The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-19
GREAT DAY FOR
FOOTBALL PLAYERS
The Yale-Harvard Game Ended
Without a Score.
OLD ELPS GREAT DEFENSE
Held Down Much Boosted Attack of the
Massachusetts Men, and Showed
Amazingly Strong Front
The Lineup.
OLD ELPS GREAT DEFENSE


whirlwind of excitement, simply heart
breaking in its intensity, the Harvard Yale
game on Soldiers Field this afternoon end
ed without a score Yale had played Har-
ward to Standstill then Harvard had rail-
lied to one of the grandest finishes ever
seen on the grfdiron, and after a missed
try at goal the immense crowd of people
swarmed down from the seats to where the
players were cheering their opponents. The
famous football game on the same field in
81 had been repeated and Yale, by her SUI
perb defense, had held the much-boasted
Harvard attack.
The contest was brilliant throughout. The
end of the game furnished the most thrill
ing climax of the afternoons sport, when,
after rushing the ball to Yale's 25-yard
line by steady plays, and with thirty sec
onds of the playing time left, Hallowel,
the Harvard end, brought the enormous
crowd to their feet when he dropped back
of the line for drop kick for goal. The
two lines crouched the Yale men preparing
to tear through If possible and prevent this
last chance for Harvard to score. Quarter
back DAILY called out the signal, the lines
bent lower, and Hallowell was ready for
the final effort. Not sound was heard as
the ball was put into play, with the oppos-
ing rushers crashing together at the same
moment. DAILY made clean pass and
Hallowell kicked. 1t was neat attempt,
but the pigslpin sailed just outside the goal
missed that the Harvard followers went
wild In their belief that five points had been
scored. A few seconds later the Yale men
were thrown into paroxySms of delight
when 1t became known that 1t was no goal.
Twice in the first half the doughty play
ers of Harvard treated their followers to a
spectacle which made apparently logical
the conclusion that 1t was again Harvard's
day. Once she was baked in her efforts by
as magnificent show of football reserve
c,Ja ad xxyhn a forced
back to her own two-yard line, with the
crimson men playing like flends, held for
downs and recovered the ball. Shortly af-
terward Harvard, taking splendid adVan-
tage of Yale tumble. was given chance
at goal from the twenty-yard line. Cap
tain Burden, however, usually a remarka-
Bile KICKER made a poor try, and sigh OF
bitter disappointment went up from the
Harvard stands.
Harvard monopolized offensive honors in
the FIRST half, but Yales defense proved
itself amazingly strong, and, although the
Cambridge eleven played this with slight
wind at their backs, the members OF ner
team were unable to force their way over
the coveted Yale line. The New Haven
boys turned the tables in the second half,
playing with dash that has made Yale
a feared opponent. Yale confined the play
of the half to Harvard territory largely.
3 The Yale men early in the game gave the
crimson a variety of surprises. The Har-
ward players were in fine form, and their
game was such as won the victories
throughout the season The very first scrim-
mage showed that Yale had the ability to
carry on a stubborn defense. The Yale
line, particularly Its center, was considered
far inferior to that OF Harvard, but in the
first ten minutes of play there Was unmis-
taxable evidence that YaleS forwards had
been coming fast; that they were unexpect-
edly strong, and that their downfall could
only be achieved 10y AN unusually brilliant
and vicious Harvard attack.
Fortune was with the men of Cambridge
when they won the toss, and Captain Bur-
den PROMPTLY chose the west goal, with Its
favoring wind. The situation which devel-
oped at the kickoff disclosed at once a
Yale weakness On her ends, for the Har-
ward backs, after catching punts, carried the
ball back through a broken field with a
speed too great for the Yale men. Through
the game, in fact, Harvard's most striking
gains were made in this manner. The bait
tie early resolved itself into a Kicking con-
test wherein Mcbride easily excelled Har-
wards punters, so that the visitors not only
kept the leather out of danger. but often
gaining yards in exchange. Harvard dis
covered this fact and changed her tactics
to line plunging and end runs. With beau
tful precision the Harvard backs diyed
through Yale's line. Time and time again
these plunges Melted the coveted distance
with an end dash thrown in 10y way of vari-
ried the ball ITO Yale's two-yard line.
1t was at this stage, however, that Yale's
old time bulldog tenacity displayed itself,
for In grand style she held fast and took
1the ball Yale's followers had scarcely
drawn out their sigh of relief when a fair
catch by Harvard of poor Yale punt gave
the crimson another opportunity for scor-
ing. Here Burnett tried for a goal from
field. 1t went wide and with its flight Har-
ward had lost the opportunity for victory.
During the remainder of the first half the
play was largely in the center of the grid
iron with Harvard showing magnificent
bursts of form and speed and Yale meeting
every onslaught with beautiful certainty.
Both teams started the second half with
a rush. While the Harvard men did not APP
pear to have lost strength, 1t was noticeable
That the Yale men were more active. They
played with greater speed than before and
quickly had torn down the field into Har-
wards territory. Almost the entire half
saw the play in Harvards ground Re-
peatedly Yale rushed the ball down the
field only to be met with brilliant stands
by Harvard. Twice Yale carried the ball
to Harvard's S-yard line, but had to re-
treat before the crimson brace, Yale re-
sorting to the rarely seen tactic of taking
the ball back 20 yards in preference to the
risk of losing 1t on downs. With the last
period about half over, the Yale eleven
played fiercely, but 1t was impossible to
beat down Harvards defense and the Ball
shifted first one way and then the other.
With five minutes to play Harvard renewed
the attack and began an exhibition of
scientific football almost unequalled Her
line ploughed through the Yale forwards
with apparent ease and her backs were
like catapults. They literally ripped and
tore through the center of the field to
Yale's 25-ward line, each play seemingly
being executed with increasing strength and
pugnacity.
Harvard there lost In tumble and there
followed exchange OF punts which
placed the ball In Finck's hands, only to be
fumbled. AT Yales twenty-five yard line
the chance came for Harvard to score in
try by Hallowell for a goal from a drop
kick. 1t failed, and as the two elevens pre-
pared to line up, with the ball in Yale's pos
session. time was called and the great game
had ended without scoring.
The game was clean throughout, penalties
being imposed but twice. None of the men
were seriously injured, the snbsttntions
being made as matter OF policy.