Carlisle at Pennsylvania

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  The herald, California, November 8, 1896, page 1

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  ON THE COLLEGE GR|D|RON The Nassau Tigers Triumph Over Harvard NOBODY ACTUALLY KILLED Though the Game Resembled Rough.and. Tumble Fighting Aborigines From the Carlisle Indian School Beaten by Students of Penn sylvania University-The Games | CAMBRlDGE, Mass, NOV. 1.-Shattered, battered and helplessly fighting against heavy odds, the crippled team of Harvard fell before the prowess of old Nassau yesterday afternoon and tonight the Tiger is triumphant in victory. ! Twelve to nothing was the score of the | memorable contest but it does not tell Of the plucky, stubborn stand the Grim | son made against Princeton’s relentless assaults nor of the terrific battle that ! was waged for two hours back and forth across the white-lined gridiron. At the ! end in the dim twilight, the two battle | lines stood shoulder to shoulder in mid | field. swaying mass of struggling mus Gle, Princeton joyful in certain victory and Harvard bowed down and detected but still fighting gamely to the bitter end. The pace at times had been terrific. There had been many fierce assault that left the young gladiators stretched out silent and motionless on the sod, like so many logs. Delay after delay came from the successive injuries, but with grim determination and grit, player after player struggled pluckily and faithfully back into the game. 1t was Clean manly football, however, such as delighted the tremendous crowd pres ent. There was no end Of brilliant plays, plenty of Embarrassing encounters and exciting moments, but from scientific football standpoint the game lacked the splendid organization of force and the brilliant tactics which characterized so many memorable battles on Hampden park and Mannheim field. The game in miniature shows how Harvard started in playing entirely on the defensive. They repulsed the Tigers fierce attacks but hardly ever attempted to advance the ball themselves. They played more strongly than they knew, and their first half, in which neither team crossed the coveted goal line, was superb battle. The second half saw a change of tactics. Harvard started out on the offensive and Princeton took up the task of defending their territory with such good effect that aided materially by Baird’s splendid kicking their goal was never placed in jeopardy. The weatheu was ideal for football, and there were 5000 people present. Princeton played a compact interfer- shape Of turtle back which revolved on tackle, or driving tandem play in the same direction. Their interference ran smoothly and clearly and though of an entirely different type from Harvards was far superior in form and organizaton. The Harvard backs played some distance from the line and often with | guard or tackle in the formation with them. 1t was not until the second half that they began to rush the ball, and then, worn out and badly shattered, the interference lacked the essential speed in getting away as well as steady form alton Baird’s splendid kicking was a potent factor in the result. He punted in superb form. Brown on the other. hand, with the exception of several fine long punts in the first ten minutes of play, proved a great disappointment: Line up: Princeton. Position. Harvard Brokaw left end .......... Cabot Church left tackle Swain Crowds .... left guard ..Bouve Galley center ....Doucette Armstrong fright guard ~. N. Shaw Hildebrand fright tackle ....... Lee Cochran ......right end Moulton Smith Quarter back ...... Beale Barnard. left half back ......Sullivan Kelley fright half back .....Dunlop Baird full back ........ Brown | Princeton -, Harvard O.. Touch downs-Barnard, Brokaw, Goals-Baird g REDSKINS ROUTED. “A skin football representatives of the Car Isle Indian school were beaten by the wearers of the red and blue on Franklin field this afternoon by the score of q to 0, three touch downs, two goals and field goal 1t was the finest game of the season and the 10000 people present wit messed some of the grandest line bucking | by the Indians that has ever been seen on any gridiron. During the last ten minutes of the play the Carlisle boys got the ball on Pennsylvania fifty-yard line and by the hardest kind of bucking / pushed it down the field to the red and blues fifteen yard line. The scene when the Indians failed to get the ball over was almost indescribable. John c. Bell, one of the leading lights in the univers ity of Pennsylvania, was so excited that he cast aside his dignity for the present and turned a back somersault behind the Pennsylva:.ia’s goal. AT STANFORD. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.-Stanford ! and university of California freshmen played football today and Stanford wiped out the defeats of the past two years by beating Berkeley IA to 4. The game was good one for freshmen and was full of interest from start to finish. I Berkeley’s line appeared to be weak and Stanford sent the backs through continually for gains When play was call / ed Stanford started off with rush and walked the ball down the field. scoring touch down in the first ten minutes. ! No goal was kicked and at the end of / the first half of the score stood to 0 in favor of Stanford. ( The Palo Alto boys started off brisk ( ly in the second half, and in few min utes had scored two more touch downs and goal, making their score IA. Ber- kelley then took a brace and bucked Stanford’s line from the 45-yard line ! and scored a touchdown. No goal WAS kicked, and the score was IA to 4. Stan ford seemed to tire, and Berkeley went

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  The morning news, Savannah, Ga., November 8, 1896, page 7

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  A FIGHT WIN THE INDIANS. The Boys From the Carlisle School Beaten by Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 7.-Pennsylva- MIA shook off the lethargy to-day that has paralyzed her football playing this season, and took the scalp of the Carlisle Indians by score of q to o. Not in the history Of intercollegiate foot ball has there been a game that had a more sensational and exciting finish than this afternoons contest on Franklin field, and never has any team given a more SUI perb exhibition of plucky uphill play in the fact of defeat and grand line bucking than did the gallant Redskins of Carlisle. After having been unable to gain throughout the entire game and after haVing been steadily driven back upon their goal, the Indians, with ten minutes left 10 play, secured the b. Il on their 40-yard line. Then began tiN “, eatest exhibition Of line bucking ever seen here. The wild fighting blood of the red men was up, and they bore straight for their white adj Versaries’ goal line. The Indians used mass plays on the tackles, and Metoxen carried the bali. Again and again the sturdy full-back hurled himself against the Quaker line. Strive as they would the Pennsylvania line was torn to pieces by the fierce and desperate assault upon it, Surely but steadily MetoXen carried the pigskn to Pennsylvania 2O-yard line. Here the Quakers made a. stand and Sc cured the ball on downs. The teams lined up and the bail was passed to Minds for “A kick. The Quaker full-back lost his head and did not even touch the ball, but threw it clear away from his foot into the line of men in front of him. An In dian fell on it, Two plunges and MetoXen and H. Pierce carried the ball to Penn syvania’s 10-yard line. Cayou went around the right end and was thrown by Overfeld two yards from the coveted chalk line. 1t was the first down, and it looked as if nothing could save touchdown. From thou sands of Pennsylvania threats came the appealing cry Hold them, PEN straight into the mass of men MetoXen plunged. The line held but none could tell if beneath that mass of men the Indian back had gone over for touchdown. A wild shout rent the air when the players were pulled off each other and Metoxen was seen lying with the ball on but not over the goal line. There were still two downs and one inch to gain. Not a sound arose from 5000 people as the men lined UP. 1t was a grim grapple and not one of those q men but would have broken a limb or even his neck to make or save the touchdown. The Quakers crouched close to the ground like so many wild beasts wait ing to spring. With clenched teeth and fierce faces the Indians hurled themselves upon their foes. There was an awful crush and swaying of fighting men, and then the human mass went down in a heap. Again came that dead silence as the men sullenly rolled off each other in response to the referees whistle. Then again that triumplant shout arose for the white men had met the onslaught and Metoxen had again been stopped right on the line. One more chance remained. AS Metoxen dashed into the line the Quakers’ rushers heaved forward ana threw the entire Indian team back, and the touchdown was lost by six inches Then the referees whistle blew, and the game was over. Pandemonium broke loose, and their fell low students swarmed over the ground and nearly tore the Quaker players to pieces in the endeavor to congratulate them. Pennsylvania play throughout was revelation as compared with her previous work this year. The men played FAST, fierce foot ball and bucked the Indian line for steady gains throughout. The IN reference was hrst-class, and Minds, Colbert and Moricen were able to make long runs around the Indians behind It. With the exception OF the last desperate rally by the Indians, the Quakers’ de- Iense was impregnable. There was still some little fumbling and it was evident that the Quakers will not have good full back this year, as Minds kicking, al though improved, was weak. The Indians played their usual hard, “‘NdbS game Dul were never pOSSlDle WIN ners. In the first half Colbert blocked Wheelocks kick on the Indians 15-yard line and Hedges secured a touchdown Woodruff’s try at goal was failure. Shortly afterwards Moricen made an other touchdown from a quarterback kick from the fifteen yard line. Woodruff kicked the goal In the second half Moricen kicked a goal from the field TO the twenty yard line and Colbert on double pass went around the right for thirty-nve yards and touchdown. Woodruff again kicked the goal. This ended the scoring. The weather ives beautiful and 1900 people witnessed the game.

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Pennsylvania leads 13–⁠6–⁠2 in 21 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.