The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-09
Always Something
New i'm This Game
Known as Football
g New York Post.-WNU Service.

FROM 1905 10 uate dte mas
gone through twelve seasons with
indicated and united football
teams. Ray Tomkins, who was
head coach for two years, produced
the first two of these teams, the
1883 and 1884 Ellis winning a total
of seventeen games.
The triumphant streak which
called for the most boola boolas,
though, came in the early 1905.
After beating Williams, 46 to 10, in
the fourth game of the 1891 season,
Yale played thirty games without
having its goal line crossed. AL
though beaten, IA to 6, Penn finally
brought the streak to an end by
scoring a touchdown late in 1898.
H. C. Leeds is credited with being
the first player to pull the unexpect-
ed in a Yale-Harvard game. He
received the Yale kickoff and
promptly booted the ball back al
most to the Blue goal line. That
was in the first game of the series,
at New Haven in 1875. Harvard,
supported by an imposing delega-
ton of $50 students, won that one,
4 goals to 0.
The biggest crowd ever to see a
Notre Dame-Army game was the
1000 assembled at Chicago's Sol
dier's Field in 1890.
Sure you know football, but
ID In what year did the scoring
value of a touchdown become fixed
at six points?
(2) What was the longest success
full field goal ever kicked in an
Army-Notre Dame game?
60 From what college did Gil
Dobie graduate?
"a When were numbers first used
on football players SO as to give
fans some chance of identifying
them?
80 Who was captain of the Notre
Dame team 1924 on which the
Four Horsemen, Crowley, Layden,
Stuhldreher, Miller, achieved their
greatest fame?
(6) West Points colors are?
ca Who was the first negro ever
to make Walter Camps All-Amer-
lea team?
80 What eastern team first lost
in a Rose Bowl game?
(9) Who is given credit for invent
ing the Reverse play?
(10) Which of the two universities
first competed in intercollegiate
football, Columbia or Yale?
Sure, you knew them all along,
but here are the answers anyhow
just because I've got to practice
typewriting:
% In 1912.
(2) Gene Vidal of Army drop
kicked a 50-yard goal against Notre
Dame in 1916.
90 Minnesota.
az 1915.
(5) Adam Walsh, center.
Co Black, Gold and Gray.
CD William H. Lewis of Harvard
in 1892 and 1898 at center. He after
wards helped with Harvard's coach
ing and became an Assistant United
States Attorney General.
(8) Brown was defeated by Wash
ington State, IA to 0, in 1916.
90 Pop Warner in 1911.
(10) Columbia played its first
game in 1870, Yale in 1872. Incl
cidentally, Yale's first game was
against the Lions and the Ellis won,
3 goals to 0.
j. Triplett Haxall, who kicked
the longest placement field goal on
record, did it from IS yards away
and while Is feet off from the center
of the field. But it didn't affect the
final decision, Yale winning that 1882
game by two touchdowns, two goals
and one safety to Princeton's one
goal and one safety In those
days, by the way, it took four
touchdowns to beat a goal from
the field and two safeties were equal
to a touchdown. 1t was not until 1884
that the numerical system of scor-
ing was established During his
four years at Michigan, 1901-1904,
the great Willie Heston scored more
than 100 touchdownS in forty-four
games and never played on the
losing side.
Cornell-Penn game memories:
The year when Jesse Douglas, who
had been on the bench most of the
season, was sent in against the Big
Red to score three touchdowns and
enable Penn to win, Is to 0. That
must have been in 1924. George
Pfann and Eddie Kaw collaborating
on flip bucks and off tackle plays
to whip Penn, Al to 0, in 1921. The
year, 1919 or so, when Heinie Miller
Intentionally pushed Cornell Captain
Shiverick into rolling punt so that
Lou Little could recover for Penn on
the IL yard line. Charley Barrett,
Cornell's All-America quarter, TAX
ing a terrific pounding for three
quarters. Then in the final period
achieving the two touchdowns which
won the game. That was 1915,
wasn't it?
Curly Byrd, now president of the
University of Maryland, graduated
from that institution in 1908 and
coached its teams from 1912 to 1898.
Chris eagle, one of the fastest
backs West Point produced, is play
ing with an independent eleven in
New York. Five members of
Dartmouth's football team-Larry
Hull, Jimmy Felley, Merrill Davis,
Bob Macleod, and John HoIlings-
w0rth-are members of the fire de-
partment at Dartmouth.