The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-20
YALE DEFEATS HARVARD.
TEE SCORE IN THE GREAT FOOT
BALL GAME 9 to o.

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Harvard's Play in the First Half Very
Stuoborn-The Yale Men Unable to
Break Harvard's Csnter-NothinR
Made in the First Half-Yals Rallies
Brilliantly in the Second.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Nov. 1e-Foot ball
is now the reigning American sport. having
fairly supplanted base ball In popularity
and over q, 900 devotses went out TO hamp-
den park and saw the coIors OF old Harvard
go down this afternoon before the blue Of
Yale by score of 6 30 after a hotly con.
tested game.
The game was fought inch by inch from
the beginning to the end, and 10 is safe TO
say that had the Cambridge team not lost
two of her best men the game would have
ended without either side having crossed
the line. Never were two teams more
evenly matched, and the gains were made
more often by the brilliant play of indi-
vidual members of the eleven than by team
work. Harvard played an aggressive game
from the start TO the finish, and most OF the
lighting was done in Yale territory
Toward the close OF the first half,
Yale forced the ball down the field
and got inside Harvard's 5-yard line. A
bad tumble at this critical point of the game
lost the ball for Yale and they were thus
prevented from scoring, time being called.
The second half opened with the same desper-
ate fighting and the Cambridge team forcing
the play. Harvard received the first set
back when Emmons was injured and
obliged to give up, and only few minutes
who had been playing most brilliant game,
was also hurt and he was dragged from the
field against his vigorous protests
This left Harvard's strongest part of the
team weak spot and with this loss her
hopes vanished. Yale rushed the ball down
by the weakened end and, by the hardest
kind of work and brilliant play, scored the
only touchdown Of the game.
A HARD FIGHT.
The teams had not lined up half a dozen
times before it was seen that Harvard was
displaying surprising strength. and IL was
very evident that Yale was not to have the
walk-oyer that the eager students had go
confidently predicted for her. The Yale
team were as much surprised as their sup
porters, and all visions Of rolling up a big
score vanished, and 1t was left for them to
fights out the victory on even terms Most
Of the cheering and enthusiasm was
the brilliant plays of Harvard there was
marked stiffness on the Yale side After
Yale had made good gain at the kick-off
they fouEd that ground gaining against the
Harvard eleven was no easy thing. The
Yale rush line failed to open up holes for
the half backs and before a single five yards
had been gained, after the first gain with a
wedge, Capt. Mccormick began a kicking
game. From that time ON it was a kicking
game to very unusual degree and in
punting, Young Cambridge, full back, had
rather the best of Butterworth. In the
early part Of the game Yale de-
pended almost entirely on punting
aud sending her halves through the line.
Once or twice end play was tried but
proved a failure. Invariably Harvard
adopted similar tactics and seldom in tardy
part sent her ground gamers around the
end. By a series of plunges through the
line. followed by punt, the ball was kept
vacillating near the center.
HARvARD's WORK THE BETTER.
There was little advantage on either side,
but Harvard rather forced the playing and
worked in breaking through the line
better than her opponents. Harvard
quicker game than her opponents.
Yale did some wretched work In fumbling
at several stages of the game. and touch
down was narrowly avoided by such q play
in the first half OF the game. Long runs
we're few and far between. In the first half
the ball was forced by short and
stubborn rushes The first brilliant run
WINS OlAJ u low uluubco OoAOTo bu6 Close OF
the first half, when l.. Bliss made run of
thirty yards around the right end aided by
splendid interfering by Butterworth and
Mccormick.
At the kiok-Off in the opening of the
second half the Harvard team
tried their new checker board"
play and it proved good play.
Yale was the favorite In the betting
the odds ranging from to l at New
York, 8 to at Boston and 8 to 1 at
New Haven 10 S to 1 in Springfield.
Ynle's rush line averaged III pounds, backs
154; average whole team, 1853 pounds. Hsr-
wards rush averaged 17219; backs, 1853;
whole team, 169 The first special train to
arrive was one from Boston with 1870 police
officers from Boston and Worcester, and
several hundred Harvard students.
AN ARMY OF FAKIRs.
The sidewalks, strees corners and door,
ways were crowded with fakirs this morn
ing raking in money from the sale of
badges. Every imaginable shade of rib
bon was sold, the Harvard color varying
color fluctuated between light blue and a
shade of blue and purple. Red
chrysanthemums take the place OF the
red pink with the Harvard students
and these were worn to-day. The Yale
students wore the favored blue violets. The
speculabors got DddIy leit on bne sale or
tickets and willingly parted with them at
cost when they found that the crowd had
provided itself beforehand.
The day was perfect for foot ball. Gov
Russell and staff were seated in a conspic-
uous place on the Harvard side. The game
began promptly at 2o'clock. The referee was
Mr.. Moffatt OF Princeton add the umpire
Mr.. Coffin Of Wesleyan.
THE TEAMS.
The teams lined up as follows,