Amherst at Harvard

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  The Worcester spy, Worcester, Mass., October 12, 1899, page 3

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  EASY FOR HARVARD. Amherst Could Do Nothing Against the Crimson. SCORE OF a POINTS ROLLED UP. Daily Punted Frequently and the Ends Tackled Quickly and Sure. SCORE OF a POINTS ROLLED UP. Cambridge, Oct. 11.-HarFard easily defeated Amherst today, rolling up Al points to in 15-minute halves. Am hersl was outplayed in every point of the game. In the line, in spite of AM lhersts weight, the Harvard forwards opened up holes everywhere and, being vel. supported by ne back field, adj valoed the ball every down. ! As nearly every one of Araherst’s }kiclk-rffs V ere st oEce setu1 i. Cd BY DalS, ! tn Harvard eBas were given freql~ ert / t,.ssTces far tackles. Thei~ wssk under thost punt was 5rnIya1ye, as. theE downe5 the Amherst backs for q ioss every tine. The first half proved that The Har- | ward half backs were able to elude the ! Amherst tacklers without any diff Guilty, especially ON end plays and, though the change of policy reduced the score somewhat in the second half, line plays only were used. At no time bucking. In spite of the constant changing of the Harvard line, % men getting chances to play, the team work was good and the play full of saap. After DAILY had kicked off III the first half, Harvard soon secured the ball on a tumble and scored touchdown in the first two minutes. Two more were scored by fast work of the backs, aided | by a long run by Daily. Just before time was called, Kendall, by brilliant run of As yards, scored the fourth touchdown. Daily kicked three goals out of the four | On Days return of the kickoff in the next half Motley and Reistine downed the Amherst back so quickly that he dropped the ball, the balance falling on it. Steady line pIunges by all three backs carried the ball across the line, Ellis making touchdown, Daily returned the next KICKOFF, but | Amherst was wholly unable to make any impression on the Harvard line, Once again in this half she got the ball on a tumble, but both times was forced to punt Sawin made pretty run on recovering the ball and soon sent Devens across for q touchdown. Sawin punted out and kicked the goal. Amherst got the ball after the return of the kickoff, but the punt was blockaded and line plays carried the ball across the goal line for the last Iscore. The lineup: HARVARD. AMHERST. Campbell, Ristine, e......r e, Ballantine Swain; Blagden, t.,.........;..r t; Butler A. r. Sargent, Barnard, l c. Sargent Greene, c.......-......c, Larkin HoilinSsworth, Rainsford, r gil g, Otis ]. Lawrence Lewis, + t.........l t, Morse Hallowell Motley, r e...:.....l e, Dudley DAILY Sawin, b.,....;.q b, Swift, Patrick Kendall Ellis, b..l h b. Bryan. Swift Warren, Devens, b........ f b, Washburn Score, Harvard IL, Amherst 0; touch downs, Parker 2, Kendall 2, Ellis 2, Dew ems; goals from touchdowns, DAILY A, Sawin g. Umpire, Mr.. Fairbanks; ref cree, G. o. Jenkins; linesmen, Edmunds | of Harvard and Fosdick of Amherst; timekeeper, F. Wood, b. A. A. Time, | two 15-minute halves.

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  The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., October 12, 1899, page 6

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  Harvard Defeated Amherst. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct u.-Harvard easily defeated Amherst at football today, rolling up Al points to 0 in fifteen minutes halves. Amherst was outplayed in every point of the game.

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