Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-26
SWEEPING: NCToRY.
Yale Defeats Harvard Foot Ball
Team,..28 to 0.
Crimson Men Simply 0utcIassed by
Men in Blue.
HARVARD PUTS UP .GAMEY FIGHT
BrT IN VAIN.

noon. with one mighty leap by over
whelming the Harvard eleven by a
score of IS ia Q, and the moral effect OF
this most unexpected Waterloo cannot
now be estimated.
While the Harvard team showed bet
ter foot ball thap did Princeton against
the mighty Ellis. week ago. Still
there was not chance for the plucky
Crimson team. for Yale showed she
had n simply irrcsistih:c offence in thu
first half dozen PUSHES Of the game
1t was just as Walter Camp had de
ljberatcly stated IN the Yale Alumni
Weekly editorial. Yale had an abSo.
lutcly sure offence: there was nothing
that has been evolved in foot ball thai
could stop it.
Yale scored twice in the first halt
ana three times in tie second. After
Sawin had returned the initial kickoff
of the game to Yale's J0-yard line the
remarkable offence began to drive Tho
Howard team back. and on Il plays
Yale had the ball barely a foot from
the goal line. only to lose it on a fun
bile This was an objectionable Of
fence to good foot ball. but when Saw
in kicked out Of bounds. only - yards
from his own goal line, Yale began her
batterinE ram offence anew. and OF
eight plays carried the bah over for q
touchdown, from which a goal was
kicked This happened in the first /.
minutes Of play.
Most OF the time during the remain
dor of the half the bali was in Yale ter
ritory. but mostly in Sale's hands as
we'll Capt. Browns grim and deter
mined players, after carrying the bal
from their own 6-yard line to Har-
wards Ge-yard line. lost il for holding
but & moment later. when Sharpe FUN
bled punt on his own 4i-yard line.
Fincke caught the ball and ran the
gauntlet Of the whole Harvard team
for a touchdown. Yale carried the ball
on rushas in this half EOS yards. Fincke
and Chadwick ran in punts in addition
y yards each. and there was one pen
atty OF ave yards to Yale for interior
cnce with the centre.
Harvard had the bail 50 little in this
half that she rushed the ball only eight
times and gained only about l. yards
Harvard puntcd six times and Yale
twice.
In III" second half Yale scored Two
tcuchdowns. and Sharpe kicked . goal
from the field. The first touchdown
was made possible b. tumble by
Harvard iii Il scrimmage on hcr own
e5-yard line. Not long after the next
kickoff Harvard got the ball on Yale s
3.-yarl line on q tumble. but on the
very first play there was n tumble of
Il double pass and Sherman COY grab
l.d th.. ball and ran - yards for a
touchdown. SHARPE tried for a goal
from the field from a down on the -
yard line ana failed. Later nc made
another attempt from Il down IN the
Ie-yarLl line. and although the ball hit
one OF the uprights. it bounded between
the posts and counted.
Harvard made Il vain and ili-tim"d
attempt to score d goal from the field
Early in the half
on Il third down on Taie's i-yari
line. Sawin tried = drop xxx fully -
yards away from the coveted goal His
direction Was excellent. but the ball a.
vas natural. fell at about the. 1-yartl
line Eut for the tumble on Yale's 3
yard line another ANA much better
chance would have been open
Yal, carried the ball IL yards on
PUSHES in tn. second half aud r;tn in
kicks distance OF 3 Yards There
was also Coy's run OF y yards from q
tumble. Harvard carried the ban 80
yards on rUshes and ran in kicks 70
tai distance Of - yards only two pen
aities were inflicted Harvard Mas Civ
IN Eve yards for Interference with cen
ter and she lost the ball on YaIc's -
yard line for holding.
The only offsIde penalty inflicted in
the game was when Coy was oTsifs
IN TIE initial kick off FOR The first half.
and Yale was obliged 70 kick again
from her 56-yard line. Not kick vas
blocked in what vas. especially the
second half 2 kicking rame- Harvard
held Yale for four downs, once in the
game. but Capt Days men never
tried 10 rush after q third down because
they we're constantly on the defensive.
Yale made three fumblcs in the first
half. scoring touchdown from her
own ulisplav- Yale made one tumble
in the second half which cost nothing
while Harvard made four two Of which
were responsible for touchdov rs
Ii was 2 contest of hard straight f0-or
ball from beginning 10 end. and e0ass-
eEently : bruistng game Br1te force Az.
Superior foor baI carried the day ever
whe.rniusIy for Yale The physical
strength. condition and endurance Z tie
prote-es OF Nike" Murphy were aa1az-
ingfy manifest vs. x always the cdSe
against / Successful hammer and tozgs
Offence the defensive eleven showed tiIe
most injuries There werg no unn1cts-
sar- delays. Harvard-s pluck VS. F7s.Tli-
fest 70 the end il her NET dfd fall br the
FavsjtIs Frequently i'll rhta SECOND half
There was u0C a Nan down for INJURIES
IN fhtS first hsEIt U1CI almost Z z the clGsA
Of rb+ BALI when Lse was STRETCHED ss1t
and had 10 give way 80 FstIr-l4tr L Vas
not Until usEr 70 the last pIa- % ire
"a ne taar n Tlh- man was down IN carr
est and then TIE sturdy Olc,ItL- ehe key
srogss Il Fale-s line. had 70 sacCra1b 70
a eat8paIJ cEargs- and b. Ieff nT rhz
ti4Id. F+olr taking Eis place
HarvrG played II H1sn before the. frAE
u l1isrie Ias blown SstrgaEr. Ef-e center.
lin Lawrence the right tackle. and
EerI,flu- the right ElIfhaek we're the
0rrv Ea=n who played through thsz "a ne
E7aw Rf tiIs mel wErE haftEy Injured
Dar- w.Es vary aan1e stlal 1ltec t!ls seq
7s-e; half ueE-zLa and after once refusing -
tCo1ttnued o. pa-e -