Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"The play that no one has been able to stop is the Dowling to Hill pass out of the I formation. The Crimson must stop this, and must also stop Dowling's passes back to the other side on roll-outs. Hill is dangerous not as a runner, but as...
1) A Yale Ivy League championship. It would be the second in a row, don't forget, and that is something. Try to keep out of your mind the fact that Harvard is on the brink of winning its first outright Ivy title. That causes all sorts of anxiety.
2) 17 wins in a row, more than any other college in the country. The great thing about breaking a winning streak is that the team that loses has to start all over again. It is as though those other 16 games did not count, and Yale is beginning again...
Yale will be eating every football team in sight with nowhere to go. It will be a man living too long, someone reaching immortality and then begging to die. Yes, for sure, Yale will want to lose some day, sooner or later, just to make its winning more meaningful. That...
The Yale students look and act blase. Their football team has been winning so easily, for so long, that no one questions the inevitable: Brian Dowling cannot be beaten. In the immortal words of one undergraduate, "You never know what's going to happen--but you know that you're...