Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-24
BR0OKE'S GOAL FROM FIELD
Educated Foot Of the Pennsylvania Back
Defeats Harvard's Cultured Team.
HE SCORES THE FIRST FIVE POINTS
Charley Brewer Misses Two Easy
Goals from Touchdowns aud
Loses the Points that the Crim-
son Needed to Win.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 2S.-In one Of
the grandest and most stubbornly fought
foot ball games ever witnessed the plucky
Harvard team again went down before the
sturdy Pennsylvanans on Soldiers field this
afternoon, fighting desperately and gamely
to the last. The score was II to IA. Penn
sylvania won on the splendid kicking Of
Brooke, which the stiff breeze rendered all
too effective in the second half Harvard lost
primarily through Brewers two bad misses
of easy kicks for goal, which deprived the
Crimson Of the four points lacking for vic
tory. But the Harvard eleven, with bitter
defeat staring them in the face, played
iercely until the very last and even with
the wind against them in the second half,
they rallied and made one of the most mag
nfcent spurts ever seen on the gridiron
before which the gritty men from Phila-
delphla went down like paper.
The Pennsylvanians won, and won gal
lantly, and Harvard must again bear the
sorrows of defeat. The crowd was so tre-
mendous and the game was so replete with
dramatic incidents that II kept them alter
mating between intense silence and frenzy
OF cheering from the first play till the last.
Long before the game began the crowd be-
gan to swarm through the gates, and when
Captain Williams and his sturdy Quaker
eleven ran on the field there were fully
$4,000 people surrounding the grldiron.
Pennsylvania did not lack for cheering, for
nearly 1900 enthusiastic rooters were on
hand to cheer their favorites. and they kept
up their sharp, quick "Penn-syl- yl-va-nia"
ringing uncomfortably in Harvard's ears
from start to finish. The stands were alive
with color. The west stand was packed
solid with one living mass of humanity, who
yelled like demons when Harvard made
headway. On the eastern side the Crimson
of Harvard was intermingled with the red
and blue Of Pennsylvania, and the cheers OF
each college We'd with each other continu
ously. 1t was grand spectacle from the
enclosure and over the whole scene Of
color and movement brightly flew a big
crimson banner in the sharp south wind.
BROOKE oUTKICKED BREWER.
The day was fine, perhaps trifle mild,
and the fresh south breeze which came up
in the latter part OF the afternoon was an
important factor in the result Of the struggle.
The grounds were soft, but owing to the
splendid care taken by the workers on the
gridiron, were not soggy enough to prevent
a good footing. Without detracting from the
glory of Pennsylvania victory, which was
well earned, the Harvard team held its own
at every stage and outplayed the Quakers
half the time, with the one exception of the
kicking department, and in this Brooke
easily exceled. Charley Brewer, on the
other hand, was responsible in way for
Harvard's defeat. If he had kicked two
easy goals from the first two touchdowns the
Crimson would have carried the day. The
Harvard center was strong and gave the
Quakers all they wanted. On the ends, too,
Harvard had the better Of it, but at tackle
Wagenhurst and Farrar were more than
match for Rice and Gould. Pennsylvania
tried numerous complicated mass plays on
tackle and criss-crosses. The backs were
not SO sure, nor did they play as cleanly as
did Harvard, but evidently they were
stronger and heavier set 1t was splendid,
fast game, with little attempt at slugging,
dirty play. -s.,,.,y.,1
Pennsylvania won the toss and took the
goal. Brewer sent the ball back after the
kickoff but the effort was a weak one and
the Quakers regained the spheroid thirty-two
yards from the goal. Pennsylvsnia's backs
through Gould for four yards. Then the
Harvard team took brace and held the
Quakers for three downs Brooke dropped
back for kick, but 1t was clear BLUM, and
the stocky full back rounded the right end
for a good twenty yards. The ball was just
and Gilbert were driven at tackle, but with
out success. Then Brooke fell back for
kick and with an. easy rise sent the pig,
skin spinning over the bar, swift and sure
between the goal posts and the Red and Blue
led, to 0, after Just five minutes of play.
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Just four minutes after that young Jerrsh
Newell fell on the ball. safely behind the
Pennsylvania line. After an exchange OF
punts, steady rushes by Dunlop and Wright
ington carried the ball to Pennsylvania
twelve yard line, but here the Quakers took
stand and got the ball on downs Brooke
dropped back for kick, but Holt and Nor
ton Shaw were through on him like flash,
blocked the attempt and the ball rolled back
across the line, where Newell fell on 1t. 1t
was an easy goal, but Brewer made bad
miss and Pennsylvania still led, to 4.
Both elevens now made desperate rally.
Brooke was pushed through left center for
touchdown and kicked goal himself, putting
the Red and Blue away in the lead, ii to a.
There was ten minutes left to play and
Harvard procured her second touchdown in
short order. Brewer again missed an easy
goal, and Pennsylvania still led, IL to 8.
The half closed with the ball In Harvards
possession at the center of the field.
When the second half began there was
gale sweeping down the field. Brooke again
sent the sphere clean and true between the
posts and Pennsylvania now had an easy
lead, II to s.
WAS A GREAT RALLY.
1t was now that Harvard made one of the
finest rallies that any team ever attempted.
With dogged energy the Crimson backs as
sailed the Quaker line. Steadily and surely,
without hitch or STOP the plucky Har-
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thirty-ive-yard line straight up to the cen
ter, and by gains of two or three yards at a
time, on to the Pennsylvania forty-yard line.
Here the Quakers rallied and got the ball on
downs but Harvard got 1t back Immediately,
and with that same relentless driving force
took 1t on to Pennsylvania's seventeen-yard
line. Here Wrightlngton made a clever short
punt. The ball went high in the air and
came down among the players Of both !
teams close to the line, where Cabot secured |
II and scored touchdown. Brown kicked !
the goal, and the score was II to IA, as 1t |
for two minutes afterward. Time |
was called with the ball near the center Of |
the field. The lineup and summary:
Harvard. Position, Pennsylvania
Cabot Left end. ....,........B Boyle |
Rice Left tackle. ...... Wagonhurst |
guard. d......., Woodruff |
j. n. Shaw. Right guard. Wharton |
Gould Right tackle. .......... Farrar
Beaie. .,..,..,. Quarter back, Williams
Right half. .............. Minds
G. Brewer Left half lf....,.......G Colbert
Dunlop. .......,.Full back.......,.....B Brooke |
Score: Pennsylvania, II; Harvard. IA.
Touohdowns; Brooke, Boyle, Newell, |
Goals from touchdowns: Brooke, 2:
Goals from field: Brooke. l.