Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-07
HARVARD WINS.
Defeats Pennsylvania Eleven
by Score Of 10 to 0.
Scores on Very First Play and Again
in the Second Half.
harvard's Offensive and Defensive Work Better
Than Their Opponents.

Boston, Nov. 6-Harvard defeated
Pennsylvania at foot ball, yesterday,
at Soldiers field, Cambridge, 10 points
to 0.
The winning team scored on the very
first play of the game-the kickoff
when muffed kick by Pennsylvania
gave the home eleven touchdown,
and again during the second half. from
place kick at goal. The try at goal
from the touchdown was failure.
When the timekeeper blew his whis-
tie for the end of the game, big Reid,
the young California athlete, who
played fullback on the Harvard team,
lay on his stomach under a mass of q
players. He held the football on the
ground, only Is inches from the Penn
Sylvania goal line. If there had been
time for one more plunge into the rush
line Harvard would have again scored
AS it was Capt. Dibblees men had
good margin and the game a dramatic
ending.
Pennsylvania having won the toss.
chose the easterly goal, with the wind,
what there was of it, at her back.
Harvard had the kickoff. Cochrane
began with splendid kick, which sent
the ball sailing through the air toward
Pennsylvania's goal post. The new
leather sphere went almost half the
length Of the field. Coombs, one of the
Pennsylvania backs, had a good chance
to catch the ball. but he evidently
though it would go across the line, in
which case his team could have brought
it out again to the 25-yard line. Then
he changed his mind and tried to make
the catch, but instead he made a muff
BY that time half dozen Harvard
players were beside him. and Boal, the
big guard, got the ball and made a
touchdown.
All this happened in much less time
than it takes to tell, and the $4,000 or
$4,000 spectators who crowded the seats
could with difficulty realize that Har-
ward had indeed scored, but when they
saw Cochrane prepare for his try at
goal, a storm of enthusiasm burst
which it is simply impossible to de-
scribe. The shouts of the men and the
screams Of the women were unnoticed,
only because every soul inside the en-
closure was making part of the noise.
If he was a Harvard man he shouted
for joy. If he happened to be one of
the few hundred loyal Pennsylvania
supporters he cursed.
This insanity began to disappear
when Cochrane missed in his try for
goal. Then the wearers of the crimson
began to fear that the lack of that
single point might bring them defeat.
They remembered the Harvard Penn
sylvania game three years ago, the
last played on Soldiers field, when Har-
ward was beaten by three missed goals,
and some of the grumblers said Har-
ward always failed at a critical mo-
ment.
Fortunately for the home team, these
fears and complaints need never have
been. for the visitors, try as best they
could, We're not able to cross the Har
ward goal line.
The other score was made we'll on in
the second half. Hare, who lowered
above his fellows not only in physique,
but as a foot ball player. was sent bacfl
to protect his goal by punt Harvard
had been forcing her opponents back
and back again. but had not then been
able to score in this half. Hare made
one of those low ugly, raking punts for
which he is famous. Little Daily, who
was playing well back, rushed forward
and got the ball in his arms just as he
reached Pennsylvania 45-yard line.
With difficulty he kept his balance and
made what the rules term a fair
CATCH"
Burnett, who was then playing CEN
ter, was told to try for a goal from a
place kick. 1t was long distance, and
few people thought he would succeed
but when his foot. with the impetus OF
his mighty muscles behind it, struck
the ball it started off straight at the
Pennsylvania goal posts. Every eye or
the field watched that ball. Its velocity
decreased until it seemed about to fall
to the ground, but it took a new lease
of life and went over about a foot
above the crossbar and another foot
away from one of the posts.
Then the scene of riot at the beginning
Of the game was duplicated. 1t wa!
even outdone, because all the Harvard
contingent knew that the five points
scored when the ball went over thu
crossbar made the result of the gam,
certain. No trick, no long run aroun,
the end, no fake" could then depriv'
Harvard of the victory.
During the first half of the game tn
ball was in Harvard territory most .
the time, but the crimson goal line wa
in, danger only once. Then Pennsyl
vahia got the ball on Harvard's 45-yar
line and by. steady. repeated rushes
with the guards back formation
forced the play down to Harvard's 80
yard line 20-yard line, 15-yard line; bu
there the advance stopped. The gain
had been growing less and less as tn
goal was approached. With two yard
to gain Pennsylvania gave up tn
struggle and tried without success fo
a goal from the field.
After that it was pretty evident tha
Pennsylvania would not score in thu
half. The visitors We're. plainly dis
turbed by the failure of their play
which had hitherto been invincibl
The sturdy Harvard defence was
great surprise. Toward the end of til
half. Pennsylvania weakened gree
deal, and Harvard was forcing the ba
straight toward her opponents goal.
Just as it seemed as though HarvaI
was bound to score, after DAILY ha
made beautiful 20-yard run arour
Pennsylvania's right end, the dashir
little quarterback surprised everybo5
by signalling for goal from the feel
n-I.