The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
EIGHT MORE OF THE CAMBRIDGE
PLAYERS FORCED TO RETIRE.
Poor Showing by Illinois Against Wis
cOnsin-Nefther Michigan Nor
ohio Able to Score.


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 24.-victory
long delayed perched on the blue banner
of old Yale to-day when the football team
OF the New Haven university smothered
the crimson Of fair Harvard in the annual
football contest played on Yale Field. For
the first time since 1894 Yale scored a vic
tory over Harvard. and to-day she took
sweet revenge for Harvard's merciless per-
Torrance in New Haven two years ago,
when the crimson rejoiced over the blue by
the score of II TO 0. To-day Yale admins
tered to Harvard a Waterloo to the tune
CT p TO 0. Here is the record since 1889:
1SS9-Yale, s: Harvard, o.
1S90-Harvard, u; Yale, 6.
1sS1-Yale, 10: Harvard, 0.
1Ss2-Yale, .; Harvard, 0.
1S93-Yaie, 6: Harvard, D.
1S94-Yale. Z: Harvard, 4.
1S55-NO game.
1S96-No game
1S97-Yale. 0: Harvard, o.
1S9S-Harvard. Il: Yale, 0.
1S99-Yale, 0; Harvard. 0.
I900-Yale, IS; Harvard, o.
It was Yale from the first kickoff to-
day. and the warriors of the blue seemed
bent furnishing Harvard to the limit.
In the first half Yale scored two touch
downs. In the second half she repeated
this performance, and in addition TO tear
ing Harvard TO pieces for two touchdowns
Sharpe, the Yale half back, lifted a field
goal from the twenty-five-yard line. In the
first fifteen minutes Of the game. by means
OF her stalwart rush line the famous
tackles back formation, with confusing
variations, tore through the Harvard for
wards for the first touchdown for Yale
An easy goal made the score to 9. A few
attempts at rushing were followed by a
Harvard punt Gould, the Yale end. muffed
the ball and it bounded into Fincke's hands
Like magic Yales interference formed and
Fincke started down the field for Har-
Yards goal. He left his interference be-
hind after fifteen yarSs and eluded the
Harvard backs, and after a magnificent
:un of sixty yards he planted the ball
squarely behind the goal posts for the sec
ond score. Hale kicked the goal and the
first half ended with the score at II to 0
in Yale's favor
The second half was killing one for
Captain Days man, and it was not long
before they began TO give way before the
unprecedented onslaughts of the Yale men.
Burnett had succeeded Lee just before the
first half ended. Soon after the KICKOFF In
the second half he received 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 rapid succession Harvard's men
surrendered and before the game was
over the crimson team had played twenty
men. The only Yale man to leave was
Olcott. the center, who, with five min
utes 10 play, had sustained a blow on the
head. and Holt took his place The scor-
ings of the second half were of the spec
taeular order. Chanwick. the Yale half
back. was pushed across the line after a
series Of marvellous line plunges, which
Harvard was utterly incapable OF check
Ing. Stillman. a few minutes later, almost
unaided. tore down four chalk lines for the
fourth touchdown. Sharpe's punt out for
one of these goals ended I'm a fizzle. Re
peated Yale rushes brought the ball with
In striking distance and Sharpe was
dropped back Tor his second attempt ar a
field goal. The Yale line held like stone
wall and Sharpe lifted the leather without
trouble. 1t few 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 the
Yale thirty-yard line. Throughout the
came Yale retained possession of the ball
three-quarters Of the time, and when it
fell 10 Harvard's lot on infrequent occa-
sions to try an advance her line plays and
end formations were thrown back. The
experts at the best points OF observation
ascribe the victory to Yales magnificent
team work and the superb physical condi-
ton Of her men.
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