The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-19
HARVARD AND YALE
CONTINUED from Page one.)

The little quarterback was injured here,
put Kept on pluckjly. Kendall made
another 8-yard run around the end to
HarV4rd's 3S-yard line, but a double
pass Immediately after was nailed.
Punting on both sides followed, and
Yale gained, while a forward pass by
Harvard gave the ball to Yale on the
crlmsop,s S5-yard line. Here Yale be-
gan gathering Harvard's line for short
gains. Sharpe made three yards to
right tackle, and Brown carried it five
yards around the left end. Kean took
Riohards' place and his first rush gave
yale three yards more and the ball was
ON Harvards S0-yard line.
ALMOST A TOUCHDOWN.
Two more rushes were tried against
Harvard, and Capt. Mcbride also tried
the centre without gain. Mcbride here
lntroduced seldom used play. In
stead OF Fisking a loss of the ball. Yale
kept it by carrying it back 20 yards
ana again hammering at the HarVard's
line. Once more Brown, the heavy
guard, plunged through Harvards tack
les for gains of three and five yards un-
til the ball was brought to fIarvard's
S2,yard line. Here the Harvard team
rallied and held SO well that taking the
ball back 20 yards was repeated.
4U-YdTQ
line, a miserable tumble by Sharpe gave
the ball to the crimson, and hope re-
vlVed on the Harvard side Of the field.
Reid took Hills place and did most of
the kicking for the rest Of the half.
Sawin tried Yale's left end with no
gain; Reid was thrown back from the
centre, and kick followed Chadwick
TOOK Richards place, and Snet6ler was
put in at right end for Gibson.
START DOWN THE FIELD.
Yale once more started down the
neld, but could make no material
gains, alld-~ths--ball went to Harvard
on downs On the kick which fol-
lowed, by Reid, Fincke made the first
mum Of the Yale side, and Harvard
gained 40 yards by Hallowelrs falling
on the ball Once more the Harvard
packs tried the centre and ends, but
could make no gains, and again Reid
kicked.
Yale started to repeat her rushing
tactics from her 45-yard line, Brown
and. Mcbride getting the ball as far as
the centre Of the field, where a kick
sent it to Harvard's So yard line On
the second down, Kendall, with grand
interference, went around Yale's left
END for rs yards amid tremendous
cheering With the ball on Yale's so
yard line, Reid made two yards
through the centre and kick sent the
BAH to Yale's 30-yard line. Both sides
exchanged kicks, but Mcbride man
aged TO muff one of them, and HALO
well fell on the ball on Yale's 20 yard
line.
GOAL IN SIGHT.
With Yale's goal in sight, Harvard
sent her backs into the Yale line with
tremendous speed, but an unfortunate
tumble gave the ball to Yale and Nc
Bride imlm ediately kicked to the centre
Of the field. There Reid kicked to
Ffncke, who muffed the ball, and it was
Harvard's on Yale's 15-yard line. One
rush was tried into the centre but the
Yale line threw it back without gain.
Then Hallowell stepped back for
goal from the field from the 2O-yard
line, with 20 short seconds in which to
make the try for a score. The ball
sailed straight to the goal post, but
before it reached it curved off to the
left and with a great sigh of relief
from the Yale stand and a howl of ang-
uish from the Harvard side, the at
tempt failed by a short yard, while the
whistle blew. The game ended with
the faces of the spectators and players,
as blank as the score.