Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game resembled a long range kicking contest more than a soccer match as the Crimson attack limited itself to six shots at the Blue goal, spending most of the 80 minutes making unaimed down field kicks. Despite the fact that the Yardling defense worked brilliantly, Yale scored because it controlled the ball for the entire game. The freshmen took only two shots during the second half...
...lone tally came after one minute of the final quarter. Bart Lechalier, Eli right inside, dribbled through the Harvard defense and booted a low hard kick which seemed to be aimed wide of the goal. Center forward Tom Hopkins managed to get a foot in the path of the ball and deflected it just enough to send it high into the lefthand corner of the nets...
Monro's men finally clicked in the second period and began to hold the game "on the carpet" in front of the Blue goal. After a brief Yale push to midfield, Wolf picked up the rebound of a long Drake boot and pumped...
...Goldstein broke through the Yale defense again at 5:45 of the fourth period when he charged into a pile in front of the goal and banged the ball across the goal mouth into the far corner...
...great climax game came in 1931, when Albie Booth, who had been beaten by Harvard in the two previous years, finally gained revenge when he dropkicked a 22-yard field goal with only three minutes left to play to win for Yale, 3 to 0. It was Harvard's only setback of the season and the Crimson last a golden opportunity to win the eastern championship for the first time since...