Yale at Harvard

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 27, 1911, page 1

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  HARvARD-YALETIE Harvard Yale GridirOn Battle Without Effect. Neither Team Able to Approach Others Goal. ONE FORWARD PASS. This Melted Blue But Fifteen Yards. PhiIbins 35-Yard Run Feature of Contest. ONE FORWARD PASS. The Lineup. FISHER --............R r. CS......... McDevftt Storer ------.......R .T................. Paul Felton ..-..-.....-...R E.......... Bomesiter Gardner ..-....-...Q @. B............. Howe campbell ---...-..-. L.H.-............. camp Yer r; 5--......... spalding | Huntington -. F. B-.-..-...-... Philbin Game called at . p. m. Oficials- Referee, w. S. Langford, Trinity; UNI pre-, David L. Fulz, Brown; field | head linesman, J. B. Pendelton, Bow dom. Time of game. Is minutes periods. LF’rom Saturdays $50 O’clock Football / Edition.l Cambridge, Nov. 25.-Ihe Yale Harvard game ended in a tie, too. Cambridge, Nov. 25-For the third | time in IA years Harvard and Yale | played scoreless tie on Soldiers field In the first period each had the ball on their opponents seven yard me out could not put it across the goal line nor score field goal. Yale did better rushing than Harvard until the last period, when the Crimson Of Tense was set in motion and reeled off IS yards. With the play on Harvard’s 3O-yard line, Potter missed a field goal by ten yards in the last five minutes of play. There were several interesting plavs developed by both teams but only one then Smith made fifteen Yards The famous Minnesota shift of Yale was ripped to pieces by Harvard and Yale only threatened the crimson goal because of fumbling in the Harvard backfie1d. FELTON, and Potter outkicked Camp but the Yale backs chung tenaciously to the ball and Harvard had few OBJ portunitles to gain on Yale’s errors AS in other scOreless ties. the game ended in almost absolute silence. The Game by Detail Smith started the game by kicking out of bounds on Yale’s 30-yard line On the first down Camp made nine yards around Harvard’s right end on a fake kick Camp kicked on the first down and the ball got away from the Harvard back field. 1t was Yaie’s ball on Harvard’s 17-yard line. Spalding made four yards through center On a wing shift Philbin made four more There was poor pass and the ball went to Harvard on Howes tumble The play was on Harvard’s 15-yard line. Wendell made two yards and Yale lost five yards for interference in the center. FELTON, kicked to the cen ter of the field and there was no run back The PUSHES netted Yale but two yards and Camp kicked to Campbell on Harvard’s 20-yard line. Five yards were made on the runback. It was Harvard’s ball on their rs yard line. A Yale penalty of 10 wards for holding and a plunge by Wendell placed the ball on Harvard’s 25-yard line. FELTON, kicked outside on YaIe’s 38-yard line. Lose on Wing Shift on a wing shift SpaIding lost five yards and Camp Immediately kicked to | Campbell on Harvard’s 55-yard line. | Five yards were gained in the runback ! and the ball was in the center of the | 4 Il kick and run by Campbell and a quarterback run by Gardner netted seven | yards for the Crimson. Howe caught ! CampbelFs punt and ran the ball back | five yards to Ya1e’s 25-yard line. Camp | kicked Oh the first down and it was again Harvard’s ball in the middle of | the field Campbell made yards through the | center and then there was a mixup in | the Harvard signals and the Grim sons | were penalized yards for delaying the | game. FELTON, kicked on the first down | There was Yale tumble and it was | Potter went in for Gardner at Har- | wards quarter. On the first down Wen | dell could not gain Potter tried for a / forward pass and the ball was caught I by Spalding. 1t was Yale’s ball on her | 8-yard line. Camp kicked out of bounds at Yale’s 36-yard line but there was | bad arm work by the Yale forwards | and Yale was penalized 10 yards. Loree end first period, Yale 0. Harvard 0. Yale had the jump on Harvard for / the first five minutes, but for the rest OF the time the Blue team was on the I defensive. Galleur took Paul’s place at tackle for Yale The Second Quarter. Play was resumed with the ball on | Harvard’s 1S-yard line Potter drop / ped back for a goal from the field but missed it by half a yard. The ball was brought out and given to Yale on her | 25-yard line. On q western shift Hitch | cock broke through and threw Spald- | ing for a loss. Camp on a fake kick, / gained a yard and kicked on the next down The ball went out of bounds on Yale’s 46 yard line, where the ball went to Harvard Blue recovered the ball on their 20 ward line. On double pass Camp made yard and then came another western shift with Camp carrying the ball but Harvard broke it up. Camp kicked to center of the field and while Campbell was making a run back he fell on the slippery field after making ten yards 1t was Harvard’s ball on Yale’S 45-yard line. Reynolds took CampbelIs place at left halfback for Harvard On a delayed pass Reynolds made six yards and added three yards more. Yale was then penalized 5 yards for offside play 1t was Barwards ball on Yale’s 30-yard line. Bomesiter Dfslocates Arm. Then Harvard lost > yards for off side playing. Potter tried a forward pass but the ball went to Yale on the 20-yard line Philbin then went through Harvard’s center and ran So yards. He was thrown by Potter in the middle of the field. Philbin could not gain and then came another western shift Phil bin made . yards and Yale made a clever attempt at short on side kick ing. The ball did not cover the nee

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  The Birmingham age-herald, November 26, 1911, page 14

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  HARVARD AND YALE UNABLE ID SCORE Both Had Opportunities But Failed POOR GENERALSHIP Game More Disappointing to liar yard Than Yale, Although Blue Was the Fayorite-Many Fumbles Made Cambridge, Mass, November 25.-So powerful was the defense and so neg lectful were both teams of their op- portunities that Harvard and fale walked out of the stadium this after noon amid perfect silence, without hav- ing scored a point against each other in their thirty-second annual football contest Yale’s opportunity to score came In the first three minutes of play, when Harvard tumble gave the ball to the blue team on Harvard’s 17 ward line. After rushing the ball 10 yards farther, Captain Howe attempted field goal, but the pass was so poor that Harvard easily recovered the pigskin. only once later, at the beginning of the third period, did Yale get within 30 yards of the Harvard goal, and again Captain Howe failed in his attempt at a field goal. Harvards chance came at the close of the first period, when, on Yale’s seven yard line, Potter attempted for- ward pass rather than push his team 10 yards to the right and try for field goal. Twice in the latter part of the game Potter tried for field goals only to send the ball wide. The game was more disappointing to Harvard than to Yale, although the blue team was a decided favorite at the start. Harvard shattered the famous Min nesota shift, which Tom Shevlin brought on from the west, and which proved so effective against Princeton. Having fathomed this strongest card in the Yale list of plays, the Crimson was looked upon as the logical winner at the close of the second period But the third period saw two miserable fumbles in the Crimson backfield, and it was not until the final period that the Harvard offense began to assert itself. Forward passes, double passes, criss-cross runs and plunges into the Yale line by the mighty Wendell, and a cleverly played fake forward pass, kept the ball almost continually in Yale’s territory. Twice, also, when the Crimson was apparently marching straight for Yale’s goal, holding in the line stopped the progress to the dis coura cement of the Crimson stands. Lack of generalship on the part of Potter, Harvard’s quarterback, and the aggressiveness of the Yale forwards kept most of the struggle between the 40 yard lines. The Crimson always seemed to have the better of the rush. ing, but lacked power at the proper moment. The most brilliant feature of the play was the magnificent defense of both rush lines Each side seemed able to fathom the play before it started and many times runners were thrown for losses. The tackling was of the fiercest while Bomester and smith, ends of the two teams, were down on punts so fast that scarcely any were run back. There were only two feature runs. One was a 35 yard dash by Phillips through an enormous hole in the Har- yard line. Harvard’s longest run was d IT yard dash by Smith, who caught the only completed, forward pass of the day. Smith also made II yards on a fake forward pass. All the other rushes were for less than 10 yards. Felton and Potter slightly outkick ed Camp of Yale, but the Blue had a lit- tie better average than the Crimson in rushing, due to Phillips run. A summary of the efforts of the two teams showed that Harvard rushed Al times for a distance of 105 yards and made four first downs, all in the last period Harvard kicked IS times for $40 yards and ran back Yale’s kicks for 20 yards. The Crimson was sent back five times for distasce of 45 yards for infringement of the rules. Yale rushed IS times for 69 yards and scored five first downs. Camp and Howe kicked 22 times for 63S yards, while the back field ran back Har- wards punts for distance of 37 yards. Yale was set back five times in penal ties for a distance of 40 yards Each team tried the forward pass five times, but only one effort was eff fective, while one other when the ball fell to ground. Yales most notable ef- fort in this direction was at the be- ginning of the third period when Avery hid himself on the other side of the field and then came rushing out for a long throw from Camp. The Yale end had he caught the throw would have had a clear field to the Crimson goal line, go yards away-but he dropped the ball. The game was played in ideal foot ball weather and before the usual fur clad and flag decked crowd.

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  The Hattiesburg news, Hattiesburg, Miss., November 25, 1911, page 1

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  YALE.HARVARp RECORD. Today’s football game between Yale and Harvard at Cambridge, Mass, will be the thirty-1rst gridiron contest between the ancient rivals or the thirty games played in past years, Yale has won twenty-three, Harvard has won four and three have been ties. The record since 1897 fol lows: 1S97-Yale 0, Harvard 0. 1S98-Harvard II, Yale 0. 1S99-Yale 0, Harvard O. 1900-Yale 2S, Harvard o. 19O1-Harvard %, Yale 0. 1902-Yale 90, Harvard 0. 1903-Yale 16, Harvard 0. 1904-Yale II, Harvard 0. 1905-Yale 6, Harvard 0. 1906-Yale 6, Harvard 0. 1907-Yale IL, Harvard D. 190S-Harvard 4, Yale 0. 1909-Yale s, Harvard 0. 1910-Yale 0, Harvard O.

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Officially, Yale leads 72–⁠61–⁠8; as played, 62–⁠50–⁠8 in the 120 games on file; the official count covers all 141 meetings, counting the 88 since this game.