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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first year, 1876, Yale emerged the champion. It is interesting to note that in these games Yale's fullback, O. D. Thompson, defeated both Harvard and Princeton by a goal from the field, executed while running at full speed, a feat unseen in the 40 years since. It was on this early team that Walter Camp, football's great personality, played halfback for Yale...
...open game of much passing, running and kicking was prevalent in these days, and its effacement was unintentionally caused by the lowering of the tackling limit from the waist to the knees. With this change dodging backs no longer could make continuous gains in an open field. This introduced the element of interference, common in our day, but mystifying to the teams it was first used against...
Since receiving his honorable discharge as a first lieutenant in the Motor Transport Corps, Mr. Galaid has returned to his former civil profession and has been devoting himself especially to the new field of airplane photography with marked success. In addition to the pictures of the University, he has taken a number of excellent views of Camp Devens, and of the buildings at M. I. T. and Brown and Yale Universities. The notable clearness of Mr. Galaid's pretures is due to a special secret process which he has himself developed...
...First half-hour--Harvard wins the toss and selects the wind. Arnold kicks off for Yale, sending a long kick down the field. Leeds springs a trick not known at Yale: he kicks the ball back again, Yale again kicks, and Leeds, catching, runs in for a touchdown. He kicks the goal. The ball is kicked off and Harvard soon has it in touch near Yale's goal. It is thrown in to Seamans, who kicks a goal from the field...
...game which takes place in the Stadium represents an interesting contrast to the game which Harvard played 45 years ago against McGill University. This game, played on Jarvis Field in May, 1874, was the first intercollegiate contest under Rugby rules. It resulted in a scoreless tie. Although these two teams had met the day before, the game on the 15th was the first of interest, owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that day, that "under...