Word: levis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...other Gothic edifices are several buildings in Colonial style, an incongruity heightened in the courtyard of one particular College which is half Colonial and half Gothic. And one finds, too, in the midst of the University buildings, a plain red-brick New Haven high school, from whence sprung Levi Jackson...
...tended to make less use of the man in motion, and concentrate his strength for power plays. Thus, while Harvard fans who have watched Rutgers and Dartmouth might expect to see the wide open man in motion attack, they will get little of it today--except of course when Levi Jackson makes like a jet-propelled rocket around the ends...
Much of the Eli strength lies in its formidable, beefy line, which averages 210 pounds from tackle to tackle, and the presence of three excellent backs in the highly-publicized Levi Jackson, Tex Furse, and Ferd Nadherny, who have utilized the T formation to its best advantage...
...with injuries, other features of the Yardling attack will be the pass reception ability of George Goodrich, who snagged two for scores against Brown last week, and the running of shifty fullback, Howie Mofile, a man who chalked up several long runs against the Varsity this week, while imitating Levi Jackson...