Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Jordan used the Harlow-developed "butterfly" defense throughout the game in an attempt to hamper Yale's steady gaining ground attack. The "butterfly" featured an eight-man line with constantly changing patterns of charging, slanting, and looping...
...town and gown riot on commencement day just as the procession of the president and dignitaries started. The president tried to squelch the riot, but failed. The sheriff and the Governor of Connecticut had no better luck. Yale decided the next day that its reputation would be on steadier ground if it did away with the Class Bully. The position of a class leader never made a comeback...
This may have been partly due to the fact that they refused to go into a five-man line and use three backers-up. Tisdale can throw long and short; his specialty is an aerial which the end gathers in just off the ground and which is difficult to defend against...
Jordan noted that it would be difficult to set defenses against the Yale attack because the Elis "were equally good in the air and on the ground." The coach added, however, that "maybe now Yale will find it just as difficult to prepare defenses...
...next diversion came when two forwards leaped into the air to head the ball, headed each other instead, and fell senseless to the ground. This produced the greatest enthusiasm of the day among the crowd, who rose cheering clapping and laughing. It was the signal for the lady next to me to produce a large bottle of Chianti and pass it around to her neighbors...