New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-22
THE GAME YALE'S 16 TO 0.
CRIMSON rs NEAR SCORE.
Blocked Punts ProUe Costly for
HarU1rd.
Inv rELEcRArH TO me TRIBUNE. !


one of the goals. the final score was 16 to o
The match the first big game played on
the new stadium and Yae's victory wit
messed by the biggest crowd that ever saw a
football game in this country. Those who know
how many the stadium holds estimate that forty
thousand spectators looked down from the tiers
Of the enormous horseshoe when the referees
whistle first sounded.
Harvard's defeat vas not unexpected by the
Cambridge thousands. but such encouraging re-
ports had been coming out from the secret prac-
tice Of the last few days that some hope was
felt that the team might possibly pull itself to-
gether in time to retrieve a season Of humiIia-
ton by brilliant victory over her hereditary
foe This hope was strengthened by Prince
tens victory and by the fact that Yale's eleven
Tas far from being in a satisfactory physical
condition. It not TO be, however.
Harvard showed her best football of the sea
son, and for good part OF the first half actually
outplayed Yale, ripping big holes in the line and
going through for gain after gain But Yale
rallied in the last ditch, and Just as Harvard
seemed bound to score held to the third down,
and forced Marshall TO try goal from the field
to no purpose whatever.
Again. in the second half. The wearers Of the
Crimson repeated this style of play success
fully that they only failed of a touchdown by
the narrowast possible margin. Indeed, when
Yale, urged TO the point of desperation by the
cheers Of her partisans in the stand, made
frantic brace and took the ball on the third
down. the pigskin was only one yard from the
Blues goal line.
HARVARD EXPECTS TOUCHDOWN.
The Harvard side of the stadium almost
delirious with Joy as yard after yard the team
drove the ball through Yales heavy line. IN
spired by tie cheer leaders, ten thousand voices
hurled across the field the chant Touchdown.
Touchdown! touchdown" But in the last ditch
Yale held as she had in the first half, and that
told the story Harvard missed a touchdown by
a yard
Another golden opportunity for scoring was
missed in the first half, when Nichols dropped
the ball on the 10-yard line, after making a fair
gain through the line. Other brilliant chances
went unirnproved by Carl MarshaIrs failure to
land two goals from the field and lie AIoyne's
inability to negotiate a goal from placement
after Marshall had held the ball for free kick.
as vetterlein did in the Yale Princeton match.
But the goal from placement was AT a. difficult
angle and though lie Moyne missed II. he made
a creditabe effort.
Yale made only one Touchdown in the first
half and the half endzs v.ial the record Of = ~
O. as Mitchell missed the goal Yales first
blood was almost directly consequent upon a
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ditch's end followed by some heavy tackle,
back line bucking ct the sort Yale developed to
perfection last year. which eventually hurled
Kinney over the Crimson goal line.
The Blue scored for the second time when the
second half was well advanced This time lie
AIoyne tried TO punt from Farvards 15-yard
boundary. but Rafferty, through like a
fash and blocked the kick The ball bounded
across Harvard's line and Yale went Wild with
delight as Hogan fell upon it.
Yale's third and last touchdown was also due
to a blocked punt. lie Moyne was so slow in
getting the ball away that Shevlin stopped it
aud Mitchell dropped on it, on Harvard's %
yard line From this point it was the same story
of heavy line buckng until Hogan staggered
through the line Tor the last touchdown Of the
day.
Indeed. weakness in the kicking department
did more to lose the game than any other one
thing. This, coupled with the speed of the Yale
ends accounts for two touchdowns
The bright particular star of the game was
MetcaIf Not only did the Yale halfbaCk make
the longest run Of game that showed few
long runs but he put UP absolutely perfect de-
fensive football. Three separate times he was
all that stood between Harvard runner ard Il
touchdown But he got his man every Tina.
He was as sure as death or taxes. On catching
punts, too. he had clean record. in marked
contrast 10 his work in the game with the Tigers.
MITCHELL KICKS SIXTY YARDS.
In Mitchell he had worthy colleague Mitchell
did all the kicking for Yale. and his work. with
one exception, was unexceptionaL Several times
he got off sixty-yard punts, and was cool and
steady at the most critical iunctures.
Yale ends too. showed an exceedingly high
grade article Of football. They missed their
| man occasionally when getting up under punt
but the slipperiness of the ground from which
the frost had thawed had much 10 do with that,
while their promptness at getting through on
Harvard's punting has already been referred to.
| The centre of Yale's line was none too strong.
| Boomers absence was severely felt, and Kin
| ney. BatcheIder and Rcra back We're unequal to
| the task Of stopping Harvard's assaults upon
! them
Hogan. too. failed TO show the defensive
/ strength that he exhibited last year When it
| came to advancing the hall. however the bury
tackle more than once showed liza sh of his best
| form like that he showed when Yale made
| her only touchdown against Princeton. Inside
! Harvard's 25-yard line Hogan almost invariably
! made good when called upon either to advance
/ the ball himself open NJ a hole for another
/ runner.
For Harvard Carl Marshall made the longest
| Individual runs. The Cambridge captain played
/ his best game OF the season and showed vast
/ improvement over his form in the Pennsyl-
! yana's line. Even at that. however. his work
/ was not first class. He his PLAYS of slowly
/ and his passing left much 10 he desired. The
/ real thing in the way Of nightmare passing.
/ hewever was furnished by Parkinson. Harvard's
| centre
Il is hard to blame lie Novne for Whatever he
/ did in the line Of poor pmtiuE, when one con
| siders the passing he had 20 take. on one ocCa-
/ iii