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Brides broke through between left tackle and guard for a 30-yard gain. Bomar followed with five yards; and on a tandem play Brides gained nine yards more. Peirce stopped Bomar for no gain, and Coy gained two yards through tackle. Alcott recovered Coy's onside kick on Harvard's 24-yard line, and it looked as if Yale was off for a touchdown. But Coy and Bomar gained only four yards in two plays, and Bomar dropped back for a goal from placement. The ball went wide and Burr punted...
...Newhall lost on a quarterback run and so made an onside kick which H. Jones recovered on Yale's 40-yard line. From this point Yale rushed the ball straight down the field for a touchdown. A double pass, Coy to Philbin, gained to the middle line. Yale gained nine yards through centre, three through tackle; and two more through centre. Alcott secured Jones's forward pass on the 35-yard line. Foster gained five yards through centre and Philbin added five more through right tackle. A mass play netted two yards, and a forward pass, Jones to Foster, gained...
Before the next kick-off, Lockwood replaced Rand. Burr kicked off to Jones, but Harvard was offside and Burr kicked again to Biglow, who was downed on the 35-yard line. In three plays, Philbin and Foster gained nine yards through the line, and Coy punted to Newhall, who was downed by Biglow on Harvard's 28-yard line. Apollonio gained five yards and Wendell made an onside kick to Alcott. Philbin tried right end but was thrown by Starr for no gain. A double pass, followed by a forward pass; put the ball on Harvard's 20-yard line...
...Haven, Conn., November 13, 1907.--The Yale cross-country team defeated the University team here this afternoon in the first run ever held between the two universities by the score of 35 to 44. Nine men ran on each team, the first six for each scoring according to the numerical value of their positions at the finish, and the team with the least score winning. M. B. Vilas '08, of Yale, finished first, covering the six and three-quarters-miles course in 37m., 51s., which was considered good, as the wind was very chilly and quite strong...
...outcome of the race on account of the difference of the courses over which the two teams have been running. Thirty-five men tried for the University team this fall, the largest squad which has ever come out, but small compared to the Yale squad of 80 men. Nine out of the ten members of the team are very inexperienced, while Yale has several of last year's men on her team. However, Harvard won an easy victory over Technology in fairly good time while Princeton defeated Yale almost as easily in only average time. The men who are expected...