The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20
Wins the Football Game oD Yale
Field by Seventeen to
Nougbt.
Gridron Heroes Struggle in Sea Of Mud
While Rain Pours Down Upon the
Spectators.

! charging muscle at his back, scoring
! the second touchdown and really
! clinchfng the victory for the crimson.
| The ball went over to Yale for the
| second time at Psi o'clock, just TWEEN
/ ty-eight minutes after the start.
/ Haughton shot the oval fair and true
over the crossbars, and Harvard led,
II to O.
Not two minutes later, after Yale had
! put the>-ball into play and kicks had
! been exchanged, with the ball in Har-
wards possession on YaIe's thirty-five-
yard line, Dibblee, with Reid, Warren,
! DAILY and COchrane in several end in
| references, shot out of the right end,
and, breaking away from his interfer-
ences, turned in and dashed over the
/ held, twisting, lodging and racing on
for thirty yards. Reid and Boal then
smashed into the forwards, but Mar
shall and Cutten braced and held them
within two yards of the goal line for
four downs.
Chamberlain punted to DAILY, who
made fair catch on the thirty five
yard line, from which Haughton tried
for a goal from the field It was a
pretty kick, but the leather flew a few
! yards wide Of the upright and Yale
| brought the ball out to the twenty-five
| yard line.
| The remaining five minutes of play
were marked by no remarkable features
and the half closed at 1905 p. m. with
| the ball in Yale's possession on her own
| fifty-yard line and the score Harvard
| II, Yale 0.
In the second half Mcbride returned
Haughton's kickoff, Daily receiving the
punt and making a brilliant run of
thirty yards before he was downed by
Ely. Harvard lost the ball on War
ren's tumble, and Durston and Dudley
! n 1crh ha vi, 1.-Two
for the first time in the game, pushing
the ball from their own forty-five- yard
! line over the center of the field TO Har-
wards forty-yard line, where the ball
went to the crimson on downs. Eddy
| fumbled HaughtOn's kick and Farley,
who had replaced Cochrane a moment
| before, was down the field like a deer
and secured the ball on Yale's thirty
yard line.
Harvard again began her persistent
plunging attacks between Yale's
tackles, but lost the ball to Yale on
downs after gaining twelve yards.
Yale was again forced to kick. and
Harvard, after several futile attempts
to make Roadway, did the same The
ball went back and forth several times
without material result, Dibblee finally
gathering in McBride's bounding kick
and giving Harvard the ball on Yale's
forty-yard line. Haughton at once shot
a liI6Ily IOilS punt OOWn the UeI0, Wllcn
Dudley missed. A red jacket fell on
the ball and it was Harvard's first
down on twenty yards, and Dibblee
added two more on the other side. Then
Warren, with a mighty dive, broke
through the left guard cleared the
scrimmage pile and brought the ball to
the two-yard line, where Reid was
pushed over for a touch down Haugh-
ton kicked the goal, making the score
II to D, as it remained.
There was scarcely ten minutes more
play, but in that time Yale's team raj
lied with splendid courage and grit
and made its best offensive effort of the
afternoon. Harvard had the ball on
her own 40-yard line, and it was given
to the Yale for off-side play. Durston
banged into the right for a good six
yards and again for five more. Dud-
| ley struck Harvards right for three
yards, but could make no Roadway on
the next attempt. This brought the
| ball to HarYard's 20-yard line. and Yale
enthusiasts had visions of scoring,
when Ely, on double pass, skirted the
right end for twelve yards, amid the
widest enthusiasm. Durston was
given the ball and tore up against the
| Crimson trocha again, but with no sue
| cess. Chamberlain then dropped back
| for a goal from the field, but his effort
| proved Ruthless. and time was called
before the teams lined UP again
The victorious eleven was in splendid
! condition to a man and set a speedy
| pace for their less spirited opponents
In the second half Jaffray gave way to
| Burnett and Farley replaced Cochrane
| though the men were not injured and
could have continued playing had it
not been deemed best to put in fresher
men. The condition of the Yale play
ers, with the exception of Mcbride
Hubbell and Dudley, was first class
the team playing strongly in the face
Of defeat to the very last moment.
In the first half Mcbride went in
place of Townsend, and in the second
half Allen took StiIlman's place at left
tackle, while Schweppe went to the
right end, Eddy dropping back to fill
! the place of Dudley, who retired.
After the game the Harvard band
marched about the gridiron, followed
| by hundreds of Harvard men. At the
/ conclusion of the triumphal march, the
! band was surrounded by several thou
| sand graduates and under graduates
! all with their friends, all uncovered
and with the enthusiasm to be expected
for a victory over Yale for the second
time since 1875, the throng burst forth
in the refrain Fair Harvard" Hats
and banners were thrown to the winds
and the celebration of the Cambridge
! followers continued until the last OF
them had left the Yale field and New
Haven.
The line up follows:
Yale Positions. Harvard
HubbeH. Left end. Cochran, Farley