Word: elys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Yale game as an objective, Coach Horween knows that the Blue line is powerful, and that a blow from the air may prove the most effective means of piercing the Eli armor. In David Guarnaccia '29, and J. W. Potter '30, the Crimson eleven has two potential passers of high-class ability; who may prove dangerous to the Brown Bear and to the Yale eleven...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...
...Waco (Tex.) Cotton Fair last week went a Connecticut Yankee, Charles J. Luce of Niantic, with a contraption which, like the contraption of another Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney, helped the southern cotton grower...
...culmination of the class football season will be reached today when the Seniors and Juniors clash at 3 o'clock to decide which team is to travel to Yale to meet the Eli class champions. The Seniors have won two games and lost none, while the Juniors have won two and lost one. The series may result in a deadlock if the Juniors win, while if the Seniors come through today they will be undisputed champions...
...first appearance in the Princeton game last year, when, after the Harvard supporters had listened patiently to songs for old Nassau, my boys, and were aching for a chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet...