Tufts at Yale

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  New-York tribune, New York, October 2, 1902, page 11

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  YALE. 81; TUFTS. s. 0ALE, Of II Is ,. THE MASSACHUSETTS MEN SCORE oND ToUCHDOwN-LEssONs FOR THE MEN IN BLUE. MEN IN BLUE New-Haven. Conn, Oct. Yale played an inter esting football game this afternoon with Tufts College and came cut with lesson we’ll learned. Tufts scored a touchdown and added a goal. max ing six points. The Yale eleven made a total OF thirtv-four points. and won the game handily. bur would have been satisfied with a much smaller score could the touchdown scored against them have been erased Among the students, however. the feeling tonight is that the days experience will prove good for the team Yale found the Tufts team easy in the first few minutes of play having scored one touchdown inside OF two minutes and another within ten minutes OF play on the ck-off Vanderpoel sent the ball straight into Captain knights hands He ran the ball back cleverly. and was not tackled and held until he was but thirty yards from Yale goal. The ball IN two tries advanced only little, but It was laid directly in line with Yale goal The signal was given for a quarterback kick, and the play was we’ll executed. The Yale eleven expected try for a drop kick. Instead the ball fell at some dis tance from the goal posts and so much TO one side that Durham. left end, secured 10 and made the touchdown. knight converted II into goal From this point to the end OF the second half the game fully as strenuous, and there were even more line plays. The first half had many end runs and the men were worn out Shevlins long run or more than sixty yards TO touchdown was the feature of the secoL I half, and Knights punting much enthusiasm. nd

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  Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 2, 1902, page 1

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  RAH, BOWD0IN! Caught Harvard Mapping and Scored in First Half. Harvard Played Poor|y--Bowdoin Played Good Game. Yale, “a; Tufts, 6-Princeton, IS; Swarthmore, o. Cambridge, Mass, Oct. Harvard was scored or in its second game of the season on Soldiers field, this afternoon, RoWdoin doing the trick, the final score being II to in Harvard’s favor. Bow doins touchdown was entirely unexpected. The Harvard men were caught mapping. Harvard had the ball on her opponents’ 10-yard line. Graydon made an attempt on a center play and fumbled. Porter of Bowdoin got the ball and breaking away from the scrimmage. started for Harvard’s goal line, fol lowed only by Bowditch. The latter was too far behind to catch the runner. Phi loon kicked the goal, and the score stood to 0 against Harvard in the middle of the first half. Harvard kicked off. the bali going over Bowdoin’s line. Marshall of Harward, after the free kick, ran to Bow doins goal for a touchdown. He then failed to kick goal and the half ended with the score 6 to in Bowdoin’s favor. In the second half Harvard twice Ca ried the ball over, goals being after wards kicked by Marshall. Harvard’s game was very poor from start to finish. Bowdoin gained dis lance only once, but held Harvard for downs on her own 4-yard line. Lineup and summary: HARVARD. BOWDOIN. Wright lBlaikie> lt...............t, Davis Hovey, lg. ...................... Zig, SHAW King Force)‘ c....-...-s c,,, SIapleS 1rl Ut 4

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, October 2, 1902, page 3

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  TUFTS COLLEGE GIVES YALE A BIG SURPRISE Visitors Put Up Fast Game and Finally Send Man Over New Haven Line Score “a to 6. NEW HAVEN, Conn. Oct. 1.-The Yale team and coaches were given big surprise this afternoon when Tufts Col lege eleven scored against Yale. The final score was 81 to 6, but the game was about the hardest bit OF work the Yale men have had TO do this fall and Captain Chadwick allowed but five new men into the play during the game Goss and Hamlin. veterans OF last year, were removed during the second half. schevlin and Kinney are apt to displace them, as they did today. The Tufts team fought 10 the very last conceding not an inch to Yale. Tufts found stonewall for her line plays When the Yale backs hit the T-ifts’ line they found hole big enough for an ice. wagon. Tufts, on occasion, held Yale in such a way as TO give them something to think about. The feature of Shevlin’s work was his splendid running, he scoring Yale’s touchdown after seventy-fve yard run around the Tufts left end,

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Yale leads 10–⁠0 in 10 meetings, counting the four since this game.