Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ducky Pond arrived, and Yale was the victor, 13 to 0, Ducky sloshing through some 65 yards of Stadium slime with a Harvard fumble in his arms for the first Eli touchdown in the Stadium since 1907. Another seabattle ensued the next year, with the New Haven navy demonstrating its proficiency by a 19 to 6 score. Apparently whenever Harvard and Yale battles must end deadlocked, the result is scoreless, and 1925 was no exception, the Harvard's playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...
...second down, Spreyer prudently kicked from the goal line to Yale's 32 where the Crimson line again broke through to smash all running plays. Yale was forced to kick, and against the wind Seymour booted to Macdonald on the 35-yard line...
Three Harvard plays, including a fake kick a la Statue of Liberty, were stopped cold, and Spreyer again used the wind to good advantage on a fifty-yard punt to Burr...
...series of line smashes, the Elis eaked out the first first-down of the game, crossing midfield to the Harvard 45, and then without a receiver in sight Burr broke through for an 8-yard gain. Off his own right side, Seymour dashed 22 yards to the Harvard...
...oldest items are a set of newspaper articles from 1781 telling how the Sophomores and Freshmen played their traditional football game in the fall. Included is a list of college customs forbidding the game or any other games near college buildings and prohibiting students from "throwing anything across the Yard...