Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-21
CLIMAX OF THE EASTERN
FOOTBALL SEASON TO-DAY
Yale and Harvard To Strive for
Honors In Big Stadium at
New Haven.
ADVANCE GUARD ARRIVES
Hotels, Boarding-Houses and Private
Residences Taxed to~Accommodate
Visitors-Recoris OF Contesting
Squads-The I.ine-Ups. u.

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visitors-Records OF Contesting
Squads-The Line-Ups. q.
NEW HAVEN. CONN. November 20
The climax OF tho Eastern football sea-
son will DO staged here tomorrow,
when the teams OF Yale and Harvard
game of the intervarsity series. which
began Nm 1879. During this stretch OF
forty SSars intereolieslate football and
remarkable evolutionp. Numerous
changes In the playing rnles have been
made; and the theory and methods OF
All these variations in tho game and
play sink into insigniticance when com
pared with the. great Transformation of
football from the spectacular and spec
tator's standpoint
In the emily days of the contests the
teams met upon the college green and
fought out their annual game. ringed
by thin fringe OF undergraduates and
town folk. admission. charges were
WITH, and the cheering of tho few hun
dred spectators unorganized and un-
Wonderful progress In the popularity
OF Football has been made since the
initial game, and Tomorrow marks
eievens of 1914 viii battle II. stadi M"
larger and more impressive THAN any
structure ever built for college sport 81,
lined arena of this stadium will tcot
Tomorrow afternoon the gridiron
squads Of rival universities. while more
and substitutes.
The advance guard OF tho thousands
WI, Who VII ;GonarihGis Guiiy $4,000 to
universities for the privilege of wit
Messing the game are already pouring
n The ' ngSi bosore 0 eath snh Ss
taxed the capacity OF tho local hos
tclries to an extent never before expert
enced here. and tho overflow has been
Rhunted into private dwellings AZ a last
resort for the might.
This rush is but the forerunner of
The throngs that are scheduled to de :
with u new stadium with II sentins
former wooden stands at Yale Field Id
additional thousands have taken the
ball classics of the year. More than
SO per cent OF the spectators will como
from points outside this city. Accord
$4,000 persons will be moved by spe-
city trains. twenty 1--WE OF which Will
start star, fr0m New Y9rk city and fifteen
larry Scheduled service.
Two opportunities nre offered for q
comparative score analysis In the games
against Washington and Jefferson and
Brown: Harvard defeated the Penn
sylyanin team. 10 to o. on October 10
won from Yale. 10 to Z. Against Brown
tho Blue lined up n team OF regulars
and substitutes IN about equal proper
e lions, 80 that the victory OF ii to Z
carries greater weight than tho Hnr-
ward substitute elevcr's scorcless tic
with Brown.
Whatever the relative merits of tho
1914 teams. tho Blue has lon, string
of victories over the Crimson TO It's
credit when the series is reviewed rs
= whole. In the earliest days OF the
anmo, when the point system of scor-
Ing was unknown, Yale gained II lead
,INI, Ia
Since 1883, when touchdowns, goals and
ueld goals were accorded point value,
Tale has won seventeen games to
Iarvards six. while five resulted IN
tic contests.
III the total number OF points scored
she Ellis have hay a big mnrGin oyer The The
Harvard, 1o7, The Blue eievens have
shut out Crimson teams on thirteen #; oe.
oyer Yale in which the Ellis were un-
able to score number but four.
In recent years the cambridgc teams
the Blue quite unknown TO tho elevens
Of the nincties. In 1907 Yale ended n
string of six straight victories and In
three and tied two. II was Il desire to
check this slump in Yale football that
caused the call to go out FOR, llinkcy
What the new coach and his SYSTEM
OF play has done toward restoring Yale
90, the high gridiron plane formerly
held by Elns teams viii be demon,
The records and statistics and prOba-
BILE lineup Of the two Squads follow:
Harvnrd's lnII Record.
September :G--IIurvard. "A; Bates o.
October 3--Harvard. AZ; Springfield
r, s.. o.
October lo---Harvard. 10; Washing
ton and Jefferson, g.
October I1-IIarvard, l3: Tufts. o.
October 24---lIarvard, 10, Penn. state
October s1--Harvard, :; Michigan. 0.
November Harvard. 20; Princeton
November li--Harvurt,. o: Brown, o.
Yale's 1914 Record.
September 26--Yalc, 20; Maine. 0.
October 3-Yalo, II: Virginia. 0.
October 10-Yalc. 20; LchiSh, 3.
October iI--Yale, Is: Notrc Dame. o
October 24aYaie, I; Washington and
Jefferson. Ii.
October sl--Ya!o, 40: Colgats, =
November yale, "a: Brown, !.
November li-Yale, 10; Princeton, IA
Harvard.
Name: Position. Weight. Height
7. Coolidge, left end. ..... iT5 5-il .,
parson. left tackle. ..... l57 e. 80
Weston, LETT guard. ...... l9i ii 81,
Wallace. centre. ......... ia 5-ll
Pennock. right guard. 49,. 2o3 g. Sk
Trumbuil. right taclslc.... 100 u iH
Hardwicke. right end. ..... III Sill
Logan. quarter back. $50. 100 ~ SiS
Nahan. lett half back. IGo ell