Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-06
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Compared with the wonderful exhibition
of team play given by the Harvard
eleven of 1915 against Yale, the first meet
ing of these two university squads would
appear almost laughable if it could be
staged again today. That contest was
played at New Haven on Saturday, Nov
ember 10, 1873 on field measuring 4W by
200 feet and was witnessed by about
1900 spectators which included several
hundred women. The number of players
on a team was optional with the captain,
the rules simply specifying that from
IL to Is might be played. The game was
divided into three Commute periods ana
the only scoring permitted was a goal
following touchdown, kicked over the
goal bar suspended ~ feet above the
ground from two uprghts 20 feet apart.
Harvard won by four goals to nothing
the Crimson scoring two in the first haif
hour and one each in the remaining Two
periods The ball could be kicked or car
ried; caught on the bound or ny ana the
| runner could be tackled and thrown as at
| present. Harvard's cheering contingent
| consisted of $50 students who made the
| trip from Cambridge to witness the play
! No admission was charged and the size
| Of the crowd and absence of gate receipts
| contrasts sharply with fact that very
! close ia 100000 persons paid $4,000 to see
| the A4arvard-Yale games of 1914 ana 1919.
More than $50 miles were covered by the
winning cars in the "a automobile races
on sneedways and roads during the 1918
auto racing season. The fastest average
speed at any distance of 100 miles or
over was 105. 50 miles per hour by Resta
at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway in Jew
York City while the slowest time, 1901
miles per hour was made in the far west.
Seventeen cities were represented IN the
holding of the a races.
If Fred Fulton, who is mentioned
prominently as Jess Wizards next OPP
ponent, faces the champion heavyweight
in New Orleans next March, the resultant
bout will be between giants. Willard
stands 6 feet inches and weighs close to
80 pounds in nghtng condition. Fulton
is trifle over G foot inches and scales
about 223 pounds when in ring costume.
Compared to these pugilstists, JefTies'
Johnson, Fitzsmmons. Euhlin, Corbett
and Sullivan were small, while Sharkey
and Choynski were pygmies.
The football season just closed was not
without its minor novelties and amusing
features Late in November the case
School of Applied Science eleven at
Cleveland played a double header in one
day. Case won from Hiram College q to
: in the forenoon and then lost the sec
ond contest to The famous Case team OF
1868 by a u to score. About the same
time the players o. Waxhachie and Fort
Worth, Texas, High schools met bare
footed in a game at Waxahachie. The
game began in a heavy rain ana the
black wax mud so impeded the players
that they soon discarded shoes and stock
inss and padded through the slime IN
their bare feet.
A week earlier in the season the COL
umbia College and Mercer University
teams met at Naldosta, Ga, and by mu-
tual agreement the coaches OF the Two
elevens played on the same footing as
the two undergraduates Of the competing
institutions. One coach retired from the