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February 27, 1927

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HARVARD REPULSES YALE SEXTET, 2 TO 1; Tallies Both Goals in Second Period to Make Clean Sweep of Two-Game Series. BLUE COUNTS NEAR CLOSE Makes Desperate Rally, in Which Noble Scores Team's Only Goal Four Minutes From End.

By Special to The New York Times

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 26. -- Harvard defeated Yale tonight, 2 to 1 in the second game of their hockey series, giving the Crimson a clean sweep of the two-game series. The match, the fastest, fiercest and roughest here in years, was clinched by Ellison and Tudor of the Crimson in the middle of the second period when they skated past the Yale defensive and ech drove short side shots into the Yale cage.

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WALKER MUST ACT ON TRANSIT NOW, TRADE BODY INSISTS; Declares That the Problem Is Up to Him and Asks for Frankness. CRITICIZES THE DELAY Believes That Definite Program Should Provide for Needs for Coming 20 Years. UNITED ACTION SOUGHT Heights Taxpayers Association Asks Other Bodies to Join It in Dealing With Problem. WALKER MUST ACT ON TRANSIT NOW

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Statement by W J L Banham urging Mayor Walker to set forth transit plan at coming Legis hearing on bond issue

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Notable Births

Aira Samulin

1927Aira Samulin, Finnish dancer and entrepreneur (died 2023)[†]

Aira Laila Suvio-Samulin was a Finnish dance teacher and businesswoman.

1927Peter Whittle, English-New Zealand mathematician and theorist (died 2021)[†]

Peter Whittle was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.