The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-16
GRANDEST GAME
HELD In STADIUM
Harvard Defeated Dartmouth Saturday
Afternoon by the Score of to 0,
Before a Tremendous
Crowd.

Cambridge. Mass, Nov. l6.--Harvard
beat the Dartmouth team Saturday af.
ternoon by the score of 9 to in the
erandest game Of foot ball ever seen in
the stadium. Though Dartmouth went
down in defeat before the furious as.
saults Of the Crimson backs, she was not
disgraced. Harvard's touchdown came
late in the second half, with only two
minutes more to play, after the teams
had battled on even terms for Us MIN.
utes of furious playing.
II But Harvard won on her merits,
Throughout the contest she was con-
stantly just httle the better, and her
1 final touchdown came not as fluke but
/ after her eleven had secured the ball
on their own 23-yard line and carried
it eighty-seven yards up the field and
over the Dartmouth goal line without
once losing it. And the Harvard team
was penalized fifteen yards for holding
in the course of their steady procession
up the field.
Over $4,000 persons watched the game.
| Dartmouth had almost as many parti-
sans on hand as had Harvard, for the
sons of Hanover had come down from
the north in body expecting to see
their team win, and they were nassed
on the south side of the field, from
where they encouraged their team with
wonderful spirit throughout the game.
The weather conditions were ideal
There was no sun to bother the players
In catching punts and the wind, which
had blown briskly during the morning,
fell to a gentle breeze from the west,
which made that goal just a tribe the
more desirable.
The game was remarkably clean. Har-
ward suffered more through penalties;
she lost thirty.fve yards as the result
Of holding twice in the line and on off
side play Dartmouth was penalized
once for interference with fair catch
and twice for interference with center,
for a total Of twenty-five yards
The dominant feature of the whole
game was without doubt the manner in
which the Crimson team came hack at
the close of the second half, after the
play had been largely in her territory,
and swept down the field in an irresist-
ible march for a touchdown. Ii was
marvellous foot ball, rejecting credit on
the Harvard players and coaches alike
1t was the maohine-like advance which
so few Harvard teams have been able to
carry as far as their opponents goal
line and back OF ii there was a spirit
on the part Of the players that carried
all opposition before it, even after Har-
ward had lost fifteen yards through
holding.
1t was late In the second half that the
Harvard team shook itself together and
started its winning streak. Pollard, the
colored halfbank, punted 10 Cutler on
Hsryard's 23-yard line, where the Grim
son quarterback was downed in his |
tracks. White was the first man called |
upon, and he tore through right tackle |
for four yards. Leslie, the speedy sub
stitute who had relieved Corbett, shot |
through left tackle for gain that puz-
zled the officials some before they decided |
that there was still half an inch to go |
for first down.
White got four yards through right |
tackle and then he was replaced by |
Smith. White had been doing yeoman
work through the game, and was the life /
Of the Harvard backfield while he played |
Smith instilled new spirit into the tired /
men and on the next play Leslie reeled /
OF eight yards outside Of right tackle.
Vcrwiebe, the sturdy fulIbeck who had
replaced Kennard late in the first half,
took the two yards necessary to a first
down. Leslie and Verwiebe in two
PUSHES Melted eight yards more and then
Leslie reeled of eleven yards, carrying
the ball to the Dartmouth 5S-yard line.
On the next play Leslie made aYe
yards more, but there was holding on the
Harvard line. and the Crimson was set
hack and had the ball on its own 46-
yard line Here Cutler worked e besu.
tHul forward pass to Browne for . gain
IF twenty yards. The bah looked
rs though Il was intended for Fish,
whom Dartmouth spilled, but Browne
slutched il Just in time and was downed
IN Dartmoufh's 4o-yard lire. Leslie
found four yards ct right tackle, and