Williams at Yale

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  The daily morning journal and courier, October 15, 1896, page 7

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  YALE DON rnoM v11uiAMs. Score 2s-0 in Yesterdays spiritless Game Large Attendance. Large Attendance. Despite the threatening weather yes terday afternoon a large attendance was present at the Yale Williams foot ball game at Yale field to see Yale won out from the Billtown boys by a score of 22 to 0 in a slow game. Yale showed none of the snappy play which marked the Brown game last Wednesday, and Williams went far wide of putting up the sort of game to which they treated Yale two years ago, when they scored on Yale, and even made poorer show ing than last year. when Yale scored 52 to 0. Williams yesterday repeatedly played offside, and found it expensive pastime, as each offence was penalized by five yards. Rogers of Yale also lost ground for Yale by the same sort of play. Murphy of Yale played the best game for Yale. He made repeated gains through Williams line and blocked sev- eral kicks, seeming to always be just where he was needed The lineup with the substitutions, was as follows:

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  The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 15, 1896, page 1

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  TOYED WITH TIGERS PRINCETON BESTED IN FIRST HALF BY CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL ELEVEN. THEN TABLES WERE TURNED. INDIANS FAILED TO SCORE AND JERSEY MEN PILED UP POINTS. TALE BEATS WILLIAMS EASILY. The Blues Had Much the Best of a Punting Contest Between the FuIIbacks. THEN TABLES WERE TURNED. YALE BEATS WILLIAMS EASILY. PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 14.-The Carlisle Indians came upon the Prince ton football field today in quest of tiger scalps, and at the end of the first half 1t looked as if they would prove sue cessful, as the score then stood to 0 in favor of the Indians. In the second half, however, the Princeton players took a big brace and turned the tables upon their opponents. Rosengarten and Reiter succeeded Barnard and Kelly behind the line, and thereby put life and dash into the men, At the end of the game Princeton had rolled up a score of % points, and the Car isles failed to add to their score

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  The morning times, October 15, 1896, page 2

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  The line up follows: Pennsylvania. vi YALE PLAYED STEADILY Defeated the stsrsong Williams Team New Haven, Conn, Oct. 14.-Yale gave ano.her exhibition of steady football play Ing here This afternoon, defeating Williams 2E TO u. The visitors backs made fully as long gains as Tie Yale play but muffs OF pun,s at critical moments gave Yale four tOuchdOwns. Connor played a fine game for Yale and Van Every made the largest gains through the center. The work of Williams was, except for the muffing of punts by substitutes, by far the best of any seen here this year. The lineup:

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