The Worcester spy., 1898-11-06
Play
ers Strong.
PENN 0UTPLAYED.
Quakers Guards Back Play
Failed to Gain Ground.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 5.-Harvard
won the great foot ball battle ON Sol
diers field this afternoon by her su-
perior kicking. her ability to check
Pennsylvania ''guards bael1'' fnrna-
ton, and to turn to advantage the
miserable fumbling of the Quaker
backs.
The score was 10 to O. 1t was a hard,
clean game, fiercely contested from
start to finish, abounding in exciting
and brilliant plays, Harvard finished
the game in good condition and strong
ly aggressive to the very last play.
In the marvelously short time of Is
seconds after the game began. Har-
ward scored through tCoon1bs tumble on
the kickoff, while in the second half a
beautiful goal from the field by Bur
nett on a place kick, added another
five points to the score and clinched
the game for the Crimson.
The battle was ons which eonfound-
ed the most versatile of prophets, with
the result that Cambridge tonight is
wen nigh crazy with joy, and two
thousand or more wearers of the red
and blue from the Quaker City are still
asking how it happened.
That Harvard should stop tile well
known line bucking of Hare and Mo
Cracken, was almost entirely unexpeet-
ed; that the Crimson team should plav
such an aggressive snappy game, as
to keep the ball in Pennsylvania ter
ritory for more than three-quarters of
the time, was practically beyond the
fondest dreams Of the most expert
coacher, but that Pennsylvania backs
should actually muf every punt that
Haughton made, with only two excep-
| JlOhS, was the most surprising phrt of
| the game, either TO Harvard or to
| Coach Woodruff himself.
| While DAILY and Dibblee We're rot only
sure in catching Hare's kicks. and. as
a rule, succeeded in making iifteens or
twenty yards on the run back, Coombs.
Harrison, McMahon and even Outland
seemed absolutely unable either TO
Judge the punts or catch them cleanly
when the ball was apparently in their
hands.
When Harvard realized that the
pennsylvania backs had not the faint
est knowledge Of handling punts. run
nlng with the ball was almost sband-
oned, especially in the second half.
While both Dibblee and DAILY did some
OF the prettiest lodging ever seen at
Cambridge, it was only after catching
punts that they made their most thrill
ing runs, for the attempts of the for
Iner at circllng either end, resulted all
most invariably in only slight gains.
and at times in actual losses. Pennsvl-
wanna S tackles, Goodman and Carnett
We're altogether too lively in getting
through and mailing Dibblee. and the
ehds broke up the Interference surpris-
ingly we'll
This was, perhaps, the only discour-
aging feature of the game from a Har-
Vdfu point OF view, for YaIes tackles.
NhoIn Harvard Is to meet two weeks
hence, are acknowledged to be superior
10 those OF Pennsylvania. on the other
hand, Boal and Reid plunged into tba
hitherto stone wall center of Pennsyl-
vania, and in the first half the neces-
safy distance was gained four times
IN succession, only to be lost by Dib-
end
From the spectators point of view
@ lne day was an ideal one, but it was
poor foot ball weather The warm In
dian summer air, with no life in if
made playing the most exhaustfng sort
OF work, and two Harvard men and one
pennsylvania. player We're forced to
give way to fresher material. Harvard
benefited, however, more by the change
than pennsylvania, for Burnett took
the place of the exhausted Jaffray. and
rev minutes after kicked goal
AS Harvard held to kicking tactics
during the greater part of the game.
the ball was more than three quarters
Of the time in her opponents hands.
and the Quakers, in their frantic ef-
FORTS IN advance tho Taio eli sl,.n =
rapid succession every one of their
own famous plays. The quarterback
kick, the delayed pass, the guards
back, were tried one after the other
from the very first, and while one or
two of these would gain, Harvard not
only managed to combat them ali be-
fore the game was very far along, but
also either stopped them without gain
or succeeded in throwing the runner
for q loss.
The very first time the quarterback
kick was tried, HaltoWell, instead of
Folwell, caught the bali and made ten
yards. Outland, time and again, was
nailed far behind the line on the de-
layed pass while Harvards center
stood the hammering of Hare and Nc
Cracken, reinforced By three other
Quakers, surprisingly well, and Coach
Woodruff thereby saw his own favorite
play broken up.
Although Harvard's S defense was sur
prising in its strength, the Pennsylvan-
ia line was certainly of the finest char
acter With the exception of the last
five minutes in the first half, when the
plunging OF Reid and Boal, and mag
nificent run by Dibblee, carried the ball
70 Pennsylvania's 25-yard line, where
owing to lack Of time, tried
2 goal from the field, the Quakers stood
up grandly. Their stiff rally in the last
minute of play, on their three-yard
line, reminded one strongly of Yale's
famous defense of her goal last year.
The crowd was delighted in that u
proved TO be a kicking game. In the
first part Of the game Hare's long low
kicks had more of a carry in them
than Haughton's high punts but as the
game progressed the Pennsylvania
was fairly outpunted, and two of his
attempts were squarely blocked while
every one of Haughtons went off
smooth and clean, and at the end had
a surprising amount of power. Har-
ward was also strong behind the line.
for although ner backs We're nailed fire.