New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-20
HARVARD'S BIG SCORE.
YALE OVERWHELMED AT NEW HAVEN
BY II POINTS TO NOTHING
THE STRUGGLE PLAYED ~ 4 DRENcHrNG RAIN.
sToRM-CRIMsoN MEN PLAY A SUPERB
GAME-THEIR DEFENCE IMPROBABLE =
-DIBBLEEs WONDERFUL RrsHEs.

-DIBBLEE's WONDERFUL RUsHEs
NewHaven. Nov. 10 (speciaD.-Harvard won
a great victory over Yale In football here this
afternoon. Yale made a plucky fight, but Was
simply outcassed. At the end Of the struggle
Harvard had rolled up mighty total OF II
points. while her own goal had not once been
seriously threatened by the Els.
The contest remarkable one In many
ways. first and foremost in the superb. the per-
feet game that Harvard played and next n
the fact that the battle was waged throughout
In the midst Of pouring rain that soaked
the players to the skin and drenched the
spectators Other noteworthy features that
Yale men remember with sadness are the fact
that in meeting defeat at the hands Of Harvard
to-day Yale breaks her clean record OF never
losing in one year TO both Harvard and Prince
ton, and yields up, also. her proud boast that the
Blue had never been beaten at football on its
own grounds. And the memory that Harvard
gave to the Ellis defeat worse than she her
self had received at the hands Of Yale since
1856 Is casting gloom throughout the City Of
Elm5 tonight. II was Harvards first victory
over Yale at football since 1890 and the Cam
bridge men have therefore unusual cause ,or
rejoicing
THE BATTLE IN 4 PARAGRAPH
This is. in brief just about how the game
went: After the play had stayed for some
time at the centre Of the field Harvard. by the
fercest sort of ine-bucking and the straight
est kind of football worked the leather right
down the field and across Yale's goal. Ten
minutes later Harvard working like machinery.
repeated this magnificent performance Once
more did Harvard bring The slippery leather TO
the Blue hve-yard line. but the Ellis this time held
like rock. In the second half Yale again
started out aggressively as she had al Prince
ton. but her line did not hold firm and her
backs muffed the ball. Twice did Harvard get
the ball within striking distance Of the Yale
goal, 70 lose It to the Els pucky defence.
But the third time Harvard scored another
touchdown, and the game was won beyond per-
adventure Of doubt.
In fact while Yale set out 10 make II Blue
day she found it. all around many degrees
bluer than she had anticipated And in the
midst Of 1t all from start 10 finish the rain fell
without let-up and 50 heavily that IT would
have dampened any crowd Of spectators less
crazy with Joy than the Harvard contingents
were or less loyal than Yale undergraduates
always show themselves TO be
THE CRIMSON is CHAMPION.
BY her victory to-day Harvard's eleven will be
universally acknowledged as champion The game
between Yale and Princeton was won by the
Tigers only by the narrowest margin. and then
after a struggle In which many experts declared
that Yale played the game in better form. But
Harvards victory was overwhelming and her
previous victory over Pennsylvania clean
that no doubt remains in the mind o. any one
that Harvards eleven is easily the first Of all
the college teams And also that IN all depart
ments Of play It is the peer Of any eleven that
ever played on a college gridlron.
After the first ten minutes Of play though no
scoring had been done. a gloom began stealing
over the faces Of the Yale coaches. so speedily
had the Crimson men shown the stuff of which
they made. 1t had been predicted that.
Harvard was counting for her gains 10 a con-
siderable extent on lorg End runs. for which
the turf must usually be firm. the fearful storm
and muddy slippery gridiron would be a great
handicap to the Harvard team. But the Cam
bridge youths seemed delighted with the mud
and played with a snap and dash that simply
SWEEP the Yale eleven off its feet Harvards
attack which in the game against the Quakers
had seemed slow and weak. had been wonder
fully perfected in the last fortnight. 1t formed
with marvellous speed and compactness and
crashed its way irresstibly through the Yale
line. Nothing could withstand it, and, in fact.
the highest compliment that could be paid TO
Harvard's offensive work would be to say that
it was regular Yale footbalr all over again.
but perhaps. even more heady.
YALE BESTED AT KICKING.
When at times on the offence Harvard changed
her rushing tactics and adopted the kicking
game she outpointed Yale as had been antci-
pated with ready In almost every
change OF punts Harvard would make a net
gain OF twenty 10 thirty yards over the Blue.
and placed her kicks with unerrng judgment
And IL was noticeable how Yale never kicked
unless she was forced to. consequently not doing
even as we'll at punting she capable
Of. whereas Harvard punted for offensive gains
As for the defensive work Of the elevens
there was no comparison After the Princeton
game Yale men betook unto themselves much
consolation in the stone wall Of defence that
the Blue line showed to the Tigers. But that
same wall crumbled and fell TO pieces before
Harvards fierce and steady onslaughts. and
before fifteen minutes had been played the
Crimson had the Els ION the run" In fact the
men in blue seemed almost dazed by the ag-
gressiveness and rapidity with which the enc
my worked the ball up to their goal line. and
before they had thoroughly walked up Harvard
had scored twice and the game
There holes at about all the points in
Yale's line. and her ends were far from i'm
pregnabe. In fact. Dibblee skirted them two
or three times in splendid fashion. The Yale
ends. too were slow in getting down the field
on kicks and again and again DAILY and Dib-
blee rushed the latter back for good. big gains.
YALE's STRONG STANDS
Under the shadow OF her own goal Yale ;aree
times made a stand stubborn and full of
pluck To call forth the greatest applause
from friend and foe alike and thrice did she
beat back the Crimson cohorts. But her line
could not hold against such incesssnt hammer
ing and finally It gave way. Throughout. how
ever Yale played with that grim pluck for
which she is famous. and though plainly beaten
toward the end. still went at the play with as
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