Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Funsters, unable to gain against Towermen, punted. Branford then moved the ball to the Dunster four and Gardeur plunged off tackle to score. Ester John Weium blocked the conversion...
...that the Harvard House gained last year marked the fist time since the war that the Eli's did not gain the Trophy outright. Except for the years 1943 through 1946 when there was no competition, Harvard has won the Cup only once, in 1942 when the Crimson triumphed in seven of the nine contests. Including last year, the series has ended in a tie three times. In the eleven years of actual competition, Yale colleges have won 56 contests, Harvard Houses 41 and there...
Some of them are not really varsity players at all. Witness the fact that last Friday, when the jayvees were playing the Brown jayvees, six or seven third string varsity men--mostly linesmen--were sent over to strengthen the Crimson lineup and to gain game experience. The Brown jayvees...
...third stringers are the ones who would have had to go into the varsity game had there been two injuries at any one position; but in practice, when the varsity tests its offense against the third team, it is often hard pressed to gain through the reserves...
...Yale also has a strong running attack. By the end of the game, Spears, who had been playing both ways all afternoon, could still gain through the first string Princeton defense. The left side of Yale's defensive line seemed weak: Finnegan, the tackle on that side, was being trapped a good deal of the time...