Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-04-03
Who Finished
The Game ?
Original

feature OF lhe 1ale-hdIN3Eu IOOlDalI
game back III lS9- that is no nearer a
settlement than it was an hour after
the game was finished. All the men
who were engaged in it have left col
le@r long ago, but the matter has been
handed down to the undergraduates
and serves for a subject of perpetual
wrangling. The trouble was that in
those days they played the game too
late in the day, and before it could be
finished it was 40 dark one could
scarcely distinguish one side from the
other.
The dispute in question could not
have arisen except for this cause. The
game was played Oh Thanksgiving
day, very nearly the shortest in the
year. This particular Thanksgiving
was cloudy; consequently the dark.
ness came on earlier than usual.
The way Of it was this: Barnard
was the center rush for Yale, and II
wasn't known till the game began that
he was suffering from some heart com
plication, probably brought on at prac'
tice the day before. when he suddenly
tainted after q hard Scrimmage. His
doctor forbade his going into the
Thanksgiving game, but he was loyal
to his college, and he knew 1t would
lose without him. At any rate, there
was a consultation on Thanksgiving
eve, and when the boys appeared from
behind locked doors it was announced
that there had been mistake about
Bannard's heart trouble and he would
take his place in the team next day.
Everything went straight enough TIL
near the end of the first half. Barnard
shouldered the principal work, as he
had always done, and Yale had scored
more points than Harvard, but toward
the end of the half Barnard began
to look queer and let Sampson OF
Harvard right past him with the ball,
thereby losing a touchdown. Sampson
kicked the goal and tied the game.
After the next lineup Barnard during
a scrimmage fell over in q faint, and
that let Harvard in for another touch
down and a goal Barnard was car
ried off the field.
Well. it began to get dark, but was
not so dark when the men lined up
again but that | could see Barnard In
position. Eut somehow he looked tall
er than usual. and there was peculiar
motion about him that | had never no
ticed before. After half hour of the
second half all one could see Of the
| players was lot of dark figures on
IL, pnnnopl'c toll FRO a
loOmed up above the rest like the spec
ter of the Brocken. Great guns, how
he did play! He was at the front at
the flank, in every scrimmage. In
short, he was carrying the game far
better than he had ever done before.
Then came that celebrated run in
which he lodged six men and, unguard-
ed, carried the ball over the line twenty
yards In front of his nearest follower
for a touchdown. | watched to see him
kick his goal, and what was my sur
prise to see another man do it for him.
| asked what it meant and was told
that he had gone under again.
The game now was tied. When the
men lined up again, | watched for
Barnard. Sure enough, he was there,
and after the kickoff did the same as
tonishing work as before. He scored
two touchdowns, but by this time it
was so dark that l could not see who
kicked them. However, they both fail
ed, on account of the darkness, | sup
pose, leaving Yale ahead in the game
Before any more points could be
scored Barnard suddenly disappeared
from the field, and a substitute appear
ed in his place, slow, bungling fellow,
who lost for his college enough points
to put Harvard again even with Yale.
There remained but five minutes Of
the three-Quarters of an hour allowed
for the half At the kickoff Barnard,
who was in his place, jumped fully ten
feet, caught the ball and ran with 1t
straight through the Harvard lines.
1t has been said that no human being
could have got through that line as it
was placed. Every gap was closed.
One Harvard man swears that Ban
nard passed him and as he seized the
giant around the waist he seized air.
Another declares that the man wasn't