The game was called at 2.35 Saturday afternoon. Harvard won the toss and took the western side of the field with the wind in her favor. Yale starts off with a run by one of the rushers which is followed by a run by Beecher which gains a good deal of ground for Yale. Dudley downs Morrison and Gill, the latter gaining ground, however. Morrison gains nothing, but Beecher breaks through and makes a touchdown behind the posts, from which Watkinson kicks a goal. The ball is placed in the middle of the field, and Holden, by two rushes, gains twenty yards. Remington gains no ground. Dudley fumbles but drops on the ball. Porter gains no ground and the ball goes to Yale on four downs. Harding stops the first rush. Adams tackles Morrison. Holden makes a fair catch from Watkinson's punt and runs five yards. Butler is thrown, and the ball goes back ten yards. Wood gains ten yards; Remington nothing. Porter is tackled and passes to Peabody for a kick. Watkinson muffs the ball, but it is Yale's down. Gill gets through to Peabody. Dudley throws Beecher, and Holden stops Woodruff; but Morrison scores, Goal. The ball is punted to and fro, till Holden almost finds a hole in Yale's rush line. Dudley and Porter fumble, and Porter is hurt; Boyden takes his place. Butler gains fifteen yards but Harvard is slowly forced back. Yale gets the ball on a fair catch, and Butler downs Watkinson before he can stir. Watkinson's kick is stopped and Harvard gets the ball. There is a good deal of punting now. Peabody, Holden and Boyden make fair catches; but the ball is returned every time and Yale gets it near our goal. Peabody just manages to throw Beecher, who passes the ball to a Yale rusher whom Dudley stops. Three downs bring Yale nearer to our line; but on the fourth, Beecher finds a hole, and Watkinson kicks a goal from his touchdown, making the score 18 to 0.

Boyden runs thirty yards. Holden loses a little but Peabody kicks well down the field and Adams gets the ball. Holden finds a hole and gains ten yards. No gains in three trials and the ball goes back ten yards. Holden gains fifteen yards by a pretty rush. A second rush leaves him in the same place; but the third carried him over the line, giving him a touchdown near the fair line. The ball was punted out and heeled, but the try at goal failed. Yale gained twenty yards at once, but three downs gave them no more ground, Dudley throwing two men before they could stir. The half closed with the ball about in the middle of the field.

Boyden opened the second half by a short run, but Holden lost ground by Yale breaking through at the centre. Holden is tackled and passes to Peabody for a kick, but Yale is too quick for him and Harvard loses fifteen yards by this play. Peabody kicked up the field and Watkinson returned it with a "twister" which Peabody misjudged, thus allowing Gill to make the first touchdown of the second half. Goal. Carter hurt and Buchanan takes his place. Holden makes a short run and kicks to Watkinson. The ball is passed to Gill who gets way through to Holden. Holden, Boyden, Peabody, Watkinson and Bull have a punting contest which is ended by the ball going fair, when Yale gets it. Three trials gain no ground for Yale, and Morrison punts to Holden, who kicks fair, and Harvard gets the ball. A second time Holden kicks fair and Yale gets it. Yale in vain tries to get the ball nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field, but fails. Beecher gets the ball from Holden's kick, and Holden's ankle is hurt; Sears takes his place. Watkinson fumbles the ball and goes down in a heap. He kicks to our five-yard line. Peabody returns the ball to Morrison and Watkinson makes an unsuccessful try for goal from a place kick at the forty yard line. Boyden makes ten yards, but rushes by Remington and Boyden do not advance the ball. Peabody kicks and Beecher gets the ball. Harding downs Beecher, and Adams throws Morrison. The ball goes back ten yards. Dudley throws Watkinson twice in succession, but Beecher gets in a long run, and is stopped by Sears at the fair line. No gain in three trials, and the ball goes ten yards. Dudley is hurt and Fletcher takes his place. Watkinson fumbles, but keeps the ball. Adams throws Morrison; but the second time Morrison finds a hole and gets to Sears, who throws him forcibly. Adams stops Morrison, and Burke makes no headway. The ball goes back to Watkinson, and he kicks a goal from the field. Harvard now starts in to force things. Harding makes a little ground. Fletcher gains fifteen yards. Sears kicks low and Butler stops the return, though Yale got the ball. Three downs and the ball is kicked to Boyden who runs a little way and passes to Peabody for a kick. Peabody kicks over the line and the Yale back fumbles. Adams drops on the ball, but the referee gives it to Yale as a touchback. Yale gains fifteen yards and then kicks to Sears. Fletcher kicks and Harding gets the ball. Sears fumbles, Butler loses ground, and Boyden does not get started. Back ten yards. Boyden and Fletcher each make ten yards. Sears gains no ground, and Boyden stumbles, losing a little. Back ten yards. Fletcher breaks his collar bone in his last rush, so that he is unable to lift his hand to his shoulders, but he pluckily keeps on playing as there is no one to put in. Peabody runs around the Yale rush line, knocking off Wallace and Gill, but he is downed before he gets more than ten yards actual gain. Sears gains ten yards, but the next three downs are in the same place and Yale gets the ball. Watkinson gains five yards, and time is called with the ball in Harvard's possession, fifteen yards from our line. Score 29 to 4.

The game was the best and most scientific ever seen in Cambridge, and was full of interest from the beginning to the end. Harvard played a good game, every man on the team working for all he was worth; time and again some of Yale's best tricks were frustrated by the sharp work of our rush line. Our rushers were decidedly better in getting through than in blocking, and their tacking was low and hard. They were not quite so good in making holes and in blocking off the opposing rushers as the Yale rush line was, and occasionally one could see signs of inexperience, which were of course to be expected. Dudley as quarter-back played a first class game, keeping his head well, and passing carefully and straight while his work in the rush-line was something marvellous. He would get through and stop the half-backs before they got under way, while repeatedly he would pocket Beecher as he came through the rush-line. Our backs played a strong game catching, kicking and running well, and playing a cool, steady game. One of the noticeable features of the game was the good work which our substitutes did. Called into the most important game of the year, with everything depending on them, without a chance even to get warmed up, they responded nobly, playing better than ever before. Boyden's catching was especially good, never missing a ball, though surrounded almost every time by Yale men; while Sears and Fletcher did good work in their respective positions, showing the good training they had, and their complete confidence in the rest of the team. This confidence was justified, as the rush-line played a steady, hard, up hill game right through, never flustered for a moment by the change that was necessary back of rush-line.

The Yale rush-line played a magnificent game. Every man knew what he had to do, and did it well. They made good holes and protected the runner in great shape. It was in vain that our rushers and backs would try to get through the line with the ball. Even when they did find what looked like a hole a Yale rusher was sure to come round from the further end and stop the runner before he got to the backs. In fact their backs did very little tackling and are evidently not so good as the rush-line. Watkinson's kicking was good and well judged, but beyond this, the backs did not do very much, and in the first half they seemed to be a little flustered, misjudging the ball badly. Still it was the rush-line that was expected to do the work, and it did it well. Although our team played a strong game, Yale had more experience and slightly superior skill, which was enough to win them the victory. When all played so well, it seems invidious to single out any one man for mention. But for Harvard, Holden and Dudley were perhaps the most noticeable; and for Yale, Beecher, Wallace, and Gill. The teams were made up as follows: Yale: rushers, Wallace, Gill, Carter (Buchanan), Corbin, Woodruff Burke, Corwin (capt.); quarter, Beecher; halves, Watkinson, Morrison; backs, Bull. Harvard: rushers, Adams, Remington, Burgess, Brooks (capt.), Wood, Butler, Harding; quarter, Dudley (Fletcher); halves, Porter, (Boyden), Holden (Sears); back, Peabody. Referee, Mr. Camp, Yale, '80.