The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04
BROKE THE GUARDS BACK
PENNSYLVANIA PET PLAY WAS
OF NO AVAIL ON SOL
DIERS' FIELD
THE HARvARDs WON BY II TO 5
Crimson Eleven Took the Game
With IA Rush Before the Quak-
ers Knew They Were
Playing,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. "A mar
vicious defense which completely stopped
and broke up the famous guards back
formation, a speedy and brilliant Often
SiVe, together with some bad errors by
her opponents, gave Harvard most sat
isfactory victory over the University of
Pennsylvania at the Soldiers Field this
afternon, and made the crimson a warm
favorlte for the Yale game at New Ha-
-Nen just three weeks hence. That
Pennsy wanna should have been beaten
IL to > was something entirely beyond
the eNpecta tons of the most sanguine
crimson students, while ii was doubtless
surprising and almost humillattng to
several thousand followers of the red an
blue VINO JOurneyed from Philadelphia
with the confident expectation of seeing,
if not reversed figures. at least victory
by a comfortable margin. All this was
apparently based on the famous odense.
originated by Coach Woodruff, of send
ing the heaviest men on the team plung-
ing into the line. 1t took just two plays
TO show the faIlacy of This belief and
then came a whirlwind of rushes by the
crimson eleven, coupled with several
CHASTITY errors by the Pennsylvanians,
and almost before the Philadelphia men
knew il Harvard had scored not only
once, but twice and thrice. No doubt
the ability of-Sawin and Kendall to circle
}, PennsylVania's ends and to make many
yards through the tackles was due to
weakness at those points, but at the
same time Ellis repatedl ygained his dis
tance right through the two big Pennsyl-
Nanla guards, Hare and Teas. These
achievements with some well placed,
lengthy kicking has raised uarvard's
hopes of a similar result in the game
A goodIy part, if not all the credit of
the CRIMSON victory rests on the cool
headeoness of Capt. Daily. What the
Harvard eleven would have ACCOMPLISHED
without their star leader and quarter
back, it is, of course, impossible to con-
lecture. He ran the team superbly, and
at the same time gave every member the
greatest kind of incentive and encourage
Fnent, by playing brilliantly and conf
IDENTITY himself,
His kicking fully equalled Hare's. and
tonight he is a thorough favorite.
Too much cannot be said of that ether
leader, Capt. Hare. Whatever virtue
there was in Pennsylvania game was
due to him, although it is proper to say
that had HarVard'S protest against Nc
Cracker been allowed the Crimson might
have scored a few additional points.
on the Whole, however, the Penn
Fania team was a disapnoin tment. Penn
sylvan'a's weak points were her tackles,
thinner last tackle being almost use
less But the team was strengthened
considerably after Horner took his place
Harvard scored In fifteen minutes after
the game started, principally by brill
liant runs by SaWin around the end and
Ellis into the center Then minutes
after Hare's kick from the twenty-five
yard line was blocked and Lawrence fell
on the BAH for the second touch down
The third was gained by good straight
B, gains from nearly the middle of the field
until Swain again went through the
tackles to the five yard line, and a mo-
lment after was pushed over for Har-
Yards final score, for Lawrence missed
The goal.
With the score of Il to 0 in their faces
Pennsylvania made fine brace in the
second half and Harvard tumble with
some off side play by Hallowen put them
on the crimson eight yard line On the
first, play HalioweH was neatly boxed up
and Hare went over the line Of Pennsyi-
Nania's only score Tut Immediately at
forwards missed the goal Soon after
this Hare once more electrified the red
and blue crowd by q grand forty yard
run around the Harvard right end, and
t'enn5y lvania began 10 feel quite cheer
Gui- Then came some fumblng and the
squeichlng of the guards back Formation
which gave the bal TO Harvard on
downs In the exchange of kicks which
followed DAILY sent every crimson sup
porter TO his feet by one of the most
brllhaht runs of the game, evading the
sntlre pennsylvania team until after he
mad covered over fifty yards
4 ms run took the life cut of the Penn
bylyanla team. although they made a