Brown at Harvard

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  The sun, New York [N.Y.], October 25, 1903, page 12

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  IMPROVEMENT AT HARVARD. Crimson Shows Better Form and Defeats Brown, 70 to o. CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Oct A.-Harvard rolled up 20 points against Brown at football this afternoon and kept the visitors from scoring. 1t was the best game Harvard has put up this season. Harvard played the game from start to finish and played It against a team that ws. ash.!ns :or svery inoh of the grdiron. for Brown did not let up for an instant the visiting eleven Was outclassed at every point. and the nearestlt came to scoring was the a7-yard line. The Harvard men followed the ball better than ever before. and for this reason were able to smother all Of the trick plays that Brown hurled at the line Every time Brown got the bail taere was something new for the Harvard men to solve, but the longest gain made against the Crimson was four yards. Once in each nalf Brown N ado hrst down. Once Brown held the Crimson for down and once In the first half forced punt. Each team made three fumbles. Nichols was the star OF the contest. He starte the game with run Of los yards for touchdown. In the second half ne made another such play. These runs were possible because Of tho superb interference that Harvard had on licRs On end runs. however. the inter. ference was wretched Harvard showed that sne has an eleven that can be m De Into something with proper coaching and handling

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, October 25, 1903, page 1

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  HARVARD DEFEATS BROWN UNIVERSITY Nichols, of the Crimson Eleven, Makes Two Sensational Runs for TouchdOwns. BOSTON. Oct. 2i-Harvard ran up a total Of % points against Brown in todays game. and the college is greatly encouraged over the showing of the Crimson. Only once were the Brown warriors able TO hold the Harvard men for downs. although they broke through several times and downed the Crimson backs for losses. Nichols played the star game for Harward on the kick-oh at the beginning Of the game Shoelkopf dropped the ball on Harvard’s s-yard line Nichols pick ed it up and tore down the gridiron for a touchdown. making a run Of 102 yards. At the beginning of the second half Marshall kicked over Browns goal line. Brown had free kick from their % yard line. and after Brown had been given twenty yards for holding. LeMoyne punted The Brown fullback returned the kick to his own 45-yard line. where Nichols caught the ball and again ran through the Providence eleven for a touchdown. Harvard’s backs were I’M able 70 make any long gains through the Brown line. and tackles back formatons were brought IN use when inside the 25-yard lines IN order 10 make the other touchdowns.

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  The semi-weekly messenger, Wilmington, N.C., October 27, 1903, page 1

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  COLLEGE FOOT BALL GAMES CAROLINA PROVES EASY TO THE HEAVY GEORGETOWN ELEVEN. Virginia Wins from V. r. I.-CO- Iumbfa Downs PennsyIvania-fal and Harvard Are Victorious Against West Point and Brown. Many Gridiron Games. Norfolk, Va, October 24.-Georgetown outplayed North Carolina individually and in team work today on lafayette field in a regular mud-horse game, with a cold northeast wind driving biting rain across the checker board and defeated the Old North State University by a score of 80 to o. Carolina only held the blue and gray eleven for downs twice during the entire game and throughout the contest the ball was kept for the greater time in the Tar Heel territory. Reilly played the particularly bright game for the VictOrS and time and again plunged through the opposing line for long gains. He took Crowley’s s place at left half toward the close Of the first period and made three Of GeorgetOwn’s six touch downs; Hart ran from Georgetown’s ten yard line, on a kick off and was dOWned in a spectacular tackle by Newton of Carolina on the blue and whites three yard line. Two thousand people stood for three hours in the storm and witnessed the contest. hn

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Harvard leads 78–⁠24–⁠2 in 104 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.