Lehigh at Yale

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  Norwich bulletin, Connecticut, October 16, 1916, page 3

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  VALE ELEVEN SWINGS INTO FINE FORM Beats Lehigh 12 to o-Shows Strong Defensive. Playing with Q snap, dash and drive that brought joy to the hearts of the Yale rooters and a look of concern to the faces of scouts of the Blues fu- ture opponents this raI1 Captain Blacks husky and aggressive Eli kick CTS planked the rough and strong Ie- high eleven 12–⁠0 on the historic Old Yale field Saturday afternoon and caused a feeling of genuine satisfac- tion throughout the entire Blue camp. It has been several years since a Yale eleven has looked so good at this point in the season and the improve ment over the play against the Vir- ginians the week previous was gen orally commented upon. Straight foot ball by the home team was the rule practically all of the time, there being plenty of good, hard bangs into the line and swift dashes around the ends and on the defense, a lot of clean, sharp tackling. The only thing to mar the work of the Yale team was the rather poor handling of the ball at times, there being no less than half a dozen fumbles in which Bob Bingham played. a great part, one of which, under the very shadow of the Lehigh goal posts in the opening period. cost Yale touchdown. Otherwise the crowd of over 5000 found plenty over which to enthuse. It was a record crowd for an early season game. filling the aisles stands. Lehigh lost because it could not get started. Yale presented a fine line Saturday and when the Blue forwards weren’t stemming the rush of the Brown players for no gain they were flashing through and throwing the Le- high runners for losses Of from five to ten yards. The South Bethlehem men were a good deal stronger than the Virginians, as it was expected they al rougher. But the over-strenuOus play of the visitors didn’t yeaze Captain Blacks men and only brought the Le- high men many penalties. Yale’s first tally came a few minutes after the second period started and Yale had received the ball on a punt. Harry Legore took the ball on the first lineup after the kick and strealled his way in and out among practically the entire Lehigh eleven for 67 yards and a touchdown. It was a particularly brilliant run, tackler after tackler be- ing straight-arme off ’9y Legore, only one man threatening to do any dam age to the runner and this occurring dozen yards from the northwest cor ner when Harry nearly lost his foot ing He regained his balance long enough to shoot over the line, how ever, and didn’t go down under the Lehigh attack until he had placed the ball almost behind the Brown goal posts. Gates failed to kick the goal, the wind taking the ball off to one side of the posts. The other score came in the fourth quarter after Legore had tried a goal from the 45-yard line and it was car ried by the stiff breeze quartering over the field, down into the southeast cor ner. After the ball was brouht in, on the two-yard mark, a, Lehigh punt sent it into Legore’s arms on the vis- itors’ 25-yard mark. From this point Bingham began to pound the Lehigh line and after one gain of nine yards he again took a shot at the center and dashed over for a touchdown. Legore’s attempt at the goal was also wide and the ball struck the left hand goal post and bounded back into the field. The outstanding feature of the game of course, was Legore’s spectacular 67-yard run for the first score but ranking with 1t was a beautifully ex- ecuted forward pass shot from the hand of Quarterback Russel to Full back McGinness in the second quarter and which not only netted the visitors 32 yards, but by banding it on the Blue 10-yard line placed the ball the nearest it ever got to the home teams goal.

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  The sun, New York, October 15, 1916, page 1

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  Yale Keeps Up to Pace by Drubbing Lehigh, 1910 Legore and Bingham Elude South Bethlehem Tacklers in Spirits Across Field Which Bring Blue . Well Earned Victory. NEW Haven, Oct. l4.-Yaie defeated Lehish this afternoon. IL to O, after n hard battle. Lchigh came here fully as strong as a year ago. when Yale won, I to g. and gave the improved Ell eleven a stir fight from the start. The long men were a constant worry to tho sup porters OF the Blue. Yale on the field did not seem to take the passing game seriously. however. and the best Lehigh could do was TO work one successfully for q gain OF thirty yards. Quist landed the ball on the Yale 10 yard line on this pass and 1t looked squally for Yale. Lehigh tried three forward passes in a row nj this point and each failed and Yale got the bail on downs. Yale was held to no score In the first quarter. but should have n “a touch down. as Bingham fumbled the ball on the Lehigh ! yard line just as he was about to take 1t over. In the second Pc riod a sixty-seven yard run around Lehighs right end by Legorc resulted In a touchdown for the Blue. The run OF the fleet back was the prettiest pay OF the game. Legorc lodged through tho entire Lehigh team In his flight. Yale Defence Good Lehigh’s line held Yale three times for downs and played a hard. aggressive game from the start. The backs were unable to do anything against tho Yale line. however. and the only chance the visitors had TO score was by means OF a forward pass. There was 10 scoring In the third Pc Rod, but in the fourth Yale added a touchdown. The score was made by Bingham. II came after an attempted drop kick by Legorn. The Yale back

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  Bisbee daily review, October 15, 1916, page 3

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  LEHIGH LOSES ID YALE F ID . NEW HAVEN. Conn, Oct. H. Yale downed Lehigh today 12 to 0 in a desperately fought game. The feat ure was a sensational 65 yard end run through a broken field for a touch down by Legore. Half dozen Le- high players tackled him but he shook them off Bingham made Yale’s other touchdown on a fifteen yard plunge through tackle. Neither goal was kicked. Lehigh could not pierce Yale’s line for any appreciable gains.

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Yale leads 19–⁠5 in 24 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.