Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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ATHLETIC HISTORY 243 the numeral winners of our Class were on the squad, DeAngelis and Callan alone received Varsity letters. In Iunior year we started out with victories over Maine, Wash- ington and Lee, and Brown. In the Brown game, however, Del Marting was lost to the team with a severe knee injury, and his loss was keenly felt. Against Georgia, Yale played a Fine game, but lost by the close margin of one touchdown. Dartmouth again suc- cumbed to the old jinx, Yale keeping its record clear by the very close score of 14-13. The last three games all resulted in defeat for Bob Lassiter,s team, Army, Harvard, and Princeton win- ning by scores of 21-o, 19-6, 27-2, respec- tively. In Senior year we started out with a new coaching system, with Ducky Pond as head coach. The schedule arranged had been aptly termed suicidal,U considering the rather poor record of the team the previous year. The coaching staff, however, tackled its task with a will, and with fine coopera- tion on the part of Major Wandle, the new trainer, fashioned a team that will go down in Yale,s history as one of the greatest ever Iron man. to wear the blue. Columbia, Rose Bowl champions of the previous year, visited New Haven to inaugurate the new season and was very lucky to win by the score of 12-6. Pennsylvania, featuring a team composed chieHy of Sophomores, was turned back by the score of 14-6. Against Brown, the team really found itself, scoring four touchdowns in the first quarter and going on to win easily by the score of 37-0. Army, with its peren- nially powerful aggregation, visited the Bowl on the following Sat- urday, and the game turned out to be one of the most interesting of the year, Army finally winning, 20-12. Dartmouth, with a new coaching staff, and full of confidence that this was the year to break that jinxf' came, and was conquered 7-2, thus leaving it to a class other than ours to be the first one to lose. Georgia, who has been a thorn in the side of Yale football aspirations for many years, next appeared and defeated Yale, 14-7. The week after the Georgia game, the team entrained to Palmer Stadium to encounter the all- conquering forces of Fritz Crisler. Princeton, after being undefeated for two years, was literally torn apart by a fighting Yale team that