Maine at Harvard

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 13, 1902, page 1

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  SPORTING NEWS. A Topeka Football Team Wins a Good Game. High School Players Defeated Kansas City Centrals. SCORE So TO NOTHING. Harvard Victorious Over Maine by Score of go. Yale Easily Sends Brown Down the Line. The Topeka High school football team defeated the eleven from the Kansas City Central hi2h school Saturday afternoon on the Washburn field by the score of 35 to nothing. The Topeka players put up a first class article of football and swept the visitors W and down TIE field at will The first touchdown was made by the Topekans within a couple of minutes and another one followed inside another three minutes. At the end of the first half the score was IS to nothing, and IN the second half IT more points We’re made. The high school students were on hand to give a good imitation of real football roofing. The girls lined UP on the east side of the field and chanted: “Hobble gobble, RazZle dazzle, Sis Boom! All! High school, High school. Rahi Rah! Rah! The boys on the west side OF the neld would answer with the assistance of their magaphones. 1t really sounded like live football crowd. The Wash / burn students should have been there to learn how to be enthusiastic. When Grisgs or Johnson broke away for % and 33 yard runs the yelling was louder and more garbIed than the chorus in a wheat pit when May deliveries go to a i dollar or more. The fact that three ( pld 6IS were seriously injured ana as many more crippled made it the best game of the season. / The Missourians could not stand the / terrible rushes of the Jayhawkers. Half a dozen of the visiting players were badly bruised and battered and three were forced to leave the field. A tenn / pOrary hospital was improvised with a 4 bundle of sweaters for a couch. on the 4 side line and the manned and injured / were cared for there. Overall, the CEN / ter rush of the visitors. was the first to 90 out of the game with a sprained ankle. Cotton. the fullback. collided with the heavy heels of A. Griggs as ! that player plunged over the line for a gain. Cotton was carried from the field with a bad bump on his head. Stanton. the best player on the visiting eleven, was injured near the end of the game. able to walk. The Topeka team played a fast game. / The interference was good and the tack / ling of the men was exceptionally clean. The Topeka players far outweighed the visitors. Kansas City managed to adj vance the ball a few times for good gains but with the exception of a try ! for a drop kick for goal the home goal / was never in danger. Both the Wash i burn and Medic teams could find some g6od points TO follow in the p1a lying OF the Topeka High school team. A. / Griggs, Freshman Rice. T. Griggs and Millice played fast ball The line up was as follows: Kansas City Position. Topeka

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  Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 13, 1902, page 1

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  FOOTBALL. Harvard Has Easy Victory, % to 0, With U. Of Maine. Bowdoin Takes Game, IS to 5, from New Hampshire State. Bates Defeats the Boston COLLEGE,. Eleven, Tito S. d. Boston. oct. 12.-With team of sub. stitutes. Harvard came within one point of rolling up her largest score of the season against an opponent whom she expected to be teugh proposition. In the game on Soldiers field. yesterday afternoon. Harvard defeated the Uni versity of Maine by a score of % to o. When it is considered that, with the exception of two men, Maine had her entire championship eleven of last fall, and that Harvard. on the other hand, played without six of her regulars the result was encouraging. Both sides played Harvard football. Head Coach Farley coached the OrOnO boys las: season. and it was there that he established his reputation as I, coach. But Maine was too light to stand up under Harvard’S great weight. and as the game progressed it began to tell on the visitors. The biggest crowd of the year wit messed the game. and the cheering was more spirited than at any time before. Maine had big aggregation and cheered continuously. Harvard had an entire substitute back field. and the absence of Wright and Knowlton as tackles and Marshall as guard made the line weak. On the defence however, the Crimson showed some improvement. On the offence the team was weak. except at the very end of the game, when the second substitute backs were put in and played with Il spirit and dash that did the coaches hearts good. Maine did NOT h:iN weak team. D1lt she was too light to stand up against Harvard’s big men. In the line, how ever. Maine outplayed Harvard at sew eral points. In the back field the Orono team was weak, and failed to make her distance many times. she was forced to punt a great deal, but had no one who could kick well. Dor ticos failed to get the ball away for more than 80 yards, While Stiilman punted for Harvard at least so and sometimes IS yards This told in the first half. for the game resolved itself into a punting contest. Maine played her best in this half, and once held the Crimson for downs. She tried several tricks, but Harvards ends were too quick and nipped them i’ll the bud in every case. II was a game with few features. Piper blocked kick in the second half and ran 80 yards for a touchdown. Later Ives ran Il kick back in beau tiful style for 40 yards. Knowles also got around the end in fine style for 80 wards. and put Cole out with ms straight arm in u sensational manner. The lineup HARVARD L. OF NJ.

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Harvard leads 11–⁠0 in 11 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.