Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this morning, the University and Freshman wrestlers will journey to New Haven for their final meet of the season with the Eli grapplers...
Originally it was a lifeboat on a yacht belonging to Novelist Zane Grey. They put masts on it and called it a yawl, the Grey Ghost. Fishermen Eli Kelly and James McKinley sailed it out in December and were crippled by a storm. Before the Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...
...Crimson superiority on the basketball court did not extend to the Harvard-Yale freshman contest Saturday night, the Blue first-year men outscoring their opponents 46 to 24. The contest was won by the better team-work and more accurate shooting of the Eli Freshmen. They took the lead early in the game and had little trouble in running up their 22-point advantage...
...furious attack of the University quintet over welcomed the hitherto strong Yale defense. Quick, accurate passing and deadly accuracy in basket shooting quickly ran up the Crimson total. Leekley and Dorn, fed by passes from the other members of the team, together accounted for five field goals. The Eli basketeers had but few opportunities to score and failed through poor shooting to convert any of these opportunities into points. Their total of four points for the period came from free throws. Goals from foul added seven points to the Harvard total...
Last year the Harvard and Dartmouth sextets came neck and neck down the home stretch of the hockey season, to clash at the Arena for the mythical Eastern championship. A 3 to 2 triumph for the Crimson, and a victory over Yale in the final of the Eli series brought the laurels to Captain Cumings...