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...interesting game, long runs being made by Thorne, Marks and Beard of Yale, and by the Draper brothers of Williams. The principal point of interest was the feat of Williams in scoring against Yale and keeping the contest a tie for nearly the entire first half. Yale scored in two minutes, and had the ball at the Williams 25 yard line when a snap-back fumble lost it. Williams then made dogged gains until the ball had been planted at Yale's five yard line. On the next down F. Draper went through Yale's right tackle and over...
Marks and Thorne made touch-downs and Thorne kicked a goal from the field during the rest of the contest...
...course a danger that the new idea may be carried to an extreme, and that the men may not get enough work to teach them good football. But surely it is to be hoped that experience will prove there is a less severe way to prepare for an important contest than that which has been followed in the past few years. One of the strongest of the arguments against competitive sports will then be answered...
...both universities that it seems that nothing but good results could have come from a game. For the past few years the football season has ended somewhat unsatisfactorily by reason of the failure of these teams to meet each other. With regard to the effect which such a contest would have upon the Yale game, the experience of a hard game should certainly strengthen the eleven by a disclosure of its weak points. This fact was evidenced by the Yale-Pennsylvania game last year. Perhaps, however, as the managers of the team assert, three important games in one year would...
1872.In this year Yale proposed the best two out of three games and Harvard agreed. The contest was thrown open to all departments of the Universities...