Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale made the first goal after 42 minutes of play. Driggs of the Crimson team then took the ball from midfield through the entire Eli team and scored a point for the University. The Freshmen held the Elis scoreless until the very end of the game when the Blue got the winning goal...
...Yale team was composed of men who had played together for three years, and showed a higher grade of teamwork than the University riders. These three factors, teamwork, small floor, and familiar ponies have worked together so successfully to produce Eli victories that no team has ever beaten the Blue on its home field...
With the Yale Freshmen leading by the margin of a single point in the middle of the last quarter. Harvard recovered a fumble on the Blue's 43-yard line, and by straight football carried the ball to a first down on the Eli six-yard line...
Yale scored in the first quarter on a forward pass from Ordway to Fishwick, which the Eli quarterback converted into a touchdown after a brilliant 40-yard dash. The Harvard touchdown came when Pratt, who was the shining light in the Crimson defense, blocked a punt, and Fordyce scooped the ball up and ran for a touchdown. Burns try for the extra point was blocked by Goodwin...
...fact that John Harvard failed to produce a comeback made the Eli victory all the more significant. "Yale vanquished the team that annihilated the Crimson the week before, while Harvard apparently failed to show any improvement", such was the train of thought running through everyone's mind. In every department of the game except punting the Blue had shown itself superior to the Tiger. Yale out-rushed, out passed, indeed thoroughly outplayed its opponent...