In winning this game Yale won the championship for 1888.
THE last game of the intercollegiate football series was played Thanksgiving Day, on the Polo Grounds, between Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania. As both teams were evenly matched a close game resulted. Walter Camp was referee, and Richard M. Hodge was umpire. The teams, as they lined up at 2.30, were as follows: Pennsylvania—rushers, Wagenhurst, Sypher, Dewey, Savage, Bowser, Cash, Ziegler; quarter-back, Church; half-backs, Hulme and Colladay; full-back, Hill. Wesleyan—rushers, Floy, Glenn, Heath, Gardner, Eaton, Gibson, Crane; quarter-back, Opdyke; half-backs, Manchester and McDonald; full-back, Slayback.
The first half was marked by a very fierce style of play, and numerous scrimmages resulted in more or less injury to the players. After twenty-five minutes Ziegler succeeded in making a touch-down for Pennsylvania, from which a goal was kicked. When time was called at the end of the first half no additional points had been made, though Wesleyan had tried desperately to equal the score. This she succeeded in doing in the second half. However, after that Pennsylvania rushed well, and the ball seldom went out of Wesleyan’s territory, and at the end of the last forty-five minutes she had scored 12 points more, winning the game by 18 points to 6 for Wesleyan. Altogether it was one of the roughest games played this year.
IN the New England Intercollegiate Football Association a series of interesting games has been played as follows:
Oct. 27. At Boston—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 48; Amherst, 0.
Nov. 7. At Amherst—Williams, 53; Amherst, 0.
Nov. 10. At Hanover, N. H.—Dartmouth, 30; Technology, 0.
Nov. 14. At Hanover, N. H.—Dartmouth, 36; Williams, 6.
Nov. 17. At Williamstown, Mass.—Williams, 42; Stevens Institute, 4.