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VALD ALUMNI WEEKLY 49 = typhoid fever in Manila, a short time ago. He was first attacked with an acute stomach trouble which ran into fever. Allyn B. Wilmot was born at Post Mills, Vermont, July 19, 1869, and after graduation from the Law School in the Class of Ninety-Five took up the prac- tice of law in New Haven, being a mem- ber of the firm of Coleman & Wilmot. Last Spring he joined the United States regular army as a member of the Twelfth Regiment and sailed from New York to Manila shortly afterwards on the transport Sheridan. During his stay in Manila he wrote a number of interesting letters descriptive of the ser- vice, to the local papers. YALE DICT: [Class and Association Secretaries are invited to contribute to this column.] Ninety-Six Triennial Record. Owing to the class secretary’s absence in Europe during the Summer and his severe illness for six weeks, work on the Triennial Report has hitherto been im- possible. The secretary has now, how- ever, begun active work and the record will be completed as soon as possible. In order to make it of greater value the secretary requests immediate notice of recent changes of address or of busi- ness, of degrees obtained in June, of marriages or births of children—any- thing, in short, that will increase the value of the Record to ’96 men. Exact information is wanted, with dates given, when possible. The following men failed to fill out and return the Triennial blanks, and their records will be imper- fect unless information can be obtained at once from them or from their friends: Alling, Henry D. Baker, Mark Bald- win, Ball, Ballentine, Billard, Brastow, Breckenridge, W. F. Brown, Carley, Carroll, Chapman, Charnley, Cheney, Colton; Damon, Dean, DeSibour, Fla- herty, Forbes, Godchaux, Gordon, Gor- man, Govert, Grant, Heidrick, A. C. Jones, L. C. Jones, Kellogg, Kinney, Lampman, Longacre,. McClenahan, Morris, Mundy, Park, Pelton, Prince, Sawyer, Scott, W. D. G. Smith, Spald- ing, Stalter, H. Taylor, F. M. Thomp- son, Tracy, Treadway, Wadhams, Wick- enden, Yeaman. From various sources the present sec- retary is im possession of many ad- dresses and some facts of these men, but no blanks filled out by them are in the papers turned over to him. Every ‘96 man is urged to make a special effort to supply whatever material he can for the class record. Letters should be addressed to George Henry Nettle- ton, care of Graduates Club, New Haven, Conn. ———+eo—___—_—- FOOTBALL TICKETS. How Alumni Weekly Subscribers and- all Yale Graduates May Secure Them. As announced last week, all tickets for graduates, for the Yale-Harvard game in Cambridge, November 18, and the New Haven, November 25, are to be dis- tributed through the Ticket Department of the Yate ALUMNI WEEKLY. Graduates desiring to secure tickets to either game, can send to this office any time after Friday, October 27, for application envelopes, in which formal application, with proper enclosures, are to be made. The application must then be returned to this office. Four tickets will be allowed on each application for the Yale-Harvard game, and three tickets on each application for the Yale- Princeton game. Yale-Princeton game in All communications in regard to tickets must be addressed as follows: Ste Ticket Department, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. . The detailed conditions governing the allotment of seats will be given on the application blank and those condi- tions must be agreed to by each appli- cant. Each request for application blanks must enclose two cents for postage. There will be two sets of application blanks—one for ALUMNI WEEKLY sub- scribers and one for other graduates. Applicants should state definitely to which kind they are entitled. All tickets will be given out on indi- vidual applications. If any club or other group desires seats together, the application must consist of a bunch of individual applications. This rule is absolutely necessary in order to prevent duplications and will be strictly ad- hered to. It has become increasingly difficult to place any considerable num- ber of men together at the large games, especially at the New Haven games. The aim of the management is to secure the fairest chance for the largest num- ber of individuals, and allotments of groups of seats, except when made after _all individual applications are taken care of, can hardly be made without doing injustice to individuals. In the case of individuals an accurate record of allot- ment will be kept, with the aim of pre- venting a continued run of bad luck in the drawing, by giving, from time to time, a preferred place in the drawing to those who have happened upon the less desirable seats more than once. This will not apply to individuals who are grouped as aclub. The chances, as for the best seats, are therefore in favor of the individual in the long run. It will be best for ALUMNI WEEKLY subscribers to apply as such. There will be a certain number of seats in each section for the graduates. All seats are good, but all can not get the seats in the middle of the Yale side. There has, however, been an equitable allotment of the seats as between the undergraduates and the graduates. Every graduate applying for seats will be held responsible for the final use of the seats given to him. This point bears careful reading and will be elab- orated in the conditions on the applica- tion. Those applying in the names of other graduates than themselves, must submit evidence that they have the right to use those names. No_ individual connected with the AtuMNI WEEKLy has any opportunity to ~secure seats other ~ than =~ that possessed by any graduate, and it will be simply impossible to make excep- tions to these rules. CLOSING OF DRAWINGS. Applications for tickets to the Yale- Harvard game will close at noon, Wednesday, November 8. Applications for tickets to the Yale- Princeton game will close at noon, Wednesday, November 15. ; COMMITTEE TO SUPERVISE DRAWINGS. A committee of five graduates, whose names will be announced later, will supervise the entire distribution of tickets to graduates. —_—_—__+94—___ Last Week’s Games. The football games of last week re- sulted as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 18.—At Philadelphia, U. of P. 17, Wesleyan 6; at Princeton, Princeton 12, Penn. State 0; at Cam- bridge, Harvard 29, Bates o. Saturday, Oct. 21.—At Columbia Field, New York, Columbia 18, Amherst 0; at West Point, Princeton 23, West Point 0; at Cambridge, Harvard 11, Brown 0; at Philadelphia, U. of P. o, Lafayette 6: at Ithaca, Cornell 6, Le- high *; at Carlisle, Carlisle Indians 16, Dickenson 5; at Hanover, Williams 12: Dartmouth 10; at Middletown, Wesleyan 44, Mass. Institute of Tech. 6; at Wor- cester, Harvard Freshmen 11, Worces- ter Academy o; at Princeton, Princeton Freshmen 15, St. Paul’s School o, YALE WON THE GAME. Richards? Great Run Made the Only - Seore. Yale defeated the University of Wis- consin at the Field, Saturday afternoon, Oct. 21, by the score of 6 to 0, thus up- setting the predictions of almost every one that Wisconsin would surely score. The game was clean and fast, and of the most open character, two great kickers, Captain O’Dea and Captain McBride, being opposed to each other © in a punting duel which kept the play shifting from one end of the field to the other every few minutes. The 65 yard tun of Richards, which saved the day for Yale, was one of the finest ever seen on any field. The reputation of O’Dea had pre- ceded him to the East, as a phenomenal punter and drop kicker, and he had been at work but a short time when Yale men began to believe the whole truth had not been told about him. In the second half, with the wind on his back, no single kick was shorter than 40 yards and two reached the great dis- tance of 65 and 70 yards, while with the wind against him he was a match for his opponent, who was playing a first rate kicking game. Notwithstanding O’Dea’s magnificent punting, however, Yale’s rushes kept the ball in Wiscon- sin’s territory most of the time and he had but one clear opportunity to exer- cise his ability at drop kicking. This was less than two minutes after play began, when by Chadwick’s muffing of the kick-off, a Wisconsin man got the ball on Yale’s 20-yard line, not far from the side-lines. The silence was pain- ful on the Yale side as the long pass was made to O’Dea for a try at the goal, but it soon changed to a tremen- dous uproar, for the tackles streaming through on the Wisconsin captain hurried him somewhat and the ball went wide of the mark. His other two at- tempts at goal kicking were blocked, a Yale man recovering the ball in each case. The Yale team on the whole played a good game, with the second half an improvement of 50 per cent. over the first. On the defensive there was sur- prising strength and alertness, things which have been noticeably absent be- fore this game. Hale, who went in at left tackle, distinguished himself by be- ing in every play. The ends, Thomas and Schweppe, followed kicks well and played a sharp game every minute of the time, and barring several poor passes to fullback, center played the best game of the season. The offensive game was, on the other hand, singularly lifeless, in direct con- trast to the previous play, and although the Wisconsin line was not what could be called a very strong one, because of poor team work, nothing like steady gains could be made till near the close of the second half, when, spurred on by the vision of a tie game, McBride, Richards, Stillman, Sharpe and Hale began to tear holes in the opposing line, and advance the ball 5 yards at a time. Richards’ run, which was made just at the end of a splendid series of charges which carried the ball to Yale’s 45-yard line, will go down in history as one of the most brilliant performances. , The first half had ended with no score, although Yale had had a good wind with her. Fumbling by Chad- wick, Sharpe and McBride lost two or three chances to score, and now the team was called upon to defend their goal from the prince of kickers with an increasing gale at his back. That they did it successfully, fighting back the visitors yard by yard, never giving them a chance to get the ball inside the 50- yard line, where Mr. O’Dea might drop a goal, is a thing worth telling. But to the story of the winning run. Richards had been substituted at right © half for Chadwick, who had had an attack of fumbling in the first half. The former was considerably in the nature of an experiment, for most of his experi- ence had been at playing guard on the school team at Lawrenceville, and al- though he is a Senior he had not seemed particularly promising to the coaches, who had worked him at end in the third eleven and last week had given him a day or two behind the line. He ap- peared to be the only available man, however, to take Chadwick’s place. The wisdom of the choice was soon discovered, Yale had fought the ball from her 10-yard line up the field 25 yards, where McBride kicked to O’Dea, who immedi- © ately drove the ball back 70 yards to Fincke on Yale’s 10-yard line. Fincke could gain but a few yards before the lively ends were upon him. From here the great drive was made to the 45-yard line, the gains being made chiefly by McBride, Stillman, Hale and Richards. Yale, whose physical condition seemed perfect, was improving every minute and Wisconsin could not hold her. At the 45-yard line Richards was passed the ball for a run around Wisconsin’s right end. He got away very quick under splendid interference by Thomas, Sharpe and McBride, but he was run- ning so fast he got beyond them and when he turned down the field he was alone. Juneau attempted to stop the runner, but he tackled too high, and Richards, by a half turn of his body, threw himself clear, staggering, but still going. Then Wilmarth, the speedy quarterback, dashed upon him, but could not get a grip. There were still three Wisconsin’s tacklers, including O’Dea, in the path, but keeping his right arm working like a pile driver, Richards held straight on his course, knocking one after the other aside and finally falling winded behind the goal posts. Brown kicked the goal. It was a time- ly score, for four minutes later the whistle stopped the game, Yale having the ball in the middle of the field. Richards was given a tremendous ovation and was carried from the field on the shoulders of his admirers. The interest in the game through the country was remarkable, probably be- cause it was the first meeting of a western eleven with one of the so called “big-four.” Over 4,000 people saw the game, which is the largest number ever recorded outside of the championship games. About a thousand students marched to the field carrying the class banners that had been used in the cele- bration on Wednesday night, and were headed by a band. A_ considerable number of Wisconsin’s supporters, probably 50 or 60, who had come on from Madison with the team, made a brave showing as they marched to the field with a band at their head. They were much disappointed at the result of the game. The line-up follows: YALE, POSITION. WISCONSIN. Sehweppe =)... left-end-richt___. 2a. 3. Juneau Halesc left-tackle-right -_.2___.... Curtis F. G. Brown_-.-_- left-guard-rig ht _._._:___- Rogers Cunha vo oe COURCT IS eee uc Comstock Clcote a. right-guard-left..R. Chamberlain Silman s es right-tackle-left_........... Blair Thomas.2.. 3. 2: right-end-left.-. 2... Cochems Finck. cok. guattierback. ut. Wilmarth Sharpe 3.2. oo: left-half-right...A. Chamberlain oe lg t eats right-halfleft <2). Peele. NeBride= 255-0. iwiineck: 3. sO en Summary: Yale 6, Wisconsin 0; touchdown, Richards, Yale; goal from touchdown, F. G. Brown; referee, Mr. Evarts Wrenn; umpire, Mr. Paul Dashiell; timekeeper, Mr. Fred Smith; linesmien, (De. T. Bi Hull and Mr E. Anderson, Wisconsin. Time of halves, twenty-five minutes. Yale 1903, 5; Hotchkiss, 16. The Freshman football team was again defeated on Saturday, October 21, by the Hotchkiss School with the score 16 to 5. A lamentable lack of team play is the chief cause of the defeats which the eleven has met in its first two games this year. Hotchkiss made her three scores in the first half by heavy mass plays principally on tackle and by a few brilliant end runs. In the second half .the Freshmen rallied, holding their op- ponents well in check, but being unable themselves to score more than once. This score was due to several end runs by Payne. The two teams lined up as follows: FRESHMEN, POSITION. HorcHkKIss. Waa oc. oo: jeft-end-Fignt. <2... os = Deming Freeman...-...-- left-tackle-tight .. 240 423 Platt Pia lit Fs left-guard-right_...-._--- Gilbert aso a he CREE ae Sousa Johnson: 2. eS right-guard-left ____._..--- Wells Nichols ‘ Sutphin t eouaeeck right-tackle-left .......-- Fowler Brew... 20650 34 ios right-end-left.__......-..- Cook CIA WORG os arse (erueem yes .. Hull Paynest 3. left-half-right _.......---- Shaw Revdubiefo'scs--Habt-halftef a White Bf geek ee falipate.. 2. Oliver Summary: Time first half twenty minutes, second 15 minutes. Umpire and referee, B. C. Rumsey, 1902, and Mr. O. F. Monohan,
