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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games played between these two institutions, none have probably equaled the drama of the years 1929 through 1931, when the famous Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry held the nation's interest. Wood, one of the greatest athletic figures in Crimson history, was tall, dark, and powerful. Booth was small, crafty, and renowned for his place-kicking ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And Hardly a Man is Still Alive Who Saw Harvard-Yale Start in '75 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

Since the advent of Dick Harlow to the Crimson coaching scene, there have been nine Harvard-Yale affairs, with the Bulldogs holding a five to four edge. Percy Haughton, most famous Crimson coach, compiled a record of five victories, two losses, and two ties in the nine years he directed affairs at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And Hardly a Man is Still Alive Who Saw Harvard-Yale Start in '75 | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

LEVI JACKSON, properly named by sports printers, "The Ebony Express," is Eli's vaunted breakaway runner. Having more speed and power than that other famous Elm City boy, Albie Booth, the freshman speedster has showed his heels to every Yale opponent this fall...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Biographies in Blue | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...didn't follow the beaten path of his contemporaries up the Mississippi to Chicago, but instead barnstormed the larger communities in the deep south. For a while he played in Florida with an outfit led by a man named Eagle Eye Shields which had "Cootie" Williams, later to become famous with Duke Ellington, playing trumpet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

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