Bates at Harvard

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, September 29, 1910, page 7

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  YALE AND HARVARD CRIDIRON WARRIORS CONQUER NEW RULES AND BEAT RIVALS DECISIvELY Y Result of Changes Ensure More Open Play and Game Sure to Become more Popular New York, Sept. 2e.-The biggest surprise of the real opening day of the eastern football season was that there were no surprises. All the big teams are in good form. The result is interpreted by football experts to imean that the big colleges have shown unexpected aptitude in mastering the new rules. t Ted Coy, the Yale coach, declares that the thew game” will be little different from the old From the ab- :sence of injuries in the opening games the coaches say it is safe to assume the game is less dangerous then ever before Yale and Harvard beat Wesleyan and Bates respectively by identical SCOT es, 22 to 70. As Wesleyan is be- ilieved to be stronger than Bates, the Yale adherents are trying to find consolation in the Blue showing. The only Dig eastern team that has not yet been seen in action is Prince ton.ssz.ss New Haven, Sept. 2s.-The first milestone passed on the way to the intercollegiate football champion ship with s22–⁠0 victory over Wes- t1eyan yesterday, the Yale squad start led to put on finishing touches for the Digger struggles ahead today. Secret practice was held at Yale Field and will likely be held daily until the game with Syracuse Saturday This

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  The Birmingham age-herald, September 29, 1910, page 8

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  HARVARD TRIMS BATES 22 TO 0 Cambridge. Mass, September 2S.- Harvard opened the football season to- day by defeating Bates 22 to in a fast and spectacular game. The new rules worked well. Long-end plays and forward passes were well executed and there were some fine dashes through open fields. All the scores were made on touchdowns, from which two goals were kicked.

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 10 since this game.