Vanderbilt managed to hold defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie on its home field,[1][2] the south's first great showing against an Eastern power.
Neely brought the ball well into Yale territory, only to be lost because of penalties against the visitors.
All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today – line, ends, and backfield.
"[6] In Nashville on the night of the game, over a thousand Vanderbilt students (boys) "clad in nightshirts, pajamas and curtailed bonnets," celebrated with a parade march through the streets, and after a trip to the woman's college, with a bonfire at Dudley Field well into the night.
[4] Grantland Rice wrote: These are the gladdest of possible words, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Sweeter than song from the clear singing birds, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Words that are sweeter than nectar and honey Sweeter by far than the jungle of money, Words that are roseate, golden and sunny, "Yale Was Unable to Score" Find in the classics another such phrase, "Commodores Draw With the Blue," Phrase that is all to the ripple and razzle, Canonized cluster of words on the dazzle, Words that have Emerson smashed to a frazzle