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...quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini's "pond." At no point did the British encounter any Italian resistance...
...true measure of Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel...
...Ducky Pond Arrives...
...Ducky Pond arrived, and Yale was the victor, 13 to 0, Ducky sloshing through some 65 yards of Stadium slime with a Harvard fumble in his arms for the first Eli touchdown in the Stadium since 1907. Another sea battle ensued the next year, with the New Haven navy demonstrating its proficiency by a 19 to 6 score. Apparently whenever Harvard and Yale battles must end deadlocked, the result is scoreless, and 1925 was no exception, the Harvards playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...
Yale may hope to generate enough steam to make its running attack click, but that is only a forlorn hope. All that Coach Pond really wants is to flash an effective enough ground offense to keep Harvard worried. afraid to devote all its attention to Yale aerials...