Word: yales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Queens Royal College, and played soccer throughout his preparatory school days. During his Freshman year at Harvard he played fullback and was one of the strongest men on the first year eleven, and for the last two years it has been his sterling defense play which has repulsed the Yale attack and held the Blue to three tallys in the two games...
...grads of course will be with Mr. T. A. D. Jones in his indignation over the decline of the old Yale spirit. Yale no longer is Yale they will feel...
...this calm acceptance of the Yale Harvard football game as a mere football game is a fault some of the blame might be traced to the football committee of which Mr. Jones is chairman and some of the other various committees of old grads. If these committees felt that the falling off of the "Yale spirit" is a real calamity they should have foreseen and forestalled...
...take any expert diagnostician to say that the "old Yale spirit as dead." They should have caught the spirit when it first was taken sick and administered restoratives or something Certainly they were in the strategic position to count the pulse of Yale and they should have been able to tell when it first showed signs of feebleness...
Whatever the reason for the "Decline in the Yale spirit" it might he just as well if the same decline would hit all of the colleges to a reasonable extent. This I suppose would sound sacrilegious to any old grad, but it would forestall the annual hullabaloo concerning overemphasis and the distortion of vales. Yale at the close of this season refrained from distorting a single value or tearing up a single goal post...