Word: elys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football team in the Ivy League and the music in the trainer's room switches from "Rock the Casbah" to Yale fight songs. Somehow, Lapham Field House in front of the Yale Bowl hasn't yet been converted into a morgue, or some other purpose appropriate for the worst Eli squad in the school's history...
...certainly be enshrined right up there with the 1-7 1940 and 1941 squads (which both lost to Harvard), make no mistake about it. No Yale team before this fall ever lost eight games in a row nine. If you include last year's loss at Harvard). No previous Eli squad has ever lost eight times in one season...
...Dartmouth loss reflected badly on the Eli character. In the first half, the defense held against the second-string Big Green quarterback, and short firstdown passes by Bulldog QB Mike Curtain kept Yale moving...
Meanwhile, Dartmouth quarterback Frank Polsinello returned, despite a lingering injury, and picked apart the Eli defense. On the drive that created the decisive TD with 47 left, he toyed with the Bulldog secondary, diverting if to the sidelines to cover dangerous split end Jack Duly. While Duly attracted crowds of defenders. Palsinello destroyed Yale with passes to lessfenowned receivers in the middle...
...that game the Eli defensive line, led by Giella and junior middle guard John Zanieski (who leads the team in sack's), stopped the run, at least. But the linemen have been embarrassed too at Cornell, tailback Derrick Harmon averaged more than eight yards a carry and nearly outgained the entire Yale offense...