Yale at Harvard

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  The Seattle post-intelligencer, Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.], November 14, 1897, page 2

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  shook hands cordially On getting up. 10 show that there was no bad feeling War rer’s left shoulder WAS burt II ne same serfEmsge. and IL proved 20 Dc dislccatea- Parker took lis place az right hail. Aoaiton got the bali for Harvard on fu.nfse Parker was thrown down for loss. Dat Dibeiee nettee uine yards on two end plzys. Tine was called few minutes later. the hall on the Crmson’s k-yard line, after short gains by Parker. SWAN and Df5blee and the first hsif was ever. Crfmson Rejotees Toe soon. The teams ~ent az eaoe 20 their quartsrs and there was q general Wossation al along the Harvard lines After HAVING successfully resisted Yale’s hammSr1ng with the handicap OF 4 s.rcng head wind. every Cr1msoa sympafnixer REGARDED sns victory as already won. The wind WAS az the strongest during the second half but was less ssSzdy Wsaeu the REFEREES whistle blew for pay TO Degin. Ii Mas Yale’s klck-on The pail went to Hauxaton. who returned IL vita a net gain OF nfteen yards and DE Solllss muffed. Douce,te rot the bali Haushton and Beuye carried 1t through the center for six yArds- Then PARKER and Dloolee added Eve more. bringiEx the ball 70 1ass ; ae-yaEd l1e. where alarier-oack AiEA gave IL 70 De SoalleA McBrsde Duuied ~ 20 Dsbbsee’s arms. and the Latter advanced ae.d. Harvard made = fruttiess Try St center. but Hazen so; the runner. Haughton then kicked high. and NC Bride got the bali on Yates ffsesn-yard iina. MouIton tackled him hard and was laid ous for two or three minutes. but ne was strong enough 20 nail Corwin ios = loss on the next play. Mcbride punted out OF bounds at Yates thirty-two-yafd line. Cabot made two yards around the right end, but Doucette got In the way OF the next play, and Haskell was forced to retire. Norton Shaw took his place at right guard Cnad1iek’s illegal interiefence with the snAp-oack save Harvard i’ve yards. Parker and Haughton pushed through the CARDS for good gains, and the bail was Haryards on The enemys 1fteen-yard line. The Blue Wards on Defeat. Everything looked fair for q speedy touchdown. Bouve, Parker and Cabot chopped of ten yards OF the remaining distance, and with FIRST down on Yales seyen-y yard lire, Harvard thought she was already tasting the joys OF victory. But tne Ellis summoned all their traditional stuhEos mess, and combining 1t with exceiIcnt defensive play. got the ball on downs. They made one successful attack At Earvards line. and then Mcbride kicked. /; was short punt, but the day was saved for Yale. Harvard could do nothing with the ball and forfeited IL on downs. 1t was Yale’s ball on her twenty yard lie. and after an unsuccessful as sault on Donald By Benjamin, Mcbride panted 1t TO his .ifty-yard line. Haughton caught the bail and advanced it ten yards. An exchange of punts By Haughton and Mcbride melted ten yards for Yale, and a short kick by Mcbride was gathered in by one OF his own side at the middle of the field Two more exchanges OF kicks left the ball on Yale’s forty-yard line. Swain was laid out for helping Parker through the left end. and Beef” Wheeler took his place. Chadwick downed Dsbbiee without gain. Forced 10 kick on downs. Haughton sent the ball over Yaie’s goal line. and IL was her ball On the twenty Vineyard lire. The ball lowered around the center OF the field for some time. until on a punt by Haughton 20 Yale’s fifteen-yar6 Inc De Soulles made the best run OF the day. gaining thirty yards through Haryards tackles. Donald was injured IN one Of the follow Ing plays and Mills took his place. He distinguished himself at once by a fine tackle or Mcbride. who caught Haugh,s tons punt on Yaie’s forty-five-yard line. Neither goal was in danger In the last Few minutes. the nearest approach to 1t being Just before the end. when Parker blocked AcBride’s punt and sent the ball bounding back toward Yale’s goal No other Harvard player was near enough TO get the ball and Parker tripped. Cabot was hurt on the next play, ard on the Following scrimmage time was called with the ball on Yale’s thirfy-yard line. Umpire-Paul Dashiel, Lehigh. Referee-W. A. McClung, Lehigh. Score-Harvard 0. Yale 0.

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  The herald, California, November 14, 1897, page 2

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  not costly fumbles, while Yale’s backs seemed to misjudge the punts continually and the men were sure on their catches. At the end Yale seemed to be fresher. 1t was grand football weather and a tremendous crowd saw the struggle. The air had tinge of winter-just enough to make the spectators cheer and stamp to keep warm and to put vim into the work of the players. The gridiron was in remarkably good condition after the heavy rains of yesterday and the players were put to no discomfort on this score. Long before the game was called the great stands We’re packed to overlooking with the anxious enthusiasts. 1t was a great spectacle from the enclosure, the greatest throng that ever assembled at a football contest in Cambridge. Fully $4,000 enclosed the gridiron in four great bastion-like banks of humanity Up the slopes there blazed and fiickered a thousand dull red flags except in the south stand, where in four sections there was a solid mass of waving blue, save for an occasional crimson flag. First crimson everywhere. then thousand banners of the blue were snapped defamily in the breeze. Though Yale’s contingent of 5000 enthusiastic support ers in the south stand were numerically overwhelmed by crimson sympathizers they cheered more Justify and made more noise than did their rivals. shortly before o’clock the Harvard team came upon the field, led by Captain Cabot and Duocette. Their appear ance was the signal for mighty tumult from the Harvard stands. A moment later, when the Yale men, headed by the tow-headed Captain Rogers. raced into the enclosure. a storm of hysterical enthusiasm went up from across the gridiron. Never before have the alumni of Harward flocked back to the college in such numbers, and never before has Cam bridge seen so many Yale men within her confines. The uncertainty of the result OF the game was the chief topic of conversation and the apparently even prospects of each team augmented the followers Of the game until it was al most unprecedented. They came from every direction. by every means of conveyance. Special trains brought thousands into Boston who began to flock to early in the day. Graduates from the wilds of Maine to the plains of Texas once more entered Harvard Square and for the time dropped thought of all else but football. The interest in the contest was fully as great among the women as among the men and hum dreds of them from all parts of New We’re at the game. Every member of the Yale team this seemed to be in perfect physical To a man they displayed the utmost confidence in their ability to hold $ heavy line and make an excel ent showing in this afternoons contest. Captain Rogers expressed the opinion that although the wind was pretty strong, it would not hurt his players any THE POSITIONS. The following are the positions Harvard. Position. Yale Y. W. Cabot. Left End. ....J. ]. Hazen :. o. Swain. Left Tackled. C. Rodgers ). W. Bouve. Left Guard. Chadwick \. Z. Doucette. Center. .G. l. Cadwallader 3. Dibblee. Left Half-back. A. f. Corwin VI. Donald Right Tackle p. c. Chamberlain 7. 3. Moulton. Right End. John Hall Garrison. Jr. Quarterback CA. DeSaulles ?. D. Houghton. Full elk. M L. Mcbride =. Warren. Right Half-bac II. F Benjamin H. f. Haskell. Right Guard. FIG. Brown, Jr. Umpre-Paul Dashiel. Lehigh. Referee-W. A. McClung. Lehigh. Linesmen-John Graham. f. A. A.: D. NJ. Goodrich. Harvard: j. Rowland, Yale. Score-Harvard. 0: Yale. 0. ,,1ir,,1ta J, Ives

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  Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., November 13, 1897, page 1

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  Tomorrows football game will be the first in three years between Harvard and Yale, owing to breach between the COL leges which resulted from the ne r-to-beforgotten game of 1894 at Springfield. Yale won, as she had done in every foot ball game but two with Harvard in 10 years After the game the Yale players aired certain grievances which. 1t was thought by Harvard reflected upon their character as ‘sportsmen. and the difficulty was solved by Prof James Barr Ames of Harvard, who issued his famous decree abolishing all athletic contests with Yale for period of two years. Last spring, through the Intervention of DR.. Brooks of Harvard and Walter Camp of Yale, after frequent and protracted deliberations. the two great uni versities consented to sign an agreement for the resumption of athletic contests. One of the important articles in the agreement was that all games should be played on college grounds, and that is why Harvard and Yale meet on Soldiers field, this year, instead of at Springfield. as in years past The record games played since 1875 follow. 1S75-Harvard, goals, touchdowns; 1s7e-Yale goal; Harvard, touchdowns. 1877-No game. 1sB-Yale. goal; Harvard, O., 1879-Yale, safeties; Harvard, safetes. 1S80-Yale, goal, touchdown, 2 safeties Harvard, safeties. 18S1-Yale. 0; Harvard. safeties. 1S82-Yale l goal, 3 touchdowns; Harvard, 2 safeties. 1SS3-Yale, %; Harvard. 2. 18S4-Yale, So: Harvard, 0. 18S5-No game. 1SS6-Yale, %; Harvard. 4. 1SS7-Yale, II; Harvard, s. 1SSS-No game. 1SS9EYale. 6; Harvard..0. 1S90-Harvard II; Yale, 6. 1S91-Yale, 10; Harvard 0. 1S91Yale. s; Harvard. 0. 1S93-Yale, 6; Harvard. 0. 1SS4-Yale. -; Harvard, 4. The following are the statistics of the Vale MIA yers.

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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 102 since this game.