The times., 1897-11-14
Harvard and Yale Fight to a
Draw on Soldiers Field.
NOTHING TO NOTHING SCORE
The Sons of Eli With Green
Eleven succeed in Standing Off
Harvard's Array of Experienced
Men A Clean, Sportsmanlike,
FaiIIy-Played Game.

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on Soldiers Field, Cambridge, this after
nom, ia the presence Of 25,oG0 specta-
! tors. Neither size scored. A Harvard vic
tory had been 50 generally expect Ell that
1 the result Of the Conflict was dubicusly
received by the supporters Of the Grim
son. The fact that Harvard could net
force tie bail across Yales goal line, as
had been done by Brown, the Indians,
| West Point ana Chicago, was the chiei
cause !or resret, but it was not because
| Of ans failure on the part Of the Crimson
| players tC play desperate football: 1T was
simply because Yale put up an unaz-
| pettediy fine defensive game and played
with superb Judgment. Harvard's we'll
known defense WIS imperyious TO the
Yale attack, but that was expected all
along. With Halvard's depression OF spir
| its, therefore, came unbOunded joy and haIe
| pincsS foi Yale. The Suns Of Eli were pac
ticularly j,;Jilant over the fact that with
green eleven made up from raw re-
cruits and coached by veterans they had
succeeded in standing off Harvard s array
of experienced men in the rush Iihe for a
rotliing tC nothing score.
The tcss-up gaze the ball TO Harvard,
and Yale tOck the wind. The New Haven
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an advantage of seemingly vital import
ance
At zoe o'clock Haughton, after a few
steps forward, booted the BAH far towar;.
Aale's goal. De sauIes Caught 1t anI
dashed back 10 his 25-yard line before
Donald mated him, but Umpire Dashiel
stopped play and ordered the kickoff TO
be made over again, because he saw II
glr qrd off no liz,
was carried OF toward Yale's left by the
wind. Hazen grabbed it, but was down ID
quickly by Moulton on Yale's 25-yard line
Corwin was the first man called ppon 70
advance the tall CadwaIader and Brown
opened up coed hole between Bouye and
Doucette, and the little fellow was shot
through il Tor five yards.
Mcbride punted tne leather far into
Haryard's territory, where it rolled out
OF bounds at the gO-yard line. The haIl
was taken in fifteen yards. Dibblee
got the ball and dashed toward Yale's
left end. ard a. Hazen was boxed up he
got around it, while the crowd arose as
one man. Dodging first this way and hen
that, Harvard sta halfback was not stop
ped until ne had covered fifteen yards.
Capt. Rodgers pulled him over. When
Warren came mashing into Cadwala der
and Chadwick he fell in his tracks without
d yard. II was Yale's ball after that at
tack, on four downs and the teams Were
lined up exactly on Harvard's 35-yarl
line. 1t was nip and tuck for the next ten
minutes. the ball going back anil forth
with the advantage slightly favoring the
crimson. With only thirty-five yards be
tween Harvard aud Yale's goal line. tn,
crimson players began to PLAY their
hardest. Yates defense was far bettert than
] anybodT expected, although Harvard wae
gaining ground with every play.
The ball was on Yale's twenty yard line
but on the next play there was holding Il,
the Harvard line, and Yale received the
ban an a penalty. Mcbride promptly kick
ed the ball well back to Harvard's thirty
yard line. Hazen nailed Houghton, and
Warren I1ide pretty run OF fifteen yards,
| but the bah was given TO Yale because OF
off-side play by Doucette. Harvard, by
some fine rams around the ends, got the hal
OH Yalcs thirty five-yard line, but thS
t6E Vent to Yale forthwith for holding
! the line, and the groans came this time
from the Harvard side of the field.
De Saulles made what looked like a faiI
catch on Yale's s twenty -five-yard lire and
was tackled aud thrown by Cabot. Hough
ton muffed McBride's punt to the forty yard
] line Dibtdee coliared the leather and
dashed back to the middle OF the field
when Cadwalader cngulfed him. Harvard
was now on the defensive. Yales at
tack was nerceness itself. The crimson
lice was surely being outplayed by the
green youngsters from New Haven. There
, was no enthusiasm from the crimson sup,
porters. After some grand rushes the Ysle
men got the ball on Harvard 5 twenty-yar,l
line. Corwin and Benjamin quickly carried
the BAH further ahead TO Harvards fiji
teen-yerd line. Yale VIII score, shrieked
the New Raven men, ''and then Yale Will
win
But Yale didn't. Corwin fumbled rather
] unsteady PASS and, as the ball fell To the
ground, Swain imInortalized himself by
! plumping his body on top of the leather
, thereby pulling fair Harvard out of d very
| tiglt place. 1t was narrow escape
Harvard, in tue exhuberance of the mo
ment, forget that the ball was so neal
the goal line, ard tried to carry it to
ward Yale territory by short rushes. q
! couple OF Ineffective dashes At the cente
by Cabot and Warren were followed b,
Haughton's punt. which carried the bal
70 Yales 45-yard line. De saulles mis-
judged the bail, yet fell on it. McBrid,
I made what was the best punt of the ganl'
, in the next play. From his 45-yard lin,
he lifted the tall nigh, and it struck OIL
the 1oyard line and rolled back of TIN
J goal posts. lIaughton kicked it out iron
the 25-yard line. but, as the ball went OIL
OF boun6s. il had to be kicked over. Nc
) Bride got the BAH, and was tackled b,
y Moulton. Then De Saulles made his frs
really great play. Receiving the leather
= hr began, q sensational dash around Cabot /
end. He had fair interference, bnt thre
z Harvard men We're passed in rapid orde
= and. when Swain bent low to make a sur
!. tackle, pe SaulIes leaped clear over hiI
and rushed along.
Dibblee then lunged at him successful
and the little Yale man was pinned [
s HarvaTds 25-yard line. He tried TO pla
1 again, but was so unfortunate as to dro
! the ball, Brown falling on it in good tyl,
:, Warren was slightly hurt in this scrin
c mage and WAS replaced by Parker, a
Ii though the coaches first ordered youn
s. Sawin to 20 into the game. De Saullt
next tried pass TO Corwin and the latte
dropped the ball. houlton made dive @
it and it belonged to Harvard. Parke
j was tried Immediately and could not gair
& Dibbee made five yards in two end runs
but Houghton waSineffectiyew when 4 g trie
] Ya!e's center. The bah was at Harvard
45-yard line when two more trials by Dill
blee ard Park er could not advance it y
inch. The time for the first half was u