The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-20
YALE WINS GAMEI
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allow the mighty Minot an oppor-
tunity to try for a field goal.
on the other hand Yale's aggress-
iveness gave Coy numberless oppor.
tunitics and while he failed on n
number of easy chances for drop
Kick goals, he succeeded in making
the required gains. Minots kicking
was the feature of the game and es.
pecially during the early stages of
the contest
Never perhaps in the history of
college athletics has q game carried
more money than the battle of today.
Starting at 10 to with Yale as the
choice, the odds have steadily drop.
ped. Last night thousands Of dollars
were wagered at ten to nine with
Ellison on the long end To-day there
is little being bet ut better than ever
on the straight result. That Har-
ward Is confident is easily seen by the
way the money of her hackers goes
down That she will score I'm the
blue. odds OF two to three are Of
fercd, while on the other hand odds
of eight to ten are offered that Yale
makes two touchdowns. In every
hotel and cafe in the city this morn
ing the lobbies are thronged and men
eagerly thread their way through the
crowds with bundles of money in
their hands, ready to wager II on the
crimson or the blue. The 1000 Yale
undergraduates who this afternoon
will root for Captain Coys team at
the stadium brought in n bundle of
coin. They are betting II freely but
seem disinclined to place 1t at much
better than evens And the Yale un-
dergraduates and Yale alumni are not
behind.
The word has gone forth that IIar.
ward has some aces up her sleeve
and that Head Coach Haughton has
perfected plan of trick plays that
will give the Ellis trouble.
Never In the long years that Yale
has battled with Harvard on the grid
iron has the relative strength of the
teams seemed as nearly equal. XII.
patrick and Savage, the Yale ends,
are admittedly superior to Smith and
Browne for Harvard. But not in any
ether position will the crimson con-
cede that they ne at a disadvantage.
Even Coy is not admitted to have
anything on Minot.
Though the chill had prevented q
great display of toilcttes, furs and
Jewels were visible in the tonneau,
enough to feed the poor of the ma
ton. In every automobile waved eth
er a crimson or a blue banner. inside
huge oval, the battle ground for the
Bulldog and John Harvard. the scene
was even more animated. From
rows of seats at the edge OF the grid
iron. away up to the towering COLON
nde which surmounts the huge gray
amphitheatre. solid mass of hui
manity stretched. each one eager for
the whistle. On the west side two
full sections were sombre with the
massed undergraduates of Harvard
the cheering section--and directly
across the gridiron from them, the
hordes of youngsters who will root
for Yale were gathered in solid pha-
lanx
To right and left of the aggrega-
lions OF lung power the npdding
plumes of the women and the waV-
ing colors of their escorts stretched
away down TO the bend of the horse
shoe, which is the real stadium, and
on the other side, as far as to where
rows of temporary seats filled mp III
the open end of the structure. on
the top of the collonade where Is us
ually only the cold stone, the struc.
uure was bright with colors. ON u
long bench ut the edge of the upper
most level the telegraph instruments
of the host of newspaper men in at
tendance clicked merrily carrying the
story of the battle to the farthest end
of the earth. and around the whole
top of the horseshoe broad shoulders
and pretty faces looked over the par
rpet and down on the gridiron be-
low, where the greatest teams of foot
ball history fought out their battle.
FOOTBALL SCORES,
Clvcland--First half; Western Re-
serve, 6; Hiram, o.
Oberln--First half Oberin, &;
Ohio State, 0.
At Annapolis; First half; Navy,
90; Davidson College, g.
Al Swarthmorc: First half: Swarth-
more, "a; Bucknell, 0.
At South Bethlehem First half
Lafayette, S; Lehigh, O.
At New York, first half: Holy Cross
8; Fordham, 6.