New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-23
YALE SMASHES HARVARD
THE WINNERS SCORE FOUR
TOUCHDOWNS.
ID Io o IN GAME IN WHICH CHAD.
"lCh. ROCKWELL AND GLASS ARE
THE STARS OF WONDERFUL.
ELEVEN -@S.O0O SPFCvTA.
TORS PRESENT

is
-ootodil champion In the presence of twenty
eight thousand spectators Sbs to-l7s,, a~ta5
Hshed on Yale Field her claim IN s,,nrs-,sc-
oVerWheiming the Harvard eleven b,- the b{g
score OF p to o. The wearers of The rsI,,a
'OSSeu harVards goal line for four to1cb-
uowhs' from which three goals were kicked
"Hiie the crimson players fought vainIv TO nierra
'ne deience Of their hereditary enemies. II was
ample revenge that Yale took for the hitter d.
Ieat OF year ago. when Harvard showed the
SNe"-FaVen team under TO the tune OF % to q
coming. as it does. the heels OF YaIe,s decisive
triumph OF week ago over Princeton to-dav,z
game puts Yale securely at the head of the foot
ball procession of 1902
an 'he experts who saw the game were agreed
tnat the eleven that won to-dav's eaua vaz
o.i9 ol 'ne pest that ever wore the Yale Uniform.
u, inaeed IL fell short OF being the very best OF
an Ihe game was won by straight hard foot
ball. that left not the sbadouz ~ . So,,L. :,
I"i7 superiority Only twice did Harvard
dangerously threaten to score Once Was IN
'he hrst half, when. with the score 10 n a
0eaIisI them. the wearers OF the Crimson made
sterling and persistent brace by means OF
"hlch they managed to buck the ball clear fro,,
their own 0O-yard line to YaIe's S-yard mark
oiiy 10 lose 1t by a fatal tumble. apparently
i''due oy Marshall. the quarterback. The second
tiIne when Harvard had chance To scors vas
~--S
against them. the Cambridge players Hned mn
10 stop Hale's forwards from breaking through
In time to prevent Marshall from kicking = goal
from the field. The quarterback fell back IN the
0o-yard mark. when he made ready to trv and
made clever trial. we'll guarded by his mates
put the try went a bit wide and he missed the
goal by about a yard. That was as near as
Harvard came to scoring
TWO ToUCHDOwNs IN EACH HALF
Two Of Yale's touchdowns were made in the
nrst half, and two in the second. and. had Met
caI1 not missed the try for the fourth goal tn.
score would have been "A to O. There Was no
denying that. for some reason the great mass OF
Harvard undergraduates and alumni who trav-
elled many miles to iaunt the Crimson on yaIs
neid were firmly persuaded that their PLAYERS
nad more than good chance to win Indeed
II was freely prOphesied on the Harvard side OF
the field before the game that the Cambridge
eleVen was the equal OF the team that doxned
the Blue so easily las fall on Soldiers Field
! Everybody knew that II this were true one Of
the greatest football struggles in the history OF
/ the game was about TO be Witnessed for Yale
| men who knew what was going on made no
secret OF the fact that the New-Haven asgrs-
| CATION was one OF the strongest IN YaIes rec
ord The result showed that the followers ~
Harvard had in some way been induced to over
estimate most egregiously the strength of their
representatives. When the melancholy showing
of the Cambridge eleven in the Dartmouth game
vas referred TO before yesterdays game. Har-
ward men nodded knowingly and remarked:
''Ah, do You really think Harvard is as bad as
that? See how easily we pulled the game out
OF the fIe when we had to-"
But when every allowance has been made. and
when it has been admitted that every Harvard
man did the best he knew how, and fought man
fully and desperately IN the face OF almost
certain defeat. 1t has to be stated that Yale out
classed her opponent almost from the first blast
of the referees whistle. The Crimson team
made a good stand against the hercuIean line
opposed to 1T in the first half and once bucked
the leather down the gridiron for more than hftv
yards without giving 1t UP. but for the most part
the Harvard rushers could make little impress
sion Yale's heavy line. Her back field too
which had been expected TO outclass YaIe's DID
not show this expected advantage Csraydon
made many yards by line plunging and was
easily the star of the Cambridge eleven He
started like shot, and hit the line hard and so
low that he seemed almost TO be on all fours
But Kernan's brilliant runs did not come of
and Putnam performed poorly that in the
second half Hurley was substituted There was.
too, inexcusabIe amount of fumbling on the
Harvard side, which dampened Crimson pros
poets more than once. Captain Herman himself
responsible for part of this sloppy handling
of the ball, as he muffed Yale's quarterback kick
in the first half before any scoring had been
done, and thus allowed Yale to take the ball at
point from which she subsequently hammered
it remorselessly over the line.
HARVARD ENDS WEAK
Another weakness OF Harvard was in her ends.
1t had been expected that Bowditch at least
would do some fast work. as last season he and
Campbell were nearly If not quite. as good as
Davis and Henry. the peerless Princeton pair.
In this. however. Harvard followers were dis
appointed Mills never showed much class. while
Bowditch far from having his speed Of last
season. and in the second half had to go out Of
the game altogether. Despite the fact that Bar
nard had been shifted to left guard to strength
en- the weak side of the line, the ma joritv OF
Yale's plays directed at Barnard
Shea and Mills. and the ease with which the
tandem hammer went through tells how these
three gave way. 1t does not disgrace them.
however. for they fell before the most powerful
out trio capable OF successfully resisting fl.
1t will not do to let c. Marshall the quarterback.
of whom so much expected. on without
criticism for his failure TO stop Metcalf when
the Yale halfback bore down on him after break
ing through the Crimson line in the first half
The runner was handicapped by having to carry
the ball. and he had no interference Marshall
had plenty of time. yet he let his man get by
him. 1t was ipexcusable bIuader. and pre-
sented six points to Yale
To the victors belongs the praise not neces-
sarlly general rule. but in this case They
deserved their victory and as a team they will
always stand high in the annals of the grid
iron With the single execution aYraa5,- 49,