Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard will give Yale a good race next June," Coach Stevens said recently, "But as for winning, I am very skeptical. Ed Leader has a system at Yale, tested by a year's experience and rowed for at least a year by all men eligible for the Eli University crew this spring. It is this year's experience under Leader's system whch gives Yale a great advantage. Harvard crew men must do a great deal more work than Eli oarsmen in order to meet the latter on equal terms this June...
...team entrained for New Haven Tuesday with an added confidence bred by its phenomenal victory over Dartmouth, but once again victory was snatched from its grasp by an Eli rally in the closing minutes. Gordon's all-around play was brilliant...
...failed to fight all the harder as they have seen victory ebbing away. The gallant struggle put up tonight by Captain Gordon and his men aroused the handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise of the most dyed-in-the-wool Eli sympathizers. It was distinctly a defeat with honor; but a defeat, even with honor, is scant comfort to the players who had victory so nearly within their grasp...
...University wrestling team and brought what was hoped to be the first really successful season in eight years to an unsuccessful close. For although the curtain will not officially drop on the 1924 season until after the New England Intercollegiate Championships at Providence Friday and Saturday, the Eli victory last week came as the climax of the year...
...Eli hopes rest largely on Pite the forward whose long range of pot shots spelled disaster for the Crimson in the Cambridge contest. He is either a great asset or a great liability. His presence in the line-up destroys teamwork, for he shoots every time be gets the ball regardless of his teammates positions. He is the possessor, however, of an uncanny eye, and he has caged his long-distance goals consistently enough to prove that his showing against Harvard was not a lucky flash...