The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-25


neither side scoring
The next year Harvard gave Princeton
sound drubbing at Cambridge. During
the first part of the game Princeton led,
and the Tigers were offering all sorts of
odds, which the Harvard men were afraid
to take. The feature of the game was
long run up the field by Mason. "a. who
succeeden in lodging every Princeton
rusher and back. Harvard's center was
Appleton, who afterward became captain,
and George Morrison, Mott Haven
sprinter, was end rush. Though the
victory over Princeton had rendered Har-
ward confident, Yale was nevertheless
successful a few days later. making goal
and three touchdowns to Harvard's moth
ing.
In 1883. with Bob Appleton as captain,
Harvard started in with much enthusiasm
and high hopes. Appleton was good in
dividual player. but his team proved too
weak 10 stand against either Princeton or
Yale. George Adams, who was coach last
fall, played right end. He held that posi-
ton until he was graduated in 1885.
Princeton won her victory on New Jersey
soil. Tracy Harris was in the Princeton
rush line and Lamar and Moffatt were
half-backs. Moffatt distinguished himself
bv kicking four goals from the field. Ray
Tompkins was captain for Yale and Rich
ards and Terry were half-backs. Together
they secured for Yale four goals to Har-
wards single touchdown.
During the two years following Harvard
football reached its lowest ebb. In 1854
Harvard had good men, but there was no
one to coach them in team work. Marcus
kimball. Sc, was captain, and though he
had many fine qualities, he could not get
the eleven together. The season began
with defeats at the hands of Wesleyan
and the University of Pennsylvania. Then
Princeton came up to Cambridge, and
Mottatt's kicking resulted in score of 50
TO g. The Yale game was still worse.
Richards and Terry trotted back and forth
across Harvard's goal line until the score
was As too
Victories on the baseball field and on
the Thames the next spring might have
rekindied Harvard's enthusiasm for base
ball had it not been for the faculty inter-
diction. A committee of the faculty had
watched the football games in the pre-
ceding autumn and had decided that they
were too brutal and dangerous, so in 1885
Harvard was barred out of intercollegiate
football contests. Though the classes
formed teams and played for a class
championship in a half-hearted way. there
was no enthusiasm, and football at CAM
bridge received q setback from which it
has hardly yet recovered.
After year the faculty decided that the
Intercollegiate rules had been sufficiently
amended to make the game decent, and
so Harvard was again allowed to enter the
field. Brooks, 49, was the first captain
after the revival of the sport. He had
hard task before him, but he did even bet
ter than could have been expected. He
himself was steady center. In his line
were Holden. 'SS, and Harding. 's9. who,
like Brooks himself, were old Exeter men.
Fletcher and Dudley took turns at quarter
back. Fletcher. by the way. is now one of
the instructors in the English department
of the college. At half-back was Porter,
'Ss. one of the best hard rushing half-backs
Harvard ever had. At full back was Pea
player on the team.
The effort to unite the eleven on rush
ing game was so far successful that Har-
ward won from Wesleyan and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and made a brave
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Princeton had the game on her own
grounds she could make hut twelve points
against the crimson. Yale came to Cam
bridge with Capt. CorYin and such men
as Corbin, Woodruff, Gill and Wallace in
the rush line, Beecher at quarterback,
and Morrison, Harding's old Exeter chum,
at half-back. With this band Of braves,
Yale beat. % to 4.
Holden. who made Harvard 8 only touch
down in that game with Yale in the fall Of
1856, was elected captain the next year.
He is one of the men whose services TO
Harvard football cannot be overestimated.
He got together an excellent team, and
systematized the game wonderfully. The
eleven was i'll such training that it beat
Princeton Il Q. The victory. however,
was costly one for Holden had his breast
bone broken when Price, of Princeton,
tackled him. Though Holden could not
play in the Yale game at New York. he
watched the game from stretcher. Then
Harding, who was at quarter, Porter at
half and Boyden at full, did excellent
work for Harvard. But, in spite of their
struggles, the blues won, II to s.
The next season, 1883, saw fresh discour-
agement for Harvard. The eleven was
made up of stars, but since they could not
play together Princeton beat them Is to g.
Harvard had arranged for game with
Y ale in New York, but the faculty inter-
fered and Harvard had to forfeit it. The
faculty would not let the team go out of
New England, but Harvard made every
effort 20 come TO an understanding with
Yale, and even offered to play in New
Haven.
With the fall of 1889 the regime of Arthur
Cumnock began. He picked out a strong
rush line and fairly strong backs, and
more than that, he developed all the pos
sible material, SO that he could replace al
most any man on the team with some one
nearly rs good. In the game with the
Tigers the endurance of some OF the men
gave way before the end, and Princeton
won. But the Yale game was hard fought,
and Yale won with a single goal. secured
just before the cad of the first half.
In 1880 the effect of Cumnock's work
was visible. for he was then able 10 lead
his team to victory--the first for many
years. The team had on it plenty OF stars,
but they played together as Harvard men
had never played together before. There
was 10 game with Princeton, but the
wonderful runs OF Lee and Dean Melted
the touch-downs that beat Yale.
The success OF 1890 gave Harvard high
hopes for last year. but the season closed
with disappointment. 3. w. Trafford, '9$,
was cartain and Adams, Stewart. Cum
mock Dean and Crauston were the coaches.
An eleven of fine individual players was
formed hut the coaching Of Walter Camp