Yale at Trinity (CT)

Saturday, September 29, 1894

Yale beat Trinity (CT) 42–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Yale led the series 7–⁠0.

AwayYale16–⁠0 in 1894
42
HomeTrinity (CT)4–⁠3 in 1894
0

FinalHigh 77°F, low 56°FAttendance 600

In the newspapers

  • The The daily morning journal and courier's story: LOCAL NE WS.

    The daily morning journal and courier, October 1, 1894, page 8

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    LOCAL NE WS. Pease & Son have received the Gen. tury for October. Annual donation day at the New Ha- ven orphan asylum Thursday, October IS. Harvard defeated Dartmouth at foot ball Saturday. score 9 to 0. Yale de- feated Trinity at Hartford Saturday, 42 to 0. The opening address before the stu dents of the Yale divinity school will be given by Professor George P. Fisher in the Marquand chapel to-day at 8 p. m. The following students from West Haven have entered the Sheffield Scien- tfi school: William E. Bush, Ernest W. Brown, Harry Berry and Cornelius Clancy. Harry Poles and Charles B. Warner enter the junior class. William Riesdorf, clerk at Hotel Gen. tral, received via express yesterday, a full-blood, registered fox terrier as a present from a New Haven gentleman He is beauty and has name longer than himself-”Nabucaha adnezzer.”- Winsted Herald. Tomorrow afternoon at o’clock will occur the annual fall inspection of the police department. The inspection will take place in the court yard in the rear of the police building, where the mem bers of the force will be reviewed by Superintendent Smith, Mayor Sargent and the police commissioners. Mrs. Nugent, mother of Thomas E.. Nugent of Nugent & Co.,, coal dealers in Kimberly avenue, died Saturday. Mrs. Nugent was sixty-three years of age and was well known and respected. The funeral will be held this morning. Ex-Governor H. B. Harrison and family have returned from Lake Dun- more, Vermont, where they have been spending the summer. MAYOR HENRY FOR CONGRESS. Nominated by Republican Convention Held in Hartford. Hartford, Sept S9.-The republican congressional convention fer the First district assembled in Central hall in this city at 11:3O to-day. Samuel Frisbie of Pennington was chosen chairman and Colonel Charles L. Burdett was elected secretary. The convention then proceeded .o the work of appointing committees. after which it adjourned for dinner. When the convention reassembied E.. Stevens Henry, mayor of Rockville, was nominated for congressman on tl,e first ballot, receiving S5 votes. H. c. Dwight, ex-may.r of Hartford, received votes, Judge Marcus H. Hol- comb of Southington 26, Thomas Dun- can of Windsor g. and c. M. Jarvis of the Berlin Iron Bridke company votes The ballot was made unanimous and formal. . The contesting Hartford delegates were each given one-half a vote. ac. cording to the precedent set by the state republican convention.

  • The St. Paul daily globe's story: KICKERS BEGIN WORK, Football Season Opens With Three Notable Games. HARVARD WINS A VICTORY, Defeating Dartmouth at CAM bri dye by a Score Of :. 20 to O. HARVARD WINS A VICTORY, YALE 0UTKICKs TRINITY. Princeton Tigers Settle the Lafayettes With the Greatest Ease.

    St. Paul daily globe, Saint Paul, Minn., September 30, 1894, page 6

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    KICKERS BEGIN WORK, Football Season Opens With Three Notable Games. HARVARD WINS A VICTORY, Defeating Dartmouth at CAM bri dye by a Score Of :. 20 to O. HARVARD WINS A VICTORY, YALE 0UTKICKs TRINITY. Princeton Tigers Settle the Lafayettes With the Greatest Ease. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. 29.-The Harvard eleven opened the football season on the new gridiron field today by defeating Dartmouth, % too. The weather was warm and the field dusty, but Capt. Emmons started hot game, which he never relaxed. and Harward did not score till Wriz htington car ried the ball over after a fifteen-yard rush just before the close of the first half. Harvard lost the ball several times in the first half on fumbles and mistaken signals, and Capt. Little’s men gained about seventy yards through the Harvards’ lines. Charlie Brewer closed the first half by beautifull running punt of fifty-tive yards. which landed the ball OH Dartmouth’s fifteen.yard line. The crimson men took the ball from the Dartmouths times on downs, and Shaw captured a three goals for Harvard. Score at the end of first half – Harvard 5, Dart. mouth 0. In the second Harvard sent Brewer, Gray and Wrightington into the Dart mouth line for safety gains, leaving the New Hampshires almost no ground. Gray opened the second half with a sixty-five-yard run for touch down. Brewer and Wrightington each landed a touchdown by steadily pushing the heavy Dartmouth center and tackles. Brewer kicked three goals and did his usual work. Shaw, the new man. showed up we’ll at Harvard center, and Lakeman did good tackling for Dart mouth. The teams lined up as follows:

  • The New-York tribune's story: on THE FOOTBALL FIELD. YALE DEFEATS TRINITY.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], September 30, 1894, page 1

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    on THE FOOTBALL FIELD. YALE DEFEATS TRINITY. RULES. Hartford Conn. Sept. % (SpeciaD-The new ioo’bail rues had their first trial this afternoon on the Trinity grounds and the improvement In the matter of roughness was cear.y apparent. Neither team had played a regular game hitherto this season. so SOW work was expected Ya.e played with much vigor and quickness winning by the score OF Il TO Trinity did excellent playing considering the extreme lightness OF the line. Most OF Ya.e’s gains We’re made by Dewitt and Thorne. while Ickok played his usual hard. aggressive game In the line Inc halves were twenty and fifteen minutes ong respective.y Following are the payers and their po- S!tions: Yale. Position. Irlnliy. Greenway (Boss Right Capt. Strawbrldge Whtcornb 1HickokJ. Right tackle. .Merwn RobnsonD Brown Right guard feiose McCrae. guard I)ngfOrd hseiland Beard. Felt tackle i5u” f. Iinkey Capt. Hnkey) Left tosgesla Morris Finckel. orr back. Bartholomew tSicCook De Right halfback l<ingwel (Maks). hafback C1gswe Jerrcms CReddngonD Fulback .LnngfOrd CrhNers Touchdowns-Thorne .. De Witt 2. Morris !. Eeard :? Marks .. Goals-De Witt I. Thorne l.. Reidinston J. Referee-Adee, OF Yale. Umpre-iake Of Harvard

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Yale 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 17–⁠0 in 17 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
1904Yale 42, Trinity (CT) 0
1903Yale 35, Trinity (CT) 0
1902Yale 40, Trinity (CT) 0
1901Yale 23, Trinity (CT) 0
1900Yale 22, Trinity (CT) 0
1899Yale 46, Trinity (CT) 0

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