Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-22

Jul :.
Navy VS.. New York u, Annapolis.
Notre Dame VS.. Christ Bros. Col
lege, St. Louis.
Ohio State VS.. Northwestern, Co
lumbus.
Wisconsin VS.. Chicago, Chicago.
Conn. Wesleyan VS.. Trinity, Hart
ford, Conn.
By Hal Sheridan
Harvard VS.. Yale, at Cambridge.
Army VS.. Springfield Y. M. C. A.,
West Point.
Brown VS.. Tufts, Providence.
Buchtel VS.. Western Reserve, Ak
ron.
Case VS.. Kenyon, Cleveland.
Delaware VS.. Dickinson, Newark,
N. j.
written for the United Press)
Cambridge, Mass, Nov 22.-As the
gray down broke upon Cambridge to-
day, shades of Feltons and Ted Coys
aitted above Soldiers Field. The great
stadium stood bare and cold, but the
ghosts of countless thousands of "Old
Grads" looked down again upon the
spot where Americas greatest foot
oall conflict was about to be renewed.
For the thirty-fourth time since 1875
Harvard and Yale meet today in their
struggle for supremacy. Again col
'ege spirit reached the height of it's
power, and from the staid old Judge
who took his degree in the seventies,
20 the callow youth just entering upon
his university career, the only thing
worth while today was news as to the
condition of the team, and the words
IF the experts as to what the outcome
vas likely to be.
Across the Charles river in usually
staid old Boston, it wasn't staid today
Vast streams of humanity as early as
10 o'clock this morning began pouring
from hotel rooms that had been en-
gagged months before Cambridge way
And when the two teams took the
ield this afternoon more than 10000
persons were included in the army that
5ramped across the rickety old bridge
On the edge Of the university grounds
and quickly filled the Stadium. Back
Bay society, and their silk-stocking
cousins from New Haven, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Wash
.ngton, were out in force. Mingled
with the Blue and Crimson banners of
Yale and Harvard, were the bright
1ued costumes of the fairer followers
If Americas college sport.
Yale came here today facing what
seemed certain defeat, but if the Spar
tans at Thermopylae knew how much
.he Persians had on them, it showed
10 more than the knowledge showed
soday in the faces of the supporters of
Old Eli. Out of thirty three battles
between the Blue and the Crimson,
Yale has triumphed in twenty-five.
Only six times since 1875 has Harvard
been able to swarm the field at the
end of the game and throw hats over
the enemy's goal posts as the signal of
victory. On five occasions both teams
have left the field with honors even
and the score to 0. 1t was the gener-
al feeling today that Yale followers
would not ask did we win ?" but
rather, "How did the boys fight ?" The
power of Brickley, of Mahan, Hard
wick, Storer, and the other Harvard
stars in known. Yale has fallen be-
fore Second-rate teams this season,
but a return of the old Yale FIGHT
today meant the wiping out of earlier
reverses, for after all it's the Harvard
game that counts down at New Ha-
ven. If they could not win, the be-
lief-the certain knowledge they held
was that the team would go down to
defeat with colors flying. Harvard
will know she has been in A GAME.
Betting on the game today strongly
favored Harvard. Many believed Yale
might have difficulty even to score,
and some bets were made that way.
Any one offering even money that
Brickley would score got merry ha-
ha. 1t took odds and 2 to / odds at
that, to draw out any bets that Brick
ley's toe wouldn't have more points
to its credit.
New York, Nov 22.-With the ex-
ception of the Cornell-Penn and Car
lisle-Brown games on Thanksgiving
Day, and the Army-Navy contest here
next Saturday, the 1913 football sea-
son closes today for the "Big Elev-
ems" Harvard Yale at Cambridge,
and Wisconsin Chicago at Chicago,
with the Minnesota Illinois and Ne
braska-I Iowa games thrown in, are