Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-22
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER %. 1896
HARVARD BEATEN By PENNSY
Crimson Crushed Beneath the Weight o.
Quaker Beef and Brawn.
FINAL SCORE TURNS ON A SAFETY
Penn Loses the BnIl ON n FumbIe by
wharton, hut Colbert Forces
the Play that Decides
the Match.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2t.-Universlty Of
Pennsylvania. s; Harvard, 6. This is but
the preface to the story OF one of the
grandest battles ever witnessed on a foot
ball gridiron. Tonight the wearers Of the
red and blue are jubiant. Their hopes,
which were so rudely shattered by the
Lafayette contingent. have again been raised
to the highest pinnacle. Alas Poor Hlr-
ward! The few hundred rooters who came
over from Cambridge to cheer the crimson
on to victory are sad. and yet they have
cause to rejoice. For where is the man. be
he ever so partisan, who says the sons Of
fair Harvard did not go down with flying
colors; that they did not die game. Cruel
fate seemed to follow Harvard, but even
in the face of the most discouragng cir
cumstances, they never faltered. their only
thoughts apparently being the prospective
in fact, almost. certain defeat for their lines
were fast becoming weakened by the terri
bic battering of the heavy men of old Penn
sylvania and the pangs of defeat which
would come to them should their efforts
fail. Every man played as though his
life depended on the result of the game.
there was that unison, which comes only with
thorough teachings each man trying to help
the other. Harvards defensive work for
a time was superb but the awful battering
their lines received from the heavywelghts
on the Pennsylvania team began to tell
before the first half was finished and many
a delay was occasioned by a crimson war
rior being stretched upon the grass. For
a time the faithful" who were urging
their acknowledged team on to greater
efforts, seemed to falter. but the cheer
was taken up by the red and blue followers.
Thousands of Pennsylvanians shouted for
their crimson rivals, not because they hoped
to see them win the contest but because
of the plucky fight they were putting up
in the face of overwhelming odds.
The crimson eleven had got into the
battle with some of its best men in
crippled condition; it had fought its fight
in the early stages OF the game and now
it was slowly but surely being driven back
to almost certain defeat. 1t was pitiable TO
hear Captain Wrightington calling upon his
men to "EDold them, boys" Break 1t up"
and like expressions. The line would hold
tor two or possibly three downs. Then the
red and blue would gain their distance
and 1t was but repetition of the previous
disaster. Harvard's line stood the battering
ram process of Pennsylvania for the first
half, and 1t was in this half the crimson
made their only touchdown But in the
second half, the physical condition of the
red and blue began to assert itself aud one
by one were the Harvard cripples carried
from the field. The first TO cuccumb was
Johnny Dunlop, who was relieved by Liver
more. Then Frank Shaw got mixed up in
a scrlmmage and Doucette was called on
at center. A few minutes later Wheeler
and Brown were both injured and their
respective places were filled by Swain ana
Dibble. Wheeler and Brown did not leave
the game until just before time vas called.
In its weakened condition the crimson
was no match for its opponents, and,
struggle as 1t would, it could not stop the
mass plays directed at its line.