Harvard at Yale

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 20, 1898, page 1

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  ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. HARVARD THE CHAMPION – YALE MEN DOING SOME POWERFUL THINKING OVER TIE PRINCETON GAME. Haven yesterday defeating Yale badly In clean. scientific game. Harvard leaps to top place among the college elevens for the sea son Of 1895. While time fails at this writing for extended comment in regard TO the play yes terday. nevertheless it is clear that once more has been demonstrated the fact that the physical condition of the men has a wonderful deal 20 do with the ultimate result Harvard Is to | he most heartily congra tulated on her magnificent game and overwhelming victory Yale men want to know why their eleven was beaten at Princeton. The surface causes were certainly pretty plain. Outrageous fumolhs VI the backs poor blocking on punts on the part Of the rushers. two or three Of the so-called mainstays of the team in poor condition. ana ~ | times very questionable generaship. Those were the weak points that everybody could see What Yale graduates and undergraduates want | to know, however. is why their team was weak at those points. where it has almost without eNception in past years been strong. am not prepared to answer that question fully, but reply that will so a good way is to the ehec’ that there head coach al New-Hsveh this year to develop the team after denhi’e set policy from the very start. There was | moreover no physical trainer Of long expert cnco and policy to see that the men kept III al | all times and 10 nurse them generally in the way in which football heroes must be codd’ed I, IS plain that Captain Chamberlain took 700 much work for even his broad shoulders Nhen a captain has to keep up his own body play has to coach AID whip a lot OF compafauNci’ | raw recruits into shape, has to round the “”oie ! into perfected team play. and IN ahni’‘o” -, | that Keen an owe on each individual mans work | and on his physical condition. It is a task mat no man can he expected to undertake success .JaJ any Chamberlain had to do all this work rSn, ! straight through the season. for the hummer VI | Yale graduates VINO hocked back to the CITY OF | Films a fortnigh, before the Princeton game “d’ ! formidable But il certainly seems to he inc | case that Chamherlin was without the he’p | of A strong guiding genius. such as Butter”orth ! was last year, and the poor condition OF ‘ne Yale team was to my mind largely due 10 ‘‘‘‘ lack With the set Of veterans that Yale started with AT the beginning Of the season there shou’o have been absolutely no excuse for the eXho’- J ton that was given in the game at Princeton and tho part that aggravated fale men “io7’ was the fact that their team showed constantly &c carabuities both in defence and attack, ana sbowed what superb combination it could have been made into under proper INSTRUCTION. A SCORE THAT WAS NOT UNDESERNED As for the game itself II was more or less OF enectacular performance. Poes hair-ralsing run Of hundred yards putting the crowns o” both sides Of the field In perfect frenzy Poe’s run was one of those plays that are oouno 10 he made occasionally even in big chaHpo’‘- shin contests. and while it might properly u classcd under the generic name o. “huke’ at the same time with Yale fumbng, as her backs were doing. and Princeton on the close watch | IT was pretty certain sooner or later that some | big advantage would accrue to the Tigers IN ! the Harvard Pennsylvania game the same ! chance came In Harvards way, only al the | kick off rather than later in the game. For | these reasons. while Poe’s touchdown was 4 nieco of good fortune for Princeton. at tie same time it was something that was well deserved. | ,rhe Yale men are trying to find some consoa- ! ton in the fact that their team by steady line bucking gained many more yards than Prince ! tons team covered. also that their defence ! WAS so superb that twice on their own three ! ward line with the ball in Princeton’s posses ! sion thov made such Wondrous stand as 10 | rrevont A touchdown. Such thoughts MAJ be | more or less consolatory. but as “A usua’ thinS | nothing consoles Yale for defeat, ana TINS ! wear hcr unNise generalship in playing DE | Sauiles. with “A badly sprained ankle; Benjamin. | fresh from sick bed Of malaria, and McBrlde’ ! with his knee all twisted out OF shape and oat- tered up generally must he strongly criticised ! As for Yalcs line. il was the redeeming feature Of her play though the men had not been ! taught properly to block when the backs we’re | about to punt The crowds present bore them selves in manner of mighty good humor | throughout the contest. and on the field the spirit Of the players was excellent If may eX- cept this. that one Of the Princeton guards. whom | saw distinctly not five feet away from me- deliberately walked up to De Saulles lying on the ground after A tackle and spiked him on the ankle. This simply outrageous. but / was the only feature that marred the sport OF ! the afternoon THAT TRIPLE ALLIANCES AGAIN. The talk Of a triple alliance composed OF Har- ward. Yale and Princeton continues almost I’M | abated. though the fact as announced In ths column week ago. that Harvard would not turn a cold shoulder to Pennsylvania. Is gradu- ally being accepted on all sides. even by those most enthusiastic for Harvard to give up her relations with the Quakers. The ideal arrange mcnt as every body recognizes immed ateiJ. | would be- for Princeton TO play Pennsy lvania every year and for Harvard TO play Yale. and | then the two winners 10 play for the champion ship Bur Princeton desires above Ali things every year a Yale game. and could not be per | suaded 20 give that up. Moreover ale ana | Harvard Invariably want to play with eacf ! other 50 that such an arrangement WhiIe II ! Is very pretty paper. has no practical chan’e / Of fulflment The present situation. therefore, ! is likely 10 continue unchanged. But II cannot ! be denied that there T. feeling at Harvard as ! well as at The other colleges that the part thd’ | Panrsylyania pIavs in the football world is not / wholly conducive TO the good 81 the sport ms ! wear for instance. out of the eleven men Nh” ! +, present Pennsylvania. seven or eight are III | the graduate schools and he whole tendenc! or era 1uate players Is just trifie toward proits- ! sionalism. Moreover. an eleven mat is com | posed 50 largely Of graduates averages ipur OI ! ,vs vears Older than a team Of undergra ates | Ike Harvards for instance. and IL stands 10 reason that the strength and endurance OF me ! elder men should ice considerably more INA” ! mar of the calloW undergraduates. That Is the reason that It is little hard to expect an eleven ! cou1posed Of Young players Ike fales ana mar = | Yards 10 run up successfully year IN ana year - - lnLIDl .Ilar mon Lkr

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 20, 1898, page 1

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  YALE ELEVEN IS DEFEATED In Rain and Mud Harvard Threshes Out a Score Of II to O., CRIMsON’S BUSHES BREAK yAlE’S LINE Harvard Eleven Shows II Knew All Of the Game II Plays-No Flukes or Luck . Factor In Result. OF the Game IL PIays-NO FIukes OF Luck . Factor In Result. NEW HAVEN, Nov. 1s.-Harvard defeated Yale this afternoon by q score Of II TO 0. winning q glorious foot ball victory. In q clean. fast game, Astounding in brilliant plays. The Harvard eleven showed them selves masters Of the game, excelling In every department and playing foot ball well nigh marvellous, under such miserable weather conditions. Every point was made by Straightforward, open tactics and no fiuke or luck contributed in any way to the scoring. Harvard’s great speed Of play. power and concentration Of attack, superior kicking and splendid physical conditions won the game easily. The Yale players fought with stoltd pluck. At the end they rallied g%randly, out Of sheer desperation and finished strong. The rain which had fallen for two and a half days was still pouring down at the hour set for the game and a northwest wind continued to send the storm along with great violence. Eighteen thousand people witnessed the game. Oilskins, mack intoshes. rubber coats. table cloths, carriage boots, southwesters-every kind Of water proof protection was pressed into service. The rubber clothing in New Haven stores was sold early in the day and then a raid was made on the dry goods stores for OIL cloth, with only a single opening in the center, through which bedraggled heads appeared. The costumes Of the women were as groteslue as those OF the men and many women who sat In the stands with absolutely no head covering presented an odd appearance when the rain had beaten down on them for two hours and melted their locks about their fair faces. A bleaker and more uninviting spot than Yale field was not to be found. But the peopie were cheerful and even wildly enthusiastic at times, in spite Of 1t all. By 1:So o’clock the two large stands on either side of the field were we’ll filled. the west side allotted to Harvard filling more rapidly. Fifteen minutes later when the east stand, occupied by Yale and its sympathizers, and both end and corner stands we’re practically full. BY 2 o’clock there were few vacant seats in the great rectangle. 1t was just 2:16 when Captain Chamber lain and his sturdy men. ,well-greaved and gauntletted for the battle, ran on the field from the northeast corner, amid volleys Of cheering from enthusiastic Yale, men. Ou6 Hluutc ~ SdpLnih DlOOiCO ohu hhr crimson-stocked warriors strobe into the arena, while the great banks Of humanity that shut In the gridiron burst into wild hurrahs. Yale Wins the Toss. Yale won the toss. taking the ball and ! rushing toward the northerL goal. At 2:2a , O’Clock Burr Chamberlain kicked on far down the field to the ten-yard line, DAILY returning the kick prettily and Yale lined up with the BAN in its possession on its OWL ffty-yard line. Three attempts to forge the crimson for. ward netted but three yards and the bal went to Harvard on downs. but 1t was i’m mediately given back to the blue on Har. wards offside play. Again Yale could moi gain and Chamberlain was forced to kick | Daily sfumbled the punt, then picked thu ball up deity and ran ahead a few yards giving the crimson the ball on the thirty yard line. Haughton punted at once fal | down the field, Dudley catching the ball on | Yale’s own ffty-yard line. Harvard’s de. | tense was impregnable and Yale was forced once more to kick. Harvard receiving the pigskin on Its own ffty-yafd line. Haughton Immediately booted the leathe, | far down the gridiron across the goal line for q touchback. The bail being brought back. Chamberlain kicked of from the twenty -fve-yard line Reid making a pretty catch. dashing over the white lines for twenty yards before little | Ely nailed him. 1t was now, with the ball on Yale’s forty-fve-yard line, that Harward began it’s relentless hammering at the | Yale line, which resulted in a we’ll earned touchdown. Dibblee and Reid plunged into the Yale forwards with tremendous power. At each rush the blue wavered. with Yale powerless to check the terrific onslaught. Slowly but surely Harvard advanced the ball on steady persistent plunges. first smashing to one side, then to the other Of the center. The bali reached the twelve-yard line Dibblee, Reid and Boal taking 1t on con. s~ecutive rushes for thirty-three yards. Their little Dibblee plunged into right tackle a, II shot from q catapult and the ball wa. ten yards nearer the coveted goal line. Yale’s Defense Overcome. Yale made . plucky rally then and twict faced the fury Of the crimson attack. Civ ing way but one yard. With that one yart between them and q touchdown. littl’ Charlie DAILY called on the, men for one las effort. Reid took the ball and leaped head long into the struggling forwards. 1t wa nearly a minute before the men could b. pulled out Of the heap so hard and clos had been the scrimmage. but Reid hat gone over the line. The crimson had scoret the FIRST point at Just 1885 o’clock. twelv minutes after the kickoff. Cochrane’s kick for goal struck the cross bar and the ball bounded back into tn arena, making the score s to o In Harvard favor. Chamberlain kicked of again and Dial! punted back to Ely on the play. The Har ward line was strong. determined and az g~ressive. 1t was impossible for Yale. tr, as 1t would to gain. and It was forced I kick. Haughton returned the punt and 81, made a brilliant sensational run OF thirt yards by catching 1t and rushing down tn side lines. shaking of taokler after tacklel But when the backs vent up against tn crimson line 1t was like striking a brio wall. Yale was always forced to kick an Harvard kicked at every opportunity. gain ing many yards and keeping the play con tinually In Yale’s territory. With the bal on Yale’s own thirteen-yard line Harvar held the blue for downs and started ham mering at Yale’s center again. Dibble

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  The sun, November 20, 1898, page 5

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  .FA|R HARVARD DOWNS YALE Crimson Made Two TOuchdownS in the First Half and One in the Second. WORST KIND OF WEATHER Notwithstanding the Bad Day, Large Crowd Gathered to Wit ness the GridirOn Battle. A Stubborn Contest In the Rain and Mud. N r. 3 Rain and Mud. Yesterday, day characterized by nastiness almost incapable of description, Yale and Harvard met on the grid iron, if duck pond can be called by that name and Harvard gave Yale II to 0 ducking. It was not a game abounding in sensational or pretty plays, for that was i’m possible, but one where good straight forward foot ball predominated. Harvard won because she had everything in her favor. First, the weather, and secondly, because her line was the strongest and her backs were head and heels above those Of Yale. The lads from “Old Eli’‘ fought like demons, but they were unable to stop the onslaught of Harvard’s backs, while on the other hand it was almost impossible for Yale to gain an inch by these means. Therefore, when Yale had the ball she Immediately kicked where it would be returned and several times &C. cured gain by Harvard on Yale’s fumbles. The contest had not continued long before it was readily seen that Yale was out -classed and it was only question OF how many points Harvard would score. The following is how and who scored the points. Yale won the toss and took the ball. Chamberlain started the game by kick ing off to Reid who returned the kick to the middle of the field. Yale failed to gain, but on fake kick gained three Yards. Harvard got the ball on downs but lost it again for off-side play. Yale failed to gain and Townsend kicked to DAILY who returned to Yale’s As yard line. Yale again failed to gain more than three wards and Townsend was forced to kick. On first down Haughton kicked the ball across Yale’s goal line. The ball was brought out to twenty-five yard line. Townsend again kicked and DAILY ran the ball back to Yale’s forty-five yard line. Line plunges by Dibblee and Reid brought the ball to Yale’s thirty.yard line. Dibbee gains five and then ten yards through the line and Reid’s five yards brings the ball to Yale’s ten-yard line. On centre play Harvard takes the ball to Yale’s fve-yard line. Yale is. making fierce fight, but her line does, not seem to hold and Reid is sent through for the first score Of the game. Haughton failed to kick goal. Chamberlain kicks off and Haughton returns the ball to centre of field. Yale was forced to kick and Dibblee ran the. ball back ten yards. Harvard kicks and Ely ran ten yards before being downed. Durston and Townshend make short gains. Townshend follows with another gain and for the first time Yale gained her distance Harvard held well and Chamberlain was forced to kick at CEN tire of the field. Haughton punted and ball went out Of bounds at Yale’s fifteen yard line. Chamberlain kicked, but ball was brought back for off-side play. Harward got the ball on downs on Yale’s twenty-yard line. Dibblee and Warren gain five yards. Here Townshend had to retire, Mcbride taking his place at full back. Reid and Dibblee on line plunges take the ball to Yae’s ten-yard line. Two more were added on centre plays. Reid gains three yards and Dibbee is sent through line for touchdown. Haughton kicked the goal. Yale kicked from centre OF field, and Daily returned the kick, and Dudley fumbled and the ball was Harvard’s at centre of the field Dibblec got around left end and was never downed till he reached Yaes ten-yard line. Yale here oraced up and got the ball on downs. Mcbride and DAILY made a fair catch. Haughton tried a goal from place kick out failed. From here on till the end OF he half it was case of punt, and when he half was called it was Yale’s ball at he centre OF the field, the score being Harvard II, Yale O.. SECOND HALF. Haughton started the bali by kicking If to Mcbride, who returned the kick Iaughton got the bali and ran it back wenty yards before being downcd. From here on this half was repetiion OF the first, continual mess of ticks and line punges. Yale only gained he necessary distance twice. Harvard then got the ball and ON line ‘lnnges, Dibblee, Warren and Burnett nd Reid’s pretty thirty-fve yard run rought the ball very close to Yale’s oveted goal line, where Reid was sent trough the line for touchdown. laughton kicked the goal. After several more minutes of play me was called and the great game was YER, the score being Harvard, II; Yale, The lineup is as follows: Harvard, Yale. Dchrane. ........... Left end. ..........l lIubbell arley & Donald. Left tackle ......... Stilman oal. Left guard -. ........ Brown urnett Jafrny -. Centre. ........... .Cutten urden. Right guard. Marshall aughtOn. ..... Right tackle. Chamberlain allOwell. ........ Right end. Eddy My ............. Quarterback .......,... ... Ely ibblee. go. 80. Left halfback. Mann. Durston arren. ........ Right hHlfback. ......... Dudley cid...... .... ..Fullback. townsend, Mcbride Umpre--Dr Paul J. Dashlell. Referee-Mr. /. A. McCung T0uchdowns-D -Dibblee, one; I II. oil .al A...-

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  The Press, Connecticut, November 24, 1898, page 2

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  Qlte Pre&&. Thursday, November 24, 1908. MCLAUGHLIN { SON, PUBLISHERS. si.s0 rear. If paid strictly in advance,si.sS. serted at one-half advertising rates. Births, marriages and deaths inserted free. Communi- cations received without signature always com mitted to the waste basket without attention. This paper Is mailed regularly to it’s subscrib CTS until a definite order to discontinue is re- neived and all arrears are paid in full. THIS Paper and The Connecticut Courant semi weekly furnished for sa.1S per year. John W. Keeley, 81, the inventor of the Keeley motor. died at his home at Phila- delphIa Sunday. J. c. Keough. ex-tax-collector of Hol- yoke, Mass. has been arrested, charged with embezzlement to the amount of $t15,OO0. The southern cotton mills are having labor troubles. Over three thousand em- ployes are idle at Augusta, Ga, on ac- count of strike. Twenty-three lives were lost by the wrecklng of the British ship, Atalanta, of the coast of Oregon last week. Only three of the seamen were saved. “Dr.” Nancy Gullford, the noted Bridge port midwife, who was arrested in Lon don, was brought back to Bridgeport last week. Her ball has been fixed at $1O.O 900. The Yale football team was badly beat on by the Harvard eleven last Saturday at New Haven by a score of 17 to 0. The game was played during down pour of rain. President Timothy Dwight has resigned from Yale, to take effect at the close of the present academic year. His reason for resIgning Is his intention not to serve after seventy years of age. United States Senator Quay of Pennsyl- vania, his son, Richard R. Quay, and ex- State Treasurer Haywood have been in- dicted with conspiring to use unlawfully public moneys deposited in the Peoples bank of Philadelphia. gang of trackmen were run down near Jersey City last Friday, and eleven were killed instantly and several were in- iured. The men stepped from one track to allow train to pass, but owing to & dense fog did not see train approaching on the other track. Frank King, 8 conductor on the En- field and LOngmeadow road, has been ar rested on suspicion of being the Thomp- sonviIle fire bug. He was found at c. D. Bent’s livery stable with a box of hay in his hand. A fire had been started In the barn, but had gone out. King has a fam fly, and has had good character. The annual meeting of the board of management of the Holland County Tem. porary home was held at the home in Vernon Center last Thursday. The meet ing was largely attended, and nearly every town in the county was represented. The number of children in the home was 51 The youngest Is two years old; average age. eight years. Nj. F. J. Walker, sec retary of the board of county commission CTS, reported the expenditures during tho year as $4,320.14; receipts, s7 due from state, s1S3 27. Many complt ments were given to the superintendent and matron of the home, Mir. and Mrs. k s. Talbot. The home is in an excellent condition. The inmates are well clothed and healthy, showing good keeping. Al ter the business meeting a lunch was served to the visitors by the home matron Mrs. Talbot. After the lunch the visit ors were shown around the buildings by County Commissioners Walker ant Thompson. County Commissioner Buel of Hebron was not present, as he was de- tained at home.

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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 101 since this game.