Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard banners bedeck the streets above the heads of parading graduates. The baseball team is tasting the first Eli blood that has fallen to a Crimson nine in several years. A Harvard crew is waiting in New London with more than psychology to show to a Yale eight on the Thames tomorrow. Bands play, stands cheer, flags wave. It is an exciting pageant. And it is a curious sociology that lies behind it. Anthropologists of today may well envy their successors of tomorrow the investigation of the Commencement celebrations of primitive American peoples...
...Yale Freshman crew will probably make his decision either today or tomorrow as to whether or not he will be able to fashion a first year eight out of the 13 oarsmen who remain in his charge in time to race the Crimson 1929 boat next Friday. The Eli mentor has assembled nine Freshmen who were cut from his squad two weeks before the crews went into training at Gales Ferry, and with the four members left to him from his first eight it is possible that he will be able to work out some sort of a combination...
...clash with the Yale riders promises to be the stiffest competition which the University squad will encounter. Three members of the Eli quartet are veterans of the national indoor championship three or last winter. In recognition of their title winning achievements the indoor players were yesterday awarded major...
...member of the last Harvard eleven before the two-year interim caused by the War, and of the winning team of 1909. In 1916 the Crimson captained by H. H. Dadmun '17 defeated Princeton 3 to 0, but was defeated by Yale 6 to 3 when an Eli back recovered a fumble in the final period. The year following the war, Casey was again at his post in the backfield of the great Harvard team which downed Yale 10 to 3, and later in the season journeyed to Pasadena where it triumphed over a strong Oregon eleven...
During the past season, Whitbeck has played number one, and has been undefeated with the exception of one match, that against Princeton. In the final match against Yale. Whitbeck blasted the Eli hopes by vanquishing Watkins in the match that started the Crimson landslide...