The Record Broken!

TWENTY-TWO TO FOUR.

The game was not called until quarter past three on Saturday, owing to a discussion whether Harding was really a freshman and entitled to play. The Yale captain yielded at last. Harvard won the toss and took the upper end of the field, having the sun behind them and what wind there was in their favor, while Yale had the kick off.

Yale dribbles the ball and Morrison gains a little. Crane throws Ireland. Someone fumbles and Harvard gets the ball. Perry gains five yards and Hunnewell twenty. Slocum loses the ball, which is now inside Yale's twenty-five yard line. Four downs give the ball to Harvard. Perry tries for a goal from the field, but the kick is stopped and Yale gets the ball. Morrison carries the ball twenty-five yards in two runs and then it goes back ten yards. Perry stops Wurtemberg and Morrison, and Woods throws Ireland. Morrison kicks to Sears who cannot return it. Harding, Perry and Hunnewell gain no ground, and Sears kicks fair, Yale getting the ball. Morrison runs across the field, gaining little, but the ball is at our twenty-five yard line now. Piper stops Ireland and the ball goes back ten yards. Wurtemburg runs outside. Woods stops Morrison and Piper downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Higginson throws Hanson. Morrison kicks to Sears, who runs. Slocum runs back but passes to Sears, who makes up the lost ground. Hunnewell runs and passes to Piper. Ten yards gain. Runs by Higginson, Perry and Hunnewell gain fifty yards, Perry making the longest run. A couple of short runs and the ball is on Yale's five-yard line. Crane loses ground but Perry is pushed through at the centre. Touchdown for Harvard. No goal. Higginson stops Wurtemberg, Piper, Morrison, and Slocum Ireland. Back ten yards. Crehore and Harding throw Morrison, and Dexter downs Ireland. Back ten yards. Piper and Dexter down Morrison. Then Woods and Crane stop him again. Morrison kicks fair and Hunnewell gets the ball. Yale's quarter back and end rush are so eager to get through on the quarter-back that they give Crehore a chance to run, and Harvard scores again. Harding kicks a goal. The ball is put in play in the centre of the field, and Higginson stops Morrison, Crehore throws Ireland and Slocum downs Morrison. Back ten yards. Higginson stops Lee and Morrison kicks. Sears returns the ball fair and Harvard gets it. Perry and Dexter gain no ground. Hunnewell makes five yards but loses the ball. All the men in centre go through on Wurtemburg at once. Piper stops Lee and the ball goes back ten yards. Wurtemburg gets rattled and runs ten yards towards his own goal and Harding throw him. Perry and Higginson each stop a man. Back ten yards. The ball changes hands once or twice, but time is called before anything happens. Score 10 to 0. Harvard wins.

In the second half Harding and Hunnewell gain no ground. Crane has two chances to pass Perry who would have a clear field, but does not see his opportunity. Crane loses ten yards. Higginson gains five yards and Piper gets in a twenty-yard run. Perry and Hunnewell gain a little ground, but soon the ball goes back ten yards on downs. Perry makes a long run without gaining anything. Slocum loses ground and Yale gets the ball. Yale's kick is stopped and it is Harvard's ball. Back ten yards. Piper runs ten yards forward, and the next time the ball is put in play it goes over the line. Harding hit the goal post, the ball bounding back and Crehore carried it to within three yards of Yale's line. Slocum runs twenty yards toward his own goal and loses the ball. Morrison kicks to Hunnewell who runs a short way and loses the ball. It is kicked to Sears and returned. Yale's down. Yale cannot force the ball ahead and it is Harvard's ball. Piper gains five yards, Perry, ten yards, and before anyone realizes it the ball goes over the line again. The try for goal was a failure and Harvard gets the ball fair on the five-yard line. It is brought out fifteen yards and forced across the line again. No goal.

The score is now 22 to 0 and it is hopelessly dark. The ball is kicked down the field and as none of the Harvard backs seemed to be awake Yale gets the ball, and Morrison kicks to Sears who is at once thrown. Piper makes a long rush of thirty-five yards, and Perry gains fifteen yards but Yale gets the ball at length about the middle of the field. Wurtemburg gets through the rush-line but is stopped by Perry who throws him with a vicious snap. Morrison kicks a beautiful low kick which Sears only gets twenty yards from our line. In a few moments Yale gets the ball again, and just how it is done no one seems to know, but there is a very pretty rush of twenty-five yards made and Yale has a touch-down to her credit. No goal. Good runs by Perry and others carry the ball well down the field but it is so dark, that playing is practically impossible and the spectators can see nothing of the game. At length time is called with the ball on Yale's twenty-five yard line.

The Yale freshmen did not play a good game on the whole. Their blocking was bad and their tackling very high, and there seemed a roughness and uncertainty among the rushers which prevented most of their tricks from working well. Our freshmen played a strong hard game, though not a very scientific one. They blocked well, and the way they broke through the Yale rush-line was perfectly delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw him all alone. There was no holding a man up, and as soon as a Yale man went down, the men from the centre were always on him to stop his passing the ball out. Perry played a strong game throughout, doing first-class work, while Piper was very conspicuous by his tackling in the first half and his running in the second. Right through the whole team, the men played well and with an evident determination not to be frightened by Yale's reputation. The result was that they took all the snap out of the Yale freshmen who were forced to play a defensive game from the beginning.

The elevens were made up as follows Yale: rushers, Lentilhon, Clanson, Hanson, Newell, Lee, Strait (capt.), Townsend; quarter-back, Wurtemburg: halves, Morrison, Ireland; back, Tracy. Harvard: rushers, Crehore, Piper, Higginson, Woods, Dexter, Slocum (capt.) Harding; halves, Perry, Hunnewell; back, Sears. Referee, Mr. Herrick of Technology.