Bates at Harvard

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  Coulee City dispatch, Coulee City, Wash., October 5, 1916, page 3

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  SPORTING ITEMS The worlds series starts Saturday between the Boston Americans and the Brooklyn Nationals, at Boston. An improved Harvard eleven defeated Bates College, Saturday, 26 to 0. Boston, winner fthe worlds cham pionship of 1915, is the pennant win ner in the American league in 1915. The Army eleven won the first football contest of the season from Lebanon Valley college, Saturday, 8 to 0. Yale opened the football season Saturday by defeating the light but plucky eleven from Carnegie Institute of Technology, rs to o. The North Central high school, Spokane, tennis team defeated the Lewis and Clark team in the fall championship series, & four matches to three. Can the Boston Americans repeat their success of last season over the ! Philadelphia Nationals in the worlds series? This question is uppermost in the minds of the ball fans. | Les Darcy, the Australian middle. weight champion, knocked out Geo. Chip, the former American middle weight champion in the ninth round of a 20-round match in Australia Sun day. | A place kick from the 1S-yard line | by Captain Streibig in the last three minutes of play broke a to 0 tie and gave Multnomah club the victory over the Oregon Aggies Saturday, 3 to 0. At the end of four furious rounds of boxing at San Diego Saturday eve ming, Battling Nick of San Diego was awarded the decision over AID VOL CAST, former lightweight champion of the world The following are names of worlds champions for the past 10 years: 1906, Chicago, A. L.; 1907, Chicago, N. L.; 1908, Chicago, N. L.; 1909, Pittsburg, N. L.; 1910, Philadelphia, A. L.; 1911, Philadelphia, A. L.; 1912, Boston, A. L.; 1918, Philadelphia, A.. L.; 1914, Boston, N. L.; 1915, Boston, A. L. Nineteen heats were required to complete Columbus (Ohio) Grand cir cult racing Saturday that was feat ured by Areta VS. victory over Queen Hal in the oil pace The first two heats went to Areta w., which lost the third by neck to Queen Hal in 2:05A. Areta V. came with a bold rush in the last quarter of the fourth heat and won jogging out in front in 2:O5A. | After RUDE Benton had shut out Boston in the first game last Saturday of double-header, to 0, for New York’s 26th straight victory, the winning streak of the home team was broken in the second game, which | Boston won, to 8. Though the New Yorks broke old major league records of 20 straight early in the week they just missed tying the worlds record for all established leagues, made by the Corsicanas Tex as, league team in 1903, when it won 81 straight. “a

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 1, 1916, page 24

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  HARVARD BEATS BATES COLLEGE AT CAMBRIDGE Crimson Eleven Works Well, Piling Up a Score of 26 to 0. Cambridge, Mass, Sept 30.-The Bates College football players offered little serious opposition to Harvard this afternoon in the Stadium. They did not threaten the Crimson’s goal line all day, while Captain Dadmun’s players scored four touchdowns, from which two goals were kicked, making the score 26 to 0. The Crimson showed much improve ment over It’s last weeks play. Both regulars and substitutes worked well enough to indicate that it will be some time before the coaches here will be able TO pick out the final combinations for the big games. The team as II TOOK the field had been working together for week. The work OF the line not only was good, but the interference of the ends and backs was efficient, and made many big gains possible. The first touchdown was scored early on 32-yard advance. in which a 10 yard drive through the line by Flower put the ball close to the goal, and not long after that Taylor blocked a Bates kick, touched the ball and then fell on it close 70 the goal. From here one play was all that was necessary 20 score. In the second half, after Murray replaced Robinson at quarter, the sub stltutc backs ripped OFF eighty yards in four plays Casey made two brilliant gains, and then Murray skipped off for thirty-two yards and score. A forward pass from Murray to Coolidge in the last quarter netted nearly thirty yards, and put Harvard in a position from where 1t was easy 10 drive the heavy Horween through the middle Of the Bates line for the last touchdown Of the game. Murray, Bond, Casey, Flower, Taylor and Clark played some great football to-day for Harvard. The team gained about $50 yards on rushes from scrimmage TO 1876 yards for Bates.

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 1, 1916, page 12

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  BATES IS EASY FOR THE HARVARD ELEVEN Big Crimson Team Runs Away With Maine Collegians in Second Game. 26 to 0. Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 3o-Harvard rolled up rs points on Bates in the Sec ond game OF the season today. The Grim son team that was held in check a week ago by Colby had added strength today. both in the backheld and on the line Bates at no time threatened to score, and II was not until the fourth period, when Harvard had in some line substitutes that the Bates backs were able to pierce the line appreciably. Harvard’s new backfleld combination of Flower. Bond, and Thacher worked well fter series OF line bucking Flower went around the guards for fifteen yards and planted the ball within scoring dis tance OF the Bates goal. and Thacher on the next rush produced the touchdown. Harvard started again on a big drive when Nose Taylor, the guard. blocked Bates punt on the twenty-yard line and downed the ball within two yards of the goal Thacher went over for the touch down. When the second half opened a new backfeld was introduced. Casey. Horween, and Burnham did the rushing. Casey was indomitable on his end runs, often dragging along two or three tacklers. The substitutes worked the ball to the twenty-two-yard mark mainly through Casey’s running and Murray. the quarter back. put the finish ing touches on this impressive march by travelling around the end for twenty-five yards and scoring q touchdown at the extreme corner of the field. The last OF the four touchdowns came after a series Of line plays had brought the ball to Bates thirty-hve-yard line. A perfect pass. Murray to Ham” Coolidge, gained twenty yards and the rest was easy for Harvard. Wilcox and Horween alter mated in rushing and Horween scored the touchdown. The lineup and summary:

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  Norwich bulletin, October 2, 1916, page 3

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  HARVARD ae, BATES 0. Crimson Machine Worked Welt and Showed Big Improvement. The Bates College football players offered little serious opposition to liar ward Saturday afternoon in the Stadi- um, at Cambridge. They did not threaten the Crimson’s goal line all day, while Captain Dadmun’s play CTS scored four touchdowns, from which two goals were kicked, making the score 26 to 0. The Crimson showed much improve ment over it’s last weeks play. Both regulars and substitutes worked well enough to indicate that it will be some time before the coaches here will be able to pick out the final combinations for the big games. The team as 1t took the field had been working together for a week. The work of the. line not only was good. but the interference of the ends and backs was efficient, and made many big gains possible. The first touchdown was scored early on a 32-yard advance, in which a 15- yard drive through the line by Flower put the ball close to the goal, and not long after that Taylor blocked Bates kick. touched the ball and then fell on it close to the goal. From here one play was all that was necessary to score. In the second half, after Murray re placed Robinson at quarter, the sub- stitute backs ripped off eighty yards in four plays. Casey made two brilliant gains, and then Murray skipped off for thirty two yards and a score. A forward pass from. Murray to

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Harvard leads 22–⁠0 in 22 meetings, counting the six since this game.