The students who were out on Jarvis Field Saturday afternoon saw Harvard defeat Stevens by a score of forty-four points to nothing; but they also saw more than that. They saw Harvard for the first half hour play as poor a game as it is possible for a university team to play. Every man in the rush-line, without exception, tackled high, as high as they could reach. Brooks, who ought to set the team a good example, was fully as bad, if not worse than the rest of the men in this respect, time and time again jumping way up in the air in order to tackle a man not as tall as himself, and one who ducked as he ran. The result was bad. During the first half hour Stevens had the lower goal and the wind against them, so that they found it necessary to play a running game almost entirely, while Harvard, whose duty and intention it was to rely on their kicking for this half, did little but fumble. The game was started at three o'clock with Stevens in possession of the ball. The Stevens men tried to run with it, but in spite of the high tackling of the Harvard rushers, they did not gain much ground. Then a Stevens back muffed the ball, and Remington dropped on it. Sears kicked the ball so far over our rushers heads that the Stevens men had plenty of time to return it, giving our men a chance to fumble the ball, which they gladly accepted, and there might have been trouble if Butler had not dropped on the ball. On a muff by the Stevens half-back, Remington got the ball and carried it well down the field, and when they next lined up Fletcher carried it five yards further. Then there was some more first-class fumbling by the Harvard half-backs, and Harvard lost ground steadily, the Stevens half-back getting the ball once and coming clean through our rush-line. After several downs Sears got the ball and kicked it over the line. Peabody returned the ball when it was kicked out from the twenty-five yard line, and Remington downed it. A long pass to Porter gave him a chance, and he ran round the crowd and made a touchdown. No goal was kicked, and after a few minutes play a good kick by Peabody dropped the ball right in front of the Stevens goal post. The ball was muffed, and Butler scored another touchdown. Brooks kicked a goal, making the score ten to nothing. There was no more scoring after this, though once the Stevens men were forced right down to their line, but their half-back ran round our rushers and saved them from a safety. Harvard had a chance for a goal from the field from a fair catch by Peabody; but there was too much wind and it was missed. During this half the Stevens rush-line played a much better game than ours did. They were nowhere near as heavy, so that they had very hard work to block Harvard and stop our men from breaking through; but their tackling was good, every man ducking down and going for the waist. Our rush-line, as has been said before, tackled abominably and played a loose game, Butler being the only man who played anything like a good game, and even his playing was not up to the mark.

The second half began with Harvard kicking up the field against the wind, which was not however as strong as it had been in the early part of the after-noon. And now there was a surprise for everybody. The Stevens men, who had been playing pretty well, went all to pieces, and played wretchedly for the rest of the afternoon. The backs seemed to have lost all courage and skill, and their chief desire seemed to be to have as little to do with the ball as possible, while their rush-line, tired out by the hard work of blocking the Harvard rushers, were completely demoralized. Harvard, too, played a better game this last half, though a good deal of the apparent improvement was due to the falling off of the Stevens team, as Harvard did not have much tackling to do, and had more chance to show what they could do in the way of backing each other up, and of dropping on the ball.

As soon as play was called in the second half, rushes by Harding and Porter carried the ball down to the Stevens' line, and Fletcher made a touchdown. The try for goal failed, the ball going sideways across the field, and Fletcher made another touchdown from which no goal was kicked. Porter got the ball from the kick-out and ran it back almost to the line, when Fletcher carried it across again. No goal, the ball being kicked fair where Stevens got it. When they next lined up, Smith got through and stopped a kick, and Remington dropping on the ball, made another touchdown. No goal. When the ball was kicked out Porter sent it back, and Wood made a touchdown. No goal. Harvard in a few minutes had the ball down within six feet of the line; but four successive downs found it still there, and the ball was given to Stevens. Porter soon got the ball and made yet another touchdown. No goal. Sears returned the ball from the kick-out, and Butler got the ball and Fletcher made another touchdown. No goal. The sun was in Sears' eyes when the ball was kicked, and he did not see it; but Butler managed to get the ball. It did not do Harvard much good, as there was a good deal of fumbling by our backs, which combined with a little running and kicking by Stevens, got the ball well down the field. Rushes by Harding and Butler, and a good drop by Brooks carried the ball back again, and Remington made the last touchdown, from which Brooks kicked a goal, making the score 44 to 0. Peabody and Fletcher played a good game right through, and in the second half the playing of the rush line was decidedly more encouraging. The conclusion one would draw from the game as a whole is, that if the other side gets rattled Harvard can take advantage of it in great shape; but that if the other side plays a steady game, we have yet very much to learn before we can do much against them. There was not much passing done throughout the game, and most of it was poor. Occasionally there was some good passing, but very rarely. During the game Stevens was unfortunate enough to have two men hurt, one of them the captain; but luckily neither of them are more than temporarily inconvenienced.

The two elevens were made up as follows: Stevens - Rushers, Flack, Emmett, Hart, (capt.) Firestone, Broad-head, Phelps, Hawkins; quarter back, Lopez; half-backs, Uhlenhaut, Cuntz; back, Taylor. Harvard - Rushers, Harding, Butler, Wood, Brooks, (capt.), Smith, Remington, Faulkner; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Porter, Sears; back, Peabody. Referee, Mr. F. D. Fisk.