New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-24
A VICTORY FOR YALE.
HARVARD BEATEN AT FOOTBALL BY SIX
POINTS TO NOTHING.
A STUBBORN AND BRILLIANT CONTEST At
SPRINGFIELD-gIFTEEN THOUSAND
PEOPLE on THE GRoUNDs-DE-
TAILS OF THE MATCH

oprlngneld, Mass, Nov. 23.-fale defeated Han
ward at football this afternoon on the Hampdcn
Park grounds after one of the cleanest closest and
most exciting games played between these
two universities. Six points were scored by the
New-Haven collegians TO nothing for the players
from Cambridge. IIarvards defeat was not dis
creditable one however, and those who shouted
for the crimson found much encouragement in YES
terday's showing viewed in the light Of the career
that football has run at Harvard since 1889.
Some of the more enthusiastic Harvard graduates
on the field able TO see in the result in fact,
only one more instance of that fatality which has
pursued athletics at Cambridge for the last four
years. The two teams were so evenly matched and
played similar game that neither side seemed
rightly to deserve superiority. But Just at a lucky
moment Wurtemburss run came, and Yale scored
touchdown and goal by grace of the last halt
minute in the first three-quarters. At no other
time did the blue get really near enough to the
goal line to make a touchdown inevitable, and a
delay of thirty seconds in that particular play
would have made any scoring impossible.
THE PLAY OF THE ELEvENs.
On the whole, however it seems scarcely fair
TO say that the game was not won on its merits.
For though a lucky chance gave the Yale quarter
back his opportunity in the nick of tme the
play of the Yale eleven directed all through
the game TO making possible just such dash
around the Harvard eleven. Every other attempt
failed of success but the tactics mad once.
and that was enough to insure victory Yet it
would be harder to pick out two teams more
evenly matched. Yale excelled in the rush liue
where in fact the whole strength Of her team
lies. Against that solid wall the best of the
Harvard rushers again and again without gain.
ing yard. And if Lee, as dashng and aeet-footed
a half.back any college has turned out in
nurI t,a IL
through the edges, he got that clear field
which alone opens the way to tOuchdowns to the
lighter players The Harvard rush line, the
contrary, though usually effective, left much to
be desired in the way of blocking and tacNlng.
and two three occasions let opposing
runner slip through untouched.
Behind the line Yale is weak, and her half.backs
are both far inferior to Lee and scarcely Q
level with SAKE. Mcbride, the full-back,
is also distinctly outclassed by B. Traford
the slim and wiry freshman whom Harvard
is developing as II drop and punt kicker, and who
bids fair to become of the greatest experts in
the history of the game.
REMARKABLE DROP KICK.
One of his remarkable kicks gave Yale's back
ers in fact their most trying moment of the after
noon. Harvard had the ball half way down in
Yales territory, and after couple of Intellectual
rushes the leather was passed back to Traford,
| apparently for punt. The goal probably
| forty yards off, and no one expected try for it,
But instead of punting it, the solcmn-faced youth
quickly measured the distance TO the posts with his
eye, dropped the ball and kicked it neatly as it
struck the ground The yellow sphere rose graceful
ly toward the Goal, flying through the air scarcely
! two feet above the level of the goal crOssbar and
/ finally shot past it almost into the crowd which
! pressed upon the ropes behind. From many parts 3.
of the field il locked like goal, but thosc close
at hand could see that the ball had passed an
| ,ol, tt.. f1n tha
| But the brilliant plays which filed the two
halves of the game with the most intense and pro
longed excitement cannot be gone INTO detail No
| crowd of spectators could have been more enthu.
sastic over the merits Of the exhibition which Will
long be remembered by all who saw 10 as one Of
! the most successful and thoroughly enjoyable Of
| the great games between the colleges.
FINE CONDITIONS FOR FOOTBALL
The weather, too, could not have been more IA
vorable and all the conditions perfect for an
exharating sport like football The sun shone
at times, but not enough to dazzle the eyes OK
those who sat in the big grand stand facing west,
and its rays tempered the air to point at which
heavy winter ulsters were more burden than a
| luxury. The ground had had time enough TO dry
and offered a splendid turf for the players, un-
broken by miry spots or uneven surfaces. Ample
accommodations had been provided. too, for the
spectators, though the crush to get in the mar
row gates of the park was almost
l
was given to the spectators both to see the game
and to indulge in the usual pyrOtechnics in the
way of cheering and singing with ease and COM a
| fort Four big grand stands surrounded the field,
| and each was allotted to some particular college
contingent Harvard had the long eastern stand
! and Yale the western, and the nNal
leaders of the cheering were kept busy hurting
defiance across the white-lined square between.
| Amherst College had one stand 20 the north, and
Dartmouth another, and, slngularly enough,
these two bodies of spectators divided
their sympathies Dartmouth cheering for Harvard,
| while the Amherst men back up firmly their
| fellow COngregationalists of Yale In all prob
ably , 900 people were inside the mcosure, and
on every side were banners and streamers gay rib
bons and handkrchefs, all bravely tutterlng and
about evenly divided between the crimson and tue
blue.
THE TEAMS on THE FIELD.
The two teams came on the field shortly after
| o'clock. The Harvard men arlfed first, and
their appearance was the signal for a burst of
cheers from the Harvard benches the east side
Of the park They quickly stripped off their white
sweaters ard began passing and kicking a
! halfdozen new footballs. Dean, the quarter.
back, practised tossing the leather sphere to B.
Trafford the full.back who tried for goals from
| the 2J-yard and then from the 3O-yard line. The
| Harvard players looked rather light and hard-'
trained, but showed great activity and dash. The
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