The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-23
Gave Harvard the Football
Championship for 1908.
Crimson Won a Great Battle
From Yale Warriors.
VICTORY WAS EARNED
Chicago Won Western HOnOrs
From Wisconsin.
Minnesota Beat the Indians and
YOst HumbIed at Syracuse.

New Haven, Conn.,. Nov. 23.-Coy
failed to repeat. Score: Harvard, 4;
Yale. 0. Kennard kicked an easy field
goal in the first half. That was the
only score of the greatest gridiron
struggle of many years Yale fought
with bulldog grit, but the mighty
crimson warriors outlucked. out
fought outgamed the blue. Forty
thousand thrilled spectators witnessed
the memorable conflict. The lonely
tally fails to adequately indicate the
splendid contest. Yale lost, but not
in honor. Never was there, a finer,
cleaner faster game. 1t was the sea-
sons apotheosis of Americas greatest
amateur sport. Harvard played an
unbeaten game. Her team work was
matchless. her courage indomitable,
her individual players replete with
dash and brilliancy.
+ In Harvards hall of fame young
Kennard is now enshrined The
quickwittedness of Quarter Back
Cutler and Captain Burr made that
memorable effort of his possible. Har-
ward had gone down the field in a
steady advance. Corbett had dashed
like an antelope around Ellis right for
twenty-five yards There had been an
onside kick on which the pigskin
went to Yale, but Coy had punted
and the ball was again in crimson
hands Verweibe. Corbett and White,
aided by splendid interference. had
advanced the ball to Yale's 20-yard
line.
Kennard to the Front.
Suddenly Kennard was called out
from the side lines and sent in
Verweibe's place. Without a mo-
nent's warning Cutler flashed the
ball back to the grim little fellow.
With the speed of lightning young
Kennard with the throng agape put
his trusty boot to the sphere. Up and
out went the ball and spinning as
prettily as a toy balloon. f1oated over
the crossbars of Yale's goal posts for
the games only score. And then how
was a waving field of crimson, hats
filled the air and hysteria and joy
was damned up to the last degree.
And well could Harvard cheer. 1t was
the crimson's first score against Eli
since 1901. All. there was a sweet
moment for John Harvard and bit
ter pill for the husky aggregation
that had humbled the swiftly fighting
tigers one week ago. Man for man,
the teams doomed giant-like on the
chalk marked field. The biggest man
of all was Fish, the crimson right
tackle and field captain. Six feet
three he stood, a zoo pound mass of
bone and muscle. Harvard relied
much on Fish and the big fellow did
not fail. Verweibe was the star on
offensive work in the first half
Captain Burr's generalship in send
ing in Kennard undoubtedly won the
too crippled to enter the contest but
this one act indicates the high
quality of his leadership. Harvard
kicked off with Yale now defending
the south goal. Instantly PhiIbin tore
his way down the gridiron for a
smashing 40-yard run through a
broken field. Slap, bang went the
men in blue, but the red giants got
the ball on downs on their 3S-yard
line. The Yale team grew desperate
1t seemed on several occasions as if
Coy and his teammates through
anxiety 10 score lost their precision
and coherency of team play. Finally
Yale sprang her dying effort. Hobbs
dropped back to try for a goal from
placement at Harvard's 45-yard line.
Johnson held the ball when it
snapped back and as the audience
gasped he made a forward pass to
Brides, who got the ball on Har-
wards 7-yard line. 1t seemed YaIe's
of misery from the Yale supporters
when Referee Langford brought the
ball back and gave it to Harvard. 1t
was explained that the pass was
Illegal because it was not outside the
5-yard limit. Harvard had the ball
and was advancing when the whistle
of the referee ended the contest with
the ball on her own 50-yard line.
Final score, Harvard 4, Yale o.
The scenes which followed and the
celebrations in Cambridge and in good
old Boston town at night have become
a brilliant crimson page in the col
1ege lore. The summary:
The lineup and weight and height of
the players on the two teams were as
follows:
YALE.
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