Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...
While the University team invades New Haven, the Freshmen will play their first and last game of the season today when they meet Yale's 1928 team on Soldiers Field. Yale has a great advantage in having gone through a stiff schedule of games, but the Crimson Freshmen have played so well against the University twelve in practice that they are expected to give the Elis a hard battle...
...game attracted much attention from the early French settlers in Canada, and was handed down by them in the form we know it today. In its present form the game offers opportunity for 12 men to play on a side, a large number for a sport providing such stiff competition. It is played usually on a field about the size of a football gridiron, or to be exact, 110 yards long by 70 yards wine. Goals are placed at either end of the field into which the ball must be thrown in order to score. Each goal counts one point...
...twelve enters the game with an impressive record having lost only one game; while Yale has won only two of its scheduled encounters. The Elis have had a much hearder schedule than the University, and have made strong showings against Princeton and Syracuse. With fighting team they promise some stiff opposition for tomorrow...
...Stadium this season. He believes that the meet with M. I. T. on Saturday will be far from a practice affair for the Crimson. M. I. T. was badly beaten by Princeton last week but its showing against the Tigers revealed some individual athletes who should furnish stiff competition. The most formidable of these probably is Leness, the Engineer 880-yard man, who took first place against a big field at Princeton. In the recent Pennsylvania relays, be was timed for his leg of the medley relay race in 1.54 4-5 seconds, an exceptionally fast time...