Amherst at Harvard

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, October 12, 1902, page 1

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  FROM THE CRIDIRON Everybody Winning Games, but Real Test Gets Nearer Every Day, BIG GAMES WORRY THE COACHES MUCH Nebrnsra suHers severely as the REsuit of the Colorado Match. and Booth Has Two Biz Holes 90 FIJI. suit of the Colorado watch. ana Booth Has Two BiE Holes to Fiji. Everybody is still winning at foot ball. OF course. That is, all the big teams. Though some Of them are being scored on, to date the important eleYens in the different parts n the eountry are an undefeated. That is TO be expected, for with the season just entering upon its third zeal week OF play the leading varsity squads are still in the midst Of the usual preliminary schedule OF matches with Inferior opponents. the &C knowIedged training school for the big contests to come, and at the same time the basis for much unreasonable dope as to the final standing Of the teams. But this condition OF preamble cannot last much longer. Every week brings the impending but long delayed collision OF the real giants nearer at hand. and as a general rule the big smash will come about NO vember1. That date will be the first OF a series OF four Saturdays and a Thanks giving day which will write the real foot ball history Of the year. For those crucial twenty.seven days are the elevens training, and 10 that period Of the gridiron schedule are the eyes Of the rooters turning, and their expectations yearning. e.. 49, In the Big Four all the teams are now rolling into condition and form and the different units are beginning TO acquire that knowledge of their duties termed head, which feature alone will count as much as anything else in determining who shall be the choices for the first team places as regulars. BY next week. or the one following at the latest, It will be possible – IL A.. -.-r4 va1ra1nnaIa for all the Big Four ~elevens, but as yet there is stiIl much speculation as to many positions on the different teams. Princeton and Yale and pennsylvahia, however. seem all far Their toward a picking” now than their rival, Harvard, as each Of the three has been playing only a regular eleven and the nee essary substitutes recently, while the Grim son continues to run through a roll Of from twenty-five to thirty men for each game. From the preliminary play in the Big Four district thus far Coach Williams OF. the Quakers draws the. deduction that the smaller schools are steadily rising in foot bali prowess. How he, can evolve this conclusion from a comparison of Big -Four figures, Of this year with those of last is dihRcult-to understand. Take Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard and Princeton, for instanee, In theirJgames of Saturday, octoher’4. The Quakers beat State. II to 0; last year their victory was. by a score Of % to 8, manifestly a much stronger shqwing by state, since It scored. This ,sRBson Yale Raati Amherst 90 to 0, last yesp, only 6 to o.; the deduction is plain. Again. Harvard has Just defeated Bates 20 to o, while in 1901 the score was: Harvard. 16; Bates, g.. Thus the weak team scored on Harvard a year ago. while this year it was away outscored and was w~hitewashed. Only the Tigers OF them all has failed to better its showing, and in the game against Lehigh the score was so big 20 to o, that It can not be said to fail much below that Of ‘O1, s5 TO o. so~h Coach. Williams is to figure that the. insignificant school teams are growing steadily better he must base the opinion on a proposition that the Big Four teams are about so per cent improved this year Themselves, The hFst faint chance for the critics to draw any comparison between the big teams, however, has come during the last week, and It is by all odds the most inter esting feature OF the gridiron developments THIS resulted from the game between Harvafd and Amherst OF last Wednesday. In which the Crimson won by only 6 to 0 from n lteam lndA rare ueltdbtu IL atuiuos previous by 20 to 0. Il Is very easy TO announce that com pafative scores count for nothing. but when the parallels are so sharply drawn as in thb instance you cannot prevent the rooters from drawing a rather pointed inference. The whole meaning of these two games is that Just now Yale has a much better team in weight, training and development than Harvard. That promises nothing for one month from now, however. and Yale’s great excess Of weight over Harvard would naturalty make. the Blues stronger when both teams are still raw. However, the action OF the Yale men was decidedly superior to that Of the Crimson representatives in this game. Though each team found Amherst a hard proposition, Harvard was really outpIsyed a good portion Of the time. while the Blues scsred twice In zach half. The .Crlmsons could not score at all till the middle OF tho second half, when the sole touchdown wss made The Amherst eleven is light, and for that reason had a better chance against the Harvard team than against the SOLID ton Of men who constitute the Blues eleven. 1T is interesting to know as col lateral that Charlie Gould. Yale’s captain Of3last year. Is coaching Amherst, and II is a elneh that he urged his team TO every effort against. the Crimson defenders on Cambridge ,held. The pluck of the smaller college men against odds. in weight was said to be marvellous. a. -t ‘‘ In the midwest Conference College cir elss are chiefly interested in the fact that both Of the teams picked to be the leaders for the season, Wisconsin and Michigan. have been scored against already and beth by teams which last season not only failed 20 erase the cipher, but we’re beaten by much larger scores. In the case OF the :

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  Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 9, 1902, page 1

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  /. FOOTBALL GAMES. Bowdoin Wins from the Exeter Eleven, u to O. Amherst Holds Harvard Down to a Meagrely Six Points. Yale Walks Away With Wesleyan Winning, 80 to o. Brunswick, Me-, Oct. S.-(SpeciaD.- Bowdoin met Exeter Wednesday after noon. on Whittier Athletic field, and won. II to 0. Exeter’s heavy line for which so much has been claimed availed her nothing and Bowdoin scarcely failed to make gains through it. Bow dom played fine defensive game in the first half, but fumbled unnecessa- riIy and was too slow, especially in the second half. Exeter was “off side” re- oeatedly and went into the second half in earnest, and although unable to score prevented Bowdoin from do ing so. BowdOin won the toss and Munro kicked Off to Brill on the 20-yard line. Small gains were made through Bow doin’s line and on the third down with pa yards to gain the ball was passed back for punt Blanchard caught the bail and Finn hurdled the line for q 3-yard gain. The ball was then passed to Porter. who circled the end and aid ed by good interference made 30-yard run and scored touchdown. Munro kicked the goal. Brill kicked off to Porter, who made a 15-yard gain and was downed on the 33-yard line. Chapman, r. h., went through a hole opened up in Exeter’s line for II yards, and Finn hurdled for a 4-yard gain. On the third down, with one yard to gain, BowdOin punted to Exeter’s 2O-yard line. Exeter tried an end play, but Bean blocked his man and no gain was made. The right end was then tried, but Chapman did not let his man by and only yard was gained On the third down with 5k Yards to gain, Brill punted to Munro in the center of the field and Bowdoin held the ball. Finn hurdled the center for 4 and 1-yard gains. and Munro gained 10 and yards in the same place. Exeter was caught off side and lost 5 yards. Finn hurdled the center for Az yards and scored touchdown. Munro kicked the goal. Brill kicked off and the pigskin went yards beyond the goal and was brought back and punted by Munro from the 20 ward line to Exeter’s 5O-yard line, where she gained 3 yards around Bowdoin’s left end the first gain Exeter had made thus | far. Philoon blocked play around right end and on the third down with four wards to gain Exeter punted to Munro on the 15-yard line. Munro esSayed a punt but fumbled and made no gam. Another. punt was tried but Exeter was unable to advance the ball and Bowdoin had just gained the ball when time was called In the second half Winslow replaced Chairman and ConnorS replaced Philoon: RriIi again kicked back of the goal ana from the 25-yard line Munro kicked 10 the 12-yard line to Leigh, who was pref tily stopped by Munro and Porter. zen i wards were gained around Bowdoin lelt end Cooney was put out of the game for a second offence of smuggling. Exeter failed on center plays and BoWdoln Sc cured the ball Finn hurdled for yards. Munro gained 8 and Connors. yards; Finn a gain hurdled for a 4-yard gain ana Exeter again lost yards for an off-slde play. Staples. Bowdoin’s big center, was taken from the game because of his knee. which he injured, last week. and San horn took his place A punt was made to Exeters 1O-yard line. Exeter punteu and Bowdoin held the ball in the center | of the field Bowdoin tried placed pan, which was held on Exeter’s 2o-yard hne and was punted by Bril- 70 biancha arr, who fumbled. giving Exeter the ball: Brill, Exeters heavy center, was iaid OUT and George took his place. Ten yards were made through right tackle anu | guard and the center was bucked Tor small gains. Time was called with the hall on the a0-yard line The lineup and summary. BowDOIN. EAErER. Staples (sanborn). c.............e; Hooper Shaw ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..lS. Dllioii Philoon (ConnorS), rt........... TT, Cooley Davis. t.......lt. Brill Capt), (George) Porter, La” ~, Blanchard. qbqb. Harris U.aw. McGraw, l Mnnrn UCant y lib.

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  The Providence news, Providence [R.I.], October 9, 1902, page 3

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  Amherst played splendid football against Harvard yesterday. holding the Crimson down to one hard-earned touchdown. and on several occasions threatening the Cam bridge goal. Harvard’s line was inefrective against the assaults OF the visitors. and her ends were turned in for disastrous gains by the Amherst backs In the first half Amherst carried the ball from their own 35-yard line 10 within % yards OF Harvards goal, there TO lose Il on a tumble wnen a touchdown against the Crimson seemed almost inevitable. IN this attack they used tackless-over formation with startling success. Time after time their backs plougned through between Harvards tackles and ends and once Byram made beautiful 20-yard run around Harvard’s left end. Jones was drawn In on this play and a hard tackle by Marshall alone saved the Crimson from being scored upon. Luck, too, seemed TO favor the visitors. In the first half Harvard worked the ball down to the visitors 2o-yard hne. and then fumbled, the pigskin rolling 10 the one-yard line where IL was captured by an Amherst back. Quill then punted, and Harvard again worked back TO the same position, Marshall tried for goal from field. The ball was then on the 20 yard line directly before the goal posts. Marshall’s aim was perfect, but strong wind, blowing straight against him, car ried the ball outside the right bar by less than a foot Then Amherst brought the ball out to the 15-yard line. and Quill, taking advantage OF the wind behind hinh booted IL 55 yards. In the second half Harvard held Am herst for down-the only time in the game and scored one touchdown. Lindsay car rying the ball over the line This was az ter Stillman had punted TO the visitors l2-yard line. and they had succeeded In advancing II but l3 yards beyond that point. In this half, too, the visitors threatened Harvard’s goal. A tumble By Tenney gave them the ball on Harvards 30-yard line. and when they advanced the pigskin 10 with Is yards of the Crimson Bowditch just managed to get II for Harvard and by splendid running returned IL 35 yards. From this point on the Crimson eleven directed Its attack at the visitors line But in five minutes they made but 20 yards. and although they were given Ave yards for ofh-side play almost under the visitors goal. time was called with the ball on Amhersts S two-yard line. Harvard had tried CEN tire twice and had not punctnred the Am herst line a single foot. Following so quickly after the Yale Amherst game. in which Yale scored % nOintS 10 AfnneISlS EtSe’‘Nehs contest was by no means encouraging “a the crimson team. The Amherst men all said that Harvard was easy and one of them even went so far as 10 say that the crimson team played like children. All of the visitors were loud In theif praises of Yale’s eleven. Yale has the strongest line / ever saw” ono OF them said. “Harvard’s is nothing compared &c A.. I don’t think Harvard can touch Yale This year =, After the game yesterday II was said that wright the tackle. hac burst o blood vessel He was carried but during the first half, but no one thought ne nae been seriously injured. For Harvard the work OF Stillman ano Rarnard was exceptionally good, wnile pvram was easily the star for the visi’ tors. The lineup and summary: HARVARD. AMHERST. Jones. !. e.......r e.. Preidy. RafertS Wright Bleakie. Dodge, l. t.’.r L, Dem Eovey, l. g,.............’..r T., Narhuh King Lyon, c......... ...’‘.. ‘c’‘ ilowo’ barnard. r. g..........’.s.’‘L e. Taiihe Krovlton. r. t..............L T., Pierce Rowditch Motley, r. e......L e., Grlswoi’ Marshall, a. b..........s.’s.’ u o. Le”‘ StiIlman, l. h. b. ...---r. h. b.. Washhuri Tenney. Lindsay, r. h. b..l n. b., Birar. Meier. Piper. I. b......,.,....f. o., Quii score-Harvard 6. Amherst 0. Touch down-I.indsay. Goal from touchdown- Barnard Referee-Hammond umpir

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  The daily morning journal and courier, Connecticut, October 9, 1902, page 1

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  HARVARD’S NARROW ESCAPE DEFEATS AMHERST BY SMALL MARGIN OF 6 TO o. j.. Minor College Seemingly outpiayed the Crimson Eleven Much of the Time Only Score Made tn the Second Half When Lindsay of Harvard was Pushed Over for n Touchdown. Cambridge, Oct. S.--The Amherst foot ball team beaten 2S to by Yale held Harvard down to six points this after noon and much of the time seemingly outplayed the Crimson eleven. In the middle of the second half Harvard pushed the ball to Amherst’s eight yard line where Lindsay was sent through for the only touchdown of the game. Barnard kicked an easy goal. Twice Harvard was within scoring distance. but tumble or the fine defense of the visitors prevented a touchdown. The interference of the Crimson team was poorly formed while the backs started very slowly and failed to take advari- tage of the holes opened up by the linemen. On the other hand Amherst played snappy game, forcing Harvard to kick a number of times and although not getting within the Crimson twenty five yard line, they kept Harvard con- tinually on the jump. The game opened very favorably for Amherst, for after the kickoff was Burns gained 26 yard around Jones’ end and aided by two center plays brought the ball to Harvard’s 40-yard line. Af- ter another gain of yards tumble gave the ball to Harvard. Amherst was steadily pushed back to her 15- yard line, but tumble by Penney gave the ball to Amherst. But the visitors could gain and then Marshall tried a goal from the field from Arflherst’s 2O- yard line being directly in front ct the goal posts. The ball went wide and the half ended with the ball in Harvard possession on her own 1o-yard line. In the middle of the second half Lind say took the ball through Arnherst’s right tackle eight yards for a touch down. Barnard kicked a goal. From this point Harvard played much strong CT football but was only able to get te Amherst’s three-yard line when time was called. Lineup:

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