Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-08

Cr1Clcal POINTS, IL bOOkSu DIS
Though Harvard Would Score.
u hnney" Dunlop Distinguishes
Himself-King Kelley's Famous
Tandem Play was Effective.
Cambridge, Mass, November T.
Shatte-G battered and helplessly
fghuro against neavy odds. the Grip
pied team of Harvard fell before the
! prowess of Old Nassau this afternoon
and .o-light the tiger is triumphant in
| victOrv. Twelve TO nothing was the
/ score Of the memorable contest but II
does not tell OF the plucky, stubborn
stand Jnat the crimson made against
| princeyon's relentless assaults, nor of
the terrific battle that was waged for
| two hours back and forth across the
white lined gridiron.
/ And at tale end in the dim twilight the
two ba tie lines swung shoulder to
shoulder in mid-feld, a swaying mass
Of struggling muscle, Princeton joyful
in certain victory and Harvard bowed
! down and detected but still tigting
! gamely 10 the bitter end.
I The pace at times had been terrific.
/ There had been many fierce assault
/ that left the young gladiators stretched
out silent and modonless on the sod, like
! so many dead logs thrown shore ward in
storm. Delay after delay came from
the successive injuries, but with grim
determination and grit, player after
player struggled pluckily and faithfully
| back into the game
Il was a clean, manly foot ball game,
however, such as 10 delight the tre-
| mend0us crowd present. There was no
end Of brilliant punting, plenty Of hair
raising encounters and exciting mo-
/ ments. but from a scientific foot ball
ptandpoint the game lacked the splen-
/ did organization of forces and the bril-
/ liant tactics which have characterized
/ so many memorable battles on Hamp-
| dan Park and Mannheim field.
! The game. in miniature, shows how
Harvard started in playing entirely on
the defensive They repused the IL
gers fierce attacks and hardly ever at
! tempted to advance the ball them
selves. They played more strongly
/ than they knew. and the first half, in
which neither team crossed the COW
eted goal line. was a superb battle.
/ The second half saw a change Of tao
| tics. Harvard started out on the Of
fensive ID incetOn took up the task
Of defen. 4 heir territory. with such
( good effect that. aided materially by
Bairds splendid kicking, their goal was
never placed in jeopardy.
The day was faultless. It was clear
and cool. but sunny enough to keep the
spectators comfortable without being
( too warm for the players. There were
$4,000 people present. For two hours
I before the game the immense crowd
had been fltering through the en-
frances and when the teams arrived on
the field the big stands along the sides
we're packed sOlidly from top to bot
tom.
Princeton sent a big contingent Of
/ rooters. who occupied a section on the
east side. and cheered their team on
to victory. One pleasing feature was
/ the cheering of Dunlop by the Prince
ton crowd when Harvard's plucky little
/ half-back was injured.
The Tigers came to Cambridge in
splendid physical condition and one in
a thousand predicted other than clean
victory for them. Before the game had
progressed ten minutes. however. ev-
erv one realized that there was to be
2 fight and it was not until the second
half when the crimson eleven was
hopelessly crippled, that the Tigers
carried the sphere across the goal line.
Princeton played a compact inter-
ference. close to her line, chiefly in the
shape of a turtle back. which revolved
on tackle. or a driving tandem mass
plav in the same direction. Their in
/ reference ran smoothly and cleanly,
and though of an entirely different type
from Harvard's, was far superior in
form and organization. The Harvard
backs PLAYED some distance from the
line and often with a guard or tackle
in the formation with them. 1t was
not until the second half that they be-
gan to rush the ball, then worn out and
badly shattered the interference lacked
I the essential speed in getting away as
we'll as steady formation.
Baird's splendid kicking was pO-
| tent factor in the result. Brown, on
the other hand, with the exception of
several fine long punts in the first ten
minutes of play, proved great disap-
pointment. On the victorious eleven
/ Church was the bright star Of the line.
On the Harvard team, Norman Cabot
played a splendid game until he was
forced to quit. The two freshmen
tackles showed UP surprisingly strong.
Behind the line Dunlop played a
hard. plucky game. Though injured
in the first few minutes Of the play he
kept doing brilliant defensive work TO
the very last. when. we'll nigh used up,
he gave way to COZzens.
Harvard won the toss and chose the
wind. Princeton kicking off toward the
southern goal. At the outset Harvard
forced the play. For a few rushes
Kelly and Barnard ripped through Har-
wards tackles for short gains. but the
crimson soon had the ball well into
Princeton's territory. The story for
some minutes was much the same.
King Kelly at the head of a tandem.
would plunge into left tackle for a few
Yards gain and then Barnard would
carry the ball as much farther ahead on
the other side.
Tandem after tandem was plunged
into the Harvard tackles with the force
Of q pile driver. Slowly, but surely,
tbe Tigers walked the ball down to-
wards the Harvard goal. Each rush
brought it nearer; the Tigers had
their first down eight yards from the
crimson's goal
Johnny Dunlop shouted to "ho'd
Them. boys" and threw himself against
Itne Prime ION interference. Twice Har-
ward was impregnable. A third time
the tigers attempted 10 force the Har-
wards. but the crimson were equal 10
the moment. and like Lsonidas and his