Bates at Harvard

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  New-York tribune, September 30, 1909, page 8

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  HARVARD OPENS SEASON. Defeats Bates an a ListIess Game at Cambridge. Cambridge Mass. Sept. 29.-In a listess game AT the Stadium today Harvard opened the football by defeating Bates by OF IL 10 0. The Harvard line played fairly well. but the work Of the back field poor and the quarter back. O’Flaherty. was decidedly nervous. Corbett got OF some long punts for the Crimson. but the forward pass used only once. Harvards soIitary attempt ending IN failure. Bates made good showing and kept Harvard from making decisive gains for the greater part OF the game. Keaney did most OF the work for the visitors. Harvard played many substitutes. while Bates used only one extra man. Harvard’s touchdowns. in each halt. came short line punges. 2. Smith carrying the ball each time. Mckay kicked goal after the hrs, touchdown hut failed In his second attempt The lineup follows:

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  The Cairo bulletin, Cairo, Ill., September 30, 1909, page 5

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  HARVARD AND YALE ARE WEAK PLAYED FIRST GAME OF SEASON YALE BEATS WESLEYAN AND HARVARD BEATS BATES BOTH SCORES II TO O. New Haven. Sept. 29.-Yale opened the football season by defeating Yves leyan, II to O. The individual star of the game was Rice, the Wesleyan full back. who in the second half hit the Yale strong line again and again for gains and who, with good support back of him would have scored. Yale used three quarterbacks Johnson, Bingham and Howe. Howe made the best impression.

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., September 30, 1909, page 1

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  EASY VICTORY FOR HARVARD Crimson Eleven Trims Bates IL to O. Cambridge, Mass, Sept. SO-Harvard opened its playing season yesterday with a neasy victory over Bates, IL to O. The crimson made one touchdown in each half by straight plays and slight superiority in kicking, the one forward pass tried being a total fail ure, involving the loss of the ball.

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 22–⁠0 in 22 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.