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Word: notting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale crushed Harvard, 41 to 14, in 1952. Forty of the Elis' points were not particularly galling--after all, the Bulldogs had lost only two games that fall, and no one had given the Crimson much of a chance of contain them. But the 41st point touched off a dispute...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

Yale ran its victory skein to 11 before the Crimson finally notched its second win. Harvard's low point of the 11 years, and of the entire series until the debacle of 1957, was reached in 1884, when the Elis triumphed, 48 to 0 or 52 to 0, depending on...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

When the varsity finally broke through in 1890, it was an occasion of high drama. After so many years of failure, the Crimson met and defeated perhaps the greatest Yale team of all. The CRIMSON gloated, "The victory is not the result of one year's training alone; it is...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

After the 1894 game, won by Yale, 12 to 4, the series was suspended for two years as a result of the ill will created by the fray. The CRIMSON charged, "Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

As sophomore quarterback Ed Molloy, who gave up Drill's interception soon after replacing injured Yale starter Jim Ryan, grew disheartened, Eli coach Herman Hickman advised, "You pitch them out, kid, and I'll start heading out of town. We've got nothing to lose now--not even a reputation...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 84 Seasons of Football's Greatest Rivalry | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

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