Word: ely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three unidentified undergraduates, in a glorious attempt to chop down the Eli goal-posts under cover of night after the game Saturday, ended up in the New Haven brig under charges of trespassing and attempted vandalism...
...Freshman soccer team defeated Yale this Saturday 3 to 0 in its final game of a successful season. Captain Thayer Drake, Haskeil Schell, and Eli Burman scored for the Yardlings...
...refuse to concede the last touchdown to the Cambridge eleven until I see the full-length, four-bell, three-dimensional, technicolor movies of the game," was the terse post-game comment of high-flying King Brewster, captain of the Eli periodical outfit...
...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 sea battle 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 Harvards playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with the sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...