New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20
HARVARD DIES GAME.
YALE VICTOR, 1g TO 0.
The Blues attack Too Strong
Game Watched by 50, 900.

Game Watched By $4,000.
New-Haven, Nov. 10 (speciaD.-Hervard
marched bravely to her anticipated defeat on
Yale Field this afternoon. Nearly thirty-fve
thousand spectators tho Crimson go down.
but, though IT went down. it went down gallant
ly, and only after plucky fight, that reflected
the utmost credit on the Cambridge players.
When the final whistle shrilled over the field
Yale had won II 60 o victory In other words
she had beaten Harvard by exactly the same
score by which she triumphed over Princeton
a week ago. Two touchdowns and a goal from
each were responsible for Yale's total. touch
down being scored in each half
In a way, the game near being a repe-
tition Of the Princeton match. In the con-
test with the Tigers, it will be remembered the
Blue made its first touchdown by straight,
overpowering rushing. while its second al
most purely gift, and resulted from a crazy
pass over the fullbacks head by butcher, the
Tiger centre. and a blocked kick behind Prince
tons goal line. So. to-day. Yale scored first
by combination of line breaking rushes and
a decision by Umpire Dashiell that ex-
tremely costly for Harvard
For the first quarter Of an hour of play
neither side could make any consistent gains.
but at length Yale got the ball a punt Just
inside her own territory, and by steady. hard,
consistent line plays, in which Finn and Morse
were the most effective ground gamers rushed
her way steadily down the arena to Harvard's
30-yard line. Here the Crimson held hard for
two downs. and Captain Hogan himself fell back
for that third and vital rush. But even the
great tackle was hurled back helpless. and q
great shout went up from the Harvard cohorts
as it seen that Yale had failed to pierce the
Harvard line
But the joy Of the Crimson contingent was
short lived, for on that third and last rush the
umpire saw offside play in Harvard's ranks, and
the ball went to Yale first down. From
that point Yale irresistible until she
had ploughed her battering way across the line
HARvARD's FATAL ERROR.
Yalc's second score was achieved in way that
was heartbreaking for Harvard. The Crimson
held the oval on her 4O-yard line, when Sperry
dropped back to punt. When the ball
snapped the Harvard line instantaneously be-
came a sieve. Yale's rushers simply swarmed
through, and the gigantic Kinney blocked the
punt squarely. The ball rolled back toward the
Crimson goal, and there frantic scramble
for It. which ended only three little yards from
Harvard's goal with a Yale uniform next the
leather. It only a matter of two short
rushes to hurl It across the line. and Yale had
scored again.
1t is fair TO say. therefore in the case Of the
Princeton match. that the score should have
been only to O. But It is also fair to say that
from the very start Yale appeared TO be the
master of the situation. She made no phenom-
enal gains, it is true, and only once did she
make a long series Of consecutively successful
gains. But on the other hand Harvard was
utterly powerless to gain through the Blues
defence, and made first down scarcely more than
half dozen times during the entire progress of
the game. During nine-tenths of the time the
play was in Harvard's territory. and the Grim
son attack never got than thirty yards
TO the Yale goal, and only near as that.
In fact, the upper hand always Yale's and,
though she had to fight hard, she always fought
with the confidence Of comparative security. and
never really had cause for worry.
HARVARD ON THE DEFENSIVE
Harvard was on the defensive most Of the
time. and in her defence she did her best work.
1t was, indeed. a game fight against odds of
better training that the Crimson players put
up, ano. save for that first squirt. her big for
wards were able to discourage Yale's attack
creditably. But 1t is a different story when
1t comes to Harvard's attack. Her onsaughts
on Yales line were badly organized and never
consistently successful Captain Hurley tried a
number of double passes and end runs, but either
fumbles or the Yale ends nipped these attempts
in the bud before they could fairly blossom. In
deed. one of the worst features of the Crimson's
play her repeated fumbling. from which
Captain Hurley himself was by means free
But Hurey's defensive play was Of tho high
est order. He always near the ball. got into
every play. and infused life and snap into his
men. With him. little Starr, the freshman
quarterback. and Matthews, the negro end,
share the principal honors Starr generated his
team well. caught punts perfectly. and ran them
back well anybody could with poor inter
ference: in short, he appeared TO be a born foot
ball player. Matthews. who is Of the best
baseball players at Cambridge. took RandalS
place at end when the latter's slow play had re-
tired him the side lines and distinguished
himself by fast and aggressive work in his posi-
tion.
THE YALE STARS
For Yale Shevlin in the line and Finn and
Morse among the backs did the best work The
game itself not in any way remarkable
from a spectacular point Of view nor does any
one player stand out high above the rest. There
was little open play attempted, and what was
tried failed miserably to succeed. The longest
in the game were made in getting punts
back, and those by Rockwell and Shevlin, re-
spectivey, were for only twenty yards each.
Yales game more like old fashioned foot
ball than her style Of play against Princeton.
She used her backs more and her tackles and
guards less. Take the case of Boomer for ex-
ample. Against Princeton the big tackle was,
with Leaveryyorth, Yale's mainstay for ground
gaining Yesterday he carried the ball not half
dozen times.
There was a good deal Of punting in the
match. and at this Hoyt was easily Sperrys