Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-20

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Tcwnshend .......F. B................ Reid
Mcbride.
gmpire-Dash of Lehigh.
Referee-DeClung, of Lehigh-
Iinemen-Francls of Yale; Smltn, Oh
Touchdowns-Reid. 2; Dibblee
Total Score-Harvard, II; Yale, 0.
Time-Two thirty-five minute halves.
New Haven, Conn, November 49,
Harvard defeated Yale this afternoon
II to 0, winning a glorious victory in a
clean, fast game Astounding in brill
liant plays. The Harvard eleven
showed themselves masters of the
game, excelling in every department
and playing foot ball we'll nigh marvel
lous under such miserable weather
conditions. Every point was made by
straightforward, open tactics, and no
fuke or luck contributed in any way
to the scoring.
Harvard's great speed of play, power
and concentration of attack, superior
kicking and splendid physical condi-
ton won the game for her easily. The
Yales players fought with solid pluck.
At the end they sailed grandly, and
out of sheer desperation, and finished
strong.
A bleaker and more uninWting spot
was not to be found in New Haven at
noon to-day than the Yale field. The
vanguard Of the vast throng which
went to the field began to arrive short
ly after the noon hour, after long
tramp through mud and water, and
found the gridiron submerged and the
carefully prepared approaches to the
grand stand a quagmire.
The rain which had fallen for two
and half days was still pouring down
and an east wind continued to send
the storm along with great violence.
Eighteen thousand people witnessed
the game Oil-skins, mackintoshes,
rubber coats, table cloths, carriage
boots, southwesters, every kind of
water proof protection was pressed in
to service.
The rubber clothing in New Haven
stores was sold early in the day and
then a raid was made on the dry
goods stores for Oil cloth. Hundreds
went to the field draped in oil cloth
with only single opening in the CEN
ter, through which bedraggled heads
appeared. The costumes of the women
were as grotesque as those of the men,
and many women who sat in the stands
with absolutely no head covering, pre-
scented an odd appearance when the
rain had beaten on them for two hours
and melted their locks about their fair
faces But they were cheerful and
even wildly enthusiastic at times, in
spite of it all. BY 1870 the two large
stands ON each side of the field were
we'll filled. The west side. allotted
to Harvard, filled most rapidly. Fiji
teen minutes later the east stand,
occupied by Yale and her sympathiz-
ers, and both end and corner stands
were practically full, and by 2 o'clock
there were few vacant seats in the
great rectangle.
1t was just 2:16 o'clock when Captain
Chamberlain and his sturdy men, we'll
creased and gauntleted IN the battle,
ran on the field from the northeast COR
ner amid volleys of cheering from en-
thusiastic Yale men. One minute later
Captain Dibblee and his crimson
stocked warriors strobe into the arena,
while the great banks of humanity
that shut in the gridiron burst into
wild hurrahs.
Yale won the toss, taking the ball
and rushing toward the northern goal.
At 2:35 o'clock Burr Chamberlain
kicked off far down the field to the ten
yard line, Daily returning the kick
prettily, and Yale lined ep with the
ball in her possession on her own fifty
yard line.
Three attempts to force the crimson
forward netted but three yards, and
the ball went to Harvard on downs,
but it was Immediately given back to
the blues on Harvards off side play.
Again Yale could not gain and Cham
berlain was forced to kick. DAILY
fumbled the punt, then picked the ball
up deftly and ran ahead few yards,
giving the crimson the ball on the
thirty yard line.
Haughton punted at once, high and
far down the field, Dudley catching the
ball on Yale's own so yard line. Har-
wards defense was impregnable, aud
Yale was forced CAGE more to kick,
Harvard receiving the pig-skin in her
own SO yard line.
Haughton Immediately booted the
leather far down the gridiron across
the goal line for touch-back
The ball being brought back, Cham
berlain kicked off from the Is yard line,
Reid making pretty catch, dashing
over the white lines for 20 yards, be-
fore Ely nailed him.
IT wac now with tho ba1l IN vo1o,-