Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
SPORTING
Harvard Won From PennsyivanIa--
Prospective Games.

Prospective Games
The FIRST of the so-called big football
games OF the season was played al Cam
bridge, Mass, Saturday, when Harvard
surprised the whole football world by VIII
ming from the University of Pennsylvaui8
10 TO o. Harvard scored from the kickoff
something almost unprecedented in foot
bal. Coombs the Pennsylvania hat
back, mufIed the ball on the 10 ward line
and Boa, Harvard guard, secured il and
went over the line In the second ha.t
Burnei, Of Harvard made a goal from
place kick al the - yard line. Harvard
mad the ball within few inches of PENN
sylvania's line when time was called
Pennsylvania noted guards back play did
not work as successfully agains, Harvar-
as In former years Pennsylvania one.
carried the ball 10 Harvard ten yard line
This is the first game that Harvard has
won from Pennsylvania in i've years.
! ale and Princeton will meet next Sal
urday al Princeton. The betting on the
game Is even, but Yale seems TO be the
iavorite with prominent. football men. al
though several OF her regular players arr
ont of condition. This story has been
heard from New Haven IN other YEAR.
The game between \ ale and Harvard vi.
q
Dartmouth overwhelmed Amherst IN the
first game IL the triangular college league
at Amherst Saturday, rolling up IL points.
Dartmouth, as IL all her games this season,
was strong in offensive but weak IN de
fensive play, and in the second half An
herst gave her a surprise by making q
touchdown and kicking goal. thus making
the score "a TO e. Dartmouth and Williams
urill linz
Jams is very strong this year, having scored
on the Carlisle Indians and given Cornel
a hard game. Judging by the strength of
her preliminary games she ought to give
Dartmouth a hard contest.
Fifteen to 20 Bratteboro enthusiast.
will witness the Yale Harvard game a.
New Haven next week Saturday.
Harrison 7. Smith, OF Winchester. n.
H., adds TO his collection another beaua-
tul silver cup which he got by winuln-
first place in the one.m mile run. in the ta.
games of Yale, Saturday, Oct. % Tners
were 20 men in the race. Time, minutes
A seconds Smiths fastest time since he
has been a member of the track team Is
4.3'.
The University of Vermont won Satur-
day from the Ogdensburg, n. Y. Athletic
club in the foot ball game at Montreal, 10
to o. The Ogdensburg players were very
rough and made dIsgraceful scene on the
held. Ogdensburg won recently from
Syracuse university. The University Of
Vermont will play against Holy Cross Sal
urday at Worcester.
j. G. McOaughren, one of the Hinsdale
foot ball players, took part with the victo
rious freshmen of Dartmouth college II
the 100 game against the sophomores last
week. McCaughren is very promising
Splinter and ought TO prove an acquisition
TO the Dartmouth track team, He ran the
100 yards in less than IL seconds in the
games between the Brattleboro and Hlns
dale High schools several years ago.
Among the representatives who were
elected in the Massachusetts, Legislature
was William II. Feiker, Republican, Of
Northampton. He polled large vote.
running ahead of his ticket. Mr.. Feiker
will be remembered in Brattleboro as the
young man who managed the Northamp-
ton base ball team III the series agains.
Brattleboro. He was then a clothing meT-
chant, but soon afterward he began the
study of law, and after course al Cornell
was admitted TO the bar. he has been
very successful in his profession and mas
served in the city council at Northampton.