Yale at Harvard

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 26, 1882, page 2

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  COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES. HARVARD DEFEATED BY YALE. HARVARD DEF EAIED DI Ihbf1’ DESPERATE BUT UNAvAIIING EFFORTS BY THE wEARERs OF THE MAGENTA TO SCORE VICTORY. IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUsE.l DESPERATE BUT UNAvAILING EFFORTS BY TILE wEARERs OF THE MAGENTA TO SCORE VICTORY IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUsEl BosToN. Nov. 25.-The representative foot ball teams OF Harvard and Yale met on Holiness neid Cambridge this afternoon. As tho teams were supposed 70 be pretty evenly matched the game was looked for ward to with intense interest and at o’clock fuly 1000 people, including 800 Yale students ana ABOUT Zoo ladies’ had gathered upon the field The weather WAS perfect and the field in splendid condition strong northwest wind was blowing, however. which taVorod Yale in the first half aud Harvard in the second Al exactly 215 the Yale eleven made their appear ance followed minute later by Harvard Both teams eagerly scanned by spectators and was easily that the Yale mon was superior In weight ana strength. though both teams were composed OF heaVy wellknt muscular set Of men, Harvard made the kickoff, gained nothing and lost the ball TO Yale, when 1t steadily forced toward Harvard’s goal. Harvard soon recovered, however, forced the ball down the held and held it Yales goal for nearly ten minutes The ball then went back and forth. first toward Har’ wards goal and then toward Yae’s In twelve minutes Harvard made safety touchdown The bail was cav red out but In spite of Haryard strongest efforts iao got the ball and Hull passed through the Harvard rush line and scored the first touchdown for Yale just twenty minutes after the game begin Yale punted the bail out, and Richards tried Cor goal, but iaied’ Mason then carried the ball out for Har’ ward and passed 1t back TO Cabot, who failed 10 gain any ground Harvard was forced to make another safety touchdown Yale soon got the bail In front OF Harvards goal and Richards tried to kick goal from the Held but not successful. Yale now made an other touchdown. Richards again tried for goal ana again failed and Cabot and Morrison did some brilliant work for Harvard. and succeeded IN getting the ball back into the middle of the field just time was called In the first half Of the game the bali was hardly once on Yae’s side of the field The second half had hardly begun when Yale got the ball. and in n We minutes succeeded IN making touch down, from which Richards kicked goat Harvard now began to play desperately and time and time again within the next fifteen minutes made hercueah eHOrts get the ball through Yales rush line. Yale, However, the ball, and rushing through the Harvard team made the fourth touchdown Richards again ialied 10 Kick goal For of the game both teams failed to score Yale kent the ball near arVdrds goal good of III. time several times Harvard IN getting IL toward the centre OF the held lime was called with the ball inside or Yales forty yard line Inc game stood Yale, one goal and three touchdownsi HARVARD nothing. The best playing for Harvard was done by Mason Appleton, Kendall, Cabot and Ayres’ and for Yale by Hull, Twombly aud Terry The teams composed “a follows: Harvard Rushers A gers Cabot Appleton. Wessehoef Morrison Mason; halfback, Keep, Coolidge; fuIpack’ Edmands Yale Rushers Knapp, Beck, H. nd man. Tompkus Hull, Peters Farweli’ quarter BACK Twombly half-backs, Richards and Terry tull back Bacon. IJmpires-fOr Harvard r. Houston; for 1a!e, W G Badger Referee, c. J. WintOn. or Princeton. In the beginning of the game Wessehoet WAS severely IN ured aud Adams had to take MS place.

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Officially, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8; as played, 62–⁠50–⁠8 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 141 meetings, counting the 113 since this game.