Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
...Ellis, former Exeter star and veteran Eli back who won the favor of the New Haven fans when he caught Tommy Longnecker's fateful, pass in the Dartmouth game and streaked 88 yards to a score, thus keeping Yale's spotless record over the Green unblemished...
Intensive defensive work has given the Harvard team confidence in its ability to halt the touted Eli power plays. The Crimson offense, too, has received its share of polishing up; tomorrow's game should find it clicking at top speed. Better timing and greater speed in the execution of running plays has been the aim of the Harvard mentors...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 21--Yale's football squad will entrain for Cambridge tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Immediately upon their arrival in Boston, the Eli players will take busses to the Harvard Stadium where they will practice from 2.30 to 4 o'clock...
...Yale men and several undergraduates of Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. It has become fairly clear, since the receipt by the Yale News of obviously spurious telegrams from various sections of country that the disappearance of this last vestige of an old Yale tradition was an undergraduate prank. That the Eli authorities regard it as such is shown by the fact that detectives are already at work on the campi of the universities under suspicion...