New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
YALE is OVERWHELMED
HAIR REARD PROVIDES A BIG
SURPRISE,
THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS
WATCH THE CRIMSON ROLL UP
30 TO THE BLUES o.
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Cambridge, Mass Nov. 23--Thirty-five thou
sand persons saw Harvard over=heIm Yals's
football team Soldiers Field here this after
noon by the crushing score of - to o No such
entire surprise has been served Up to the foot
ball world in years. No Harvard team ever out
played Yale more decisiveIy and completely
from start to finish than the Crimson warriors
of the canvas jacket outpIayed the wearers CT
the Blue to-day. From the first blast of the
referees whistle the very last moment of
play Yale beaten back and baf4ed in her
attack. while the Harvard forwards and backs
simply tore through the Yale line that stood off
the fercest attacks of Princeton players week
ago at New-Haven-
Time and again Cults. the big tackle; BIas-
cen. who occupied the corresponding position on
the other side and Barnard opened up big holes
in the Els, while Graydon. Herman and Ristins
ploughed along behind them for gains of three.
five, and even ten. yards Yale seemed para
lyzed with the unexpected ferceness and con-
centratiOn Of the assault made upon the men
who expected TO be nvincibIe. Only twice in
the two halves did Yale wrest the ball from the
Cambridge players by holding on downs while
Harvard again and again forced her opponents
TO punt
When the smoke Of battle had cleared away,
it plain to even the most ardent partisan Of
the Yale team that the New-Haven colIegians
had been vastly outplayed in every department.
of the game There was simply comparison
between the football played by the two teams.
In defence. offence. interference and play and
puntng Harvard was immeasurably the su-
perior. 1t a bitter defeat that was inflicted
on the Ellis. especially in view of the fact that
every one of them expected victory until the
! first half pretty well over By that time.
however, it was apparent to the most optimistic
that Yale was doomed The only thing that
/ could have saved them was complete collapse
! in the stamina of their opponents. This, how
/ ever. did occur
Every the Harvard team played
! throughout the game and seldom a Har-
| ward injured. and then not seriously. In
/ deed. the trainers of each team had sent their
men into the game fit to do their utmost 1T
/ had been feared that the Crimson players would
/ be soft and unfit to meet the fierce attack that
! they would be called upon to face. To the credit
/ of Jack McMasters. be it said, every Harvard
| man fit to fight for his life. and he played
/ if that large stake were in danger
/ BOTH TEAMS WERE FIT.
The Yale team outweighed BY the Crimson
! eleven This was obvious the moment the two
| teams trotted out upon the field; but Harvard
was fit and Yale was ft and the better team
won. 1t was Harvard's fifth victory Yale
in twenty-six years. and her supporters made
the most of it. cheered on by the fact that the
T victory was well deserved. The most regretta-
I BILE feature of the game was the injury to De
Saules the peerless quarterback of the Yale
team He was badly hurt in the second half.
after making a fine hard tackle, upon which
depended Yale's only chance to stave off an
7 other score by Harvard. and he was absolutely
unconscious for some minutes. HIS fellow play
ers had to assist him from the field, and the
physician who examined him said that he had
conclusion of the brain. from which. however.
he would doubtless recover His injury did not,
affect the result of the game, for Yale was al
ready beaten
1t was plain from the start that De saunes
was not himself He received d severe shaking
up in the Princeton game. from which he hal
/ not entirely recovered. and he was far from
I showing Yesterday his well proved cleverness at
running back punts after he had caught them
Three times he slipped before he had got well
started and was downed without much gain by
! the Harvard ends
1t was however. a great day for Harvard An
unprecedented crowd turned out TO see the
game All Cambridge and a good part of Bos-
ton assisted the winners to celebrate their vic
tory. which they did in the most approved fash
ion Every Cambridge was crowded to the
footboards from noon onward. and every car
travelled toward Harvard through rows OF show
| windows radiant with the crimson Occasional
| " too a Yale flag was seen and the Cambridgs
! City Hall exhibited delicate compliment TO the
New-Haven men in the shape OF Harvard flag
intertwined with Yale coIors
No such crowd ever seen at football
game before. The stands on Soldiers Field are
the most capacious in this country, and they
were flied to their utmost capacity. Five min
utes before the time for the game to begin the
big arena surrounded four sides by
shouting enthusiastic. color bedecked multitude
full of anticipation for the battle royal that was
expected observation-disclosures and North HaT-
/ vard-st. were chicken with a solid stream of hui
nnanity that moving in direction. The
( transit facilities far from adequate the
strain made upon them. Over the Charles River
t the trolley cars barely crept, and thousands
/ failed o arrive until the game for that
! reason alone Everywhere were football tark
and football enthusiasm
! YALE WAS WELL SUPPORTED.
Although the friends of Harvard were most
numerous. the men from New-Haven were fine
! " supported for thousands came from the Elm
CITY and from New-York Several special trains
arrived soon after noon. and many Yale
came down on Friday in special attached
to trains from New Haven. The Yale color
seen on every corner and in every street Yale
men wandered through the stretes of Cambridge
singing Yale songs and cheering for their team
Before the game began they were assembling
for an hour on the side of the field allotted to
them and there they made the sky resOund with
their cheering Harvard. from her place across
the sridiron, returned the war cry with interest
ana frequently reiterated song of defiance
written especially for the occasion Harvard
has been accused at times of not cheering
unanimously and heartily for her athletic teams