Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reports of an outbreak of internal upsets, which nervous Freshmen laid to Lima beans served in the Monday evening Union meal, dribbled in from the Yard last night, but Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, physician in the Department of Hygiene, declared that no stricken undergraduates had turned up at Stillman Infirmary...
Thus Yale took over and soon afterwards came to have a fourth down on the Crimson 20-yard line. Actually, Eli coach Howle Odell sent Billy Booe into the game with instructions to try a run around end, feeling that his place-kicker was not capable of such a lengthy field goal endeavor. Something went amiss between the bench and the huddle and Yale got three unexpected points...
...losing side of the ledger, Winthrop absorbed the worst drubbing as Pierson College suddenly sprang to life in the second half to score 26 points while holding the Deacons scoreless. A desperate Puritan drive in the last moments of play backfired with an 85-yard return of a pass interception...
...Gold Coasters of Adams came close to victory, dominating the offensive play in the first half, but when Jonathan Edwards recovered a fumble on the Crimson's 30-yard line it drove over for six points and the only score of the game...
...both dressing rooms most people agreed that although Jackson, Nadherny, and Furse wrought the destruction, the two 15-yard penalties against the Crimson in the third period gave the Bulldogs the opportunities and turned the tide toward the Blue. The first nullified Paul Lazzaro's twisting run through center for 35 yards to the Yale 10, and the second, for roughing the kicker, set up the Eli's third score by giving them a first down...