Word: ely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Osmanski has been working overtime on offense, for the Cross attack bogged down at critical times against Yale last Saturday. The Purple failed to score in four tries from the one-yard line and the offense stalled several times inside the Eli...
Along with his intelligence report on the Crusaders, McCabe also had a few words to say about Yale. Apparently the Yale line can no longer be known as the "Seven Dwarfs," for the Eli front wall looked good against the Cross, whose line averages 208 pounds--program weights...
Officials also announced that next Saturday's Yale-Columbia game in New York will go on as scheduled, despite the fact that the Eli eleven will have but one day of heavy scrimmage work when the ban on heavy practices ends next Friday...
...losses in Harvard-Yale competition, a dangerous trend has come to the fore in the last few seasons. It won't endanger the Crimson's lead, in the immediate future, anyway, but Yale seems to be narrowing the gap and Jaakko regretfully reports that this year the Eli's have a fair chance of winning the intercollegiate championship. Since good cross-country teams usually lead to good track teams and poor cross-country teams don't such a situation doesn't bode well for the spring either...
Armie Essayan will be the starting catcher, filling in for first string receiver Cliff Crosby who was injured in the New Haven contest. Essayan is not the defensive bulwark that was Crosby and Eli base runners three times stole second base on him. Nevertheless, he atoned for this weakness at New Haven by leading the team in hitting with three for four...