Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game on Saturday ended in a tie, neither side being able to score. Disappointing and unsatisfactory as the result was from one point of view, it was, for the spectator, the finest football game ever played. Under ideal conditions of weather and grounds with the attendance of the largest crowd ever assembled on Soldiers Field or on any football field, the elevens of the two oldest and best universities in the country, in perfect physical condition, struggled two hours for the collegiate championship, and finally each gave up, without victory and yet unbeaten. The Harvard eleven had fought their...
...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...
After a record of ten straight defeats and one draw, the Harvard team, captained by Arthur Cumnock, defeated the Yale eleven in 1890. This was the first victory clearly due to superior playing. The score...
...Harvard was unable to score, while Yale made ten points in 1891, and six points in both 1892 and 1893. In 1892, by a very questionable decision, Harvard was deprived of a touchdown that would have tied the score. At Springfield in 1894, Harvard was again defeated by the score of 12-4, in one of the hardest fought contests in the history of football...
After the Springfield game athletic relations between the two universities were broken off, and were not resumed again until 1897. In that year a tie game was played at Cambridge, in which neither side scored. Last year Harvard defeated Yale at New Haven by a score of 17-0 in a game in which Harvard proved herself superior to her opponent in every respect...