Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling squad crushed the Bulldog freshmen, 38 to 18, in an unofficial inter-college contest, while Winthrop defeated Trumbull College, the Eli title holders, by a score of 36 to 12. In both games, all six members of each Crimson team went over for touchdowns...
...CRIMSON also noted, "Spectators to the number of 2,000 were gathered on Yale's new athletic grounds on witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who come on with ladies from New York, Boston, and elsewhere." They knew they would see a one sided contest, since earlier the same year, Yale had opened its series with Dartmouth handing the Big Green a 113-0 licking...
...Booth wreaked his revenge in 1931. The high-flying Crimson, sporting a 14-13 win over Army, went in the 1931 meeting undefeated and united. The game had barely started when Crickard of Harvard raced all the way to the Yale seven-yard line. As the Stadium crowd waited for the first Crimson touchdown, in the expected rout, the Bulldogs stiffened and held...
...sawing back and forth, the two teams went in the fourth quarter still tied, 0 to 0. Booth completed a pass deep in Crimson territory, and seconds later drop-kicked the ball between the uprights to give Yale a 3-0 margin, which soon became the final score. After three years of struggles, Booths had finally seen his Elis defeat a Harvard eleven...
While the rally and flares were pre-arranged, the team showed an encouraging spontaneous spark in its last appearance on home grounds. Grim determination seemed to characterize both the squad and the coach as they went through their rugged, routine Thursday drills in near-freezing weather...