The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
PENNSYLVANIA CoNQUERS.
SIZE DEFEATs HARVARD M 10 10 Q
on FRANKLIN FIELD. 81

watch the Contest ana Enthusiastically
Cheer the victorp-Goeduan 1s Disaua1ined.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 2o.-Twenty,four thou
sand persons saw the University Of Pennsylva-
mia football team defeat Harvard on Franklin
Field this afternoon by q score Of 10 to o. The
home team was expected to como out OF the
mix.up on top. but no ono dreamed that the total
would assume such large proportions. Every
scat in tho big stands on tho four sides of the
field was occupied.
The Harvard section was on the north. while
the ndherents of Pennsylvania filled to overflow
ing three others. Hundreds OF persons had been
turned away from tho gates. What seats there
were to DO had were in the hands of the specu-
lators, and rather than pay the exorbitant
prices persons wendell their way homcwsrd or
to the front of the newspaper offices to await tho
result OF the game.
Tho weather was without q blemish, and
seems to have been made to order. 1t might
have been a little colder, but It suited the en-
thusiastic, because big blankets and heavy
ulsters were not needed. This 10 something re-
markable, for the Harvard games played in this
city have nearly oil brought with them unpopu-
lar weather.
Tho cheering and singing by the Pennsylvania
multitude wero very great. Harvard men did oil
they could, but their efforts were drowned in
the roars of the Pennsylvanians. The student
body in the west stand, led by Horace Book,
the old oarsman, with a big megaphone.
sang throughout tho game and spurred tho
Red and Blue team on to greater efforts. At one
trying moment this same student chorus was
really the cause of the Quakers scoring n touch
down. Pennsylvania had the ball on Harvnrd's
4.yard line, and on tho big score board three
downs were announced. Book trained his ma
chine directly on the team, and, getting the en-
tire student body with him. gave vent to
that inspiring Pennsylvania song. "Hurrah
for the red, white and blue" This evidently
was Just what the players needed. The
noted guards bach" signal came. and with
q grand. concentrated effort on the powerful
Crimson centre the Quaker line went over. 1t
was just at such moments that the scene battles
description. Every Pennsylvania mar and
woman got up and yelled till they had to sit
down from exhaustion. Colors waved high in
the air, and the din was certainly terrific.
SUPPORTERS OF BOTH TEAMS JOYOUS.
Pennsylvania had three such occasions to
make merry. but Harvard was not to DO denied.
Just a few minutes before the first half ended
the Crimson followers had a feast set before
their eyes that will go down in football history.
Pennsylvanians were dumfounded, so sudden
and unexpected was the play worked.
Harvard had the ball. and it was the
second down. Doucette snapped back to
Garrison, and before one had time to follow tn
ball started at a two.minute 6 lit. He cleared
Pennsylvania left end. shook Off jackson and
Jack Minds. and planted tho ball directly be-
hind tho Pennsylvania goal posts. The run
was Of ffty.eight yards, and one of the cleanest
and most artistic ever seen on a football
field. The play was ancient. but Of q dis
tinctly honorable order. Worked rs 1t was,
when the Quakers were least expecting 1t, it
proved eminently successful. Pennsylvania had
already scored eleven points, but the audacious-
ness of the whole business put Quaker enthu-
siasts to thinking. 1t was not until the last half
had been called that the latter felt exactly in .
bright and happy frame of mind.
This brilliant run was the only play that Har-
ward made that could draw water from an
empty barrel. True. the team played a splendid
game in all departments, but a close survey Of
the work of the two teams almost puts tho
crimson boys out Of Pennsylvania class.
It was only in the first half. and
for a very short time. that tho Penn
sylvania goal was menaced to any extent.
Harvard's strongest point was her centre. and
Doucette's play vas of the finest order. Twice
Pennsylvania lost the ball, once in the first half
and once in the second, when she had the oval
within three yards of tho coveted goal line.
Doucette was like a rock. But rocks will crum-
bic IL they are pounded hard enough, and SO it
was with "Doucy." He held of the Pennsylva-
Mas as long as he could, but that guards back"
arrangement was far more than he could stand.
Pennsylvania gains previous to both touch
downs were made principally at this point, and
1t was more than human flesh could put up with.
Dibblee and Parker did some very clover rum
ming. Dibblee's principal gains were OF fifteen,
twenty.seven and ten yards. while Parker gets
one of ffty-seven to his credit and another of
seventeen.
FINE PUNTING OF MINDS n
Perhaps the most entertaining part of the
game from the standpoint of tho spectator was
tho punting of Minds and Haughton. Minds
has considerably the better of it, as his kicks
were all low and very difficult to handle; so
much so, in fact, that the Pennsylvania ends
were down the field on a Harvard man be-
fore he could get q grip Of the bali
and get off with 1t. Then. again. 1t
might be said that tho Harvard backs
were lamentabiy slow in this respect. and that
Pennsylvania were particularly fast. Haugh.
ton got all his kicks off quickly. but they went
high in the air. and in that way lost their cifec
t~iveness. While tho Pennsylvania boys did not
get of anything 80 hot as that run by Parker.
they made gains Of twenty yards or less every
little while. Capt. Minds made three runs OF
twenty yards each. Jackson of ten and eighteen
respectively. Morice one of twenty. and Hare
Pennsylvania most illustrious piece of work
was tho goal from the ted. Harvard was
pushed to her 25.yard line: and then Minds
laid down in the same position he assumes when
holding tho ball for a kick from a touchdown
Minds stood a few feet behind. Morico quickly
got the sphere in positionibetween his hands. and
Minds, Kicking gently and accurately. put IL be
tween the goal posts. 1t was a clever play. and
cieverly executed. 1t was Pennsylvania first
score.
Doucette and Haskell resorted to some rough
ness. Vt one stage. Boyle received a blow In
the jaw by a Harvard back, and Goodman found
life a misery every time he met Doucottc; San
Harvard centre the elbow" Tho onl
to the side lines. and Carnett took his place. Nc
one was hurt seriously. After being laid Out
several times Garrison retired in favor Of
Cochran. Sawin came in for Parker late
in, the second half. and Boyle took Has
. to q slight extent ! were: Hare. Dou
cette. Bouye, Boyle. Parker. Haughton. ant
Mills. McCracken cut his head badly carly In
the carly part OF the hrst half, but played tn,
game out. Both Hare and McCracken lost theii
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