Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12

VdTQ IOOLDdll game at NEW maven las l
November. His report has aroused
no little interest in Paris and through
out France as being. perhaps the first
picture given to Frenchmen by a
Frenchman of the American football
match. 1t occupies the leading posi-
ton in the Figaro of January 81, ap-
pearing under the head EN- Amer
ique: lie football" A translation
reasonably free, but often quite liber-
al, the more to show the impression
on the French mind, is given below.
The letter is written from New York
and is as follows:
The most splendid game of football
in all America, is, it appears, the one
which is play ed every year at the end
of November between the old univer-
stiles of Harvard and Yale. 1t sur
passes in Importance and in renown
even that of the army and navy, which
takes place about the same time.
The match is a national event, some
thing like the Grand Prix de Long
champ" in France, the derby in Eng
land, and the opening of the bull
fights at Madrid or Seville-with the
following difference-since the strug-
gle is a struggle of men, to the attrac-
tion of the sport is added the excite
ment of human effort, which alone
succeeds in truly exciting the country
of America.
Therefore all the trains which that
morning left New York for New Ha-
ven, where is the University Of Yale,
seemed elegant pleasure-trains carry
ing the crowd to a festival. Young
women and young men, and also those
more advanced in years, all carried
in their button-holes pinks and red
roses or violets, or in their hands lit
tie scarlet or blue flags according
to the preferences of each, for Yale
and Harvard have their colors, red
for one. for the other, royal blue.
Fifteen thousand persons had left
New York in the morning, or had
come from Boston to New Haven, and
many others from the surrounding
towns.
1t was splendid weather, dry and
cold The hotels of the little city
search of nourishment intermingled
on the thresholds of the restaurants
and of the inns. The wisest had
brought baskets Of provisions. Sell
ers cried chocolate and sandwiches
which they sold at inconceivable
ho1 n n
sandwich, and what a sandwich! a
narrow silver of white and hard meat
between two leaves of spongv bread.
The Road to the Game.
And the road, two liilometers long,
which leads from the station to the
stand where the game takes place, is
filled with an incessant food of peo-
pie who hasten along like hurried
river through rows of red and yellow
wooden houses. The electric cars
are filled full; each car contains AT
least twice as many people as it has
places; so passengers, hanging one to
another overflow on the runnig'
boards. tremhle like lunches of
grapes at every stop and turn and al
every start. and the cars follow each
other without interruption,
Here we are before the stand
Imagine immense scaffoldings thirty
feet nigh, supporting innumerable
benches which are in stories and in
the form of an amphitheatre on the
four sides of a roofless rectangle. In
the center, a turf from $50 to 240
feet long, about 60 feet wide. Forty
thousand persons can be accommodate
ed there, and not a place is empty,
This mass of people constitutes
alone an impressive spectacle
Two of the sides of the rectangle
are peopled with the students of Har-
ward, and their guests; they are OPP
posite to the students of Yale and
their adherents
The benches of Harvard are as red
as a cloyer-feld. there are SO many
little flags which they are waving, st
many roses and pinks. red ribbons
and badges, even scarlet costumes
worn by the ladies; the benches o
Yale are blue and violet,
The match will be warm. Since
this annual encounter was inaugural
ed thirty years ago. Yale has almos
always been victorious. But last yea
Harvard beat Yale soundly, and Gal
wishes to take her revenge. The bet
are hot. Great sums have been risk
ed at the Exchange of New York. al
these last days. on one or the othe
team" as they call here the men o
each camp. word which has been in
deed adopted in France by the Ian
guage of sport. But it is the team o
Yale which is the favorite, However
those of Harvard are sure of the vic
tory: it will be a fine dispute.
The hour has struck. And here |:
the mascot of Yale who makes his ap
nearance: it is a dog held in leash by
a little groom dressed in costume
Louis XIV and all powdered. H'
makes win his dog the round of the
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