May 13, 1892

Harvard 3, Dartmouth 4

Harvard made its first appearance on Dartmouth's campus for ten years, on Friday, May 13 and after a hot contest left the field defeated, but apparently not discouraged. Luck was against them. Their trunks had miscarried at Concord, and the players were fitted in such suits as Shurtleff could find for them. The suits were not pretty and did not all fit, it being especially difficult to find any clothes big enough for Highlands. The worst luck was when Upton was injured, in the ninth, so as to be unable to play again this season. The umpire, Mullen, who made his first and last appearance as an umpire here, did his best for Harvard, and quite made up the disadvantage that the team labored under in strange clothes....

Dartmouth did no cheering till the sixth, when the boys opened up in great shape, and by their yelling probably won the game. The score:

Excerpted from The Dartmouth, Friday, May 20, 1892

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