The Portland daily press., 1898-11-07
THE CRIMSON WON,
The Quakers Unable to Make Their
Famous Play.


Famous Play.
Curve" and the Visiting Eleven Did
| Not Score.
| Cambridge, November 5.-Harvard won
the great football battle on Soldiers field
this afternoon by her superior kicking,
her ability to check Pennsy lyan1a's guard
back formation and to turn to advantage
the miserable fumbling of the Quaker
backs. The SCORE was ten to nothing
1t was hard, clean game, fiercely con-
tested from start to finish, abounding in
exciting and brilliant plays. Harvard
finished the game in good condition and
| was strongly aggressive to the very last
play.
| In the marvellousIy short time of fifteen
seconds after the game began. Harvard
had scored on uhe kick of while in the
second half beautiful goal from the field
by Burnett on place kick, added an
other five points to the score ana clinched
the game for the Crimson. The battle
was one which confounded the most
versatile of prophets, with the result that
Cambridge is we'll nigh crazy with joy
tonight and two thousand or more wear.
ers of the red and blue from the Quaker
city are still asking how it happened.
That Harvard should stop the well
known line bucking of Hare and Mo-
Craoken was almost entirely unexpected; |;
that the Crimson team should play suon
an aggressive. snappy game, as to Keep
the ball in Pennsylvania's territory for
more than three quarters of the time, was
practically beyond the fondest dreams OF
the most expert coaches, but that the
Pennsylvania backs should actually mum
every punt that Haughton made, with
only two exceptions, was the most sur
prising part of the game to either Harvar
or to Coach Woodruff himself. Whil
DAILY and Dibblee were not only sure in
catching Hare's kicks and, as rule, sue
ceeded in milking fifteen or twenty yards
on the run back. Coombs, Harrison
McMhon and even Outland seemed abso-
Iutely unable either to judge the punts
or catch them cleanly when the ball WAS
apparently in their hands.
| When Harvard realized that the Penn
sylyania backs had not the faintest
knowledge of handling punts, running
with the ball was almost Abandoned es-
pecially in the second half. While both
Dibblee and DAILY did some of the prettl-
est dodgtnR ever seen at Gam Drloge, IL
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made their most thrilling runs, for the
attempts of the former at circling either
| end resulted almost invariably IN only
slight gains, and at times in actual losses;
Pennsylvania's tackles, Goodman and
Carnett were altogether too Eveiy In
getting through and mailing Dibblee, and
| the ends broke up the interference sur
prisingly well. This was. perhaps, the
most discouraging feature of the game
from Harvard point of view, for Yaie's
! taokies whom Harvard is to meet TWO
| weeks hence, are acknowledged to be su-
perior to those of Pennsylvan1A- On the
other hand, Boaland Reid plunged into
the hitherto stone-wail cenger OF Fenn-
sylvania and in the first half the neces'
sary distance was gained four times in
succession, only to be lost by Dibblees 8
| futile attempts to circle the ends.
From the spectators point OF view the
| day was an ideal one, but 1t was poor
| football weather The warm Indian sum-
mer air. with no life in it. made play ing
| the most exhausting sort of work, and
| two Harvard men and one Pennsylvanlan
were forced to give way to fresher mater
| ial. Harvard benefited. however, more
| by the change than Pennsylvania, for
| Burnett took the place of the exhausted
Jaffray and few minutes after kicked q
goal.
| 81. +arr rt off IA tho hall
| was for more than three-fourths OF the
| time in her opponents hands, and the
Quakers in their frantic efforts to advance
| the pigskin showed In rapid succession,
every one of their famous plays. The
quarter hack 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 fathom them all before
| the game was very far along, but also
either stopped them without gain, or sue
ceeded in throwing the runner for loss.
| The very first time the quarter back
kiok was tried, Hallowell instead OF Hol-
we'll caught the ball and made ten yards.
| Outland, time ana time again, failed far
behind the line ON the delayed pass, while
Haryard's center stood the hammering OF
Hare and McCracken, reinforced by three
other Quakers, surprisingly well, and
Coach Woodruff thereby saw his own fav+
orite play broken up.
| Although Harvard's defense was sur
prising in it's strength, the Pennsylvania
line was certainly of the finest character.
With the exception of the last five min
utes In the first half, when the plunging
of Reid and Boal and a magnificent run
| by Dibblee, carried the ball to Pennsyl-
vania's twenty five yard line, where
Houghton, owing to lack Of time, tried a
goal from the field, the Quakers stood up
grandly. Their stiff rally in the last min
ute of play, on their three yard line, re-.
minded one strongly OF Yale's famous
defense of her goal last year.
The crowd was delighted in that it
| proved to be kicking game. In the first
part of the game, Hare's long, low kicks
had more of carry in them than Haugh-
toms high punts. but as the game pro-
gressed the Pennsylvanian was fairly
GU tpunted, and two of his attempts were
squarely blocked, while every one OF
Heughton's S went of smooth ana clean
and at the end had surprising amount
of power. Harvard was also strong
behind the line for although her backs
were nailed frequently they ran with far
| better Judgment than their opponents. 1t