Word: levies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haven, Harvard and Yale fought the battle of the Ivy League cellar. The man who covered himself with most glory: Yale's popular Negro captain and star halfback, Levi Jackson, who scored Yale's first two touchdowns. After Harvard was crushed, 29-6, Levi, with an assist from other players, toted Yale's 300-lb. Coach Herman Hickman off the field on his shoulders...
Bradford H. Quackenbush will captain the Yale varsity football team next year. Blue lettermen elected his successor to Levi Jackson at a 15-minute meeting yesterday afternoon...
...ingredients were there, however. The thousands who piled off special trains, buses, and planes headed immediately for the liquor dispensaries. And the Yalies and their guests then jammed the steps of the Freshman Commons to cheer Herman Hickman, Levi Jackson, the Eli team, and God and country...
...this is the Harvard-Yale game, the one in which they throw away the book. It may even turn out to be a 0 to 0 tie. The Crimson must win today to have any kind of a season record. But Levi Jackson inspired Yale to a second half comeback against Princeton, and he may pull it off again against the Crimson...
Charles Seymour was born in New Haven on January 1, 1885, which brings him to Yale's retirement age of 65 next year. After graduating from Hillhouse High School (which also gave Yale its football captain, Levi Jackson) in 1901, he received a B.A. from Kings College, Cambridge University, England, in 1904. He then came to Yale for four years, getting his B.A. there...