Word: yales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Walter William Heffelfinger, son of a Minneapolis boot & shoe manufacturer, presented himself as a freshman at Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly saw, was the strapping physique to crash through any resistance to victory. Last week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident...
...empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his first to his last college year?and even after.) Sweating and grunting Rusher Heffelfinger helped to roll Yale over Princeton 10 to 0. The next year his team crushed Harvard and the third year overcame Princeton again...
...yard low hurdles--Two men in each heat qualified for semifinals. First heat--won by G. A. Tupper '29; second, Furth, (N.Y.U.); third, Pogolotti (California). Time--24 1-5 sec. Second heat--won by E. A. Payne (Southern California); second, Kieselhorst (Yale); third, Sykes (Haverford). Time--24 3-10 sec. Third heat--won by J. A. Payne (Southern California); second, Parrish (Swarthmore); third, Smith (Yale). Time--25 1-10 sec. Fourth heat--won by Cunningham (Yale); second, Stollwerek (Colgate); third, Lincoln (Princeton). Time--24 1-5 sec. Heat for third men (Two to qualify for semifinals). Won by Pogolotti (California...
...yard run. Three men in each heat qualified for finals. First heat--won by Swope (Dartmouth); second, Saxer (Penn); third, Shotter (Georgetown). Time--49 2-5 sec. Second heat--won by Bowen (Pittsburgh); second, Engle (Yale); third, Graham (Syracuse). Time--48 2-5 sec. Third heat--won by Morrison (Stanford); second, St. Clair (Syracuse); third, F. E. Cummings '30. Time...
...advances in the professional schools and great expansion during this period. President Lowell's great contribution has undoubtedly been in tais general levelling up of the undergraduate's intellectual opportunities. It is a twenty-year period that will become notable in Harvard's history for this basic intellectual betterment. Yale men will join with their Harvard friends in the felicities of the occasion. Yale Alumni Weekly...