Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-four years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handle-bar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...
...were men in those days, for the records show only the one injury, "Keys was kicked in the wind, and the game was sopped for a couple of minutes," a contemporary account states. The only other casualty occurred in the third half-hour when Thompson of Yale fell heavily on the pigskin, which gave the ghost and exploded. Taking a realistic view of the situation, the referee blow the ball up and tossed...
...Bellboys were held during the first half by a ten-man Pierson team. The visitors eleventh man arrived at the half, but Lowell tore loose in the last period and scored on a pass from Bill Murphy to Dave Hime...
...strange Eli team in the first half. They failed to capitalize on obvious breaks, but drove the length of the field on straight football and their own night to a touchdown...
...apparently superior Crimson line momentarily weakened, and the Elis took the lead. A vaunted Crimson attack stuttered and stalled intermittently, and Yale led in score but not in yardage as the half ended...