The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-20
The Blue Once More Triumphant Over
the Crimson on the Foot Ball Field.
Yesterdays Contest at Hampden Park the
Most Desperately Contested Battle Ever
Fought BY the Two University Teams
No Score Made by Either Eleven Until a
Few Minutes Before Time Was Called,
When Laurie Bliss Ran Forty Yards. Later
Made Touchdown. and Buttsrworth
Kicked Goal, Thus Winning by 6 to 0.
THE BLUE VICTORIOUS.

THE BLUE VICTORIOUS.
Yale Again Demonstrates It's Ability Co Play
Football by Defeating Harvard
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Nov. l9. "A crowd of
twenty thousand people saw the blue
again wave victorious over the crimson on
Hampden Park this afternoon Yale won,
out only by margin of one touchdown
and goal. and after the stubbornest fight
which has ever taken place between the
two colleges The game was fought inch
by inch from beginning to end. and 1t is
safe to say that had the Cambridge team
not lost two of it's best men the game would
have ended without either side having
crossed the line. Never were two teams
more evenly matched. and the points were
made more often by brilliant individual
plays than by concentrated team work.
Harvard was aggressive. Towards the
close of the first half the ball was inside
Harvard's five-yard line. A bad tumble at
this critical point of the game lost the ball
for Yale, and that team was prevented
from scoring, time being called with the
ball on Harvard's five-yard line.
The second half opened with the same
desperate sighting. and the Cambridge team
forcing the play. Harvard's hopes received
their first setback when Upton was In
jured and obliged to give up, and only five
minutes later bis. partner on the left end,
who had been playing a most brilliant
game, was also hurt and he was taken
from the field against his vigorous protest.
This left Haryard's strongest part of the
team weak spot, and with this her hopes
vanished. Yale rushed the ball down the
weakened end, and by the hardest kind of
work scored the only touchdown of the
game.
The weather was perfect. with scarcely q
cloud in the sky, and clear. bracing air.
The rain of the previous night had no ap-
parent effect on the field. and 1t MAN.
tanned its reputation of being the finest
football field in the country. more or
derly crowd never assembled before q
Harvard Yale game, and it was quite a.
dem0nstrative as in previous years. The
local police were reinforced by officers
from Boston, Worcester and HolyOke,
and the crowds were perfectly managed.
The crowds began to invade the city the
night before the game. and all the morning
special trains OH all the incoming roads
added to the great concOurse of football
enthusiasts. Long before noon the crowds
began to file into the great arena at Hamp-
den Park. The crimson supporters were
given their first opportunity when, shortly
upon the field. As he passed each section
he was enthusiastically cheered.
CHEERS FOR THE PLAYERS.
Cheer after cheer went up as the Har-
ward team appeared and the noise had
hardly subsided when burst of applause
on the opposite side of the fielc announced
the arrival of the New Haven team. Little
time was consumed in passing the ball, and
the prelimInaries of the game were dis
patched in short order. Almost before the
crowd had sized up the relative appearance
of the elevens on the field, the teams began
to form for the kickoff. Yale won the toss
and chose the ball, while Harvard took the
north goal. Tho teams had not lined mp a
hatf-dOzen times before the Cambridge
team showed surprising strength, andN 1t
was very evident that Yale was to have no
walk-over, rs Tad been so confidently pre-
dicted for her. The Yale team was as much
surprised as its supporters and all visions
| of rolling up big score vanished, and 1t
| was lett to fight out the victory on even
| terms.
| Most of the cheering and enthusiasm was
on the crimson side and during the inter
val between the halves there WAS marked
stiffness on the Yale side. The supporters
| OF the blue were disappointed In the work
OF their team at the outsetend thought of
| n defeat, which was at times imminent
| and it nearly took their breath away.
Alter ale had made a good gain at the
| kick oil they found that q gain on the Har-
ward eleven was no easy thing The Yale
| rush line failed to open up holes for the
half-backs, and before q single five yards
had been gained after the first gain with
| the wedge Captain Mccormick began q
kicking game. From that on 1t was q
| kicking game TO a very unusual degree.
| In the early part of the game Yale de-
pended almost entirely on punting and
! sending her halves through the line.
| Once or twice an end play was made,
but proved a failure invariably. Harvard
| adopted similar tactics, and. seldom. In the
| early part of the game was Yale gamers
| around the end. By q series of plunges
through the line, followed by a punt, the
ball was kept vacIllating near the center
ON either side but the Harvards rather
| forced the playing. and their work in
breaking through the lines and tacklIng
| was, on the whole, better than their oppo-
| nents Harvard played with more snap.
and played qnicker game than her oppo-
| ncnts Yale did some wretched work an
fumbling at some stages OF the game, and
several times a touchdown was narrowly
avoided, and in the first half Yale lost q
chance of scoring by tumble on the i've
| yard line
In the frat half Yale resorted to the de-
| fensive play of forming the wedge on the
! line up with the pushing tactics. This Was
not successful. and the Harvard center
held timely. The brunt of Yale's rushing
fell on Laurie Bliss In the first half of the
game, and twice he was sent through the
| line. while his brother had comparatively
| little work. Long runs were few and far
between in the first half. and the playing
was marked by short. stubborn rushes.
just before the close of the first half Laurie
Bliss made thirty-yard run around the
end. aided by splendid interfering by his
brother and Mccormick. This brought
the ball on Harvards tifteen-yard line.
and il was pushed ten yardsifnrther. but a
bad tumble gave the ball TO Harvard. and
time was soon called. The Yale
teams work lacked it's old-time
effectiveness and the interference
was at times weak. Harvard's team showed
surprising strength at times. Their tack
ling W as sure and hard. and the rush line
follow ed the ball In splendid style. Honors
We're about even between the centers OF
the two teams. In the second half the Yale
center braced mp and did some work in
making for the back. Brewer, the fresh.
man player proved himself a great full
back. He punted WE'LL caught In splendid
shape and did not lose his head when the
| Yale rushers were coming down upon him.
Harvard's left end had n tower of strength
In Emmons and Upton. and it was dire ca.
lamity for the crimson when they were in
jured.
After the kickoff in the second the Har
ward tried their new checker boardn play
and IL proved good for a big gain. Capt
Trafford had the ball alone In the center Ol
the feld. The men on the right rnn dag