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Yale took a step in the right direction when she called to New Haven the older and more conservative coaches. The sensational policy has been relegated to the emergency list, and out of the chaos of a disastrous early season there has arisen an eleven which is strong as a unit and experienced individually. For the early-season showing of Captain Wilson and his phenomenal material it is unfortunate that the step was not taken sooner. Today's game, the final test, will decide whether or not the step was taken too late. Whatever the result, it is certain that...
...appearance of Brown, though disastrous, proved to be the turning point in Yale's fortunes. Shevlin had arrived from the West just three days before, practically displacing his colleague, Mr. Hinkey, and with his coming there started something new in 1915 football at New Haven. The Brown game was played and lost before his work showed its effect, but the following Saturday, at 2 o'clock on November 13th, Shevlin sent out on the Bowl field that for which the Blue followers had been looking all fall--a Yale team, ragged and crude, but undeniably a team...
Last year at the Harvard-Yale game at New Haven almost $7,500 was collected between the halves, and this at a time when there was marked depression in nearly all branches of business. At the Harvard-Princeton game in the Stadium last year $3,883 was collected, while at the same game this year the figure dropped to $3,200, in spite of the fact that conditions in France and Poland are worse tha never. Between the halves o flast Saturday's Yale-Princeton game over $5,000 was collected...
...first football game between Harvard and Yale was played at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875, and was won by Harvard by four goals to none. About 150 Harvard students journeyed from Cambridge to witness the contest, and were commented on as "the biggest crowd from Boston ever seen in New Haven." Mr. Parks H. Davis in his book on football gives a very interesting account of the game, of which a few excerpts are printed below...
Tomorrow a special train will leave New Haven at 8.45 o'clock and will arrive in Boston at 12.30. The Harvard Club of New York has arranged to run a train of parlor cars for its members only...