The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-01
HANOVER TEAM
WILL BE MISSED
Harvard-D Game a New
England Classic.

Not in MANY wears has the college.
football world been stirred up as it is
today over the dropping of Dartmouth
from Hafvard's schedule The can
cenla ton of the annual game removes
from the football schedule a game
which had grown to become one of
the biggest battles of the year. While
college men all over the country re-
greet that the two colleges have sew
cred relations for the time being in
football, New Englanders feel the
blow more keen1y, for they had come
to regard the game as football ira
dition.
Several reasons have been give. out
by the Harvard men for the dropping
of the Hanoverians. One reason was
that the Crimson wished to hghten ITS
schedule The true story, however, IS
expected to come later. Speaking OF
the matter today Mr.. Joseph Cannon,
the New York Dartmouth representa-
..An Dartmouth men and friends of
Dartmouth will be sorry to learn that
Harvard has decided to end the loot
ball relations which have please ntly
existed for thirty years. The public
generally, and New England especial
ly, have regarded this game as a, fix
tant of the season For the last u
years, with the exception of the Yale
game, the Dartmouth game has been
the most important on the Harvard
schedule The tickets have been al |
Iotted by application to the alumni
of both institutions and. the attend |
anc0 mas nII6o the SI1tO1u1A1 A%c1SI 49,
vember $4,000 persons witnessed the
game and this was said by Graduate
Manager GarceIon of Harvard to-be
the largest crowd that ever attended |
been a great revenue producer for the |
athletic associations of both colleges.
1.-THE Harvard Dartmouth game has
always been characterized by hard
fighting and clean playing, marked
by the absence of injuries to the play
ers. Just why Harvard has decided
~ ~ - ord to 1Tdo md q
runor that the action is really a blow
at, Darthoutl's prestige in Massachu-
sets by some person or persons nigh
in authority at Cambridge is given
little credence by Dartmouth alumni,
who feel that such a motive is be-
meath the dignity of 50 great an in
Stitution as Harvard University.
From 1882 to 1892, inclusive, Har-
ward and Dartmouth played eighteen
games of football, all being won by
the Cambridge eleven. There were no
games in 1888, 1885, 1887, 1895, or 1900,
but two games We're played in 1890
and also in 1898.
games by large scores, the closest be-
ing to o, in 1885, It was not until
1901, however, that Dartmouth scored
a point against Harvard, this being
in a game that the Crimson entual-
ly won by 81 to- ~.
In the game in 1902 also both teams
games have been played since 1902,
and the game became of great impor-
lance as a football fixture.
In 1898, in the first game ever play
ed in the Harvard Stadium, Dart
mouth won, II to o, four years later
again winning from Harvard, % to 9.
In 1914 a tie game, O to 0, was played,
and in 1905 each team left the field
having scored six points.
Harvard has won the last five games
played with Oar tnouth, and in all of
them managed to keep its goal line
clear, although in 1909 and 1911 the
Hanover team made goal from the
Held.
In 1910 Harvard scored IS points
against Dartmouth, but the last two
games have been about as hard fought
as any played between the teams.
Two years ago Harvard. by bloclxingI
a kick scored an early touchdown
which was sufficient to win over
DartmoutI1's field goal, while last Mo-
vember the teams played without a
score until almost the very end of the
match, when Harvard kicked a. goal
from the field and won.
The last twelve games played be-
tween Harvard and Dartmouth have
been matches in which unusual inter
est has centred, and they have been
attended by many persons as the
stands on Soldiers Field could accom-
nodate. Dartmouth always has come
to Cambridge for the annual game
Ind it's undergraduates and graduates
have applied for nearly half
IF the tickets for the match.