New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20

clone, and with the most spirited tackle on
the field all day, felled the redheaded quarter
back before he could stir. Rockwell asserted
that he had called for a fair catch. It did not
appear to an impartial observer that II had oc-
it bluff it deceived the umpire, who ruled
that the fair catch stood and that Harvard for
feited fifteen yards for Mathews's fine tackle.
This got the leather back to dangerous ground
once more and gave the ball to Yale, despite
the fact that Harvard man had fallen it
when Rockwell succumbed to Mathews's sharp
handling. 1t looked like costly decision for
Harvard. and 1t appeared to be an unjust one as
we'll
held with renewed determination, and Rockwell
tried a quarterback kick, which Sperry nabbed
twenty five yards from his own goal The Har-
ward hosts breathed again They had been
pulled out OF a small hole. A tandem, with
Brill at the head Of it, netted the Crimson three
yards, but 1t went for naught for Hurley FUN
bled again double pass and Yale got
other chance 1t did her no good, for she failed
to advance in three downs. Harvard made two
or three short gains, but held to the third
down. and punt was imperative.
THE SECOND TOUCHDOWN
Sperry as ordered, fell back to execute the
kick. Then IT was that the Crimson line turned
to a seve before narrated. In the twinkng
of an eve Kinney, the human skyscraper, doomed
up in front of Sperry. The ball struck his up
lifted hands fairly, bounded back and rolled
toward Harvard's goal, with twenty-five frantic
man. and he got within two yards of a touch
down before he was nailed to earth;
| yelled the Yale multitude, while Harvard shout
| ed encouragement at her team. Once, with two
yards to go, Harvard held the attack, but on the
| next trial Finn went over for the second and
| last touchdown. Hoyt neatly kicked the easy
goal and Yales score had mounted TO II to o.
Soon after the kickoff, Starr got chance to
show his mettle at running back punts and
acquitted himself nobly doing some fast and
clever do6gfng Then at md1eld. Hoyt fell
back as if to punt. The ball passed to him.
but 1T was fake and he tried to Captain
Hurley was through like bullet through cheese
and the Yale halfback was downed for a decided
loss. The next down he punted in good earnest
| The play went for nothing, however. the
! referee had seen a Yale man holding and set the
Blue back to it's own 2O-yard line Harvard
| was never so Yales goal again before or
| after, but the Blue in danger, the
! ball was In it's possession. A huke just
then might have given Harvard a touchdown,
ana all Cambridge hoped for it with might and
nam; but II did not come and Hoyt punted to
took 1t into It's he to do some eccentric ground
| ana lofty tumbling, with the result that both
teams engaged in a wild scramble for the
! leather, and wonderful TO say Sperry got I'D in
| tinle 10 fall on his punt.
only thirty yards from Yale's goal and Har-
| Vad mad the ball. II might we'll have been
mile That stone wall would not yield and
starr tried quarterback kick, the ball going
| down for Yale on her 23-yard line. Nichols then
came In for Sperry, and Harvard's kicking game
LOOK a Dig brace. An exchange of punts took
place IN which the Harvard kicker more than
| neId MS own. The coaches sent Moves in for
starr. In order to give him a chance to earn his
H After more punting, with no great ad-
vantage to eithe- side Parkinson who had
gone in at centre, in place OF Parker threw the
! Dali clean over Nichos's head and ONLY the
t hee.est Kind Of running enabled the blond
PACK TO prevent a serious loss. However
ne got back TO Harvards 4O-yard line before
pelhg sent to grass. And here the Iinesmans
whistle ended the game Yale had played the
entire match without altering the personnel of
her team, while Harvard played no less than
| nteen men.
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