Cornell at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1942, page 39

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  Cornell Jo|ts Yale With Aerial Score Near CIose,13. I 47-Yord Pass Registers With Ellis Apparently Victors by J to 6 NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. IA hard-luck Cornell football team, fighting desperately to break a jinx, finally got a smile from old Dame Fortune today and upset favored Yale, 1877, for its first major VIC tory of the season before $4,000 in the Yale Bowl. The Ithacans, who outplayed the Ellis most of the bitterly fought game and yet found themselves trailing, CT, with two minutes to 60, connected on spectacular 47-yard pass and run to drive within the shadows of the goal posts. And then, on powerful 4-yard line smash, born out of determination, Nick D’Onofrio bulled his way across the line for the winning touchdown. After being tossed around for most of the opening half, Yale suddenly came to life and paraded 80 yards, mainly along the air route, to score on Vineyard toss from Ed Taylor to Freshman Dick Jenkins. Fred Dent added the extra point from placement to give the Ellis the lead, which it held until near the end. Undaunted, Cornell came back soon after the third period started to launch 66-yard sortie in which Sophomore Walter Kretz, brilliant passer and breakway runner, pitched “a yards to Stacy Mosser and followed 1t up with a 6-yard bullet throw to Fred Westphal, sub end, who tailed deep in the end zone. Joe Andersons placement kick was blocked, however, and it looked at the time as though it might prove fatal But Cornell rallied. Davis ripped off two first downs in row through the line, and, with 2 minutes now remaining, Kretz whizzed one 80 yards to D’Onofrio who raced Is yards to the 4 where Taylor knocked him out of bounds. D’Onofrio then tailed on the next play and Anderson, who had missed a 20-yard field goal to open the sec ond quarter, and had his placement blocked after Cornell’s first score, noy,vart al fhic %iy,oo

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Yale leads 45–⁠20–⁠2 in 67 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.