Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those in the Yard who failed to pass the recent tests should not fall into the slough of despond, for the statistics indicate that most of those who fall by the wayside in November eventually get back into good standing, while the real mortality rate begins to show in February. Meanwhile it is not too much to ask that the University take heed to the age long plea for an effective adviser system in order to shift the onus of talking to every erring Freshman from the shoulders of the deans...
...first ten minutes of play the teams seemed evenly matched, neither being able to advance the ball beyond the 30-yard line. Then the Harvard offense began to click, and when the teams changed ends, the ball rested three yards from the Yale goal...
Shortly after this score, Yale made her only serious threat on the Crimson goal. A blocked kick resulted in their possession of the ball on the 3-yard line. There the Jayvee defense became airtight, and the ball was captured on downs. Yale's subsequent attempts to pierce the secondary with passes usually ended in interceptions, and Coach Art Lane was given an opportunity to inject letter-earning substitutions...
Pushing my nocturnal way through the Yard on the way home from Widener with an armload of books...
...seems that all the Harvard team needs is an even share of the breaks of the game in order to become a consistent winner. Five offensive thrusts carried the Crimson past the Middies' fifteen-yard line, in spite of the superb Navy pass defense, with a varied attack which can produce these results, Harvard's team should be granted an even chance to defeat the Elis. This is in itself a matter for rejoicing, and Coach Harlow deserves universal respect for successfully altering the future augured by the disastrous Army and Dartmouth weekends...