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...Yale management has scheduled the following games for the rest of the season: Nov. 7th, Yale vs. Wesleyan (championship). at New Haven. Nov. 11th, Yale vs. Amherst, at New Haven. Nov. 14th, Yale vs. University of Pennsylvania (championship), at New York. Nov. 21st, Yale vs. Harvard, at Springfield. Nov. 25th. Yale vs. Princeton, at Manhattan Athletic Grounds, New York...
There was a small crowd on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon to see Harvard run up the biggest score she has made since, in October 1886, she defeated Exeter 158 points to nothing. It is probable that Wesleyan is the weakest team which she has met since that time; at any rate it is the weakest that has been on Jarvis Field for many years. The men were utterly used up in the game on Saturday with Princeton, and almost every player appeared swathed in bandages. For the first few minutes they displayed some energy; but after that the result...
...large score which Harvard piled up was due more to Wesleyan's weakness than to Harvard's strength. Harvard's team play was by no means first-class. She relied almost entirely upon the brilliant individual work of the backs. They showed an improvement in their interference for each other. Trafford and Fearing both doing very effective blocking around the ends...
...rush-line was as usual slow in lining up and in breaking Wesleyan's wedge. They lost five yards several times for offside play and holding. They had no trouble in getting through the Wesleyan's forwards and in preventing the quarter-back from putting the ball cleanly into play. The result was that only twice did a Wesleyan back make anything like a consider able gain; while in most of the cases Wesleyan had to surrender the ball on four downs...
Harvard vs. Wesleyan on Jarvis...