Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard leagues, Thayer Middle retained its grip on first place in the American with a win yesterday, and in the National, Straus' protest for a replay with Matthews North was granted by the Freshman Athletic Committee...
From a University point of view, the priority of this Office over freshman activities is unquestioned. But Freshmen have a point of view too,--and it's pretty blunt. Straus was intended for Yard social activities, and not University business enterprises. And this year, when plans for freshman affairs are buzzing as never before, such a bureaucratic squeeze-play is having a damaging effect. The University should reconsider Operation Straus, fit the Advisor's Office in somewhere else--if possible--and give freshman society back its much-needed common room...
Thayer Middle chalked up its fifth straight win in Yard touch football yesterday to maintain its lead in the American League. At the same time, Straus mustered enough men to win by forfeit over an exam-ridden Lionel team and thus cinch a tie for the National League crown...
...other Yard contests, Weld North edged Matthews South, 14 to 12, and Wigglesworth A--D nudged Hollis...
...sided as the third period was, it cannot be attributed simply to bad breaks for the Crimson. The first break, in fact, was Harvard's, when tackle Chief Bender intercepted a partially blocked Princeton pass on the Tiger's 17-yard line. But Bender's attempted lateral was pounced on by the Tigers, and from then on it was Princeton...