Word: lined
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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...
Live-music dances are held in the College dining halls only once a term, since the demand is mostly satisfied by the fraternities. The nine fraternities, all relics of pre-1940 Yale line a curved "fraternity row" near the Colleges. During the week, the fraternity houses are used in desultory fashion by members who drops in for a quick beer. On weekends they open their doors to the whole student body and throw punches, dances, drinking parties, and jazz concerts. During better football weekends they are usually jammed. Some, like the Fence Club, try to avoid too uncontrolled a stampede...
...years before Yale upperclassmen again decided a live mascot was needed. In 1932 they collected pennies from freshmen and purchased Handsome Dan R. Originally titled "Dour Doruna," the dog lived up to his name by quickly earning the brand of a line. The kidnapping episode soiled him in Blue eyes, and the fact that he came down with worms before the Harvard-Yale game of the next year did his reputation little good...
Pierson, with 10 seconds remaining in the game, kicked a field goal from Lowell's 20 yard line to defeat a Bellboy team that outplayed the Slaves throughout the contest...
...employed virtually 6-2-3 defense, with the halfbacks just a step or half a step ahead of the safety. This was practical against the Tigers, who do not throw long passes, but Yale may have to modify this defense against Harvard unless it can check receivers at the line of scrimmage. The average weight of the Yale line is 186, that of the backfield, 176. The team averages 182 and has exhibited more speed than Harvard...