Syracuse at Yale

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  New-York tribune, New York, October 4, 1908, page 9

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  CLOSE CALL FOR YALE HARD FIGHT TO WIN. Syracuse Shoes Strength and Holds Eli to SIR Points New Haven. Oct , - Yale caught a Tar-ar ~ Syracuse to-day, and saved from dsfeat SIR ply By pure una1ulterated luck The visitors ranred gaping holes through the Yale rush line al through the first half Caring i69 yards By rusnes Yale. for the first tfuse IN football history. was unable make 4 single first down On the hons field during the half series Of rnfsfortunss throttIed Syracuses hcPes OF scoring while Yale showed a aye-n1inure Tally In the second half. Just lorg enough for Coy ara Phf1bin to reel Of double PASS. Philbin dashins fifteen yards and passing the ball to Coy WaeH tackled Coy was run OF bounds. only fifteen yards from Syracuse’s goal Bat adverse penalty set Yale back fifteen yards and Hopkins. the guar terback desperately heaved forward pass % the Syracuse 5-yard line Burton. of SyracGse- j1s- SIed II and IT fell beneath three players. Brown. OF Yale. finally cIInchlng IT. Coy was s1ot through on the next plunge and HOBBS kicked the goal Taking bail after the kickoff at tse sara line Syracuse smashed Yals’s rush line aside III the Els z0-yard mark was reached. Banks twist ing past the Yale right wing with a puzzling qua ter back run A hfteen-yard penalty set Syrac1iss back and Stein. in quick try for place goal Kicked short Gov punted 70 ridheid- but the SSraeusA backs drove the bail back By smashing gains At her I0-yard line Yale held. and stem tired an other quick place goal. with the ball hitting the crossbar balancing awhile and finally roiiihs 5aC~ on fair ground ton as the chief feature OF the next advance An other Banks Fisher was tried. only 70 oe fsaDibIeH Again Gov kicked to rIdheid F1orr ied n vicious tackle plunges. At the Tale A-yaTd Hno STEMS try for a place goal was blocked – HeooS- Burton grabbed the ball and was doWned al 10 Yale F0-yard line. Just time elapsed iof &c Na-- The lineup and summary follow:

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  The morning journal-courier, October 5, 1908, page 6

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  YALE WAS LUCKY Defeats Syracuse by 5 to 0 Only Minor Bruises Are Found. HOBBS FAILED FOR GOAL Ed. Glass 10 Join Coaching squad This Wcck--Tnlurcd Men Getting Better. HOBBS FAILED FOR GOA The Yale team came out of the strenuous Syracuse game Saturday in pretty good shape, only few of the players suffering from even bruises, Syracuse was stiff proposition. In the first half Yale’s play was all In the defensive and in the second half when Yale made the only touchdown slightly on the offensye Coy made the touchdown after a long pass by Hopkins who took a chance on some Yale man being on hand to fall on the ball when he threw 1t from the 90- yard line. Brown fell on the ball and in two consecutive plunges Coy took it across Hobbs tried for a goal after the touchdown. but on very close decision t was declared a failure. The final score was to O. The feature of the game was q long pass from Captain Horr of Syracuse to Burton the right end. This coming week after the rest yesterday the team will have some pretty strenuous work. Several coaches are expected up and Ed Glass, one of Yales greatest guards, will be here several days Glass saw Saturday, game and thinks with a little coach ing Yale will have very strong line Several other veterans will he seen al the field before next saturday’s game with Holy Cross Tony Haines. who was injured fir practice Thursday. will he able tC leave the inhrmary tomorrow. Lee c Warren is able to he about and wil he out with the team sometime dur, ing the week.

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, October 4, 1908, page 1

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  YALE WINS GAME AFTER HARD FIGHT Syracuse University Surprises New Haven Team With Strong Defense. NEW HAVEN, Conn, oct. 3.-The Syracuse football team today last to Yale by 6 to Q, the winning touchdown being made about the middle of the sec ond half Hopkins, Yale’s quarterback, hurled an aimless forward pass from the 40-yard line. Brown fell on the ball. saving it for Yale. In two plunges Coy carried it over for TOUCHDOWN. Hobbs kicked goal

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  The Barre daily times, Barre, Vt., October 5, 1908, page 2 (results column)

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  University Of Vermont Beat Holy Cross, 5 to 0 NORWICH LOSTTOWESLYA Harvard Defeated the University Of Maine by Big Score But Yale Had Hard Time of 1t With SYRIA cuse University. The three Vermont colleges went against some Of the larger colleges on the foot ball gridiron Saturday after, noon, the university of Vermont taking its game from Holy Cross at Burlington by the score OF S TO 0, Norwich Gniyer. sity losing to Wesleyan at Middletown Conn, by to 0, and Middlebury, play. ing at WiliaRfstown, Mass, being swamped by Williams college, the result being SO TO 0. This was Middlebury’s first game and it was very poor start Norwich and Vermont mad each played one game before Saturday, Norwich having lost 70 Brown by a heavy score and Vermont having gone down before Dartmouth after fierce contest by the score OF IL to 0. the latter has an almost veteran aggregation and with the addition OF some freshmen OF reputation viii probably have a good record on the gridiron this fall. Harvard did good job against Maine, but its rival Yale, had trouble in dis. posing OF the strong Syracuse eleven. The New Workers showed plenty OF fight and held the blue scoreless in the first half. A long forward pass and brilliant work by Coy scored the only touchdown, and this late in the second period. One of the surprises was the defeat Ford ham handed Amherst, The Fordham back field was aggressive throughout, and took advantage of Amherst’s slowness in the end positions. Amherst appeared slow and unsteady and was outelassed in both halves. Williams opened very auspieiously against Middebury. scoring almost at wilt Dartmouth trimmed the Massachusetts “Aggies” and Brown hest ed Colgate in q fiercely -fought battle A long run by Mayhem, the all.Ameriean half back, resulted in touchdown for the Brunonians in the first half minute of play After this Colgate did not permit its line to be crossed. The results follow: Princeton is, Training school 0. Williams SO, AIddlebury 0. Wesleyan g, Norwich 0. Fordham 8, Amherst 0. Dartmouth 20, Massachusetts, “Aggies” 0. Brown 8, Colgate 0. Worcester Tech” 4, Trinity 0. Yale s, Syracuse o. Harvard l6, Maine 0. Bowdoin 10, New Hampshire state col. lege o. Phillips Andover 8, Worcester acadenvy 0. Pennsylvania l6, Bucknell 0. West Point 5, Tufts 0. Cornell IL, Hamilton 0. Annapolis Is, Rutgers 0. University Of Vermont 8, Holy Cross 0. Union s, ST. Lawrence 5. Rensselaer, Tech Q, University Of Rochester 0. Georgetown Is, GalIaudet o. Lafayette %, State normal 0. University of Virginia p, Randolph Macon O. Dickinson 49, Franklin and Marshall 0. Pennsylvania freshmen Is, Conway hall 0. Michigan l6, Case 9. Carlisle II. State college s. Minnesota 6, Laurence 0. Chicago 30, Purdue 0. Illinois II, Monmouth 6. Nebraska AZ, Doan O. Wooster university s, Ohio state uni versitv 0. Indiana l6, Depauw o. Carnegie Tech” u, Waynesburg O.

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Yale leads 11–⁠0 in 11 meetings, counting the four since this game.