New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-23
HARvARD'S JUBILEE.
HER TEAM DEFEATS YALE IN THE GREAT
FOOTBALL GAME AT SPRINGFIELD.
THE SCORE IL TO e-NEITHER SIDE SCORING II
THE FIRST HALF-A GREAT THRoNG OF
spECrAToRs-THE CONTEST CLOSER
THAN THE SCORE INDICATES
NO UNFAIR PLAYING.

NO UNFAIR PLAYING.
Springfield, Mass, Nov. 22 tSpecial.-" Fan
Harvard, thy sons to thy jubilee throng, Is the
song OF the hour to-day, for the day OF HarvardS
jubilee has come. Her sons are thronging here
and at Cambridge, and wherever the glad tidings
of the Battle of Springfield have been borne.
Springfield will pass down into history at Haf-
ward sort Of second Lexington, where Cen
eraI Arthur James Cumnock and his forces threw
of the yoke of Harvard indifference and thrashed
what probably is the best football team that Yale
has put into the field in years. The excitement.
joy and delrium of the Harvard men who came
here i'm a body have proved contagious. and even
the graybeards women and children have Joined
in the boys demonstration, and the very air
seems crimson. Everybody is for Harvard now, ex'
cept the Yale boys whose ribbons futter mourn
fully in the wind. Everybody is singing HaryardS
praises, and everybody is listening eagerly to al
that is said of Cumnock and his men. The story
is even believed that when the news spread aronnd
Cambridge like wildfre that Harvard had beaten
Yale at football by score of IL to ., the statue
of ancient John Harvard, the old Delta, opened
its mouth and said:
Arma virumque cano,
1t was Arthur J. Cumnock you know.
Well, it was Cumnock who won the game. for he
has been the soul of the new athletic boom ~
Harvard. He took up the teachings of Billy"
Brooks and Bert Holden, and taught his men
this year to play even a better Yale game than
the Yale boys played-which was a compliment
to Yale. even if it was carrying the war into
Africa The Harvard boys played the game for all
it was worth. The Yale boys played for sll they
were worth, but they were outclassed. Yet il
was remarkable game and full Of excitement
and uncertainty from beginning to end. II might
bo far 40 fn
anybody's game until time was called. The Har-
ward team made their twelve points in the first
part of the last three-quarters, and the Yale
men their six points in about the middle OF the
last three-quarters From that time until the
game closed the struggle was desperate, Harvard
straining every nerve to hold the score and Yale
to tie. The real contest of the game came there
and Harvard carried the day.
People began to pour to Springfield yesterday,
and to-day the town was swarming with visitors
wearing the color of their favorte college. 1t
would seem as though the entire college came
from Cambridge, and nearly all Yale. Early in
the afternoon people fiOcked toward Hampden
Park and by p. m. the grand stand on the east
side was a billOw of crimsOn-hued humanity,
while the stands on the west side were crowded
with Yale statents. All the grand stands were
crowded-and they hold 5000 people-and appar-
entity as many more people were standing on tho
field 1t was a good-looking, good-natured and
happy crowd, and it thoroughly enjoyed itself.
Governor-elect Russell, of Massachusetts,, who 10
/ known among Harvard men as "Bill' Russell,
was recognized by his friends and loudly chcercd.
But, curiOusly enough, the widest cheers were
evoked when a weakened, grinning little man,
carrying basket of apples and oranges, came
along the stand where the Harvard boys were.
il was John the orange-man," the Harvard mas
cot.
twenty-five sturdy fellows, wearing the crimson
uniform, ran in the field and practised with tho
leather sphere that the of all the trouble
A few minutes later the Yale boys were seen
making their way through the crowd, and tho
Yale contingent cheered in Greek as we'll as in
the old Yale style. The two teams seemed more
closely matched in physique and weight than
people had supposed they were. They were all
good specimens of rugged college athletes. The
Yale rusl-line was heavier however, and some
what stronger Poor Hoicomb, who was to have
played centre-rush for Yale, limped across the
field and sat in a chair, while Lewis took his place.
Yale won the toss and took the south end OF
the field with the wind in her favor. Harvard
had the Kickoff and at 80 the Crimson men
massed themselves, with John CranstOn holding the
ball at the apex of the wedge. Irvine and George.
of Princeton were referee and umpire respectively.
The teams lined up as follows:
HARVARD.