Springfield at Harvard

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 27, 1907, page 9

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  SPRINGFIELD HOLDS HARVARD Crimson Unable TO Score in the First Half Cambridge, Mass. Oct 26-Harvard defeated the Springfield Training School football eleven this afternoon by 9 TO 5. Six thousand people saw the most mas terly exhibition of the possibilities of the forward pass on the part of the training school seen on Soldiers Field this year. There was no scoring done by either eleven in the first half. the ball remain ing in the hands Of the Springfield boys the greater part of the time. The train ing school. with their elaborate passes working beautifully. had Harvard com pletely mistified. The training school scored first in the second half, when Capt Honhart blC,ted one of Burr’s punts on Harvard’s 10-yard line and Cotton fell On it for a touch down. The try for goal failed Harvard scored a few moments later when she secured the ball on a muffed punt and sent Rand through for a touch down. The kick-out was badly managed and the try for goal lost. Harvard scored her last points by a placement kick from the e0-yard line.

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1907, page 58

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  HARVARD SCORED ON. Springfield Training School Gets a Touchdown. CAMBRIDGE, Mass October 26-Harward had ita foot ball slate blotted for the second time this season by failing to win from the Springfield Training School by greater score than 9 to 5. The Springfield eleven used the forward pass q score OF times successfully. After the beginning OF the second half with the game at a standstill, Burr. for Harvard fell back to Harvard’s Iowa I’d limo and attempted to punt but the ball was blocked by Springfield. Harvard recovering Again Burr dropped back to punt and Briggs repeated his blocking Cotton picking up the ball and running behind Harvard’s goal for a touchdown Tho goal was not kicked During the remainder of the contest the Harvard team worked their opponents harder. Appollonio. for Harvard. making a touchdown and Burr kicking a goal from the field.

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 28, 1907, page 1

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  Harvard 9. Springfield 5. Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 2S-Harvard had it’s football slate blotted for the second time this season by failing to win from the Springfield training school by a greater score than to 5. The Springfield eleven used the forward pass a score of times successfully. After the beginning of the second half with the game at a standstill Burr, for Harward, fell back to Harvard’s ten yard line and attempted to punt, but the ball was blocked by Springfield, Harvard recovering it. Again Burr dropped back to punt and Briggs repeated his block ing Cotton picking UP the ball and run ming behind Harvard’s goal for a touch down. The goal was not kicked. During the remainder of the contest the Harvard team worked their opponents harder, Appolonio, for Harvard, making a touchdown and Burr kicking a goal from the field.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 27, 1907, page 11

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  TRAINING SCHOOL : OUTPLAYS HARVARD Cambridge, Mass, October 26.-(SpeciaL) Harvard was outplayed in every stage of the game today by Springfield Training school, but the crimson had the good luck to win, 9 to 5. With the score to b. Burr kicked goal from placement as a dying chance just before the game ended. Harvard played like school boys. Neither side was able to score in the first half. In the second half Harvard was held foi downs on Springfields one-yard line. Two of Burrs punts were blocked and the last one gave Springfield touchdown.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Harvard leads 14–⁠0 in 14 meetings, counting the nine since this game.