Amherst at Harvard

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  The daily morning journal and courier, October 13, 1898, page 6

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  HARVARD, 5s; AMHERST, ?. Cambridge, Oct. 12.-The Harvard eleven piled up one of the largest scores of recent years in the game with Am herst on Soldiers field this afternoon, when the home team won by the score of 53 to 2. Amherst scored a safety on a blocked kick when the score stood “A to 0 near the end of the first half, but the Harvard team, stung by the mis- play which allowed their opponents to score, went into the game with added life and added 12 more points before the end of the half The best rushing was done by Reid and Dibblee, the latter making a number of long runs around right end Harvard scored six touch- downs in the first half, three being by Dibblee and the rest by Reid, Kendall and Hallowell In the second half of the game touchdowns were scored by Kendall, Reid and Brayton. Cochrane kicked eight goals out of his nine chances. The score: Harvard 34, Am herst 2. uchdowns-Dibblee 3, Reid ?, Kendall 2, Hallowell, Brayton. Goals -Cochrane 8. Safeties-Dibblee- -15 and 20-minute halves.

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  The times, October 13, 1898, page 7

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  HARVARD BEATS AMHERST. The Contest Was a Weird Exhibition of Football. Cambridge Mass, Oct. 12.-The Harvard–Amherst game here today was a weird exhibition of football. Amherst looked about as large as an average school team, and their play was in accord with their appearance. An afternoons practice against the scrub would have been much better practice for the home team. Harvard’s play, in spite of the large score, was ragged and an aggressive team of equal weight would have found little trouble in scoring at least twice against them. The fact that In one fifteen minute half the Crimson players ran up SO points against “a made by Yale in two halves IS robbed of significance by the fact that Amherst played largely substitute eleven-. The score: Harvard, 56: Amherst, 2.

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Harvard leads 24–⁠1 in 25 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.