Harvard at Yale

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], November 22, 1891, page 5

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  YALE Is VICTORIOUS She Defeats Harvard at Football Ten to Nothing. IT WAS A GREAT KICKING GAME The Best Team Won-Bliss Carried Of the Honors of the Day – Deffendger Fairly Eclipsed himself victorious over Hampden park to-day, and when the great contest was over 1t was the unanimous conviction that the best team had won. All the morning clouds hung heavily, but later the sun came out and the last requisite was added to make the day perfect. The story Of the game is simply one of THE SUPREMACY OF YALE OVER HARVARD. The Cambridge eleven were simply out played and the best team won. Harvard’s rush line was fatally weak and of little as sistance to her half backs, while Yale’s line was almost perfect. The great Deffendger fairly eclipsed his repuaaton and easily proved himself to be the greatest guard il the country. Mackie was no match for him for general all round work behind the line. Bliss carried off the honors of the day. His tackling and rushing were phenomenal. In puntlng he was a good match for Aarvards cap tain. Behind the line no word of criticism can be charged to Harvard’s team, but without any support they were helpless against Yale’s fine tacklers The blocking off was stretched and the Yale rushers were down on their backs before they could start. Hallowell, Newell, Lake aud Corbett did some brilliant individual WORK, but lack of team work neutralized il. TraffOrd’s great punting did much to keep down the score. Much disappointment was felt with the WORK of Yale’s captain. He managed his men finely but when the ball went to him he repeatedly lost ground. IT WAS KICKING GAME THROUGHOUT. After Yale scored the first touchdown in five minutes, Harvard began to punt, and continued these tactics during the rest of the game. In the first half the ball was in Harvard’s territory most of the time. In the second half Harvard forced the play ing much Of the time, and Trafford twice had chance to try for the goal from the field but failed both times. This city was owned to-day by the wearers of the blue and crimson. The hotels ana streets have been crowded since morning, and early and late trains have added thousands to the throngs. The weather for the game was perfect, cool and cloudy with a little wind. Betting last evening was nearly even, but to-day ODDS WE’RE GIVEN ON YALE. Most of the Harvard men arrived last night at :45. The Yale delegation came at noon by two special trains. Most of the city stores were decorated impartially. All the smaller New England colleges were represented, Amherst and Williams send ing the largest delegations on special trains. AT / / o’clock the Yale men were offering 500 to 500, which Harvard’s back ers accepted readily. At 1880 several hundred persons were waiting for the gates of Hampden park to open, and at IL when the gates swung back a steady stream set in from way down Main street. This tide OF would-be spectators was two miles long though the game was not to begin for three hours. Fourteen separate entrances prevented crush and the work of placing the vast throng and seating those entitled to seats went on with little friction. One hundred and sixty uniformed officers were on hand TO preserve order. When the play began the field was in as near perfect condition as could be. Experts pronounced it without question the FINEST FOOTBALL FIELD IN THE COUNTRY. Not breath of air was stirring and the weather conditions we’re never more favor | able for any game. The grand stands, which encircle the entire field, were packed with gay and happy throng half an hour ! before the game was scheduled to begin ! The long wait was enlivened by college yells and cheers so that 1t did not seem long | HARVARD WAS FIRST IN THE FIELD. Yale followed shortly after. Harvard won | the toss and took the north end. Yale gained ten yards on the wedge, and Nc Chung gained thirty yards In run around the end. The ball was within yard OF Harvard’s goal line in three minutes, and touch down was made by McClung | Yale missed the goal. The score was tc 0 in favor of Yale. | The ball was then returned to the centre and on punt by Trafford was carried into Yale’s territory, but the New Haven mer were playing a powerful game and yard by yard forced the ball back until it is now al Rarvard’s thirty yard line. Trafford then again got the ball and again punted it back | TO Yale’s thirty yard line, where Yale gained possession of the ball. McCormcA | then punted for Yale, but little was gained and Harvard got the ball Her men ther ! formed wedge and gained five yards. Yale had the ball at HARvARD’s TWENTY FIVE YARD LINE, but lost it and Trafford punted it to the centre. The play was chiefly in Harvard, territory. Yale gained ten yards in break through Harvard’s line and McClunG /! gained twenty yards on a run around The end Trafford again tried to punt and sen the ball to Yale’s forty-yard line, where i fell into McCiuDg’s hands and he started tt run for Harvard’s territory, and before ht could be stopped he had gone forty yards and had the ball at Harvards thirty -tiv ward line. Here Yale lost the ball, bu Harvard failed to gain any advantage. A the end of the first half the ball was nea centre field in Yale’s territory. The scor, stood: Yale, 4; Harvard, 0. The second half began al $40 with tn ball in Harvard’s keeping. After vainl, trying to break through Yale’s line Traf ford punted for thirty yards, but Yale go the ball and began to slowly force it bac 10 centre. Harvard finally secured tn ball and it was snapped to Tratford, VIII by lucky punt sent 1T TO YALE’s FIFTEEN YARD LINE, but this awaited nothing, as Mccormick on a strong punt, drove the ball to centre aud on tumble by Harvard got the bal Harvard seemed to be playing stronge game than during the first half. Bis then started on the run around the en- and gained Harvards twenty-yard line but here he was downed and Trafford &c in another of his punts and the ball ono more back at centre, but here Bliss agai Il got the ball, and by another run carried i to Harvard’s twenty-five yard line. Tn ball was SLOWLY WORKED BACK TO CENTRE, where it again fell into Yale’s hands, bu she lost 1t on four downs. Yale got the ba after Harvard had gained ten yards, bu McClung failed to get aronnd and McCor mick sent the ball to the twenty five yard | line when Harvard go it. BY fumbl Bliss got the ball and carried it across tn , line and McClung kicked the goal Score } Yale 10; Harvard, 0. The teams were again lined up In th , centre and Harvard gained ten yards, bu Yale soon forced the ball back to center br lost it and Trafford tried for goal frol the field but failed. The Harvard men be gan to play with desperation and soon ha

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  Morning journal and courier, Connecticut, November 23, 1891, page 4

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  YALE TRIUMPHANT. Great Game of FOotball-Harvard Outclassed In Batteu Chapel-Lec- Outclassed In Battsll Chapel-Lec- tures for the Week. Once more the great struggle for vlc- l tory between Yale and Harvard has been | fought, and once more the blue has left | the field victorious over the crimson. l The gods seemed to smile propitiously on the great football game and furnished weather that could not be excelled. The day was simply magnificent and the grounds, with the exception of being a little slippery, were in perfect condition. As early as 12 o’clock the crowd of | spectators began to arrive and half-hour later there was steady stream of human | ity pouring into Hampden park and hustling to get the best seats that their section offered. At 1:30 every seat in the | stands was occupied and the spectators | began to line up along the ropes and take | any position from which they could see l the game. 1 The western stand was given up to Yale men and Yale sympathizers, while the east side of the field was almost screened from view by the vast number of red flags that were waved by the enthusiastic sup porters of Harvard. At 1:50 tall Harvard student who had been craning his neck to announce the ar | rival of his team sang out “Here they are!” and as the eleven with red legs trotted out on the field they were greeted with storm of cheers and frantic waving of red flags. About five minutes later the team from old Yale made their appearance on the field and then it was the turn for Yale men to go crazy. And they did it in good, true fashion. A 3 o’clock sharp the teams lined up, Yale having the ball, and then began the struggle in which more science and skill were displayed than in any other game ever played between the two colleges. The team work of Yale, her blocking off and tackling, was the finest ever seen on foot ball field in America And through this work they won the game. Yale started the ball with the wedge, gaining fifteen yards. Again they bucked the center, gaining five yards. Then tLe ball was passed to McClung, who made a wonderful run of forty yards before he was downed A few more short rushes and Morrison was sent over the line for a touchdown, from which McClung failed to kick a goal. Score 40. It took Yale just three minutes to rush the ball from the center of the field over Harvard’s goal line, and this kind of work surpassed even the widest hopes of the Yale supporters. The teams then lined up at the twenty five yard line with Harvard in possession of the ball. For the remainder of this half it was fierce struggle, neither side gaining any decided advantage, although Yale kept the ball in Harvard’s territory most of the time In the second half Harvard came on the field determined to do or die. And they vain. They rushed the ball down to Yales twenty yard line and then lost it. There Yale, by some fine team work and great rushes landed the ball on Harvards twenty five yard line. And right here , Yale won the game, beyond accident. Harvard had the ball and it was passed to Corbett who started around Hinckey’s , end. Hinckey tackled him for a loss of five yards and Corbett, in falling, dropped , the ball. Bliss, who was near by, grabbed the ball and by grand run made touch down from which McClung kicked an easy goal. Score 10–⁠0. s In the next fifteen minutes Harvard, by t sheer weight and strength, rushed the ball to Yale’s fifteen yard line. Then g Trafford thought he ought to sustain his t reputation and kick goal from the field l. 80 he tried it. But as goal kicker he : was not a bowling success; in fact he . yards last hope of scoring, and during tht I oA A”AS 1A1> - ball steadily towards Harvards goal, SC , that when time was called Yale had thu ball on Harvard’s ffteen-yard line. Every man of the Yale eleven played an excellent game, Hartwell and Hincke, a especially. Hinckey has earned for him self the name of being the best end rusl o that has played since ‘‘Kid” Wallace. 70 McClung played great game in th o first half, but in the second he seemed t’ u lose his nerve, and was tackled severa ;, times for loss. He made one error u which was inexcusable, that of turnin. around and running in the opposite direc ,1 ton, after he had started with the ball. ,. For Harvard, Corbett and Lake worked 2 with all their might, but could not d much, because they did not have the rusl line to back them up. Hallowell ant i Newell also played a fine game, but Bang 10 and Waters were completely outclassed |, word should be said in praise of thos D who had the management of the ground ,- under their care. To MT. c. E. Stickne l’ and his assistants there is great praise du \ for the creditable manner in which tha 7; vast crowd was handled. There was not ‘‘fe break in the whole proceedings and every q thing went off as smoothly as if everyon :” had been in his seat before and knew jus l 1Uhara to po

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  Richmond dispatch, Richmond, Va., November 27, 1891, page 1

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  YALE VICTORIOUS. RESULT or THE GREAT ATHLETIC EVENT or The YEAR. Princeton Defeated by Score OF 10 to In tho Game for the Football chsm- pionship-.LiveIy Incidents rer telegraph o the plspa.ch.l MLSHArrAs FIELD, N. Y. November 2S.- The blue floats over the metropolis and the orange and black is trailing low. Yale beat Princeton in the great athletic event Of the year for the football championship by 10 to 0. Thirty-seven thousand people, who paid sbout $4,000 admission, wit messed the contest. and every one got his moneys worth. It was a magnifcentgame, and Yale’s invincible team had TO do the hardest plAying of which il was capable. In the FIRST forty.6ve minutes play neither side could score, and when the first half ended with blanks for each side the Princeton supporters oheered Wildly; but it was short-lived. for in the second half Yale went in desperately and won by sheer weight and force, her older men standing the racket better that Prince toms greener hands. rnE SCENE MOST ANIMATED. The scene was such as only can be wit messed at hotly-fought college contest; lue-and-oranee and black flags hoated everywhere, and men and women wore the college colors, while some had almost eptire costumes OF hues resembling the UNI yersity colors. A number OF tallyhos, loaded with horn-toOters, drove into the grounds, and with il all IL was the liyeliest and most animated spectacle OF the year. while the blare and noise which greeted every good play was enough TO rattle windows blocks away. College cries and songs were as omnipresent as IRE pressible. The University OF Pennsyiya- MIA, Wesleyan University, Trinity, and a few Harvard men cheered for Yale, while Rutger’s. Swarthmore’s, and several Penn sylyania colleges answered them on the side OF old Nassau. The grounds were wet and soggy, and rain fell occasionally. but the crowd never budged. Brooks, OF Harvard. was referee, and Coffin, OF Wesleyen, umpire. THE OPTNING. Play opened with Princeton having the ball and tor fOrty-fve minutes the sphere was up and down the field, though IN Prlnceton’s territory most frequently. McClung, Yale’s captain and one OF her backs, made some fine, daring rushes, but hard tackles bY the Princeton men, es. pecially Vincent, q new man who played magnifcently, cut short some OF these; Bliss and Mccormick also made good1 runs. But between these runs would como failures, on which Princeton would gain the ball Flint and Poe did the run nlng for Princeton, bat old Nassau’s Teliance in hard stfaigbts was Full-Back Homans. lie knew his business, and each time made fine punts that sent the BAL twenty-five TO fifty yards down the held, from which Yale would have TO work II back. Big Hefelfnger tried rushing tor Yale. but Riggs held him in. Mccormick punted for Yale, but was not Homans equal, and moreover fumbled several times and got no opportunity 70 kick on otner occasions. In this way the first half went goose-eCgs to each side. PRINCETON ovRBcoNFIDEgr. Princeton was overconfdent when the second half began and Yale desperate. The latter formed with big Hefethnger IN front, and with mighty rushes pierced Princetons centre steadily, and with on slaughts on the rush line made O touch down, scoring four, the goal being missed. After the ball again got IN play at Prince TOMS twenty-fve-yard line McClung made q run past Princeton’s right end to the three-yard line, and quickly another touchdown is forced. Homans Is again punting, but the wet field and ball prevents his doing good work. SURPRISE. One of the surprises of the game comes next when the ball is snapped back 70 Me- Cormick by Yale and ne. from the thirty ward line, adds 5 to the score, making 1t Is bv kieking goal from field. Princeton made fine rally, but the bail finally went To Yale. It was passed back to Bliss and he made the star play Of the game. Heffelfnger ran by his side and by tine inreference and his tremendous strength kept Flint, Poe, Homans, and King from the running half back, who went seventy Yards and scored touchdown, from which McClung kicked goa, the game ending ~ to y.

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  The Portland daily press, Maine, November 23, 1891, page 1

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  BLUE TRIUMPHANT. Twenty Thousand Saw the Yale Giants Down the harvards. SPRINGFIELD. Mass, November 2l.-Tne great foot ball game is over and Yale has won the day. Fully 10000 people saw the blue wave victorious on Hampden park today. and when the great contest was over, 1t was the unanimous conviction that the best team had won. The immense crowd was accommodated to the entire satistaction of every one and the arrangements could scarcely have been improved. When the gates were opened at IL, large crowd was waiting, and from that time until the game was called, continuous throng Isurged through the IA turnstiles at the entrance. When the game was called every one had seat and everything was in readiness. The field was In the best possible condition. For two hours the two opposing sides cheered Justify as each new group added some well known figure to their ranks. Precisely at O’Clock Gov. Russell appeared on the Harvard side and was greeted with burst of cheers from the supporters of the crimson. The story of the game Is simply one of the supremacy OF Yale over Harvard, and 1t was not difficult to see wherein the GRIM son lost. The Cambridge eleven was out played. Harvard’s weakest point proved had feared and Yale’s strongest point was much stronger than the most sanguine had hoped. The mighty Heffelfnger and doughty little Bliss were an invincible pair, and to them chiefly belongs the credit OF Yale’S victory. Harvard’s rush line was fatally weak and Of little assistance to her half-backs, guarding of their backs. The crimson rush line played as Individual men. while Yale’s line worked like a solid column. The great Heffel6nger fairly eclipsed his reputation ma and nc easily proved himself the was no match for him and powerless to hinder his effective work. Big Stanley Morrison was little inferior, and played all around Dexter. In the centre, Yale’s strength was not appreciably affected by the absence of Stillman and Sanford proved himself strong man. Behind the line McClung proved much the weakest of the Yale trio, and his work was greatly in ferior to the game he has played In the two previous games on Hampden Park. Nc Cormick showed himself a great ground gamer and did some telling work, but for general, all-around work behind the line Bliss carried off the honors of the day. Behind the line no word of criticism can be charged to Harvard’s team but, without any support, they were helpless against Yale’s fine tacklers. 1t was kicking game throughout After Yale had scored the first touch down in four minutes. Harvard began to spirit and continued these tactics during the rest of the game. In the first half, the ball was in Harvard’s territory most of the time. In the second half, Harvard forced the play ing much OF the time, and Trafford twice had chance to try for goal from the field but failed both times. In four min utes after play began Morrison made a touch down. McClung failed to kick a DnQl Tho stnOd fo n ala NJ the end of the first half. In the second half, a touch down was scored by Bliss who then kicked a goal. score 10 to 0. The teams: 81

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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 106 since this game.