The Washington herald., 1913-11-22
HARVARD eleven
FAVORITESTODAY
Big Crimson Has Best Chance
Of Winning the Gridiron
Classic from Yale.
LARGE CROWD EXPECTED
Dave Dunn, the Old Eli Full Back,
VIII Not Start the Contest.
Alumni on Hand.
LARGE CROWD EXPECTED
By C. w. SWAN.


Boston. Nov. 21-The Hub City is foot
ball mad tonight, for tomorrow Yale and
Harvard will clash or the gridiron, and
one OF the hardest fought games in the
history of football is expected.
Yale opened the season with a pool
outlook, the poorest in any recent years
but the Els have been coming strong
for the past two weeks, and are counted
upon to make the Crimson play its best
to win.
Coach Percy Haughton, of Harvard
when seen tonight, said:
we do not expect an easy game; in
fact know that Yale will make us play
our best, but 1 expect Harvard to win.
The team is ready to play its best game,
the men are in good condition, and the
boys realize that they have a chance to
do what no other Harvard team has done,
namely: Defeat a Yale team two years
in succession, and this feat tomorrow will
be accomplished"
Seats for the game are selling at a
premiumS a pair of good tickets bring
ing a small fortune. The biggest crowd
which has ever witnessed a Harvard
Yale game is expected TO see the battle
tomorrow.
Harvard has never yet defeated Yale
iE the Cambridge Stadium. For that
matter Harvard has rarely defeated Yale
anywhere. History informs US that in
all the games played between the col
leges since 1875. Yale has won twenty
two. Harvard has taken six, and, and
old grads Of Yale still contend that there
must have been something wrong in
those six years. Five grapples resulted in
ties
Harvard won the first tussle in 1875
Moreover. Harvard won the last one in
1872. Between those years, however. there
was a protracted famine up Cambridge
way in point of football victories over
Yale, and the New Haven bulldog was
the big erowl in the college world. Yale
became 50 accustomed to beating Har-
ward at football that it came as great
shock to Yale whenever Harvard turned
and fought back.
Until very recently these turnings were
never taken very seriously at New
Haven, as they came at infrequent in
tervals. The real uprising against the
Blue was melted at Cambridge a couple
of years ago by Mr.. Haughton, whose
first name is Percy, although We men
that without malice. The outbreak cul-
minated in the 20 to defeat of Yale last
fall, and since then Yale has been in
a state of coma. 1t can hardly realize
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An examination tonight of the knee
of Dave Dunn, the Yale full back, led
Trainer John Mack to advise against
starting that player tomorrow, and Otis
Guernsey has been practically selected
in his place. Dunn's injury has come
along only slowly all the week but Mack
decided not to settle the matter till this
evening. when he tested the member in
quick starting and found lameness. Both
Guernsey and Dunn were used at full
back in the signal work in the stadium
this morning, but this evening only
Guernsey was tried. Dunn may get into
a small part of the game.
YaleH Harvard football enthusiasts came
into Boston yesterday by the hundreds
and the hotels will have to turn the late
comers away. The man who had not en-
gagged his accommodations in advance
found himself up against it last night
when he tried to locate a room in a
Boston hotel.
The booking of football enthusiasts for
Friday and Saturday night actually be-
gan two years ago, when many patrons,
arising Of a Monday morning after the
Harvard-Yale game of 1911. paid their
bills and Immediately signed on for this
year. Not only are the regular business
and society hotels filled to the brim, so
to speak. but family and apartment ho-
tells are also crammed full Of Harvard
and Yale enthusiasts.
Rooms have been engaged for patrons
by hotel managers as far out of the city
as Newton. An equally difficult task is
presented to those who want dinner after
the game Saturday night. Here. too. the
hotels have had their hands full trying
to take care OF all orders. Most houses
have arranged for q regular table d'hote
service at a set price in order to facili- |
tate serving and making the handling Of
the crowds quicker and more convenient. |
Although most of the bets made in con-
nection with the Harvard-Yale game are
propositions. with the |
of Harvard money making |
the Crimson eleven a slight favorite, a |
number of freak wagers have been made, |
among Harvard men One of 1
these made in Harvard Square tonight |
by a couple of juniors coming away from |
the mass meeting was a bet OF SIS to so |
that Brickley would score one-half or |
better OF the field goals attempted by him |
from within the 40-yard mark, with |
goals from beyond the 40-yard mark to |
count in the bet only when they are |
successful. There was a rider at
tached to the bet, which gave the long |
end man the option to call off the bet |