Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-11-19

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JIsszse promised. But ere
s~~7sSslss@ this reaches 20
the battle will have
! been fought, the wonRded looked after,
and The dead given 2 decent burial
The smoke will have blown away and,
you will be ready for other matters.
was down TO Cambridge Saturday.
and saw my first game-ef regular col,
plege football. 1t was between the.
eleven of Carlisle {Indians) and Har.
ward, regular .'eorker.,' and [ should
like to have you know about it.
Norman and took the twelve
O'Clock express for Boston. arriving
little after one. A political parade
.blockadej the streets for over half an
hour and it was getting late before
they began to move. Carlisle had
played great game Wlth Princeton,
and only the week before had played
1.-the sons of Eli' in New York tie,
the score being II TO IL. Would Har'
ward do as well? 1ll seemed to feel that
this. game would offer means OF COM
parison between the two big colleges
that are at outs in athletic contests,
owing to football game couple of
years.agO.
1t was after two o'clock when we
finally arrived at Harvard square and
started out to find Will, who is attend
ing Harvard Law School AS luck
would have it we had only entered the
grounds short distance when we ran
rignt III to him. All three started for
the grounds. The road was blocked
with people; it seemed as If everybody
in the twoscities had turned out. Two
stands sold, tickets for the ''bleachers, y
and although the sellers worked with
lightning speed they were unable to
keep pace with that crowd. We had
to stand in line for some time before
our turns came. But it was good
Datured crowd and many corn was
trampled on without grunt.
Atlast we were inside and seated
in fairly good seats. The football
there are seats on all sides. No
one seemed to know the exact seating
capacity but it nust be large. Here
is where Harvard has fought some Of
the greatest football games on record
with Yale, Princeton, and University
of pennsylvania. In these big battles
no college player gives up until carried
from the field and even then, if con-
scious, watches the play from the side
line wrapped in blanket. The seats
are filing up rapidly but looking out as
far as one can see there is moving
line of humanity. Over 10000 paid ad-
mission to see the contest.
But the camel I viii not go into
details but simply try to give you an
idea of what it was. The Carlisle
team is composed wholly of Indians;
some have only been off oe the reserva-
tien short time, but my! they can
play football It was consceded by
all that they played wonderful game
under the circumstances; their endur-
ance was remarkable to behold and
Harvard only won on a ''fluke." and
then by the small score of to 0 one
touchdown. It was hair raising
game, asd we'll might Harvard ex
claim after the game, as she viewed
her score: '.another such victory and
we are undone."
At three o'clock the red men trotted
OH the field and received storm of
applause. They were clad in regular
bicycle tOgs, with flaming red sweat
ers, their hair was the regular length
for playing, jet black and parted in the
middle. Fifteen minutes was spent
in practice, then they gave way to Har-
ward who received an ovation when
they appeared. After their practice
the game began.
Harvard won the toss, and chose the
south goal with the wind. This gave
her an advantage in the outset for she
would be pretty sure TO outkick her
opponents. Capt. Pierce Of Carlisle