The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-27
Ellis Threw Trickery Aside and
DOYned the CrimscnS.
IT WAS A FAIR AND SQUARE GAME
Caused disappointment to the Friends
of Harvard, but They Went Back on
the Team and Failed TO Give Them
sympathy ut tho Critical Moment.

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won the great football game by the hardest
kind OF work at the opening of the second
half Saturday afternoon, and another OF
the yearly contests between the New Ha-
ven eleven and the Harvard team passes
Into history as victory for the lads in
| blue
The wearers OF the crimson fought
pluckily in the first half of the great
| struggle, aud their supporters confidently
looked for score after thai, but the sons
Of Eli plunged In with their old time snap,
aud, disdaining all tricks, carried the ball
quickly across the line by the hardest kind
Of football.
The Harvard team proved disappoint-
ment. Only few OF the tricks that it
had rehearsed for weeks were used, and
these were soon sized up by Yale. In places
where kicking game ought to have been
played the crimson captain ordered mass
and wedge plays which were Of no avail.
The defensive work of both teams was
strong, but Yale excelled at just the right
time in offensive plays.
The score was Ito o, and $4,000 people
saw the cleanest and best exhibition of
football in the history Of the Rugby game.
Details OF Of tho Game.
II was the just verdict of every indi-
vidual who saw the struggle between the
two greatest football teams that it,Ivas a
gentlemanly game. II there was any hard
feeling-and that everybody seems to
think inevitable when it is Harvard against
Yale-it did not appear on the surface.
McCrea was warned once for little rough
play, but OF mild sort. This was all the
all . Esx al IL L.
hearts undoubtedly euaked as they saw
Brewer or Butterworth heavily thrown,
while somebody obligingly sat on their
heads, for fear they would make more
trouble, after the manner Of horse that
Is down, but the pair never once got hurt.
They were securely padded, and expected
roughness.
For once Harvard men have nothing to
say Of Yale "muckerism.n They acknowl-
edge that they have been beaten by gentle
men, as they claim to be gentlemen them
selves. They have no resentment. Yale
beat them fairly and squarely There was
not even an important questionable deci-
sion. Harvard never had occasion to find
fault
The playing Of the two different halves
OF game never presented so great con-
tfoot 90 bhdo VI bulS COQleSL
At the close Of the first half everybody
conceded the game-at least tue best
chances--to Harvard. The Ellis had little
demonstration TO make. Still, in custom
ary Yale style, they gritted their teeth, as
IL they knew their eleven would do tho
same and more. That they did do moro
goes without saying after perusal of the
account, yard by yard, of tho second half.
In tka Aw.f L.lf Il IL
the greater part OF the time, in fact, just
ebout three times out of four. There were
~ distinct plays, and 55 of those were
made by Harvard. Aside from the punt
ing, Harvard gained 1877 yards, or nearly
enough TO score three times. Brewer punted
five times. making II yards by that means.
Harvard's total yards gained in that half
was a0S. She lost only nine yards, five of
that being on offsde play by Beale
Yale, on tue other hand, though gaining
237 l-2 yards-some 30more than Harvard
punted 2lo Of theirs, gaining by rushes
with the ball In her possession only "a
yards, not enough into Is yards for o
But that little story OF having the ball
,nly II times to So for Harvard shows bet
er than anything else which side was
strongest.
The Second Half
But what difference in the second half.
Harvard made just 81 plays. four of those
'eing punts. She punted l0S 1-2 yards on
hree trials, and lost nine on fiuke, Yale
'reaking through on Brewer before he |
ould get the ball away. Harvard's total
ain was 204 1-o yards Even under these
Harvard made 06 yards on |
teady rushing--conslderably more than
nough to make a touchdown. Harvard
ost four times, once on the kick, the loss
ggregatiug 10 yards.
Quite different tale Is that of the Els.
hey figured in no less than as plays, only
ne of these being kick, when Butter
'orth punted 81 l-2 yards against the
ind. They gained In all 247 1-2 yards
his would give z26 l2 yards clear profit
y steady rushing. only five of this being
iven them FIR an of side play. This
10 l-2 is enough TO score Just four times.
ale lost at just three times this half, two
ards at one time, one yard at each Of the
hers.
Figures may not always tell the truth.
ut they do for this game. Exclusive of
licking, Yale's net gain was eos yards.
award had only 2l4 10 her credit, almost
lough less TO make the difference OF one
,uchdowp Considering the enormous
ivantage Yale had on the punting, it
ould be difficult 10 figure out the scoro
any less than one touchdown for Yale.
IL must be confessed that Harysrd's
ay was, all in ali, disappointing Co Har-
,rd football cranks Even in the first
III, when Harvard had such decided
the play wns unusually slow