The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-27
SENSATIONAL GAME BETWEEN
YALE AND HARVARD.
OLD SCORE is SETTLED
Sons Of Eli After Successive Defeats
Wrest Victory from Stall
wart Opponents.

New Haven, Nov. 24-VictOry long
delayed perched upon the blue banner
of old Yale today when the football
team of the New Haven university
smothered the crimson of fair Har-
ward in the annual football contest
played on the Yale field.
For the first time since 1894, Yale
scored a victory over Harvard and to-
day she took sweet revenge for Har-
wards merciless performance in New
Haven two years ago when the Grim
son rejoiced over the blue by a score
of II to 0. Today Yale administered
to Harvard a Waterloo to the tune Of
20 to O.
It was Yale from the first kickoff
and the warriors of the blue seemed
bent on furnishing Harvard to the
limit. In the first half Yale scored
two touchdowns. In the second half
she repeated this performance and in
addition to tearing Harvard to pieces
for two touchdowns, Sharpe, Yale's
half back, lifted the field goal from
the 25 yard line. In the first Is min
utes of the game, by means of her
stalwart rush line, famous tackles and
back formation, with its confusing
variations, she tore through Harvard
forwards for a fifth touchdown for
Yale. An easy goal made the score 6
to 0. A few attempt at rushing were
followed by a Harvard punt. Gould,
Yale end, muffed the ball and it
bounded into Finckce's hands. Like
magic Yale's interference formed, and
Finckce falling behind it, started
down the field for Harvard's goal. He
left his interference behind after a
few yards and eluded the Harvard
backs, and after a magnificent run of
60 yards planted the ball squarely be-
hind the goal posts for a second score.
Yale kicked the goal and the first half
ended with the score at 10 to O in
Yale's faovr.
The second half was killing for Cap
tain Days men and it was not long
before they began to give way before
the unprecedented o%nslaughts of the
Yale men. Burnett had succeeded
Lee just before the first half ended.
Shorty after the kickoff of the second
period the crimson supporters were
thrown into a panic when Daily, who
had been limping, went to the side
lines and Harvard had lost her cap
tain. In quick succession Harvard's
men surrendered and before the game
was over the crimson team had played
20 men The only Yale man to leave
was Olcott, center, who with five
minutes play had sustained a blow on
the head and Holt took his place.
The scoring Of the second half was
of a spectacular order. Chadwick,
Yale half back, was pushed across the
line after a series of marvellous line
plunges which Harvard was utterly
incapable Of checking. Stillman, a
few minutes later, almost, unaided,
tore down four chalk lines for a fourth
touchdown. Sharpe's punt out for
one of these goals ended in a fizzle.
Repeated Yale rushes brought the ball
within striking distance and Sharpe
vas dropped back for his second at
tempt at the field goal. The Yale line
held like a stone wall and Sharpe
lifted the leather without trouble. It
flew toward the goal posts, struck one
of the uprights and glanced through.
This ended the scoring.
Yale's goal was never in danger,
Harvard not once reaching a point
nearer than Yale's 40 yard line.
Throughout the game Yale retained
possession of the ball three-quarters of
the time and when it fell to Haryard's
lot, on i%nfrequent occasions, to- try to
advance, her line-plays and end for
nations were thrown back.