Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear "Hard luck for poor old Eli", sung at the Princeton game sounds foolish, to say the least. L. H. Cushman...
Only 30 of the 332 points that have been scored by today's rivals have been tallied by linemen. The Cheek to Savles aerial feature has allowed the latter to place the ball behind the last stripe twice, and Bradley, Eli wingman, has also chalked up 12 Blue points via the air route. Richards, Bulldog tackle, is the other forward who has had a hand in adding to Yale's total. His contribution amounts to six points, gained by a recovered fumble...
Yale this season has won two of its four important games. Brown was beaten, 20 to 7, and the Army team succumbed, 28 to 7. Pennsylvania took Yale's measure, 16 to 13, thanks largely to Eli fumbles, and last week Princeton triumphed...
Today as the crowds shuffle laboriously across the Anderson bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern...
Zantzinger, Eli captain and center half, will present the Blue's greatest threat. He, together with Douglas, Yale safety man, have faced the Crimson three times, and are reported to be the mainstays of an otherwise mediocre outfit...