The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22
Cambridge Men Were Once Within
Six Inches of the Coveted Goal,
but Failed to Score.
FEW SPECTACULAR PLAYS
YALE EXCELLED IN PUNTING AND
HARVARD AT RUSHING.
Three Touchdowns and q Goal Sc
Score Due to a Blocked Kick.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. H.-Harvard
struggled bravely against Yale to-day In
their annual football match, but was de-
feated Is to 0. Harvard's 0ffense weakened
as the game proceeded. Some 10000 per-
sons saw the game.
Harvard, in the first half, twice got inside
Yale's fve-yard line. but could not go
through for a touchdown. In the second
half Harvard got within six inches of the
Yale goal and yet could not score. There
was some fumbling and several blocked
kicks, one of Yale's scores being directly
due to blocked balls. There were several
end runs for fifteen and twenty-five yards.
but as rule the play, especially as far as
Harvard was convened, was a series Of
fierce line plunges for short gains Of one.
two and three yards.
The kicking was below the average,
especially on Harvard's part. Mitchell. for
Yale covered 3sS yards In fourteen kicks,
while Lemoyne and Nichols, of Harvard.
covered go yards in eight kicks. In rush.
ing Harvard had slightly the better of it.
gaining 21S yards in sixty-eight rushes,
while Yale made 100 yards in forty-seven
rushes. Yale ran back kicks for sixty-three
yards and Harvard for l02 yards. Yale had
was penalized six times for sixty-five yards
and Harvard three times for forty yards
Yale won the toss and chose the west goal
to gain the little benefit Of faint west
wind. Lemoyne kicked off to Mitchell on
Yale's five-yard line. Mitchell ran the ball
back twenty yards before it was thrown
by Clothier. Yale kicked the second
down to Harvards thirty-five-yard line, but
the Yale ends came on fast and Marshall
was thrown before he was well started.
On the second play Marshall, by quarter
back run, covered seventeen yards, bringing
the ball into the center of the field. Two
more rushes carried ii four yards and then
came penalty which set Harvard back to
her forty-eight-yard line. Lemoyne kicked
twenty-five yards. Yale kicked OH the sec
ond down to Harvards twentyyard line.
Marshall returned the ball nineteen yards.
On three center plays Harvard gained
ten yards, but was penalized ten yards,
which, followed by a poor pass by Parkin-
son, lost the ball to Yale on Harvards
thirty-seven-yard line. At Harvard's twen-
ty-fve-yard line Yale was p pc, twenty
exchanged kicks and Yale started for goal
from Harvard's forty-five-yard line. After
two short PUSHES into center Metcalf circled
the Harvard right end for thirty-five yards,
planting the ball on the five-yard line. Ii
took three rushes to push Kinney over for
the first score, twenty-one minutes after
play had started. Mitchell failed TO kick a
goal. Score: Yale. s; Harvard o.
The remainder of the half proved a series
of bitter disappointments to Harvard. Three
times the team was within striking dis
lance of the goal and each time failed to
score a point. Kicking was resorted TO, but
the half ended without further score.
Yale scored again five minutes after the
second half began. An exchange OF punts
was followed by Yale's blocking a kick on
Harvards thirteen-yard line The Yale
team showed Hogan over for a touchdown.
but Mitchell failed to kick goal. Harvard
by hard work then advanced the ball to
Yale's twelve-yard line. Line plunges
netted nine yards more. Here Yale braced
and held Harvard for downs Yale rushed
the ball fifteen yards and kicked. Harvard
lost the ball on a blocked kick on her own
thirty-yard line From there Yale in seven
rushes scored again, the third and last
touchdown, and Mitchell kicked goal.
The play for the remainder of the game
was on Yale's side of the field. Harvard
managed to rush the ball to Yales sew
enteen-yard line, where 1t was lost on
downs. Yale kicked and Harvard tried a
goal for placement after Yale had been
penalzed. The attempt failed. Again
Harvard tried TO reach the Yale posts, and
pushed the ball to the twenty-two-yard
line to lose ii on downs. Yale then pushed
the ball into Harvards territory. The
game closed with the ball on Harvard's
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