hit freely, the Eli batsmen collecting eleven hits from his delivery. Rickard relieved him in the fourth inning, with one out, and held the Blue team to two hits. Selleck, pitching for Yale, allowed only three hits...