Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-26
CRIMSON VS.. BLUE.
Yale Wins the Foot Ball Game
Score, u to 4.
twenty-five thousand People Wit
ness Slugging Match.
Many Players Injured-Murphy Of Yale Badly
Hurt-The Details.


the football men Saturday morning when
they first opened their eyes, and surprised
even the skeptics who saw in last nights
leaden sky and drilling rain a most dis
NAL outlook for football. By o'clock the
heavy mist had risen far enough to allow
the blue sky to peep forth so that half an
hour later Yale's colors filled the heavens
from horizon to horizon. But if the Yale
blue was Haunted above the nousctops the
rays of the sun touched up the crimson
tinged trees in the city and at Hampton
park and sent reflection back to the ex
ultant blue
Everybody was jubilant and the sun re-
ceived an homage equal to that given by
his Oriental worshippers. The atmos-
phere, as the streets and fields dried up,
was delicious. The chill of early morning
was succeeded as the morning grew apace
10y the warmth of an early September day
and last years chilly atmosphere was as
the frozen to the torrid zone. Coats were
put aside and until 1t was time to take
places in the grand stand at the park peo-
pie found wraps rather uncomfortable
Naturally such exceptional football
weather made everybody extremely Jovial
and happy and the result was that the
throngs on the streets gave vent to their
hilariousncsS in
Shouts, Songs and College Cries
From an almost startling inactivity III
he early morning the streets by half-past
O'Clock had taken on an almost indescrlb-
lble air of activity. 1t was astonishing t.
see how the great crowd dropped SO sud
lenly into the city. The streets were I'M
JaSsablc, the hotel corridors and puDilc re-
sorts We're filled to overlooking, and II
cook half hour to go through length OF
,trect that under ordinary circumstances
would have taken five minutes. The
pushing, struggling crowd was typlcally
American and thoroughly good natured,
lowever, and to be stepped upon or have
our clothes besmirched with mud never
,aused a murmur.
And ii the skies shone blue and the trees
md mists reflected crimson, so too the
great crowds in the streets were bcdeckcu
With the colors OF the rival colleges. hv-
,rybody wore IA badge, some but NINA
urc, others containing yards of ribbons.
The crimson chrysanthemums upon the
breasts of the Harvard admirers were RI
allied by the delicate violet on the breasts
If Yale men and the corsageS OF Yale
women. There were parasols of red ana
,arasols of blue. Once in while, to re
ieve the monotony of colors, there would
,e a flaunt of orange and black, as n
rowd of Princeton adherents came along,
md the red and blue of Pennsylvania was
n evidence after that colleges special had
,rrived The other colleges and univer-
tiles were represented but the majority
f the nauntcrcrs also displayed their
preference for either one of
The Contesting Eievens.
The morning game between Dartmouth
md Brown took some of the crowd to
Outing park. AS early as IL o'clock the
.rowd began to flock towards Hampden
,nrk. particularly those who were not for.
mate enough to be in the reserved sec
tion.
When the gates of Hampdcn park Were
,pened to let in the crowd waiting there
It 1890 o'clock there not enough brce2'
,stir to ruf1lc the waters of the Connect
cut river that broadly sweeps along the
western boundaries Of the park. The tops
If the barren elms that looked over the
back of the grand stand were motiOnless.
Thus it was that the elements rendered
\ choice of ends of the field of less thar
usual Importance. There was little to
choose in positions.
A crowd numbering hundreds hal
iammed up against the ropes in front of
the entrance gates soon after MONDAY, and
momcntarily it gained in numbers as the
hour wore on. Down went the ropes
sharply at 10 30 p. m. and the human tide
began the influx through the wires where
stood the ticket takers, who this year more
carefully than ever were scanning the
tickets Of those who passed.
The easing moving crowd that first en-
tered the grounds soon became black,
solid massive thing that moved upon the
grounds with ponderous on setting. Tho
yawning terraces of yellow boards that
sloped upward from each side and end of
the field became dotted here and there
with black groups, and dotted at points
with solitary heads of single ticket. The
frst noise makers to arrive consisted of
Harvard contingent OF about 90 youths
decked in crimson. They marched in
sboutina to the tune of Ia ra-ra- boom-de-
aye.
There was no echoing response to this
from the ale supporters. 50 tiley went Oh
TO sing this verse to the tune of John
Browns body:
Rally round your captain, boys, and make the
Eli sore:
PLAY for Harvard's honor as We never played
before:
Hold the dear old crimson high, and never let
it lower:
For this is Harvard's day!
1t was not long after before the shouters
from Yale began to come in, and then came
the Yale side from the strains; ''Come
Change the Drinks with me-" with these
words:
Though Harvard has blue stocking girls,
Yale has blue stocking men.
We've done fair Harvard up before,
Wen do her up again.
And
Although the Harvard football team may try
what they can do,
They can never on their tintype beat the
grand, old blue
At 1:l5. Chiekey, the Harvard mascot,
rushed into the field from the north side,
followed by the Harvard eleven and sub