Word: yales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of tap day last week, there was a stir of special excitement at Yale. Would Halfback Levi Jackson, the first Negro ever to be elected captain of a Yale football team (TIME, Dec. 6), also be the first of his race to be tapped for a senior society...
...Something regarded as unthinkable to any person of decorum. Wrote one turn-of-the-century authority with stiff finality: "No person familiar with Yale customs ever thinks of speaking to an undergraduate member even in the most indirect manner about his society or either of the others. To do so intentionally would be a serious affront...
Crimson freshman lacrosse players rallied in vain in the second half of Saturday's Yale game, to lose 8 to 7. The half time score...
...freshman track team wound up a very successful season at New Haven Saturday by eking out a 71 1/3 to 68 2/3 victory over Yale. Firsts in the dashes by Dick Weiskopf and in the hurdle events by Charlie Durakis, sweeps in the two mile and the quarter, a first and second in the mile, and firsts in the javelin and broad jump contributed to the close...
Weiskopf, Durakis, and Captain Bill Geick will represent the Crimson in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge Meet on the basis of their performances, Saturday...