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Word: yales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because one of its players has contracted a "mild" case of infantile paralysis, Yale yesterday called off Saturday's varsity football game with Fordham and indicated that it may have to cancel next week's Columbia game as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Case of Polio Cancels Yale Grid Contest | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...jayvees, in addition to a four-game schedule of their own, run opposition plays and scrimmage with the varsity. Their competitive season opens here on Oct. 15 against Army, followed by Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale. First string end Dick Hyde and tackle Will Davis are two examples of men who rose from the jayvees to the varsity last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben McCabe Calls For More Jayvee Grid Candidates | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

...awful lot of people, these who bought tickets to the Columbia-Harvard football game to be exact, are going to be mighty annoyed this morning, and if they're not, they ought to be. The tickets they bought yesterday would do credit to a freshman at the Yale game, but that's about all. And nothing can be done about...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...origins of Stanford are shrouded in myths which go back to the great railroad man and Senator Leland Stanford himself. The story goes that the Senator gathered a few of his millions together and with a generous heart and bulging bank roll, proceeded to Yale University. (Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...casual act for an Easterner, but Californians take their cheering seriously. The supreme example of this is the West coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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