Columbia at Harvard

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 12, 1882, page 2

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  FOOTBALL AT HOBOKEN. COLUMBIA BEATEN BY HARVARD a football was played yesterday afternoon on the grounds of the St. Georges Cricket Club, at Hobo KEN between the college teams Of Harvard and Columbia. Though some misunderstanding or BAD management, or BOTH on the part Of someone who ought 10 have know better two games OF football were arranged for the same place and Mt the saIno time. As the game is played this season, one held has not a. yet furnished moro than the necessary space required by team in which to roll and tumble the other. BY the refusal OF four teams to play at the same time and on the same ground yesterday more than one family circle that otherwise might have been blighed renamed I’M broken and happy. Owing no doubt TO the threat ened appearance of four teams on the field many people who have not been educated up to bull fight and who look with dspeasure upon anything that borders on a massacre kept away from Hobo ken At the opening of the game-it having been decided that Harvard and Columbia should play frst-thcre hardly anythingp present that looked like spectator -Four blear-eyed little HObOken boys sat perched the fence at one end OF the Held at a safe distance from q bulky pOcemans cluD and waited impatiently for the fun to begin. In the meantime the person who is IN charge of the grounds bounced around the field and bOb0ed in and of the club-hOuses with frequency and suddenness that led Harvard man to pronounce him altogether too largely utter, you know” A squad of policemen bought tickets in their usual way and created some surprise by being on hand so early The policemen were the first instalment OF spectators. few private vehicles appeared later In the day laden with young men and women, who stood up the seats of the carriages and pretended to know all about the game, applaudng good and bad plays indlscTminatey and trying hard to have an awfully nice time” The friends and college mates of the football players came to the field some time after the game had been begun. They scat tered themselves around the grounds IN groups adj mired each others cravats, used profane language at poor plays the part Of the teams and beloved like bulls when their own side dumped their opponents in the mud Tie grounds were i’ll that soft and gummy” state that makes the foot ball player happy and renders his judgment as to where he will stop after he has fallen very inaccurate. The game was begun at half past O’Clock The Columbia team, in their usual costume Of blue and white Jerseys and knee breeches that had evidently seen hard usage took their positions in front of the south goal. The names of the players follows: Rushers DoNhng, ROBBINS. Eldudge, Fish burne Emmett, Wheeler and OctavlanO; quarter back, Griffin; half-back, Morgan backs, aman aud Dewitt. The Harvard team and their friends came upon the grounds clad in their handsome GRIM son Jerseys stockings and caps Of the same color, and white kneebeeches. They 4 ine-iooking group of men, large and muscular Several OF them were members of the Harvard crew last year. Tney left their friends in the fourhOrse coach in which they had driven to Hoboken ana took their places around the north goal Their names are as oLOws Rushers Morrison, Kendall, Cabot. Appleton, Ham mond, Ayers and Wessehoeft; quarterback. Mason; half-back, Keith backs, Coolidge and Edmans. The rushers OF Harvard presented formidable APP pearauce ashley stood on the fl Id. The sgnal Tor PLAYING was Il kickoff by Morgan, of the Columbia team. Immediately there was a rushing and tumbling after the ball. which played sad havoc with the costumes of The players. FIshDurne and Emmett of Coumbia, succeeded In resisting the frantic endeavors of the Haryards to carry the ball right through the Columbia line without any pre- hminarIes. The bail was kept IN the middle OF the field for some time. GOOD run by Kendall, Of harvard brought the bail near ColunbIa’s goal, and with it large amount of trouble for the Co | mmbia players. Some nyely passing ana tackhng | followed but the Harvard men, Dy their greater strength anu skill forced the bali 50 close 10 the | Columbia goal that the spectators supposed they | had secured touchdown, but they had not. Co | mmUia, however, vas forced to make a touchdown ! TOR safety. As soon as the OaI hau toucHcd the ground after the kick-out by Columbia, Morrison, OF | Harvard, made a line run, passing through a group OF Columbia men, VINO wresIed with HIM but tailed to stop HIM. lie was ! about TO put “A climax TO his fine work | by getting touchdown, when Wheeler OF Column airctiOuae, but sudden, way, ana rolled nm IN The ! mud IN an ImpUlite but very buslne,s-IRe manner. ! TINS was the sigual for cheers and The cry OF | “C-O-L-UM-B-l-A!’ startled The horses attached TO the Harvard coach. Bnlna { playing by the ! Hlryards enabled them – turn tle tables on then opponents. Cabot sCdrted with the bail under his ! orl determined 10 get behind COlumblas goal, and secure a touchdown, II Ii cost hin limb. lie sue cr.dcd IN gettiugLWIUuiu “a loot OF the goal lIne | wneIs he met WIN sucn resistance from Columbia that ne forced to give up tor The moment the Idea OF getting touchdown. with slN or seven Column hlsK Ia rrrflIA ar1t | pulled himself along the ground, trying | 10 get the ball beyond the line. But Morgan, Of | Columbia. by dexterOuS move, Knocked the ball from aDO 5 grasp, ana started acrOs- the neld IKE | “A deer. The enthusiasm OF the spectators at TINS | brilliant play MOrgans found expression III | cheers and war-whOops that would have aroused ! the dead il there lad been any present. The ball ! then lowered about the centre OF the field, where the upllted hanus OF twenty-five men trying TO ! catch l. presenter “a grOtesquc picture. a Harvard man, blessed with longer tcntacIcS than his fellows, | seized the ball and by kick that would nave put ! a mule to blush sent the ball whIzZug over the field 10 drop eventually close to the COLUMBIA goal | Inc bail caught on the Hy by Nor gan which entitled him To free kick, | and Harvard got as good aS she sent. Again the bail IN the centre of the field. Inc | Harvard giants pulled and blew llhe whales, while Inc nIIbIr Columbia bows capered around their op- Moments IN the most annoying manner. Inch by | inch the Harvard rushers pushed tuc ball toward Coumblas goal At last one Harvard man more desperate than his fellows dared to puck up the bali ana run with it. The crowd outside the ropes shouted to FIshDdrne OF Columbia, 10 stop MIN, but he slipped through FlSnOune’s hands IKE the most slippery kind OF an eel Peace, Of Columbia, had watched these proceedings until he realized II time TO do something. lie struck out mauly for the Harvard man, threw himself bodily upon him and both lett the imprint of their bodies in the plant mud Both fell .auout twenty-five feet from the Columbia | goal Ibis brought them all within the space COW cred by CoumDia’s hall-back, Morgan the best player III the team. lhe Harvard men realize the danger and shouted, Look Out for MOrean!” But Morgan dlunt propose To give them “A chance 10 look out tor he grabbed the ball and, before any one could say Jack Robinson lie had deposited il in another part OF the held. W hen both SIDES Lined out “ after Harvard had again captured the hall there was some 1dult finding with the referee.

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Harvard leads 48–⁠13–⁠1 in 62 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.