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Show HARVARD-YALE TO BEJLIMAX Former Gridiron Flocking to New Haven and Cambridge . to Assist in Final Touches. New York. NY, Nov. 17 With the playing of the Harvard-Yule game at Cumhrldgo on Saturday, the climax of tho eastern football will havo beeu reached Notwithstanding tho wide difference in the season's records of the two elevens. Interest In the game is greater this year than over before. Gridiron stars of formr decades are flocking to both New Haven and Cambridge Cam-bridge ro witness and assist in putting the final touches on the two teams Which will meal in Harvard's famous stadium for tho final battle of the varsity schedule With tho gathering gath-ering of the old timers comes a revi-;l revi-;l cii the tales oT prowess by players of former years. The veteran Is loath to admit that the younger generation Is capable of developing either line or backfield stars who outrank In foot ball ability such stare as Heff leflnger, Moffat, Brookes. Poe, Ames, Corwln, Lamar. McClung and Hare. Much material for use In ths annual an-nual controversy between the players of today and yester-year has been Furnished DJ Parlcp Davis who delights to delve into ancient football records and emerge with all sorts of interesting inter-esting data which welds together the past and present in gridiron history. One of his latest efforts In this direction di-rection is the compiling of a list of full length field runs It so happens that a Yale player first achieved this spectacular spec-tacular feat, and to add joy to he occasion it was against a Harvard eleven R W Watson, captain or the Yale team of l-8u, was the hero, and additional honor accrued to the EH leader In that he was the first Vale player to score a touchown against Harvard The Crimson had been previously defeated bj Yale, but always by field gouls, and Watson was the pioneer of a long line of Yale players, who have carried the hall across the Harvard gonl line. Davis tells the tale as follows 'A search through the accounts or" the games from 1874 to 1881 finds only on-ly a single Instance o( a full field run from kick-off to touchdown Harvard was playing Yale at Boston. November Novem-ber 20, 1880 A hard grueling ba.-tle ba.-tle was drawing to a '.lose without 8 score by either eleven. Just as the last five minutes began. Walter Camp kicked a goal from the field for Yale The teams quick'y lined up for a kick-on. kick-on. and Cutts of Harvard sent a iong swirling kick to Yale's twenty-yard line where It was caught by R W Watson, captain of Yale. With the catch of the ball Watson leaped i:r flight, and sped straight up the center cen-ter of the field The Harvard men did not mass upon him In that prlmi tlve day. as would now occur, but met him with a scattered formation. Through this broken fit Id Watson raced and dodged flinging of 7 tackier after tackier, and crossed the line, scoring the first touchdown ever scur ed against Harvard bj Yale." |