Colgate at Yale

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  Norwich bulletin, November 3, 1913, page 3

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  G0-GATE CRUsHEs ELI YALE’S HOPES Defeats Blue Eleven by Score of 16–⁠6 Famous Defense Broken. New Haven, Conn, Nov. 2.-F’or the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant Yales football team was beaten by an eleven which has never been rated, even on a par with the smaller fry, such as Brown and Dart mouth. The two latter teams of course, have had their triumphs over the members of the big four and it is not always unexpected when they manage to score a victory. The idea of little college like Colgate with it’s roster of 450 students, being able to wipe up the ground with the high and mighty team of Eli was never dreamed of before Saturday. The score was 16–⁠6, which just about represents the merits of the rivals. Yale showed just one flash of life, and in that brief moment looked like an eleven which might make trouble in the next fortnight for Harvard and Princeton. Just when it seemed as if the blue team had found itself and would make short work of the. men from New York state a cog slipped in the blue machine, and it was scat tered from one end of the turf to the other. Nearly all the play was in Yales territory except for the brief period when Colgate was swept down the field in the second quarter. Although Colgate clearly outplayed Yale in the matter of gaining ground only one of the tallies made by the visitors came as a result of clean cut play. The two touchdowns made by the minor leaguers’ were helped along by poor handling of the ball by the Eli players. It is not the first time that the blue has gone down to defeat because some alert player on the other side was keen enough to swoop down and pick up a careening ball The les son of other disasters, however had not been learned. Once it was Talbot who dropped the ball and later it was Knowles The first time the Colgate men were twenty yards from the goal and the second time the ball was drop ped behind the line. When an agile and alert Colgate man hugged the leather to his breast in that first instance so that his team was put within striking distance of the goal posts it was the blue that looked like the minor eleven and the maroon that seemed to be the major one. There was an immense show of power in the plunging of the Colgate backs and the line men simply rip ped the defense of the blue to tatters It was bang. bang bang at the line or the blue. First to the right and then 10 the left it made no difference All looked alike to the smaller col leSe once they felt the scent of victory in their nostrils Colgate simply played horse with 6- membered that chat was one of the attributes of\the Yale eleven this year. on which must hope had been banked Those VITO are loyal to the blue did not think a great deal of the attack ing power so far, but had lived in hone that this would be taken care of be- fore the championship game had been reached. So good had the Yale de- fense been all year that up to Satur- day no eleven had been able to cross her goal line. But that defensive power crumbled up under the savage thrusts or sterling hackfield and a mighty dne line. There is little hope for the fortunes of the blue In the games that are to come. The last asset seems to be gone. They had trusted to keen the Tiger and the Crimson at bay just as they had done with the small er teams during the season, but all are wondering now just what is going to happen when team erpn a little col-

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  Newark evening star and Newark advertiser, Newark, N.J., November 3, 1913, page 17

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  vale FolIowers stunned. 1t was admitted that Colgate might hold the Blue to a small score Saturday in view of Colgate’s showing against the Army. but no one believed 1t possible for the little instituition to whale Yale so decisively Nevertheless. Colgate not only won, 16 to 6. but outplayed the Blue all along the line. Starting the second period at the 35-yard mark, Colgate expended considerable energy in two .<efforts to penetrate Yale’s line, which proved impenetrable in most spots Then Huntington, the little quarter back of Colgate, essayed a forward pass, flinging the ball out of bounds, and giving it to Yale on Yale’s IT, yard line. AS Knowles was about to remove the ball from the neighborhood of Yale’s goal by kick, he fumbled the pigskin and Olney, of Colgate. snatched it up and went sitting through the Blue line toward a touchdown. Olney dropped the ball in transit and then recovered it him self on Yale’s 14-yard line. Two smashes at the Yale line gave Colgate first down on Yale’s courtyard line, and then Ramsey carried the ball across. Colgate missed it’s crack at goal. This prod seemed to arouse the puHuOBs ana 4dl6 briefly ulSpldy gu what looked like a real football team. \ Consistent and conscientious ham, mering at the Colgate line sent Knowles across the Colgate goal before the second period had passed and Ketcham, the Yale team leader, missed the shot at the goal posts leaving the count even. In the third period, with the score a tie at 6 to G., the ball was the property oil Colgate on her own 43-yard line. Three desperate attacks on the Yale line failed 10 profit Colgate, and Huntington then lifted the ball into the air to Wilson on Yale’s 20-yard line. Wilson fun bied, and Colgate recovered the ball. Colgate fumbIed almost Immediately aftefward, and Yale recovered the bali on Yale’s own 10-yard line, and this necessitated q boot to safer ter ritory. Knowles fell back for the kick, and the ball was passed to him. but Knowles fumbled, and III. Sullivan, OF Colgate, fell all over the ball for a touchdown. Huntington kicked goal.

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  The Elbert County tribune, Colorado, November 7, 1913, page 4

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  SPORT. The Army was beaten by Notre Dame at West Point. N. Y, 35 to 13. Navy’s football eleven easily de- Annapolis, Md. by score of SO to o. Colgate found Yale’s much vaunted defense more of tradition than an actuality and defeated the Blue 16 to 6 at New Haven, Conn. Joe Bayley, former Canadian light weight champion, knocked out Jack White of Chicago in the ninth round of scheduled fifteen-round boxing bout at Vancouver, B. c. The Boulder Props won the cham pionship. of the Northern Interscholastic Football league at Boulder by defeating the Loveland High school by score of 81 to 0. The strength of the Crimson first line players and the weakness of the second-string men we’re brought out in NHarvard’s game at Cambridge, Mass, against Cornell. which the Crimson won with apparent ease. % to 6. <AmCo Ildycu 1NcufdShd lOT Oue quarter at Ames, scoring nine points in the first; but the Cornhuskers came back with terrific attack. interspersing fierce line plunges with forward passes. The final score was: Nebraska IS, Ames 8. Fighting for every yard. but lacking the final punch that spelled victory or defeat, the Orange and Gold-clad war riors of Colorado college and the sill yer and gold of the University of Colo RADIO battled for sixty minutes of actual play on Gamble sea at Boulder without a score. The Sealship Oyster Company of New York and Boston. a s4.500.0 900 cor poration. was placed in the hands of receivers on an application in the Fed eral Court Of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston. trustees of its 81. 2.500.O00 convertible bonds. The oyster company defaulted interest bonds last July.

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 2, 1913, page 6

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  YALE LOSES TO COLGATE is TO 6 Colgate eleven Particularly Strong on Offense-Yale Heretofore I’m secretion This Season. limited Press Leased Wire Service NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. Il Yale’s heretofore unscored-on eleven suffered its first defeat today, losing IL Colgate by score of 16 to 6. Two fumbles gave the visitors their advantage. allowing them twice to cross the Blue goal line. One kick after the touchdown and field goal from the four yard line made the score 16. Knowles crossed Colsate’s line for Yales only score. The visitors easily outplayed the ELI warriors, being par ticularly strong on offense.

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Yale leads 25–⁠10–⁠3 in 38 meetings, counting the 34 since this game.