Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth time this year a Freshman team bowed to Yale by narrowest of heart-breaking margins, when the Eli first year men rallied in the ninth inning Saturday to gain a 2 to 1 victory in the best-played game of baseball at Soldiers Field this season. The game was errorless, and was featured by brilliant pitching on the part of both Barbee of the Freshmen and Shoop of Yale...
...three games in a row, and to win tomorrow they will have to show better work in every department than that which they offered to the Brown 1928, St. John's Preparatory Academy and Andover outfits. What comparative advantage they gained by defeating an Exeter team which downed the Eli Freshmen early in the year has been lost by their showing of the past three weeks...
Captain Dexter Cummings will lead off for the Eli golfers. He has been intercollegiate champion for the last two years and has set up a score of 71 for the Westchester Biltmore Country Club course, which has only been surpassed by Hagen. The remainder of his team, composed of Wattles, Flinn, Ordway, Haviland, and Tuttle, present a powerful array, which has only been defeated this year by Princeton. Although the latter fell before the University onslaught, it would be unwise to take much stock in the comparative scores, since they are still more undependable in golf than in any other...
...generally known to the public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...
While the Blue was trampling on the Crimson University twelve at New Haven the Eli Freshmen duplicated at Soldiers Field by defeating the Harvard 1928 team...