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Word: yi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class yell of '90 at Rochester is "Zoo-zoo-zi-se. yi-yi-nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

...nine was compelled to play Williams for the championship; Williams was unhappily victorious to the tune of 39 to 37, and the Yale freshmen beat the Harvard freshmen 36 to 33. The Williams audience "had a way of crowing over any bad luck on our side with a Yi! Yi! Yi! and a howl," an unpleasant habit, gained, thinks the Advocate from New York "professionals, firemen and roughs." The grand match for the championship of New England with the Lowell club was also lost 37 to 27, and the season ended with great disappointment among Harvard backers, This match, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/9/1887 | See Source »

College cheers. - Vassar: Yum, yum, yum, Kiss, kiss, kiss, Vassah! Smith: Pie-yi-yi-yi, Pie-yi-yi-yi, Pie-yi-yi-yi, Smith. - Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/13/1886 | See Source »

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