New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-12
FOOTBALL AT HOBOKEN.
COLUMBIA BEATEN BY HARVARD

a
football was played yesterday afternoon on the
grounds of the St. Georges Cricket Club, at Hobo
KEN between the college teams Of Harvard and
Columbia. Though some misunderstanding or BAD
management, or BOTH on the part Of someone who
ought 10 have know better two games OF football
were arranged for the same place and Mt the saIno
time. As the game is played this season, one held
has not a. yet furnished moro than the necessary
space required by team in which to
roll and tumble the other. BY the refusal OF
four teams to play at the same time and on the same
ground yesterday more than one family circle that
otherwise might have been blighed renamed I'M
broken and happy. Owing no doubt TO the threat
ened appearance of four teams on the field many
people who have not been educated up to bull
fight and who look with dspeasure upon anything
that borders on a massacre kept away from Hobo
ken At the opening of the game-it having been
decided that Harvard and Columbia should play
frst-thcre hardly anythingp present that looked
like spectator -Four blear-eyed little HObOken
boys sat perched the fence at one end OF the Held
at a safe distance from q bulky pOcemans cluD
and waited impatiently for the fun to begin.
In the meantime the person who is IN charge
of the grounds bounced around the field and bOb0ed
in and of the club-hOuses with frequency and
suddenness that led Harvard man to pronounce
him altogether too largely utter, you know" A
squad of policemen bought tickets in their usual
way and created some surprise by being on hand so
early The policemen were the first instalment OF
spectators. few private vehicles appeared later
In the day laden with young men and women, who
stood up the seats of the carriages and pretended
to know all about the game, applaudng good and
bad plays indlscTminatey and trying hard to have
an awfully nice time" The friends and college
mates of the football players came to the field some
time after the game had been begun. They scat
tered themselves around the grounds IN groups adj
mired each others cravats, used profane language
at poor plays the part Of the teams and beloved
like bulls when their own side dumped
their opponents in the mud Tie grounds were i'll
that soft and gummy" state that makes the foot
ball player happy and renders his judgment as to
where he will stop after he has fallen very inaccu-
rate.
The game was begun at half past O'Clock The
Columbia team, in their usual costume Of blue and
white Jerseys and knee breeches that had evidently
seen hard usage took their positions in front of the
south goal. The names of the players fol-
lows: Rushers DoNhng, ROBBINS. Eldudge, Fish
burne Emmett, Wheeler and OctavlanO; quarter
back, Griffin; half-back, Morgan backs, aman
aud Dewitt. The Harvard team and their friends
came upon the grounds clad in their handsome GRIM
son Jerseys stockings and caps Of the same color,
and white kneebeeches. They 4 ine-iooking
group of men, large and muscular Several OF them
were members of the Harvard crew last year. Tney
left their friends in the fourhOrse coach in which
they had driven to Hoboken ana took their places
around the north goal Their names are as oLOws
Rushers Morrison, Kendall, Cabot. Appleton, Ham
mond, Ayers and Wessehoeft; quarterback. Mason;
half-back, Keith backs, Coolidge and Edmans.
The rushers OF Harvard presented formidable APP
pearauce ashley stood on the fl Id.
The sgnal Tor PLAYING was Il kickoff by Morgan,
of the Columbia team. Immediately there was a
rushing and tumbling after the ball. which
played sad havoc with the costumes of The
players. FIshDurne and Emmett of Coum-
bia, succeeded In resisting the frantic en-
deavors of the Haryards to carry the ball
right through the Columbia line without any pre-
hminarIes. The bail was kept IN the middle OF the
field for some time. GOOD run by Kendall, Of
harvard brought the bail near ColunbIa's goal,
and with it large amount of trouble for the Co
| mmbia players. Some nyely passing ana tackhng
| followed but the Harvard men, Dy their greater
strength anu skill forced the bali 50 close 10 the
| Columbia goal that the spectators supposed they
| had secured touchdown, but they had not. Co
| mmUia, however, vas forced to make a touchdown
! TOR safety. As soon as the OaI hau toucHcd the
ground after the kick-out by Columbia, Morrison, OF
| Harvard, made a line run, passing through a group
OF Columbia men, VINO wresIed with
HIM but tailed to stop HIM. lie was
! about TO put "A climax TO his fine work
| by getting touchdown, when Wheeler OF Column
airctiOuae, but sudden, way, ana rolled nm IN The
! mud IN an ImpUlite but very buslne,s-IRe manner.
! TINS was the sigual for cheers and The cry OF
| "C-O-L-UM-B-l-A!' startled The horses attached
TO the Harvard coach. Bnlna { playing by the
! Hlryards enabled them - turn tle tables on then
opponents. Cabot sCdrted with the bail under his
! orl determined 10 get behind COlumblas goal, and
secure a touchdown, II Ii cost hin limb. lie sue
cr.dcd IN gettiugLWIUuiu "a loot OF the goal lIne
| wneIs he met WIN sucn resistance from Columbia
that ne forced to give up tor The moment the Idea
OF getting touchdown. with slN or seven Column
hlsK Ia rrrflIA ar1t
| pulled himself along the ground, trying
| 10 get the ball beyond the line. But Morgan, Of
| Columbia. by dexterOuS move, Knocked the ball
from aDO 5 grasp, ana started acrOs- the neld IKE
| "A deer. The enthusiasm OF the spectators at TINS
| brilliant play MOrgans found expression III
| cheers and war-whOops that would have aroused
! the dead il there lad been any present. The ball
! then lowered about the centre OF the field, where
the upllted hanus OF twenty-five men trying TO
! catch l. presenter "a grOtesquc picture. a Harvard
man, blessed with longer tcntacIcS than his fellows,
| seized the ball and by kick that would nave put
! a mule to blush sent the ball whIzZug over the
field 10 drop eventually close to the COLUMBIA goal
| Inc bail caught on the Hy by Nor
gan which entitled him To free kick,
| and Harvard got as good aS she sent.
Again the bail IN the centre of the field. Inc
| Harvard giants pulled and blew llhe whales, while
Inc nIIbIr Columbia bows capered around their op-
Moments IN the most annoying manner. Inch by
| inch the Harvard rushers pushed tuc ball toward
Coumblas goal At last one Harvard man more
desperate than his fellows dared to puck up the
bali ana run with it. The crowd outside the ropes
shouted to FIshDdrne OF Columbia, 10 stop MIN, but
he slipped through FlSnOune's hands IKE the most
slippery kind OF an eel Peace, Of Columbia, had
watched these proceedings until he realized II
time TO do something. lie struck out mauly for the
Harvard man, threw himself bodily upon
him and both lett the imprint of
their bodies in the plant mud
Both fell .auout twenty-five feet from the Columbia
| goal Ibis brought them all within the space COW
cred by CoumDia's hall-back, Morgan the best
player III the team. lhe Harvard men realize the
danger and shouted, Look Out for MOrean!" But
Morgan dlunt propose To give them "A chance 10
look out tor he grabbed the ball and, before any
one could say Jack Robinson lie had deposited
il in another part OF the held. W hen both SIDES
Lined out " after Harvard had again captured the
hall there was some 1dult finding with the referee.