The Washington times., 1906-11-24
Claim Made That Harvard
Hired Them Two Weeks
Before Conference.
BILL EDWARDS REMARK
Quoted as Saying He Would Keep an
Eye on Yale's Holding-Big
Scrap, Perhaps.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Nov -4---MOTc
than 5000 cheering parrisaus Of the
two great universities gathered today
20 see Yale and Harvard meet on the
gridiron In what may be the last foot
bail struggle between the Crimson and
the Blue.
New Haven streets were thronEed
with noisy visitors. wearing the colors
Of both colleges, yelling and keeping
up an inccssant din Of cAee-s, Tin horns
and buzzers
Al an early hour special trains from
New York. and Boston began dumping
the bordes Of football enthusiast, and
for hours and hours long lines OF waving
haes and c0l1gs wound through the
streets. slowly moving toward Yale
field. where the great battle Is 10 be
fought.
The hundreds Of Harvard men who
came in on the early trains today and
last night were all eager 10 bet. but de-
manded a shade in odds. When the Tale
men refused 10 give them any but even
money the betting settled down % this
basis. and uumberless waBers We're
made
Since this may be the last football
meeting OF the TWO great rivals. much
regret is felt that they do not meet
IN a spirit OF sPortsmaHship and good
fellowship. But the bitterness al Yale
over the matter Of officials probably Will
never be wiped out. and today the an
ger Of the students is sril great
Some Nasty RumoTs.
Newspaper men were hot on the
picked officials tran 10 explain how
they came % accept retaining fee by
Harvard TO ofhciate at tine game more
than week before the conference at
which they were selected through Har-
ward ulumaJum. Hsrvard's football
managers admit that they hired the men
Two weeks aEo. and Biz Edwards wa
quoted yesterday by a Harvard man
/ Of prominence as saying two weeks ago
that he knew that Yale was great Of
2 fender ia holding ln tho line and that
/ he would watch for 10 in the Nale-Har-
ward game.
The work NJ the Two umplres will be
most cautiously watched today. i Is
: a perfectly fair statement to assert that
Z 10 Is felt on the campus that they come
/ here under suspicion as being hired by
! Harvard two weeks ago and accepted
/ by Yale last Wednesday under threat
| of oanceliuS the game by Harvard.
May Be Free Fight
] Yale men are excited over a well cir
I culated and apparently well founded re-
port that the Cambridge cohorts reach
I ed here with a plan 20 parade around
/ the Yale campus after the game, head
{ ed by q brass band. and equipped with
red FIRE. horns. and all manner OF noise
+ making apparatus. IA the event OF g
. Crimson victory. When news Of The
( threatened invasion reached the Yale
( campus. committees were appointed q
corral the freshman class and make
/ them hustle barrels and wash boilers
/ anything, IN fact that would hold wa
| ter. The receptacles VIII be- placed 81
/ the strategic points about the campus
/ Il Is said. and "a the absence % boiling
/ oil 90 Is thought THAI che water VII
/ serve as a very good substitute.
7 The two teams are as rNeulE match
Z cd. judging from past performances, Gi
/ they possibly could be- but where there
! IS any choice Of a favorite Yale Is nam,
/ ed as the college which viii win the
/ contest The reason for this is no
founded only ON the record OF ths
( teams for the season. but also on the
! traditional supremacy OF Yale IN al
Z athletic contests. Harvard has beer
: trying FOR years without success tc
( wrest the premier honors from the New
I Haven college, and. though she has wOT
{ contests on Isolated occasions. the
! Crimson is sim I'm second place.