Wesleyan (CT) at Yale

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], September 28, 1911, page 8

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  YALE STARTS WITH VIM Opens Football Season win Victory Over Wesleyan. CAPTAIN HOWE PLAYS WELL Drops a Goal from the Field and Scores One Of the Three Touchdowns. New Haven. Conn. Sept 27.-Yale’s foot ball eleven won its opening game. against wesleyan here to-day, by the score OF u 10 o. a point short OF the score made last year. The team played well for so early in the game. and while only one formation shift was used. the smoothness OF eXecuton was remarkable Toward the end OF the game. with many substitutes playing the work fell of. Yale scored fifteen points in the hrst eight-minute period on two touchdovns and a drop kick from tho twenty-yard line by Captain Howe. The other touchdown came in the third period Several Individual stars stood out, not ably Captain Howe. whose punting’ gen eralship and running back OF pHts We’re spectacular. Gallauer and ID. Bomeisler AT the ends, spaulding and Anderson as backs and Ketcham az centre helped 10 make the outlook promising. The team appeared 10 be thoroughly grounded in the fundamentals. Yale scored a few minutes after the open ing OF play Francis kicked Off 20 Murphy on Wesleyan’s thirty-two-yard lire. Cal lauer then broke through and, D-ocHiNs Bacon’s punt. fell on the ball on Wesley ans uineteen-yard line. Howe scored on the fourth line plunge through centre anu Francis kicked the goal. After an exchange of punts following the kickoff Captain Howe ran back a punt th!rty-six yards 20 Wesieyan’s 54-yard .lne’ and on another exchange Of kicks gained fourteen yards. Captain Howe then dropped a neat goal from the field from the 20-vard line Wesleyan punted after the kickoff and spauld.ng on two end runs Oh thirty and fifteen yards, enabled PhiIbin 10 plunge across the line, Francis kicking the goal. In the second period q forward pass Spaulding TO A. Howe. gave Yale thirty Yards, but Phllbin funbled on the +-yard line and Wesleyan kicked out OF danger Francis failed In a goa. from the field following Phnbin’s fair catch on the 45-ya-d line The forward pass worked poorly ,or Yale but Wesleyan used it twice successfully. The playing OF Bacon for Wesleyan was q feature Walter Camp and Ralph BloOmer were on the Yale eide lines.

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, September 28, 1911, page 7

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  Yale Wears Down Wesleyan Eleven Does Poor Work With Forward Pass But Manages to Pile up Big Score New Haven, Sept 2S-Before the largest crowd which ever saw an early game at Yale Field the varsity team opened the season yesterday afternoon defeating the Wesleyan aggregation by ed by Wesleyan was entirely defen- sive. Yale’s style was varied, but att tenpts at overhead proved failures. The forward pass was attempted again and again without success, and Wesleyan gained the ball, many times on the attempt of Reilly to send the ball down to Howe. Gallauer, Yales fast end, was hurt in the first play and helped off the field McDevitt had kicked off. and fifteen yards from the latter’s goal line Plunges fby Philbin and Reilly brought the ball to the thirty yard line in the first quarter. A short end run by Spalding took it ten yards further. Howe took the ball over through cen- ter Francis kicked the goal. Capt. Howe three minutes later kicked a field goal from the thirty yard line. Late in the period Philbin scored a touchdown on~ a line plunge. / no scoring in the second period. In the second half Yale sent many new men into the game. Merritt re- placed Capt. Howe. Anderson at full back made many plunges for gain. Finally Merritt took the ball around the end for touch down and Francis kicked the final goal. Yale Positions Wesleyan Galiauer. W. Howe Mccarthy Left End Warren Parkinson, Mittel Left Tackle Franeis. Childs Durling Left Guard Ketcham. Loree Murphy, Whiting Centre McDevitt. Gi1lies Right Guard Scully. Tomlnson Bernhardt Right Tackle Bomeisler Eustis Right End Howe. Merritt Bacon Quarterback Reilly Johnson Left Haclfback Spalding. Anderson, Laggren, Phiibin. Church Wentworth Right Halfback Anderson Pettigrue Fullback Score Yale 21, Wesleyan 0. Touch downs-Howe .Philbin. Merritt. Goal from the Field--Howe. Goals from Teuchdowns-Francis (3). Umpire. Mir. Torry of pennsylvania. Referee MT. Evars of Williams. Field Judge-Mr. Fuitz of Brown. Time, Four eight

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, September 28, 1911, page 3

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  YALE’S DEFENSIVE CAME STRONG Blue Won Opening Game of Football Season. 21 to O. Wesleyan Unable to Advance the Bal1-Captain Howe’s Punting and Runs Feature. New Haven, Conn Sept 27-The Yale eleven marked the opening of it’s 1911 football season here this after noon by defeating the Weslyean team 21 to Q. The visitors. were unable to carry the ball into Yale territory until the fourth period. when an entirely new lineup faced them. The local col Iekians displayed excellent early sea- son form and handled the forward pass several time successfully and without permitting Wesleyan to become dan gerous at any time Captain Howe, with his bunting and brilliant runs, Philbin and Merritt, with Francis, who kicked all the goals, were the point winners for Yale. one of Howe’s tall lies being a goal from the field. Spaulding and Anderson, right and left halfbacks, respectively, on the Yale eleven, showed up well. Bacon quarterback, was easily the star for Wesleyan. crowd of some four hundred men accompanied the Wesleyan team to this city from Middletown. The line uPi 2A1r WESLEYAN. Left end. D. BomeisIer L. Bomeiser. Diamond. Mccarthy Left tackle. scully TomIinson, Bernhard Left guard. Francis. During Center Eetham. Lores. Whiting, Murphy Right guard. MeDeYitt Childs> Gillis Right tackle Warren. Harding, Mitell, Parkin son. Rist end. “. Howe. Gallauer Eustis Quarterbuacll A. Howe. Merritt. Bacon Left halfback. Reilly, Anderson. Wentworth, Laggrenn Right halfback. Spauldng Mitchell Johnson Fullback. Philbin. Church, Pettigrew Toucidowns 4. Howe. Philbin. Merritt; goal from touchdown. Ferris 3: goal from field A. Howe: ref Evans of Williams; umpire. Torrey of Penn sylvania: field judge, Fultz of Brown; head lines Hull of Yale; time of periods, eight minutes

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Yale leads 46–⁠0 in 46 meetings, counting the two since this game.