Williams at Yale

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 24, 1895, page 1

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  YALE’s BIGGEST SCORE. FIFTY-FoUR POINTS ROLLED UP AGAINST THF WILLIAMS TEAM FIFTY-FoUR POINTS ROLLED UP AGAINST THE WILLIAMS TEAM New-Haven Oct. 23-The largest score the Yale football eleven has made this year rolled up against the Williams team this afternoon at Yale Field. The final figures stood “a to 0. The play at times brilliant. Dewitt. Jerrems and Rodgers covering than half the field In runs and WILL Jams twice rushing the ball within the Yale twenty fve-yard line. Yales scoring was evenly distrbuted twentysix points being made In the first half and twenty eight in the second. Captain Thorne played only fifteen minutes. being compelled to retire with sprained knee. Yale played close, compact wedge game, with sharp passing. but poor end interference. Will Jams made some good gains on trick plays, but was generally blocked four downs Draper made several fine runs. the longest being twenty-five yards the best gain made against Yale on the homo grounds. Williams employed n useless kickoff, punting along the ground and trusting TO tumble to recover II again. Lee made some fine tackles for Williams, preventing Yale from gaining well In the centre. To-day’s is the largest made by Yale against any eleven this year, and IL Is nearly double that or Harvard against Williams two weeks ago. Yale has now played all the members of the Triangular League, scoring twenty-sx against Dartmouth. Williams. About two thousand spectators witnessed the game and the players were enthusiastically cheered The work OF Lee. Benjamin and Chamberlain, the noVices who tried the Yale eleven, was satisfactory. The lineup follows:

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  The morning times, October 24, 1895, page 2

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  YALE MAKES A Big SCORE Defeats Williams Eleven in a Brilliantly Played Game. Other Contests Played by College Teams at Various Places-‘Thieves at Work ut New brunswick. New Haven, Conn. Oct 23.-The largest score the Yale Football Eleven has made this year was rolled up against the W.T. iianis Eleven this afternoon Mt the Yale field The final figures stood 81 to o. The play was at times brilliant by both teams, Dewitt, Jerrems and Rodgers COW ering more than half the field In runs and Williams twice rushed the ball within the Yale 25-yard line. Yale’s scoring was evenly distributed. 26 points being made the first half and 2S in the second.

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  Evening journal, October 24, 1895, page 4

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  FOOTBALL GAMES. The Yale Team Defeats tho Williams Col lege Club. NEW HAVEN, Oct. 2f-Yalo defeated Williams easily by a score Of 54 to 0. The nearest Williams came TO scoring was in the second half whom thoy carried the ball TO the 10 yard line and then lost it ON tumble. Long runs abounded, Ben jamin scoring for Yale from the center and Draper doing excellent work for Will Iama

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Yale leads 16–⁠0 in 16 meetings, counting the five since this game.