The Portland daily press., 1900-11-05
GRIDIRON WAR.
A Day of Surprises for the Long Haired
Youth.

Cambridge, Mass, November ga
marvellous defense which completely
stopped and broke up the famous guards
back formation, a speedy and brilliant
offense, together with some bad errors by
her Quaker opponents gave Harvard
most satisfactory victory over University
of Pennsylvania on Soldiers Field,
this afternoon, and made the Crimson
warm favorite for the Yale game at New
Haven just three weeks hence. That
Pennsylvania should have been beaten IL
to 8, was something considerably beyond
the expectations of the most sanguine
Crimson students, willis 1t was doubly
surprising and almost humiliating to
several thousand followers Of the red
and blue who journeyed from Philadel-
phia with the expectation OF seeing, IL
not reversed figures, at least victory by
comfortable margin. All this was
apparently based on that famous offense
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 PUSHES by the Grim
son eleven coupled with several CHASTITY
errors by the Pennsylvania players and
almost before the PhiladeIphians knew
1t, Harvard had scored, not only once,
but twice and thrice. Ii was, however,
just the kind of football that crowd OF
$4,000 people enjoyed, with thrilling
runs around the ends. some fairly good
Kicking and, above all, good straight
playing from start to finish. Only twice
during ths game was penalty I'M
posed and in each case, Harvard over
stepped the rules and suffered. The first
LED almost directly to Pennsylvania 8
only touchdown.
1he strength of Harvard's defente, In
view of the ease with which the Indians
only a week ago tore the line TO pieces,
was from a Crimson standpoint, one OF
the most gratifying results OF the game,
while the speed of the offense was al
most equally as satisfactory. ENo doubt
the ability OF Sawin and Kendall to
circle Pennsylvania ends and make
many yards through the tackles, was due
to weakness at those points, but at the
same time Ellis repeatedly gained his
distance right through the two big Penn
sylvania guards, Hare and Teas. These
achievements with some well-placed
lengthy kicking, have raised Harvard's
hopes OF a similar result with the game
with Yale.
A gooaIy part, If not all, the credit OF
ths Crimson victory rests on the COOL
headedness Of Capt Daily. What the Har-
ard eleven would have accomplished
without their star leader ana quarter
back, 1t is of course impossible TO con-
lecture. He ran the team Huperbly and
at the same time gave avery member the
greatest kind OF incentive and encour-
agement by playing brilliantly and con-
fidently himself. His kicking fully
equaIled Hares and he was so fortunate
In Immediately retrieving his mistakes
that tonight he Ia the hero OF the uni
versity. AT tine same time, too much
cannot be said OF Capt. Hare. What vir-
tues there was In Pennsylvania game
was due to him alone, although 1t ID
pretty safe to say that had Harvard's
protest against Mo9racken been al
lowed, the Crimson might have scored
few additional points.
On the whole. however, the Pennsyl-
vania team was disappointment and
to no more 80 than to it's doughty cap
tain, But he could not play the whole
game and there was scarcely position
on the Pennsylvania eleven that was. not
over-matched by Harvard. The Grim
son line, although some pounds lighter
than Pennsylvania s, was fully as
strong, while in tho back field the SUI
periority WIS still more marked. The
-Quakers fumbled badly, especially dur
ing the second half. hennsylvania's
weakest points were tackles and ends,
Zimmerman at left tackle being almost
useless, But the team was strengthened
considerably after Horner took his place.
Harvard scored in 10 minutes after the
game started, principally by brilliant
runs by Sawin around the END and Ellis
into the ceEare. len minutes after, Hare's
kick from the 25-yard line was blocked
and Lawrence fell on the ball for the
second touchdown.
The third was gained by good straight
gains from nearly the middle OF the
Held until Sawin was pushed over for
HarvaTRis. final score, iec Lawrence