The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23
Defeated Harvard % to o i'm One of the
Football Games of the Season.
WITNESSED BY 10000 PEOPLE
CAMBRIDGE MEN OUTCLASsED IN
STRENGTH AND GENERALsHIP.
One Ran of Seventy-Three Yards by
MetcaIf-TwO Good Opportunities
Lost by the Crimson.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 22.-Yale Uni
versity established her supremacy In the
East on Yale Field this afternoon by de-
feating Harvard in the annual game in
unmistakable style. When time was called
In the darkness OF early evening the score
stood % TO o. and Yale's shouting thou
sands overwhelmed the victorious heroes,
while Harvard partisans, with cheer after
cheer, encouraged their defeated but plucky
fighters. Nearly 10000 spectators witnessed
the great game, under weather conditions
that could not be improved from the stand
point of the onlookers. 1t was trifie too
warm for the players, but the temperature
did not cause the contestants TO let up
moment during the game.
Ii took the Yale men five minutes or more
to get their football stride. After that the
outcome was never in doubt, for the New
Haven collegians demonstrated that 1t was
Yale's day. In strength, in resources, gen.
eraIship and versatility the Yale men had
a big advantage over their rivals. Four
times Harvard's goal line was crossed for
touchdoWns. Three of the touchdowns
were converted into goals. Yale's play was
consistent throughout and Of the first or
der. The scoring was divided almost equal
" between the halves, two touchdowns
coming in each period.
The Yale victory was the result rather
of straight football than of spectacular
brilliancy. Three of the touchdowns came
after heartbreaking plungeS OF the Yale
men through Harvard's defense. Practical
~ the only open play of the day was wit
messed when Metcalf. the Yale half back
duplicated the work OF Captain Chadwick
at Princeton last week and, leaping
through yawning gap in Harvard's line,
ran seventy-three yards for the second
touchdown OF the game. He did not IND
clear field, but he was given superb In
reference until he able to clear all
Harvard's tackiers except Mills, whom he
three scores were made by Chadwick, Kin
ney and Hogan, all OF whom were pushed
over the line In mass plays, directed at the
center or Harvard's line.
HARVARD'S ONLY CHANCE.
Only twice during the game did Har-
ward have a chance to score. Once, by mag
nincent Undertaking, the Cambridge play
ers forced Yale back from Ellis forty-yard
line to point within eight yards OF the goal
line. A tumble by Captain Herman in a
play that started viciously and gave prom
Use OF success was followed by Yale stand
which took the ball from Harvard on
downs. In the second half Harvard sue
ceeded In reaching Yale's twenty-two-yard
line, but Yale here developed a stonewan
defense and a kick was Harvard's only
hope Marshall tried for q goal from the
field and missed. Otherwise the play was
almost entirely in Harvard's territory, and
the Yale advance was consistent Except
at long intervals the Cambridge players
were constantly on the defense. Now and
then a Harvard brace would come, and for
the moment the Harvard enthusiasts were
encouraged, but the strength Of Yale was
too great and the spectators early began
to discuss the probable size of YaIes score
There was very little kicking done as
o. yvffh hQr wit ed in he oil
Princeton game OF a week ago. and here
Yale outclassed Harvard.
y. Inc game me was Tasv one OF the eleanest ever
easy time Of il, and but three fines were
assessed. Harvard was twice a sufferer
from off-side play and lost five yards on
each occasion. Yale's end rush, Shevlin
was fagrantly offside one Yale kick
and ten yards were promptly awarded TO
Harvard. While the play was vicious.
there hardly semblance of smuggling
and the rivals played with becoming regard
) for the rules.
Four changes took place in Yale's lineup
while Harvard sent five of her champions
TO the side, TO be replaced by fresher men,
No one was seriously hurt, Goss Yale's
right right guard receiving the most painful in
the hand. The physical condition Of the
two teams was apparently on even terms
and Yale's victory was won because of all
around superiority at the game which was
In evidence from start to finish.
THE STARS.
There was no particular star except, DOS
sibly, in the persons of Glass and Rock
well, both of Yale. Glass, with the others
OF the Yale's forwards clearly outplayed
their opponent and Rockwell, Yale's quar-
ter back, displayed coolheadedness and
generalship which places him in the front
rank Of quarter backs. The Harvard back
field. possibly, was faster aggregation
than those or Yale, but they could not
penetrate the Yale line
summary of the play shows how COM
pletely Yale outplayed Harvard in every
department or the game. In the first half,
Yale kicked i've times for total distance
of 149 yards and in the second half three
times for a total of ninety-nine yards. One
of the three kicks in the last half went
out of bounds. for scarcely any gain so
that the two. good kicks by Yale in this
half averaged nearly fifty yards each
Yale, in the first half, rushed a total
distance or loo yards, during which she
had nine first downs. In the second half
Yale rushed total OF 212 yards, during
which she had twenty-one first downs.
Yale's fumbles counted for little
As for the work of the Harvard team in
the first half, she kicked three times for a
total distance OF l07 yards, and in the sec
ond half five times for total of $50 Yards
Harvard rushed the ball in scrimmages
seventy yards in the first half and a scant
thirteen in the second Harvard had
eleven first downs In the first half. but only
two in the second.
The fumbles OF the Harvard team proved
very costly. five being made I'm the first
half and one Of them on Yale's eight-yard
line. where Harvard had good chance TO
score. Harvard played far stronger
game In the first half than in the second
for at time in the last half of the
game was the defeated team inside OF