New-York tribune., 1901-10-23
"OLD GRADS BEAT STUDENTS
ALL STAR TEAM OF ALUMNI SHOWS
YALE YOUNGSTERS HOW TO
PLAY FOOTBALL.
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New-Haven Conn. Oct 22.-Yale brawn' would
seem 10 be lasting quality from the style or game
put up by the graduates in the bicentennial foot
ball game at Yale Field this afternoon. The strong
Yale second team. made up of young men OF
physical prowess went down in the dust before an
aggrega ton Of graduate players many of whose
football Us were won twenty years ago and
more. 1t was expected that the graduates would
he shaken 10 atoms by the assaults Of the young
sters but instead the alumni ripped up the college
eleven on every play and scored two touchdowns.
winning by a score of 12 10 0.
Never before has such football game been
played at Yale. or probably anywhere else Ar
rayed against the undergraduates were men. some
with side whiskers and some with bald heads. pros
porous business and professional men from all over
the country, most OF whom were boys half gen
Grafton ago. There were newly graduated football
heroes in the list also. but much Of the spectacu-
lar playing was by the older men.
There McClung. 80. still active as 4 boy.
Pa COrbn. the giant father of modern Yale foot
ball; Walter Camp. expert football coacher who
played on four football teams two decades since
Vince" Mccormick, the sensational quarterback
who shattered Harvard's hopes for three seasons;
o. D. Thompson, -. great tackle in his day:
Josh Hartwen, of crew and gridiron fame ten
years HeffefnGer, whose football stories still
remain fresh Butterworth, 95. the famous pluug-
ing fullback, and Hall, Murphy. Gordon Brown.
Cross. Cutter. Chamberlain. Chadwick Hickok
HubbeIl, Ely, Thorne. Sharpe and Hale. all Yale
gridiron heroes.
When the ''old grads" leaped the fence OF the
inclosure such a yell up never heard
before at Yale Field The ten thousand spectators
cheered while a Of autumn color waved about
the stands. IL assembly. too. the like of
while Yale Field had never seen before More than
a thousand undergraduates at the field in cos
TUNES of the torchlight processton-Indians, Pill
grims, Continentals sailors and rough riders Bands
played college airs and stands full of college men
sang the well known Yale war songs
When the graduates lined up for the kick OFF they
surprised the second team by putting in thirty yve
men. IL looked like an army, and when later. Camp
kicked off the graduates whOoped down the
second team in platoons But this just start
er, and the first team, solely of former Yale ca p
tains Immediately got down to business Then
the fun began McClung on the second play sklrted
left end for thirty yards old fashioned play
while the stands wild with delight Then
Thorne jammed ten yards through Drummond as he
used to do Springfield. but fell. and Moorhead
got the ball The second team could not make
foot against that mighty wall of Oldtime football
fighters. and had TO kick. Hefelhnger blocking beau
ufully. Chamberlain got the ball and made touch
down. Thus far the scrubs had been carried OF
their feet, the alumni pushing them on as easily
Score-Alumni s; Scrubs. O.
When the ball was put in play again the gradu-
had shifted almost every position Cross took
PA Corbins place centre, while the veteran
limped smlingly the side lines. 1t took only six
minutes TO make the second score HeIrelnnSer
slamming through Bloomer for ten yards McClung
making ten by rolling around under Cross, and
when Butterworth got the ball. by beautiful end
5-yard line, where he went down under pile OF
eleven scrubs. Sharpe took Thorne's place. and
made the touchdown
The second team was strengthened heavily at this
tuncture by Johnson. Weymouth and others. and
In the second half the alumni did not score Hale:
last year's famous plunSer. played fuAoack, and