Yale University - Banner / Pot Pourri Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Yale Banner Shows Push In Coates The 'tale Banner Publmea tlons proved ltself the on gamzatlon mth the biggest push' yesterday mornmg as it won the annual bladder ball contest Other contest ants mcluded WYBC the Yale undelgraduate radm sta tmn, the Yale Dally brews, :undergraduate nevtspapel, and the Yale Record, the campus Humor Magazine The bladder hall contest is held each vear prior to the Tale Dartmouth football game The struggle takes place on the Old Lampus The men of the Banner Puhllcatlons squad threw up a rather formldable defense and stopped every effort to penetrate its goal lme Tie Suzzdry Regfrfef ufzf Ibefe Saturday proved to be marvelous football weather 1nd 63 O00 spectltors gathered rt the Bowl for the game Both teams started out strong but Yale wrth the and of Sxngletons perfectly executed pass plays and the Rock of Glbraltar E11 l1ne gamed an early lead and kept It Yale routed the T1gers 45 22 before a mostly jubllant handkereh1ef wav mg crowd The Blues thus clmched at least a t1e for the Ivy tltle becomlng the first Yale team srnce 1923 to w1n exght ln a row and to become one of the four or five mayor unbeaten teams in the coun try The Prmceton partxsans took the defeat hke men and New Haven had one of the cleanest and most unrovs dy Prlnceton weekends IH hlstory On Monday Hartley Slmpson one of the countrys leadmg educators announced that he would retrre as Dean of the Yale Law School Flnally THE Game as every sports nostalgla and program wuter ln the natlon seemed to call lt came Besldes the usual WI'1tCL11JS ln the Eastern papers 1t was heralded by a movmg 1f slxghtly pro Harvard artlcle 1n Erqnne and a nauseatmg cover lllustratlon for The Satlzzffzzy Ezemng Port The weather vsas CIISP and sunny ln Cambrldge Q or All ston to be precxse makmg nme straxght weekends of perfect football weather and the first away game It seemed as lf three quarters of the Yale com munity had voyaged to Harvard for the weekend and these people were not drsappolnted Ken Wolfe ran 41 yards for a touchdown on Yales first play of the game and from then on 1t was massacre After a sernes of clumsy plays by both sldes end john Hutcherson rntereepted a Ravenel rollout and ran 45 yards for another TD Blanchard dlved over the goal l1ne for the extra two As the half closed Yale drove down to the Crrmsons 16 and wxth 15 seconds to go Ed Kaake k1cked another 3 po1nts for the Ells In the thlrd quarter after a pass mterceptxon by S1ngleton Blanchard plunged over the zero l1ne agarn makxng the score 23 O Leckonby entered the game and passed the ball for two more touchdowns In the closmg mln utes Ravenel managed a touchdown pass fthe final of l11S career and the game ended 59 6 Those Yalxes who knew the words sang Brlght College Years and everyone managed to wave his hand kerchxef at the song s conclus1on It was a black day for Harvard The followxn Monday at the football teams annual dlnner at Ray Tompkins Fabulous I'1ve member Paul Bursxek was elected captain of next years team The fall Ph1 Beta Kappa electrons came and 46 rank1ng scholars 11 junlors and 3 5 semors as ere presented mth thexr keys IH ev L L L L , I ,,, 2 ' L ' 1 ' .L , T - Q . . . y .. - 7 - - ,I as , L . J , A 9 ' I . Q. . 7 C A ll . g , . . . T g . L . g- - ., , g - . , . . . . ',, L L L ' 3 ' o u Q 0 , V - r f - N . . . . r .. f , s 7 If Q . . . . . A 1. 1. p, ' Mr 'J , ' 7 ' , , L 4 . . . . , f . a Ds - nl Q 1 'A L L L . L v ' K ' - , . I nm 1 . V , . r P - T r , . 1 ' ,S , . ' 1 . . L L . . v h v . 3 . 1 ,, ' L . I L V ' . ,. 1 . Y , ' ' 1 ' r at I ' J - -.A J n vi , , . . . , -, . ' 1 - . 1 ,L , . L V . . 7. I 7 ' Q 4 I ' - ' g V . 1 . . o , ' ' , L L L' 4 1 J, ' X . s if' ' 2 yu ' ' ' 0 + 1: . 3 L ' 1 ' ,. . '- 1 ' ' 1 .7 L . . L L c L ' 1 g . . . ' L L L 7 ' 1 . , L ,Lf L L 6 .- .J f . f - ' -- -

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5 Ellioll Meir ll 'ec ' xiii xr' 9 5.'Q- f 5? 3- Q. ak- f- . I. mifewafrz ,V 3 at is - sofa.--, , ,. .2 nd bir 111611 Finally, election day came. Some political buffs, unaware of what they were letting themselves in for, started watching the returns at 7:30 P.M., vowed to watch until a candidate conceded. Some people were discovered asleep in front of the tv sets before breakfast the next morning, a good five hours before Nixon gave up. The election was a horse race, if a tedious one, all the way. Early in the evening Kennedy won the East fincluding New York statej, gradually took the South, and kept a small lead in popular votes, but the key states - outside of New York - see-sawed all night long. California and Iillinois were not tentatively decided until the next morning, and by then both candidates had gone to bed. The trend, however, had been es- tablished by midnight, and major papers, the wire services, and the networks, computers had given the race to Kennedy. Nixon finally sent congratulations to the winner shortly before one the next afternoon. Yale's first big gift of the year came from Smith, Kline, and French's f the drug producersj Mahlon Kline, who donated ten million dollars to build three new science buildings. The Giving Fund was in full swing. Meanwhile, the election was forgotten in the mounting excitement over the Princeton game. The holiday rolled around on Friday, with a dual concert by the Yale and Princeton glee clubs. Fenno Heath led the Yale group through high point of the even- ing with his arrangement of John Donneis Death Be Not Proud. '918' pitted up the mile! paper. Bt- r ' .se-f -Q:-'w L.. ,il s fa 'W Us ' 4 . if , A, . 1, 1 .. 1. ,J

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change for 5515. Most of them didn't even own vests. Quincy Porter, master of Pierson College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, was named Battell Profes- sor of the Theory of Music - one of the country's oldest music professorships. The A.P. - in their final football tally of the year - placed Navy in fourth position and Yale in fourteenth. The Lambert Trophy selection com- mittee Qincluding one-time Army coach Earl Blaikj disagreed, tied the two teams for best in the East, and declared them co-recipients of the coveted trophy. Yale kept reaping the football honors as A larger crowd an Sunday 7l207'l2jI1g . . . never-injured wonderboy Ben Balme made the A.P. All-American first team fthe first Yale player since Paul Walker in 19451 and later accepted a Na- tional Football League berth. President Griswold, declaring there was no place at Yale for an inter-disciplinary research office, an- nounced the dissolution of the nation's most famous investigator of dissolution: the 40-year old Center of Alcoholic Studies. People began circulating petitions for a Peace Corps plan - to enable qualified college graduates to work in underdeveloped areas at no pay for the