The New York herald., 1878-11-17
AMHERST AND YALE-THE SECOND MATCH BE-
TWEEN THESE PLAYERS A DRAW.
GBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

AMHERST. Mass, Nov. 16 1878.
The second football match between Amherst and
Yale played Blakefeld to-day and resulted in
draw, neither scoring goal nor touchdown The
teams were composed of the following men:-
ai,s peyo Terry
Russell. Gordon, Gillctt, Goodrich. Backs--Good-
now, Undcrhill, Milliken.
YALE.-Forwards-M -Moorhead, King. Harding Far
well, Lamb Hull. Rodman Half-backs-Crouch,
Brown. Fuller, Watson. Backs-Nixon, Wakeman,
Badger.
Judges-Tor Amherst. Mr.. Thurston. 81; for Yale.
Referee-Mr Hubbard, Amherst, 70.
About thirty Yale men went up to Amherst with the
team to witness the return game Of the football
series. The team laboring under the disadvan-
tagc of having four of its best players, includ-
ing the captain. away. At ten minutes be-
The game opened very auspiciously for Yale. as in
less than Ave minutes of play through the efforts of
Rodman. Watson and Lamb. the ball was rushed very
their opponents goal. The Amherst rallied
however, and transferred the struggle to the
middle of the ground. Soon Moorhead captured
Amherst men seemed to be scarce and had
good prospect of winning touchdown,
but he lost his footing on the smooth and soft ground
and fell headlong. His disaster countcrbalanced
by several good kicks the last of which narrowly
missed making goal for Yale. Chase now came
down the field. but again the tide turned
and Amherst saw the ball held by Yale
only thirty feet IN frOnt ner goal claimed
by Amherst tcchnicaty of the game was
decided by the referee in her favor. Brown made
the next good Of the game. crossing nearly
the whole field with the ball. but finally
met the fate of all his predecessors.
YALE by renewed efforts. finally forced
the ball over her opponents line and men of both
sides went aftsr it in hot pursuit. Both parties
claimed its capture but the referee decided i'll favor
Of Amherst.
The first inning now finished and both sides
even, in that neither had gained any thing.
After the customary resting spell play was resumed
and the kick OFF given by Harding. Deyo. by skilful
play, caused Amherst stock to take sudden rise,
but it quickly returned to its old quotation
through the efforts of Wakcman. who had the
happy faculty OF being hand whenever lao
was wanted: but in this he had the
misfortune to slip, by which mishap his opponents
made great a gain that Badger forced
TO touch down for safety. The next hero of the
hour was Wheeler. who did hard work for
Amherst AL through the game, but in tho
height of his he received a hard thump
in the stomach. and was for minute quite usod up
He was. however, able to continue play Amherst
was pressing Yale very closely and playing for
all she was worth. The ball went back
and forth for some twenty minutes. during
which neither side gained any material advantage
The remainder of the inning very exciting. but
resulted in for either side, leaving the game
banked for both teams.
The Yale men left for New Haven Immediately after
the game In the last inning Brown, of Yale, in
jurcd by sprain, but not seriously. The Amherst
freely express the opinion that Yale cannot beat
Harvard.