Yale at Harvard

Saturday, November 22, 1890

Harvard beat Yale 12–⁠6. It was the 13th of their 120 meetings on file (of 141); after it, Yale led the series 10–⁠2–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayYale13–⁠1 in 1890
6
HomeHarvard11–⁠0 in 1890
12

FinalHigh 44°F, low 31°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Columbian's story: TELEGRAPHlC BREvITlES The Worlds News Cleaned, Sifted and Condensed. FRESH TIPS FROM THE WIRES. What Is Going on of Interest Worth Reading-The Wheat OF the worlds News winnowed from a whole Weeks Thrashing.

    The Columbian, Bloomsburg, Pa., November 28, 1890, page 1

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    TELEGRAPHlC BREvITlES The Worlds News Cleaned, Sifted and Condensed. FRESH TIPS FROM THE WIRES. What Is Going on of Interest Worth Reading-The Wheat OF the worlds News winnowed from a whole Weeks Thrashing. Thrashing. Queen Regent Emma has proclaimed the young Princess Wilhelmins queen Of the Netherlands, while accepting the regency during her minority. At New York, James Henry, otherwise known as young English” a pugilist of local notorety, was fatally stabbed during quarrel by David Stand young man with bad record. Martin Pellsky, under arrest at Jamaica, l.. l., on suspicion of the murder Of Jacob Wenner, has made a statement admitting the killing of Wenner, but asserting that 1t was accidental. Oliver Oscutt’s store was burned at New Rochelle, N. Y, and Alfred Griffin, a clerk, told an amazing story about three burg lars, who bound him hand and foot and then set fire to the place. Professor Koch’s system has been tried with favorable results upon a consumptive patient at Kansas City, No. Grave charges affecting the honor Of many prominent men in Canada have been made. Big contracts are said to have been award for cash considerations. Jessie Adamson, q refined young woman, committed suicide with bromide Of potasstun, at New York, because she and her lover were too poor to get married. According to the plans for the new AS tor hotel, on the northeast corner Of Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York, the building is to be 100 by 1876 feet on the ground and 300 feet In height, having sew enteen stories, and is to cost $500 600. The italian faster, Succi, had large number of visitors Nov. “a at New York, | and one of them offered to bet 500 that the | faster would not last, but was afraid to | close the bet. Succi, on the whole, was | cheerful all day, although the fast had | reached it’s nineteenth day. William NJ. James killed Barton Kline in a saloon at Ephrata, Pa, with blow Of his fist aud is now in Jail at Lancaster. | Two persons, in the disguise of peasants, | who werr rrested for lettering in the vi cinity OF ,..’ Of the palaces of St Peters burr proved to be secretly armed, and one of them is suspected of being the nihilist conspirator kalobkoff, who recently escapped from confinement at Karkour. J. Edward Myers, of McKeesport, Pa. was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing Of his aunt, Miss Mar garet Douglass The body Of George w. Fay, of Ham monton, N. j., was brought back from the cemetery on Friday because Of the lifelike look which his face had assumed, and his family snxiously await developments to show whether he is alive or dead. Harry Banigan, the well known turf man, is in San Francisco hunting for his father and sister who left Philadelphia in the sixties, settled in California and have not since been heard from. Scarlet fever is raging at Algona, Ia, and the schools have been closed. Diphliberia, which is quite general throughout Iowa, now prevails to such an alarming extent at Cresco that exacting quarantine measures have been resorted to. A race riot is reported TO have broken out at Bishopville, N. c., and state troops have been sent to the place. The trouble grew out of the appointment Of a colored postmaster, who was afterward boycotted and induced to resign, While crossing the Assiniboine river at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the new ice, Alderman Andrews and his wife broke through and were drowned. The couple had only just returned from their honey. moon. Harvard defeated Yale at football in Springfield, Mass, Saturday. The score was 12 to6. The mysterious murder of Diego Polls ano, an Italian, living at No. 400 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, New York is charged to the secret society called La Malta. A rumor is current among London club that Lord Salisbury will take advantage of the Parnell- o Shea scandal and dissolv, parliament at an early day. Mr.. Stanley replied to the latest charges made against him and will now publish all the facts concerning the conduct Of tn rear guard. Forty workmen were buried by a falling wall at Jersey City Saturday afternoon George Barrett was instantly killed an, six Others were fatally hurt. The wall wa , a portion of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s ne, : building. James Tucker was killed by an electri , light wire at New York Nov. 70. Richard f. Tobin, of Boston, died No, % He was prominent G. A. r. man. The United States Rolling Stock con pany, of Chicago, has failed. Liabilitis nearly 100000. Bamford Bros silk mills at Paterson . N. j., have been destroyed by fire. Los /. $4O0, 900 The Knights OF Labor convention | Denver, Colo, adjourned sine die withov l. selecting the next place of meeting. a Another attempt is on foot to break a 4. Stewards will. It Little doubt is expressed in financial Of Q cles that Jay Gould and the Rockefelle v nave BhlHeu control OF mon Haclu e the reported object being to combine Il q Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, Il Atchison, the Missouri Pacific, the Tex and Pacific and the Southern Pacific in oil . gigantic corporation, with Mr.. Gould al = his friends at its head. IL is believed ra :, way rates will be advanced A mob attacked the Huntington ITEM Jail where Murderer Widdis was co fined, but retired after one of its nul ., ber was seriously wounded by one Of & Ia inmates Mrs. Mackey, her son and four boarde y, were poisoned in Chicago by color III waiter, who in revenge for being charged put arsenic in the food. The National Sabbath Reform assoc he tion, which has been in session in Pit er burg this week, believing that it can do IN under the blue laws of 1874, will short IS attempt to suppress the circulation of t 10 Sunday papers Of Pittsburg, and aft ly ward those of Philadelphia “a Mrs. Mark Koss, of Krew, Prussia, ia arrived in New York In search Of a nuI % named Sarah Grunbsrg, who stole her W tent child, she being the discarded swe ng heart of Mr.. Koss. gu Peter Clark was sentenced TO five yes Sn in the Eastern penitentiary Philadelph ,s for manslaughter in hitting Mary Schiss rk with lighted lamp, which burned her – death. In the supreme court the habeas corp case of Jugiro, which involves the legal OF the New York method OF executi I’ve criminals by electricity, was argued, a or the question was held under adviseme ‘A by the court. mt The archbishop of Canterbury, in the al nous high church trial, has deliver at judgment against Rev DR. Edward kiI ip bishop of Lincoln, for making use of l ~ ualistic practices at the church services. - Mr. Whitelaw Reid, United States m AT lister TO France, accompanied by Mrs. Re go has left on a two months tour Of Turk cd, and Egypt Nm Surgeon General Hamilton recommeI =. legislation by congress 10 keep crimin – sa lunatic and pauper immigration out of ~ United States. Queen Emma took the oath as regent Nm the kingdom of Holland, at the Hag The route taken by the queen In goi ~, from the palace TO the parliament hou y where the ceremony took place was lir W. with spectators, and her majesty was co tally greeted by the people. Sol The International Law aud Order 500

  • The The morning call's story: VICTORIOUS HARVARD. Yale Defeated in stubbornly Contested Game Of Foot.Ball

    The morning call, San Francisco [Calif.], November 23, 1890, page 1

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    VICTORIOUS HARVARD. Yale Defeated in stubbornly Contested Game Of Foot.Ball Of Football. SPRINGFIELD CMass.), Nov. 22.-Yale and Harvard football teams met here this after noon. twenty-five thousand people were on the ground, and there was much excite ment as to the outcome. Yale was slightly the favorite. At the end of the first half neither side had scored. Harvard scored touchdowns and goals in the second half, making the score Harvard 12. Yale 6. Yale securing touchdown and l goal. Harvard won the game. The score was: Harvard Il, Yale &. Both teams played like clockwork and for the first half neither were able to score, though the Yales were the aggressors with a strong wind In their favor. In the second half the Harvards forced the fighting The Yale men fought like fiends. but the GRIM sons dogged defense held them down. The Harvard boys marched through the streets rejoicing. and red fire blaZed from the top of the grand stand at the very instant time was called. For the last few weeks the Harvard team has played strong, steady game. and in many cases has run up large scores. The men constitute the strongest team ever seen at Cambridge. simply from the fact that no team was ever worked so hard. Every practice game has been fought as hard Is; as the ,al men were |nooS capable criticized by many when more than half the team was laid up by injuries, but the work was just what was needed. The Yale men have worked this way for Years, and, as result, have always beaten Harvard, even when Harvard possessed the better material. Now that this is changed, the result at Springfield to-day was differ ent from that in recent years. The Yale eleven is wonderfully strong and HarVard’S players have worked harder than they ever worked before. The team has been coached by George Adams for nearly three weeks, and nearly every afternoon Joe Sears. ‘S9 captain and full-back of the Varsity two years ago, was to be seen upon the field. To Captain Ar thur Cumnock, however, the greatest praise is due for to him the University owes the excellent condition of the team.

  • The New-York tribune's story: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1890. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 23, 1890, page 1

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    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1890. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES THE NEWS THIS MORNING. F6reign.-Emperor William has decorated Pro lessor Koch with the grand cross of the order OF the Red Earle. - The Czarewitch is at fSr’ Said – The River Neva is frozen over. = Tho Samoans are uneasy over the non-arrival Oh ,he Supreme Judge appointed by the ro”erS – The Marquis of Runtty was chosen rector of tho University of Aberdeen, defeating James Bryce. Domestic.-The religious excitement among the Indians was reported to be subSlding III Nor’h Dakota. where the Indians were taxing theif ,a,ions az usual – Harvard defeated Yale al football by score of 12 to 6. - The omted States Rolling Stock Company, whose headquartors are AZ Chicago was placed in the hands OF a receiver. -. The Hooking Valley natural gas field was reported to be about exhausted. - The evangelist ID. L. Moody began series Of meetings in Chicago. Civ and Suburban.-Thc walls of new stable Of Wells Fargo a. Co., in Jersey City, feii, Kill ing one man and injuring ten others – large silk mill and several adjoining buildings were burned in Paterson. n. j.: loss, 100000. - The financial situation showed decided improve ment; meeting of railway presidents soon 70 DC called TO consider radical reforms In railway uanaScment. - Argument on the SUBWAY III iunction case was begun in the Supreme court = Stocks active and higher closing firm The Weatber-Forecast for to-day Clear OF fair. and cooler. Temperature yesterday high’ est. 46 degrees; lowest, 40; average, az 5-s’

  • The The Press's story

    The Press, Connecticut, November 27, 1890, page 2

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    THE annual Yale Harvard foot ball game was played at Springfield last Saturday, and Harvard’s long record of defeat was broken, they winning 12 to 6. All collegiate and sporting element of New England (and of much of the rest of the country) held it’s breath while the contest ragged. Hampden Park was black with humanity seats con- manded premium, and the only reason for there not being greater number of specta- tors was that there was no room for them. Every spectator was partisan, wore the blue or the red and “‘rah- -‘rah- -‘rah-”ed for ‘‘our side” Dignifed gents and modest women forgot their dignity or subdued their modesty in their periods of elation or depression over phases of the game. And the crimson scared above the blue, or words to that effect, Gin vented by the talented paragraphers). Last year when people saw the well-loaded passen ger trains returning toward the east they did not need to ask-how went the battle This year it was the southward bound trains that bore a subdued crowd, for red was the pre- 1 val ing tint in Springfield after the contest.

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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Yale 50% to win. Harvard won as Elo’s underdog.

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 107 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 45, Harvard 28
2024Yale 34, Harvard 29
2023Yale 23, Harvard 18
2022Yale 19, Harvard 14
2021Harvard 34, Yale 31
2019Yale 50, Harvard 43

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