The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-26
PENNSYLVANIA BEAT HARVARD
One of the Grandest Battles Ever Seen
on a Gridiron.

Oh HllullOh.
Philadelphia, Nov. 21.-University of
Pennsylvania, s; Harvard, 6.
Beaten, battered, shattered, but not
disgraced. This is the preface to the
story of one of the grandest battles ever
witnessed on a football gridiron. To-
night the wearers of the red and blue
are jubilant. Their hopes, which were
so rudey shattered by the La Fayette
contingent have again been raised to
the highest pinnacle. Alas! poor Har-
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
would say the son 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 discouraging circum-
stances they never faltered. Every
man played as though his life depended
on the result of the game. There was
thorough teaching, each man trying to
help the other. Harvard's defensive
work for a time was superb, but the
awful battering their lines received from
the heavyweights on the Pennsylvania
| team began to tell before the first half
| vas finished and many a delay was oc-
| casioned by crimson warrior Delng
stretched out upon the grass. For a time
the faithful" who were urging their
acknowledged team on to greater eff
forts seemed to falter, but the cheer was
taken up by the red and blue followers;
| Thousands of Pennsylvanians schouted
Justify for their crimson rivals, not be-
cause 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 gone into the battle with some of
their best men in crippled condition
They had fought their fight in the early
stages of the game, and now they were
surely being driven back to almost Ger
tain defeat.
1t was pitiable to hear Captain Wright
ington calling on his men to Hold them
boys" Break it up" and the like. But
it was but repetition of previous disas
wards line stood the battering ram pro
cess of Pennsylvania for the first half
and it was in this half that the Grim
son made their only touch down. But
in the second half the physical condition
of the red and blue began to assert it
self, and one by one We're the Harvard
cripples carried from the field. The trs
to SuccumD was johnny DunlOp, WIZ
was relieved by Livermore, then Franz
Shaw got mixed up in scrimmage anC
Doucette was called on at center
A few minutes later Wheeler anC
Brown were both injured and their re
spective places were filled by Swain anC
Dibble. Wheeler and Brown did no
leave the game until just before time wa
called. In their weakened condition tn,
} crimson was no match for their opponents
! and, struggle as they would, they coulC
not stop the mass of players directed a
their line. The Pennsylvania team as
J whole deserves universal praise and bu
little censure.
, Every player was star, and it wa
the hearty cooperation which made Penn
sylvanias onslaught upon the crimson
line so damaging and their defense s.
marvellous.
There was little end skirting, Har
wards end being too quick, but Minds
Woodruff. Wharton. Farrar and Uffen
hemer did some of the prettiest line buck
ing ever seen on a gridiron. The onl
/ dark in the bright surface was Woodruff
tumble when Pennsylvania had the bal
on Harvard's 5-yard line, but the mex
. line Gilbert forced Wrightington to max
safety. Weeks, too, must not be over
looked in the matter of praise, for tn