New-York tribune., 1904-10-23


Then Yale started IN with the kind Of play
that her friends had been confidently expecting.
Her attack seemed Irresistible AZ any rate,
the Army could not stop II. was almost en-
tirely composed Of catapult- rushes at the
line. the drive being aimed. for the most part
at Doe and Erwin on the Army's right wing.
Time and time again the tandem drove and
three yards. five yards. and once. Hogan the
irresistible carrying the ball. for twelve yards.
with almost the entire West Point team striv-
ing TO pull the brawny tackle down.
YALE TANDEM sMAsHEs LINE
In this onward march Hogan gave several ex-
hibitions Of the kind OF ground gaining that
has given him the name of being one Of the
hardest line breakers to stop whoever wore a
uniform. Once in particular when the drive
seemed stopped he found an opening and shot
through for an additional Eve yards like an ar.
row from the how. Inside the 5-yard line the
for two downs. but on the third the tandem
ried BlooUneT across the line, and a few seconds
later the same player kicked goal. making the
score tie-6 to 6.
After the kick OF there were exchanges OF
punts. with no appreciable gain for either side
and then Yale started in to repeat the series
of'attacks that had tied the score. Time after
time Rockwell formed thunderbolts in which
he aiternated Kinney. Hogan, Bloomer. Veeder
and Morse and time after time the bolt ripped
Up that weak right side Of the Armys line for
gains and gains ard gains. In one OF these mad
HOgal.
by hts mates forged through the soldiers for a
total Of fifteen yards before he finally came TO
earth.
But for some reason. Yale suddenly lost her
steam. OF Taybe ii was that the cadets had
reserve which they had not before called on.
At anv rate twelve yards away from the
Arn7v's gopI lire the soldiers held like rock
and took the ball on downs Prince promptly
punted 10 the middle Of the field and Vale had
the task however At It she went and ham
mered her way down the field in precisely the
same fashion.
CALL OF TINE SAVES THE ARMY.
But there seemed 10 be a gigantic and
malicious hoodoo that had taken up its position
on that fateful 12-yard mark Tor the precise
purpose Of stopping Yale's advance at that
point At all events when Yale had butted her
way back TO that point the referees Wnlstle
brought the half 10 a breathless end. and the
players. blowing hard. trotted of for their brief
Yale's superiority up to this point had been
SO marked that even the cadets dared not nope
for victory. They knew they had a good team,
one Of the best IN the country. but they were in
clined 10 think that ii had net better the
best they dared hope for was that their men
When the teams lined up Captain Graves had
fallen back to play Jeff half In place Of Prince,
and Mettler had been taken from the SIDE lines
70 replace his ca ptain at tackle opposite Bloom
er II appeared that Graves. being ineligible
for the Navy game. on account of the length OF
service stipulation agreed on by the authorities,
:
game 10 III him for the contest in Philadelphia
Yale lined up with change in her ranks
The half opened with series Of punts on ooth
sides When Veeder ended the series Of kicks
with a 40-yard punt the ball fell into Ham
rnond's arms. just as Captain Graves called for
a fair catch. One Of the Yale forwards how
ever threw the West Point end In his tracks and
the umpire inflicted the usual penalty. This
gave the ball 70 West Point on Yale's 30-yard
line and Captain Graves. after two vain at
telnpts to break the Blue line. fell back for a
drop kick.
GRAvEs's TRY AT GOAL FAILS.
Straight and trus few the pgskin. but 1t fell
short of the goal by ten yards or so. This put
Yale on the defensive only hve yards from her
line Obviously good. long punt vas highly
desirable The coaches displaced veeder and
put in Hoyt. who has a reputation for puntinG.
He got of Sa-yard ball just in time to prevent
Then west POINT for the first time began to
assault the Yale line with something like
secutive success Graves did most OF the
ground gaining. but his efforts were conhened TO
plunges Of three four yards and the advance
did not continue for a total OF more than ten
yards. This. however, returned the ball to
Yale's S0-yard line, and Captain Graves
solved 70 try that drop kick once more. This
time he missed by inches only. bur he did miss
all the same. and the punting hegan again.
ards sy5sy from Wesf Points eosi TSen ~ he
Can another series Of those resstless rushes that
ought 10 have triumphed. but somehow didn't. II
vas the tandem plunge repeated and repeatei
and repeated again. Bloouer and Hogan were. as
usual. the principal ground gamers. with Kin
ley and Shevlin able assistants. Thirty-three
yards the Ellis marched along in this fashion.
and II was plain that unless something unlocked
for happened Yale would score again
Something did happen. On the 10-yard line
the driving tandem formed for the twentieth
time. and. with BlOomer carrying the ball
ploughed its way through the entire West Point
team Then the melee swallowed up ball and
runner The play still moving when Torney
sifted out Of the heap and all al alone and
unattended dashed up the empty field with the
bail under his arm. Somehow or other the West
Point back had stolen the leather from the Yale
tackle.
HOYT STARTS TOO LATE
Amid q shrtek and roar that must have
echoed across the Hudson River Hoyt started
after the vanishing soldier. but he never got
near enough to him to attempt to tackle, and
Torney fell or the bah between the Yale goal
posts after 105-yard run that was practically
q duplicate of the famous dash by which Poe
won the Yale-Princeton game in the late 9O's.
Doe missed the try for goal, and the soors
II TO g.
Even ;hen Yale did not give Up hore After
tie two punters had swapped kicks a few times
Rockwell maTshalled his pungers more,
ana there started another series Of the line
breaking rushes that had brought the Blue 50
near to victory several times before But time
had been marching faster than the Blue and.
with the bail in Yale's hands on her own 40
yard line. the whistle shrieked and the game
was over. The lineup and score:
West Point Positions Yale
Hammond Le. end s6eyln
le- ..-----.IAtt tackle Boorner
fN-h iN Neehs) --Lett guard Kinney
sessrr,ve Pigbt eard I0ra89CS 1i
i,,tes Eisat tackle. Hogan
Itlght END Neal
Carey luarterbaok ----.....:... Rockwell
III Itanlon) - RiEht ha!fback Morse
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