New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-21
HARVARDS YOUNG KICKERS.
SALIENT FEATURES OF A HALF CENTURY OF
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.
NOTABLE PLAYERS OF FORMER YEARs7soMH
q AMFs TO RE REMEMBERED.

| as IS41 football was played ~ nal'"iu' ""
then Il existed in a very crude state. For ooiohei
Thomas wentworth Higginson some time ago ~ro'o
that I'm 1s41 when he was graduated. Fo0tbau was
the first game into which undergraduates were Initiated
for ON the first evening Of fis college LIE the Hosh
man must take part In the defence OF MS cass aS'.
the sophomorcs. 1t was then manly, str@gh'o'""fu
game rough and vigorous but with none OF the ul-
necessary brutality to which this mach-game ai'or-
ward descended and which led 10 its temporary Pro-
| bibton. After the first evening the match games
| ceased and the sides divided themselves almost at
| random the more players the better IL was much
| simpler game played 1t than mat aescrioeu IA
school Days at Rugby, and simpler IMAM tha'
now played as the Harvard game But hotnhR la
Tom Hughes's description exaggernte the fascna-
tions of the sport ut least; and can recall al
this moment the feeling of exhiaaiion as one crew
near 10 the Delta where Memorial Hall now stands)
on some autumn evening while the game was In prog
ressthe Joyous shouts the hud Of tho ball. the sweet
smell OF the crushed grass. Then came the taxing Oh
Sides the anxious choice Of position the wary
defence the magnificent rush. IL sceuou
a game for men and giants rather than for boys ana
vet | remember that 1t mainly confined III 1noS'
DAYS 10 tho three lower classes and that was moro
than once reproached for uvenility as being the only
member of my class who chung To 1t In the senior
year. having then almost attained the age al WHICH
students usually enter coilege-seventeeh.
So much for football In 1o41-when was moro VI
n snort than a game This description Of the sport
u
in that year was applicable to any of the subsequent
wears up 10 1874; for football, as game, did not
change very much, and did not become u scionuho
game and an intercollegiate sport TIL 1874 III "nS
year a football association was formed py inc mos'
prominent men In Harvard College" for the purpose
of arousing an interest in the game greater hap mas
heretofore been shown for the purpose OF geuhg
together a suitable team 10 represent Hnrvaro III uo
contests with other colleges" Accordingly large
uamLer Of men came out and tried for a team.
II was not however, till November 13 1919, toat
Harvard played her fnt game Of football Win anoVer
COLLEGE This with Yale, her natural enemy anu
strange to relate Harvard with the greatest ease
the score being goals and tOuchdowns for Harvard
and nothing for Yale. Crhe system OF scoring oo
not come vogue until 1850 This was INC .o'ii
of which the famous Leeds ~, was captain, ana on
which Morse, "a and Waken, 10, played-ah oi "'"
were we'll known to men OF thoss days.
The next year, however Yale won, scoring one goal
10 Harvard,s three touchdowns The game was PLAYED
AT New Haven November Is, 1876 and an interesting
fact In connection with this game is that Winam L.
Russell NOW GOvernorl, TT, was the Judge or f'au
All through the fall In fact Mr. RussePs name Is very
prninent in connection with football ana general au
lec affairs SO that 1t s not strange that the Gov
ernor takes such a lively interest in the game now
Again I'm the spring of 1877 w. E. Russell was umpire
| for Harvard In a game between Harvard apd Prince
ton in which Harvard won. In November OF tho same
wear Princeton got her revenge by winning from liar
| ward at Hoboken
| with the fall OF 1873 the "walter Camp decade"
so-called began and the energy OF this redouDeoie
football captain at Yale and his followers seemed TO
mako null and void all Harvard's efforts. On Novem
her o3 AT Boston, Yale again from flarvaru, scor
lna one goal and one touchdown to Harvard's nOtMng
The previous week Princeton had also defeated Har
ward at Boston by touchdown TO nothing. In
1879 Harvard put better team In the Held, ana inc
| result was that the game between her and Yale on
/ raw n
week later Princeton had no difficulty in beating Har'
| yard.
With the fall OF 1880, that prince OF football cap
tans W. II. Manning whose sad death TO years ago
In the New York Central accident gave sucn SHOCK
10 old football mon at Harvard came into power ana
although he struggled hard to put good team IN the
field his material poor, and the ndinerence OF inc
college at large was great and consequently Harvard
| was beaten by Yale in the great game OF november
% at Boston, goal and touchdown 10 nothihs. oh
November 10 Princeton lad beaten Harvard soais !"
| goal
| AGAIN in 1881 Billy Manning was captaih' anu
again another struggle was made TO Deaf faie, ous
| tbis wear Yale had a magnificent team, and again
| Harvard was beaten. In the fall OF 1Se2-Novemoer
.5-the match game was played at Cambridge ana
was won by Yale. She scored eoai ana
| 2 touchdowns while Harvard scored nothhg.
| Previously on November Is, Princeton had also
| beaten Harvard With the fall Of 1882 Kmban began
|
| badly beaten Princeton beat her on November II,
| scoring o goals to Iarvsrds 1 goal and 1 touch
down. And Yale beat Harvard on November ~ at
| New-York scoring goals To Harvards Uuchd""h'
During these last four years, 80, 81 'S2 and 49,
the Rugby game had been played-praotcaly the same
as il Is played now But 1t was not TIL the faii Oh
1884 that the present system of counting scores came
into use IL was certainly disastrous for Harvard for
| ON Noyembcr Ii Princeton beat Harvard Mt Cam
| bridge 3GG. And on November %, al New-Haven,
Yale beat Harvard $50! This Overwhelming oeiea',
coupled with the athletic committees knowledge OF
certain practices In connection with the eleven (of
Harvard exclusiveness and Indifference were at their
height them caused the athletic committee to insist
upou arvard's temporary withdrawal rom the Inter-
| collegiate Association.
| In the fall Of 1856 Harvard was allowed to re-
enter the intercollegiate Association, although she
was again easily beaten by Yale and Princeton
Yale defeated her 29-4, and Princeton 100. 1t was
during this fa that Harvard played her memorable
| anne against Phillips Exeter Academy, ana beat her
los 10 o. WHICH Is the largest football score on record
In 1857 Bert Holden was captain, and he was the
for the eleven which finally ended IN victory for Har
| ward last year. 1t was this year tiat CumnocS was
first seen on football feld and his end rush was
Just as much OF ie,ture then as II was last year.
| Although Holden and his men worked energetcally,
| and Harvard was defeated by both these colleges,
Princeton beating her again IL to although IN the
iomslS in the fall Harvard had beaten Wesleyan 40 10
| o. and University OF pennsylvania AZ TO o.
| 1885, under Tie cipGillcy VI otitEsy Cdfc-
| fui honest and energetic Harvard's eleven steadily
improved, but yet she was net strong enough for
and on account Of certain objections by the faculty to
The place Of the game with YALE Harvard was CON-
| PEELED to forfeit 10 Yale
~ 1850 and 1890 the football history OF which Is
stI fresh in the minds of everybody, what need Is
tbare 10 say much With 1880 there came into power
in The football world at Harvard whose name is
n symbol for all that Is energetic, enthusiastic and
| c.refnl-Arihur James CimnOck. lie the evils
which had existed In the football system at Harvard
and eradIcated them. lie showed men that he wanted
| hard work and he got 1t. Ana although Princeton
heat Harvard Al to IS, and Yale to o. vet 1t was
INF The cloud which preceded the dawn Of victory Of
he next year when Harvard men grew suddenly fond