Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account for the University major victories, while the Elis have taken the palm in football, track and rowing, with one football game undecided in a scoreless tie. Two wins in squash, basketball and cross-country, and single successes in tennis, golf and soccer make up the Crimson total of minor honors, while Yale has twice won the series in wrestling, fencing, and indoor and outdoor polo. In addition to the lead that this summary gives to Harvard, the University has for the last two years obtained the laurels in the Intercollegiate Indoor Track games, defeating Yale among other teams that...
Last spring's contests on track, turf, and river were equally productive of victories to both universities until the Elitriumph on the Thames last June settled the final verdict in favor of the New Haven athletes. Harvard's minor sport wins in tennis and golf were balanced by Yale successes in outdoor polo and lacrosse. In the major contests, however, the victory of the powerful Blue eight gave Yale an eleventh hour advantage as far as spring sports went, and evened up the count for the whole year, a hockey win and football tie having placed Harvard ahead...
...Minor Sport Teams...
...Harvard Superiority in fail minor sports for the past two years is offset by this year's 12 to 7 defeat in football. In 1926 the Crimson and Blue elevens fought up and down the Stadium to a scoreless tie, but in the Bowl last fall two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell spelled downfall for the Harvard team...
...winning the Intercollegiate Indoor track title twice from a large field of colleges, the Crimson forces scored indirect triumphs over the Blue team, which loomed each year as a titular threat. Winter minor sports honors for 1926 and 1927 have in each case gone to Yale by a margin of three sports to two. The Harvard squash and basketball players have emerged triumphant in their engagements with the Elis, while in wrestling, fencing and indoor polo the Yale grapplers, swordsmen and riders have prevailed