Wesleyan (CT) at Yale

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  The Scranton tribune, Scranton, Pa., October 4, 1897, page 1

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  FOOT BALL GAMES ON MANY FIELDS Exhibition Season Opened 10 Real Ear nest on Saturday. EACH OF THE BIG ELEyENs WON Pennsylvania, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Princeton Won Their Games and by n Big Majority IN Nearly Every Game--BuckneII, Lafayette, Wesleyan, Williams and Lehigh Among the Losers. The college season of foot ball opened with concerted rush on Saturday Nearly every college eleven in the east had game scheduled and the winners were almost without exception those teams which have been for some time in training. Some of the games follow: Detroit. Mich, Oct 3.-Yesterday’s National Circuit cycling races wound up with five Of the fastest Of the rae ing stars badly spilled along the track. Just after the last eighth mile of the final event of the day in the two mile open professional was reached Cooper’s wheel struck that of Butler Both were thrown. and Bald, Mertens and kiser tumbled over them in a bad mix up. Mertens’ right side was pain fully injured. Bald received a bad blow in the side, and all had a severe shaking up. This gave Loughead the race, which he was already in fair way of winning. Wood and Carlson, amateurs, went a mile on tandem in 1.54 beating the worlds amateur record and equallng the professional tandem record. Summaries: One Mile, 2.05 Glass, Professional Final Heat-Dr. A. f. Brown. of Glove land, first; Nat Butler, Boston, second; Watson Coleman, Boston, third. Time, 2.OS 1–⁠5. Two Mile Open, Professionalism Heat-F j. Loughead Sarnia Ont, Irst; owen Kimble. Louisville. second, j. +. Esperon, Detroit, third. Time, III.

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 3, 1897, page 3

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  ON THE GRIDIRoN. The Football Season opens-Many Games Played New Haven. Conn. Oct. 2.-The hone foot ball season was opened at Yale this afternoon Nhen the eGtirs. university Wit messed the game with Wesleyan on the new sr:diron. There We’re nearly 5000 spectators. The same resulted in VIC tory for Yale BY tAe score Of 30 to 0. Yale scored four times Within ten min utes. Cambridge. Mass? Oct. 2.-Harvard defeated Williams t’5aay in the first game Of the season BY q score 81 20 70 Q. West Point, y. T.. Oct. I’m the game today with Trinity West Point went through their line with impuM;fY for long distances. Score: West Point, IS; Trinity, 6. Princeton n. j., Oct. 1.-The foot ball season at Princeton opened this afternoon IN d one-side0 but eXc9Eng contest beween she Tigers aud Le4igh, Ia wAieh chs lrety sons of Old Nassau Smothered the Pennsylvantaus by a score of 20 TO Q. Carlisle. Pa. Oct. 2,4The foot BAH team

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 3, 1897, page 12

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  FOOTBALL SEASON BEGINS. WESLEYAN DEFEATED EASILY ON YALE’S NEW GRIDIRON. New Haven. Conn Oct 1.-The football season opened at Yale this afternoon on the new gridiron. Nearly three thousand spectators were present at the game with Wesleyan. 1t resulted In “A victory for Yale by the score Of 30 to 0. The weather too warm for football and the Weslcyan players. some Of whom had been in training only two days. were almost Frustrated in the sec and half. Yale scored four times within ten minutes The touchdown made by Yale In the first half stubborny contested Gilmore being crowded through the centre after eleven minutes play This was the only scoring done In that haif Cadwalader. Yales new guard. caught the crowd by his clean kicking Of goals from touchdowns In five tries he did not make single miss Wesleyan did not once have the ball within Tho Yalo thiriN -nvc-yard line Tho lne-up:

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  The Houston daily post, Houston, Tex., October 3, 1897, page 5

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  Football. New Haven, Conn. October 2-The homo football season was opened at Yale this afternoon. Nearly 5000 spectators witt messed the game with Wesleyan. 1t re. 30 to 0. Cambridge. Mass. October c.-Harvard defeated Williams university In game of football today by n score Of 20 to 0. Princeton. N. j., October 1.-The football season was opened here today Score, Princeton 42. Lehigh O.

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.

Yale leads 46–⁠0 in 46 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.