Foot Ball.

There was a small crowd on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon to see Harvard run up the biggest score she has made since, in October 1886, she defeated Exeter 158 points to nothing. It is probable that Wesleyan is the weakest team which she has met since that time; at any rate it is the weakest that has been on Jarvis Field for many years. The men were utterly used up in the game on Saturday with Princeton, and almost every player appeared swathed in bandages. For the first few minutes they displayed some energy; but after that the result of their hard contest on Saturday showed plainly. As a team, Wesleyan did no effective work whatever, except in the initial wedges from the centre of the field. She invariably gained eight or ten yards by that play - only to lose the ball as regularly a moment later.

The large score which Harvard piled up was due more to Wesleyan's weakness than to Harvard's strength. Harvard's team play was by no means first-class. She relied almost entirely upon the brilliant individual work of the backs. They showed an improvement in their interference for each other. Trafford and Fearing both doing very effective blocking around the ends.

The rush-line was as usual slow in lining up and in breaking Wesleyan's wedge. They lost five yards several times for offside play and holding. They had no trouble in getting through the Wesleyan's forwards and in preventing the quarter-back from putting the ball cleanly into play. The result was that only twice did a Wesleyan back make anything like a consider able gain; while in most of the cases Wesleyan had to surrender the ball on four downs.

For Wesleyan Quarter-back Stark did the greater part of the tackling and played a strong all-around game. The other men were easily blocked off, and, when they reached the runner, tackled weakly. They were as a whole plainly in no condition to play. For Harvard, Newell, Mason and Hallowell did good work in the line, and all the backs rushed brilliantly.

Harvard scored every few minutes throughout the game. Trafford, Fearing, Lake and Grey as usual did most of the ground gaining, though the tackles ran occasionally, and Mason especially made some good rushes. Hallowell also followed the ball closely on kicks, and scored once or twice on a muff by the Wesleyan fullback.

Harvard had the ball to start with. It took three minutes to make the first touchdown. After that Harvard scored very regularly, making in the first half, eleven touch downs. Trafford kicked ten goals. Score, 64 to 0.

In the second half Grey took the place of Lake who had hurt his shoulder. The play was marked by the long rushes of Fearing and Grey, each of whom made a run of 75 yards. Eleven more touch downs were made in the second half, from eight of which Trafford kicked goals.

The teams:

WESLEYAN. HARVARD.

Pomeroy, (left end) Emmons.

Leo, (tackle) Mason.

Saxe, (guard) Vail.

Davison, (centre) Bangs.

Newton. (guard) Rantoul.

Dukeshire, (tackle) Newell.

Akers, (Smith), (right-end) Hallowell.

Stark, (quarter-back) Cobb.

Meredith, (half-backs) Lake.

Hall, (half-backs) Fearing.

(Pullman), (Grey).

Colt, (full-back) Trafford.

Touch downs - Trafford (7), Lake (4), Fearing (4), Hallowell (3), Grey (2), Mason (2). Total, 22.

Goals from touch downs - Trafford 18.

Umpire, J. A. Saxe, S. S. Referee, Mr. Tackaberry. Time, two 35 minute halves.