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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next year, playing for the first time with eleven men, Yale won by a score of one goal to nothing. Harvard made two touchdowns, but by previous agreement, these did not count. In 1877 Yale again wanted to play with elevens, but the Association to which Harvard belonged prescribed fifteen players. The game could not therefore be arranged. The next year however, Yale yielded to the demands of the Association, and games were played with fifteens until 1880, when the eleven was finally adopted...
Yale lost no games to Harvard from 1878 to 1890. In 1879 there was a draw, and in 1885 intercollegiate football was forbidden at Harvard. In 1888 Harvard was compelled to forfeit the game, since the faculty would not allow the eleven to play in New York, while the Yale team was not allowed to play out of that city...
Harvard and Yale play the annual football game today on Soldiers Field. For months both elevens have been preparing for this game and for one of them it will close the season. Harvard has been more successful than Yale in the preliminary season and the problem has been to choose an eleven from exceptionally good material rather than to break in new men, as Yale has been compelled to do. Five out of the seven men in Harvard's line played in last year's Yale game, and two of the backs have replaced men who were on the team...
Yale's strongest offensive play is a mass on tackles and neither team will put much reliance on end plays. Harvard will depend on dive plays inside the tackles. Yale will probably direct many of her plays at Lawrence, but his great improvement this year makes him fully equal to Donald. Harvard's centre is impregnable...
Yale will have a great advantage in the kicking of McBride which must be offset by greater aggressiveness and better condition on the part of Harvard to secure a victory. Boal may not play and in that case Sargent will take his place. Otherwise the team is in perfect physical condition...