Dartmouth at Brown

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  The Worcester spy, November 22, 1898, page 8

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  WEAKENED Dartmouth in Second Half WENT TO PIECES. Brown Made Two Touch, downs Against Hanover. lege foot ball season in New England closed this afternoon with Dartmouth and Brown as the contesting teams in the final match. with the second-class college teams of New England, this game bore exact ~ the same relation as did the Yale Harvard meeting TO the teams collect lively known as the Big Four. 1t was originally intended that the game be played on Adelaide Park, Saturday afternoon, but owing to the severe rain and the very wet condition of the field, the two managers decided to carry it over until this afternoon, In the first half, the game afforded as grand an exhibition of college foot bali as the most eXacting enthusiast could desire And for a short time, early in the second period of play, the teams seemed evenly matched and stubbornly contested every inch Of ter rltOry. Then. suddenly, and with apparenuy no excuse for so doing, the visitors went all TO pieces. Brown tore up big holes in the line or went around Dartmouths ends. In the first hs@ neither side succeeded in scoring; in the second half Brown made two touch downs and kicked two goals, while Dartmouth took advantage of an oppOrtunity offered, and tried a place kick for goal. the attempt resulting in a dismal failure Thus the score stood u to 0 in favor OF the team from Brown. Having defeated Dartmouth, the win ners of the tri-colegiate foot ball league will now lay claim to the cham lionship of New England barring only ale and Harvard. But Brown who’ll .s-l-. ances Of whose team upon the gridron this fall certainly making her a most important factor in any settlement of the championship. Wesleyan defeated the Hanover team more handily than Brown did today, winning by score of % to 5-a score that is fully as good as Browns u too tally against the same team. 1t is unfortunate that Wesleyan and Brown cannot come together for a Thanksgiving day game in this city, as was suggested some weeks ago. The teams would then be rightfully fighting for the championship, and the winner would have a clear title But Wesleyan disbanded her team more than two weeks ago, and so is out of foot ball for 1898. The championship title unquestionably lies between Brown and Wesleyan. But Wesleyan has fully as much right to claim it as Brown. There will be lots of talk. although the i’m partial follower of foot BAH can arrive at no definite conclusion. The game began at 3 o’clock. and when the two eleVens trotted upon the field there We’re fully 1000 persons there TO greet them. Every Brown student ana many from the ranks of the alum ~. We’re of course on hand. while in the centre section was a little delegation OF Dartmouth men. AT first the SUP porters of the green We’d with the wlr greater number or Brown men in max ing noise. They kept up their own end pretty well during the first half but later. when anticipated victory turned INTO unexpected defeat. Dartmouth enthusiasm Wilted and during the last 70 minutes nor a Dartmouth peep was heard. Browns victory is due to two causes: First, her team was the heavier by at least 10 pounds, man for man: and. secondly, her team play and her interterence were developed TO a higher state OF perfection. Brown has always been able to get FIVE giants for their centre men, While Dartmouths line ap. peared no heavier than the average college team. Dartmouths strongest point was tC be found in her kicking department. Proctor did the punting for his team and every one of his kicks We far ther than any one the Brown men, Richardson did most of the kicking fol his team-sent into the air. Proctor punts long and low and succeeds ir getting a sort Of sonersault motor INTO the ball that makes it difficult tC handle Dartmouth also had the better trained team. 1t was a game in whici time was very frequently called. bu four times out Of five, a Brown man was the cause. Richardson. HapgooC and two or three others. were in very poor condition physically and frequent ly delayed the game. 1t is fortunat, for Dartmouth that she emerged from the game with SO few knocks, for sh, has an important game in Milwaukee, on Thanksgiving day. Two entirely different styles Of play We’re adopted in the first and seconC halves. Early in the game il was kicilers’ contest. tine punts coming al thlck and fast as at any time during The Yale Harvard fight Of Saturday AT times the ball was advanced int, the opponents territory on short cen tire attacks. But no end plays Were successfully attempted. nor did the lin, plunges prove constant ground gamers Dartmouth by superior work i’m punt ing and equally good work in defensiy, play, had slight advantage But i was not sufficient to be productive o q touchdown. In the second half, Dartmouth alon indulged in kicking. She now KICKED not from choice. but from sheer neces sity. For about five minutes Dart mouth played with all the courage ant strength she had shown in the fiYs half. Then her line gave way com pletely Attacks and plays that hith erto had been met and stopped Wer now netting from five TO ten yart gains. The ends, too. had apparent, lost their heads, and the backs. espe cially Richardson. who played the sta game of the day. We’re getting aroun, with aggravating regularity. Just once after dissolution had sc in Dartmouth made brace. That wa upon her own ten-yard line Brow had swept the ball down the field bu had yet to score a touchdown Tel yards from the goal line the Dart mouth men rallied; they held for down

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Dartmouth leads 54–⁠24–⁠3 in 81 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.