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Harvard 102, Amherst O.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

The Harvard team defeated the eleven from Amherst Saturday by a score of 102-0 in a game of two half hours. The Amherst team was the weakest the eleven has met this year, its men being light and its game entirely without science. Mr. Dennison L. S. was referee, and Mr. Palmer L. S. umpire. The following men composed the teams:

Harvard-Cumnock, Slocum, Long-streth, Trafford, Cranston, Carpenter, Davis, Crosby and Austin; G. Harding quarter; Porter and Lee halfs; Sears full-back.

Amherst-Ryckman, Knight, Howard, Jacobs (centre), Morse Corning, Houghton; Kimball quarter-back; Cutler and H. A. Smith halfs; E. P. Smith full-back.

Time was called at 2.43. Amherst had the ball and Harvard had the advantage of a light wind. Amherst gained ten yards and then kicked. Sears returned and the ball went to Harvard in the middle of the field on a fumble. Cranston gained ten yards and Porter made a touchdown four minutes after the play was begun. Sears kicked the goal. Porter returned Amherst's kick from the centre of the field and the ball rolled over the line. Porter put the men on side and Crosby dropping on the ball made a touchdown from which Sears kicked the second goal. Time 6 minutes. Score 12-0. Five minutes later Lee scored another touchdown, Trafford and Porter having advanced the ball well up the field. No goal. Sears caught the ball from Amherst's kick from the twenty-five yard line and carried it across the line. Time 12 m. No goal. Score 20-0. One minute later Lee scored another touchdown, Porter having caught the ball and carried it to the fifteen-yard line. Sears kicked a goal. Amherst gained ten yards from the middle of the field and then kicked. Porter returned with a long punt and running to put the men on side got the ball which Cumnock stopped from rolling over, and had it down three yards from Amherst's line. Sears made a touchdown from which he kicked a goal. Time 17 min, Score 32-0. Amherst started the ball from the middle of the field; but Cumnock got the ball from a bad pass and carried it to the thirty-yard line. Rushes by Cranston and Carpenter advanced the ball fifteen yards, and Trafford carried it over the line. Time 20 m. Goal. The ball was Amherst's in the centre of the field but it quickly went back to Harvard and rushes by Harding, Carpenter and Porter advanced it to the ten-yard line and Lee carried it over the line in 23 minutes, No goal. Score 42-0. Amherst was forced back 10 yards from the twenty-five yard line when Davis got the ball on a fumble and Harding and Trafford advanced the ball to the one yard line and Sears carried it over. Goal. Time 25 minutes. Amherst kicked from the middle of the fiele and Lee getting the ball carried it past the Amherst eleven and scored the tenth touchdown for Harvard. Sears kicked the goal making the score 54-0. Time was called as Harvard had the ball down on Amherst's thirty-yard line.

Time for the second half was called at 3.25 and thirty seconds later Harding, by a good rush, scored a touchdown. Sears kicked the goal. 60-0. Amherst kicked from the middle of the field, and Harvard had the ball down on its thirty-five-yard line. Rushes by Porter, Lee and Cranston carried it to Amherst's three-yard line. Carpenter made a touchdown. Time, 3 minutes. Goal. Cranston getting the ball from a fumble, had it down in the middle of the field. Harding passed well to Porter who, by a good rush, scored the thirteenth touchdown for Harvard, six minutes after play was called. Sears kicked a goal, making the score 72-0. Four minutes later, Lee scored another touchdown. Porter having got the ball from Amherst's kick, and together with Cranston. Davis, Longstreth and Sears, advanced it to the five-yard line. Goal. Amherst kicked from the middle of the field, and Harvard had the ball down on its forty-yard line. Porter, by a rush of sixty yards, scored the fifteenth touchdown for Harvard. Sears kicked a goal, making the score 84-0. Amherst kicked the ball from the middle of the field, and Lee, getting the ball, carried it to the twenty-five-yard line. Longstreth advanced it ten yards and Austin made a touchdown. Time, 18 minutes. Goal. Cranston stopped Amherst's kick, and Longstreth, dropping on the ball, had it down in the middle of the field. Two minutes after Austin's touchdown, Porter, by a long rush, carried the ball over the line. Sears missed the goal. Score, 94-0. Amherst kicked from the twenty-five yard line, and Sears, getting the ball, carried it to the thirty-yard line, where he lost it. Amherst was forced back fifteen yards when, attempting to kick, the full-back lost the ball, and Davis dropping on it, scored the eighteenth touchdown for Harvard. Time 24 minutes. Sears' goal was not allowed on account of off side play. Three minutes later Sears, getting the ball from Amherst's kick, scored the last touch down for Harvard. No goal. Score, 102-0. When time was called, Harvard had the ball down in the middle of the field, Amherst having obtained the ball from a bad pass, and advanced it thirty yards from their 20 yard line.

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