East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-21


side Gates-Taft Is Center of At
traction For Many.
New Haven, Nov. 21.-Final score,
Harvard 4, Yale 0.
New Haven, Nov. 21.-This is the
greatest day of the year here. More
ii an $4,000 people are watching the
Harvard-Yal game this afternoon.
The teams are battling FOR the su-
preniacy of 1908. The sole topic Of
conversation today has been football.
The Yale men are preserving an
air of confidence, but the odds favor
Harvard. Both teams have been scor-
ed on by opponents, and both have
played tie games previously this sea-
son.
A win for Harvard means the first
victory for the cardinals since 1901.
New Haven, Conn, Nov. 21.-Be-
fore an audience which includes Will
liam Howard Taft, Yale rs, and some
10000 other persons, the annual foot
ball game between Yale and Har-
ward will be played this afternoon.
Hours before the time scheduled for
the contest to begin, a mighty crowd
gathered about the entrance to the
grandstand.
Even on this day of days, when the
gridiron gladiator is usually supreme,
the interest of the mob was augment
ed by a desire to see the first Yale
man ever elected to the presidency.
For many years past, the Haryardites
have been Dragging of the fact that
the Cambridge institution was Presi-
dent Roosevelt's alma mater, and now
the sons of Old Eli perceive an op-
portunity to humble the naughty pride
Of their ancient enemy.
It is estimated that not more than
half of the rooters who are this af-
ternoon clamoring for admission tol
the charmed circle of football-mad
rooters can be accommodated in the
According to Manager
Everard Thompson, of the Yale tick
ct department, the demand for seats
has been the greatest for any game
played in the United States. In Mr..
opinion, the election of
Mr.. Taft has had much to do with
his unprecedented outbreak of poplar
football frenzy.
The Cambridge rooters began to
lrrive early and waved their crimson
banners defiantly in the faces of the
blue hosts The tame and chastened |
of the last few years, GER
ain of nothing but defeat, has been |
succeeded by a chesty and arrogant
exultantly hopeful of vic
DRY. The game this afternoon pre-
ents a greater element of doubt than
las been known in recent years. Yale
s admittedly not up to its customary
and Harvard is stronger
han it has been in several years. The
men are we'll supplied
With cash and are manifesting a de-
ire to wager every cent of it on the
uccess of the crimson eleven.
The streets of this old city pre-
ented an animated scene this morn
ng. All the houses in the city float
d their blue banners from the outer
ralls All New Haven was on the
treets, as well as a large part of New
'ork and Boston and neighboring
tiles. The thoroughfares were alive
18th fast and merciless automobiles.
{ was as much as a mans life was
'orth to cross a street without taking
careful survey of the situation.
Crowd Sweeps Street.
At noon the tagged and hammered
ost began to move, 1t swept down I
he tree-shadowed streets like slow
nd resistless glacier. All the gates
xpanded like an open fan, sweeping
his way and that up the wide aisles {
nd along the steep rows of seats.
Here and there little parties began
them came sweeping in, swathed
I'd the contents of hampers.
Here and there, too, the crimson of ,
he Harvard host began to blaze like
n incipient conflagration. Red BAN I
ers, red handkerchiefs and red {
.reamers floated in the air and be- !
ind every banner was at least one
retty girl. $
There were blue and violet girls,
10, over on the Yale side. Battalions :
them came sweeping in, swatched {
, their pink ear tips in furs and col
'ge flags. They were all partisan, all
18th their minds aroused one way or
he other on the coming battle. The {
avor of barbarity in the game SEEM {
d to appeal to them. But what they !
ont know about II was a very great |