The record-union., 1897-11-14

CAMBRIDGE (Mass.), Nov. 13.-Har-
ward and Yale played each other to
standstill this afternoon on Soldiers
Field. For two thrilling hours the
sturdy elevens struggled over the
white-lined gridiron, desperately dis
putting every inch of the territory, and
vainly essaying to cross the coveted
goal line. The teams had each a
strong defense and weak ground gain
ing powers, and the logical outcome of
the contest was that neither side
scored.
The game was disappointing. Each
eleven was confident of victory, and
the expectation of neither was realized.
Harvard should have won. She had
more possibilities than her rival, and
she had capabilities which she did not
employ to the limit.
Yale was but once in scoring distance
of the Harvard goal, but when Har-
ward put her to the test she was not
found wanting. and by her resolute
and determined defense prevented the
crimson from doing what Brown.
West Point, Carlisle and Chicago had
already accomplished.
1t was as stubborn and bitter a bat
tie as was ever fought. Each play
brought every bit of spirit and power
possible into its inception, and it took
the concentrated efforts of eleven men
to stop it. Both teams fought like
men determined that their opponents
should not gain an inch, and although
the contest lacked the football pyro-
technics and dramatic incidents of the
old time games, it was hard fight
from first to last
The game was unusually devoid of
long, brilliant runs and hair-raising
tackles, but the enormous crowd was
kept at the intensest pitch Of excite
ment over the final of the game
The wind was an important factor of
the result. 1t made necessary a par
TALLY difficult system of offensive and
defensive for both the teams. Yale
winning the toss and securing the wind,
had Harvard at great odds. The fact
that, heavily handicapped as she was,
Harvard defended her territory so
strongly, led all to believe that in the
second half the crimson would score
an easy victory.
In the second, when Harvard had
the strong wind at her back, it was
feted about the ground for over an
hour. and was in no condition TO strike
into the line with the most telling eff
feet.
Yale's supposed superiority in the
kicking department did not materialize.
Even when Mcbride and Desaulles had
the wind at their backs, Houghton very
nearly held his own. AT times the Yale
l. olre I. I.I-
punting. Four times they had their
kicks blocked by the Harvard forwards.
Once it turned to their own advantage,
but once decidedly to Harvard's.
Eoughton was guilty of several bad
but not costly fumbles. while Yale's
backs seemed to misjudge the punts
continually, and the men were sure on
their catches.
AT the end Yale seemed to be fresher
II was grand football weather, and a
tremendous crowd saw the struggle.
The air had a tinge of winter-just
enough to make the spectators cheer
and stamp to keep warm and to put
vim into the work of the players. The
gridiron was in remarkably good con-
dition after the heavy rains of yester-
day, and the players were put to no
OlScOlniOft on this score.
Long before the game was called the
great stands were packed to over
flowing with the anxious enthusiasts.
1t was a great spectacle from the in
closure. the greatest throng that ever
assembled at a football contest in Cam
bridge Fully $4,000 inclosed the grid
iron in four great bastion-like banks
of humanity. Up the slopes there
blazed and fiickered a thousand dull red
flags, except in the south stand where
in four sections there was a solid mass
of waving blue. save for an occasional
crimson flag. First there seemed to be
mass of waving crimson everywhere.
then a thousand banners of the blue
We're snapped defiantly IN the breeze.
Though Yale's contingent of 5000
enthusiastic supporters in the south
stand were numerically overwhelmed
by crimson sympathizers, they cheered
more Justify and made more noise than
did their rivals.
Shortly before 2 o'clock the Harvard
team came upon the field led by Can
tain Cabot and Doucette. Their ap-
pearance was the signal for a mighty
tumult from the Harvard stands. A
moment later, when the. Yale men,
headed by the tow-headed Captain Rog-
ers. raced into the inclosure, a storm
of hySterical. enthusiasm went I'D from
across the gridiron.
The score was: Harvard @, Yale 0.
GAMES AT OTHER POINTS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12-The elevens
from the Carlisle Indian school and
Brown University played their annual
sridiron battle on the Polo Grounds this
afternoon in the presence of about 5000
spectators, Brown winning-1S to IA.
LAFAYETTE Qnd.). Nov. 13.-Pur-
due 30, University of Missouri II.
LINCOLN (Neb.) Nov 13.-Nebraska
University 10. Kansas University 5.
CHICAGO. Nov. 13-Nearly 10000
football enthusiasts saw the eleven from
the University of Wisconsin defeat the
University of Chicago to-day by a score
of % to s.
DETROIT, Nov. 13.-University Of
Michigan IA, University of Minneapo-
lis 0.
BICYCLING.