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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was as a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says...
From the squad statistics we find that although the University men are 2 inches taller than the Elis they weigh 1 pound less. In ago the Yale squad averages slightly younger than Harvard. The figures are: Harvard--Age 21 years, 4 months; weight 178 pounds; height, 6 feet, 1-2 inch. Yale--Age 21; weight 179; and height 5 feet, 10 1-2 inches...
...Yale's first game gave anxiety to her supporters and an opportunity to her critics for belittling her attack. Every sporting writer in the Eastern cities topped his story of the game with heads such as, "Yale's Attack Proves Weak," "Elis Held for Downs." They said that, although Yale's defense was seemingly strong, it had been developed at the expense of its attack; that its attack was blunt and ineffective; that its aerial work was neglible; in short, that Doctor Sharpe had been unsuccessful in his work...
Little significance could be attached to the results of the North Carolina game. Although the Bull Dog showed a somewhat improved attack in tallying 34 points, the Southerners were even weaker than the Springfield aggregation. The visitors' lone touchdown was due not to the weakness of the Yale defense but to an unusual circumstance; one of their backs scooped up the ball, which had bounced back from the goal post after an attempted field goal, and carried it across for a touchdown before the amazed Elis had realized what had happened...
...notable part of the contest from the Harvard view-point was the successful completion of all of the five attempted forward passes. The University players showed more ability and power in opening holes in the line, but exhibited poor interference in the open field. No brilliant plays were made although Casey, F. C. Church '20, R. S. Humphrey '21, and A. D. Hamilton '21 played consistently well...