Word: ely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eli football players will know what it feels like to work behind the footlights, not on the stage but on the gridiron, when the electric lights the ready for use which have been placed around the main gridiron of Pratt Field in New Haven. The sporting world has heard of electric-lighted tennis courts and hockey rinks, but it was not until the electric light poles were placed around Yale's gridiron that playing football at night was introduced...
Yale last night joined the University in bowing to the prowess of the versatile and brilliant Oxford debaters, who defeated, the Eli by an audience vote of 776 to 286, or almost...
Practice today was featured by a Freshman time-trial over the two-mile course down-stream. The time of 9 minutes 43 seconds is exceptionally good for the distance, and gives promise of a strong Crimson bid for victory over the speedy Eli 1926 boat...
...Eli athletes faced the Tiger on its home track, and carried off a victory in brilliant fashion by a 76 2-3 to 58 1-3 count. Two weeks later, however, the Princeton team invaded the Stadium and overwhelmed the Crimson track men in a meet featured by many record performances, the final score standing 85 1-2 to 49 1-2. The following week-end, many University athletes competed in the intercollegiate contests in Philadelphia, but were able to collect only six points for eleventh place. Yale, however, amassed a total of 23, and was beaten for the title...
...Yale-Princeton meet, the Elis took two places in the quarter-mile and in the broad jump, but in both of these events the Tigers made a clean sweep against the University squad. On the other hand, in the Princeton meet three. University high jumpers tied for first place, while in the Princeton-Yale meet two weeks previously, two Tigers had entered a four-cornered tie for first with two of the Eli jumpers...