The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-20
The Crimson Eleven Masters Of
the Game.
CLEAN, FAST, BRILLIANT
The Cambridge Men Won the Day by q
Score OF Seventeen TO Nothing.
The Yale Team Put Ups
Plucky Fight.

plays. The Harvard eleven showed
themselves masters OF the game. excel
ling in every department and playing
a game of football that was well nigh
marvellous under such miserable wealth
er conditions. Every point was made by
Straightforward, open tactics and no
fiuke 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 condition
won the game for her easily. The Yale
players fought with stolid pluck. At the
end they rallied grandly out of sheer
desperation. and finished strong.
The vanguard Of the vast throng
which went to the field began to arrive
shortly after the noon hour, after a 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 a nalf
days, was still pouring down and a
northeast wind continued to send the
storm along with great violence. Eigh-
teen Thousand people witnessed the
game. By 1870 the two large stands
on either side OF the field We're well I'LL
ed. the west side being allotted to :Iar-
ward, filling more rapidly. Fifteen min
utes later the east stand, occupied oy
Yale and her sympathizers. and both
ends and corner stands were practical
ly full. BY 2 o'clock there were few
vacant seats in the great rectangle.
1t was just 2:16 o'clock when Cap
tain Chamberlain and his sturdy men,
well greaved and gauntletted for the
battle, ran on the field from the north
east corner. amid volleys of cheering
from enthusiastic Yale. One minute
later Captain Dibblee and his crimson
stocked warriors strobe into the arena.
while great banks of humanity that sat
about the gridiron burst in
to wild hurrahs. Yale won
the toss, taking the ball and
rushing toward the northern goal. At
1928 O'Clock Burr Chamberlain kicked
off far down the field to the 10 '-ard
line, DAILY returning the kick prettily.
and Yale lined up with the ball in her
possession on her own 80 yard line.
Three attempts to forge the crimson
forward netted but three yeards and
the ball went to Harvard on downs.
but IL was Immediately given back to
the blue on Harvard's off-side play
Again Yale could not gain and Cham
berlain was forced to kick.
LAZY luHipitu the punt, lnen picked
the ball up deftly and ran ahead a few
yards. giving the crimson the ball on
the 30-yard line. Houghton punted at
once high and far down the field, Dud-
ley catching the ball on Yale's own So
yard line. Harvard's defense was i'm
pregnable. and Yale was forced once
more to kick, Harvard receiving the
pigskin on her own 50-yard line.
Houghton Immediately booted the
leather far down the gridiron across
the goal line for a touch back. The
ball being brought back, Chamberlain
kicked off from the 25-yard line, Reid
making a pretty catch, dashing over
the white lines for 20 yards before little
Ely nailed him.
1t was now with the ball on Yale's 45-
yard line that Harvard began her re-
lentless hammering at the Yale line.
which resulted in a well-earned touch
down. Dibblee and Reid plunged into
the Yale forwards with tremendous
power. and with each rush the blue
wavered with Yale powerless to check
the terrific onslaught. Slowly. but
surely. Harvard advanced the ball on
steady, persistent plunges, first smash
ing to one side. then to the other. Of the
center. The ball reached the 12-yard
lin, Dibblee. Reid and Boal taking it on
consecutive rushes for 80 yards. Then
little Dibblee plunged into right tackle
as IL shot from a catapult and the ball
was 10 yards nearer the coveted goal
line. Yale made a plucky rally then
and twice faced the fury of the crimson
attack, giving way but one yard. With
that one yard between them and a
touchdown. little Charlie DAILY called
out the men for one last effort. Reid
took the ball and leaped headlong into
the struggling forwards. 1t was nearly
a minute before the men could be pulled
together, so hard and close had been
the scrimmage, but Reid had gone over
the line. The crimson had scored the
first point Just 2:35 o'clock. and 12 min
utes after the kickoff. Cochrane's kick
for goal struck the crossbar and the
ball bounded down into the arena, max
ing the score to o.
Chamberlain kicked off again and
DAILY punted back to Ely on the play.
The Harvard line was strongly deter
mined and aggressive. 1t was impossi-
BILE for Yale. try "a she would, to gain.
and she would be forced 10 kick.
made a brilliant and sensational run of
80 yards by catching II and rushing
down the side lines. shaking of tackler
after tackler. But when the backs went
up against the crimson line Il was
striking a brick wall. Yale was al
ways forced 10 kick and Harvard kick
ed at every opportunity, gaining many
in Yale's territory. With the ball on
Yale's own 13-yard line. Harvard held
the blue for down and started hammer
ing at Yale's center again. Dibblee
dashed into the line for three yards.
and Warren and Dibblee on the sue
cesslve plays took IL to the six-yard
line. when Dibblee ripped through right
guard with half a ton OF charging mus
Gle at his back. scoring the sec
cond touchdown and really clinching
the victory.
The ball went over to Yale for the
second time at 2:51 o'clock. just 2s min
utes after the start. Houghton shot
the oval true over the crossbar.
and Harvard led IL to o. Not two min
utes later. after Yale had put the ball
in play and kicks had been exchanged.
with the ball in Harvard's possession