The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-12-10
Always Something
New in This Game
Known as Football

L From 1883 to date Yale has
gone through twelve seasons will
indicated and united football
teams. Ray Tomkins, who wa:
head coach for two years, produced
the first two of these teams, the
1883 and 1884 Ellis winning a tota
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, ir
the fourth game of the 1891 season
Yale played thirty games without
having it's 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. G. 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,
goals to 0.
The biggest crowd ever to see a
Notre Dame-Army game was the
10000 assembled at Chicago's Sol
dier's Field in 1880.
Sure you know football, but
~ 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?
81 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 ldMe!
(6) West Points c0lors are?
az Who was the first negro ever
to make Walter Camps All-Amer.
lea team?
(8) What eastern team first lost
in 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:
(D In 1912.
(2) Gene Vidal of Army drop
kicked a 50-yard goal against Notre
Dame in 1916.
(3) Minnesota.
az 1915.
(5) Adam Walsh, center.
(6) Black, Gold and Gray.
90 William H. Lewis of Harvard
in 1892 and 1893 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 1915.
(9) Pop Warner in 1911.
(l0) Columbia played it's first
game in 1870, Yale in 1872. Incl
cidentally, Yale's first game was
against the Lions and the Ellis won
goals to 0.
]. Triplett Haxan, who kicked
the longest placement field goal or
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 1885,
game by two touchdowns, two goal.
and one safety to Princet0n's one
goal and one safety In those
days, by the way, 1t took foul
touchdOwns to beat a goal from
the field and two safeties were equa
to touchdown. 1t was not until 1888.
that the numerical system Of scor
ing was established ;. During hi
four years at Michigan, 1901-1904
the great Willie Heston scored more
than 100 touchdowns in forty-foul
games.
Cornell-Penn game memories
The year when Jesse Douglas, whit
had been on the bench most of ths
season, was sent in against the Biz
Red to score three touchdowns ant
enable Penn to win, Is to 0. Tha
must have been in 1924. Georg,
Pfann and Eddie Kaw collaborating
on flip bucks and off tackle play
to whip Penn, Al to 0, in 1921. TIL,
year, 1919 or so, when Heinie Mile
Intentionally pushed Cornell Captain
Shiverick into a rolling punt so tina
Lou Little could recover for Penn Oh
the IL yard line. Charley Barrett
Cornell's All-America quarter, tax
ing a terrific pounding for threI
quarters. Then in the final perio'
achieving the two touchdowns whicl
! won the game.