The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-03-14
Who Finished
 The Game :?
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 the game was finish |, All the men
 who were engaged in it have left col
 Iege long ago. but the matter has been , handed down to the undergraduates
 and serves for subject of perpetual
 wraugllng. The trouble was that In
 those days they played the game too
 late in tue day. and before 1t could be finished 1t was so dark one could
 scarcely distinguish ono side from the
 other.
 The dispute in question could not
 have arisen except for this cause. The
 game was played on Thanksgiving
 day. very nearly the shortest tn the
 year. This particular Thanksgiving was cloudy, coDSGalcnuy the dark The w0y-af t. was this: Barnard
 was the center rush for Yale. and lt
 wasn't knlwn till the game began that
 he was suffering from some heart com
 pllcation. probably brought on at prac
 ticc the day before. when he suddenly
 tainted after a hard scrlmmage. His
 doctor forbade his going Into the
 Thanksgiving game but he was loyal
 Co hls college. and he knew lt would
 lose without him. At any rate. there
 was a consultation on Thanksgiving eve. and when the boys appeared from behind locked doars it was announced
 that there had been mistake about Bauuard's heart trouble and he would take his p'acc Ia the team next day
 Everything went straight enough till near thc cnd of the first half Barnard shouldcrcd tbc principal work as be bad 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 rlcht past him with the ball. thereby losing a touchdown. sampson kicked the goal aud tied the game. After Che next lineup Barnard during a Scrimmagc fen over In a faint. and that let Harvard In for another touch down anal a goal Barnard was ear ricd UN tlc field.
 We'll it began Co get dark. but was not SD dark when the men lined up again but that ] could see Hanua.d ln position. Eut somehow he looked tJll- CT than usual and there was a peculiar ! motion about h'm that had never DO. 1 ticcd before After a half hour of the . second half an cue could see of thc . players VAS a lvt of dark figures on . lark ground Eanuarls tall frame loomcl up above tlc rest like thr spoc . .cr 0f the Brescu. Cheat guns. how hc did play, II, was at th' front. at . .hc flank iu every sc.mmugc. In l. ,lort bc was Hrry ing th' game faT better than l' lad ever done before Then cane that celebrated run ln which he dodecd -ix ,nvu urr ua a-Carl- .d cariied .at tail over t.c iigc twenty rards 'n front of his nearest follower 'or tOuCl Town. watched Co s.c him ,.ck his goal -.l wlat was my sur ,vise Gu sec ar0luer- ss'-..-- --,-.''- -,
 asked wrat.lt meant and was 'o'" hat be haI con und,r aea'u. l
 The game now was tied. When tue non lined up again. watched lo' ,pd ar,cr 'Gs. G. spgsGFt8f pgsGF 8 sfn Ye easc seeaS' as onlshlns work as before. He scored .wo touchdowus. but by th.s time it was SD dark that ! could not see who llcEcd thom. However. they both fall d. on ace mt of the darkness, ! sup pose. leaving Yale ahead in the game Before any more points could be scored Barnard suddenly disappeared from tLc field. and substitute appear ,d in his place. slow. bungling fellow. . who lost for hls college enough points to put Harvard again even with Yale.
 There remained but i've minutes Of . the threc-quartcrs of an hour allowed :. for the half At the kickon Barnard ! who was iu hls place. jumped fully ten . feet. caught the ball and rJn with it ! stral-h. through the Harvard lines.
 It ha. been said that no human bcin- l could have got through that line oS lt ! was placed. Every gap was closed. l One Harvard man swcars that Ban i uarl passed him and as he seized the giant around the waist he seized air. Another declares that the man wasn't Eannard at all though he was enough like him Co deceive his own mother Be this as it mry. the game was won for Yale. waited to see Barnard Rick for goal. but waited ln vain. < melody told me that it was so dark hc couldn't see the posts and that the game was won anyway for Yale. There was a hubbub am ng the players of both sides. who were huddled in two groups near the center of the grldiron. One oi them. a Harvard man. shouted "FoyA' md saw the Yale captain go to him and shake his fist in his face. but could rot hear what he said for thc commotiau.
 What do you suppose saw in the death notices of the newspapers thc next day-"Dicd. on Thursday. the 10th of November, Archibald Thcodor2 Barnard. in the twentieth year of his tse"
 Al what time a day did he dieG No one knows: at least no one will tell though 1t Is generally conceded that when he was carried or the ileld at the end of the first half he never went on it again. IT SO, who was ln hls placer one report said tlnt he had a twin brothcr-thc black sheep of the family. never spoken ot-who returned lust before tue game. and it was agreed beforehand that if Archie Barnard broke down this brother should take his place. This is the explanation of some Harvard men. but l have met one man Of their team. a supcrsutious sort of fellow. who declares that Ban pard died at the end of the first half md bis death was kept a secret. He
 wouldn't go of to the other world
 without seeing his college win.
 Anyway there's lot of loyalty al