Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-27

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seemed fairly consistent and the Yale
side began to shout for a touchdown.
Then came the first Harvard brace and
on the Crimson 11-yard line Yale was
unable to make further gains and was
forced to give up the ball with only
half a yard to go. Harvard tried SIX
times to gain through Yale and after
only covering seven yards, Burr kicked
to Yale's 40-yard line. Roome eH-
changed and again Harvard gained ID
yards ON Yale's poor kicking.
Rurrs next kick sent the ball to
Yales 20-yard line. Here two at
tempts were made by double passes
and by shifting half the Yale line over
to mystify the Harvard players, but
each attempt resulted in a Yale loss.
Roome was obliged to kick. This time
he was unable to send the ball outside
the Yale territory and Harvard had
fair catch on the 51-yard line. With the
Yale players ranged along 10 yards IN
front of the ball, Burr attempted goal
from placement. the ball had plenty
Of distance but it sWerved just before
reaching the goal posts and missed by
a few yards. Yale heaved a sigh of re-
lief, but on the kick-out RoOme only
covered 90 yards and from Yales 4C-
yard line Harvard again started for
Yale'S goal.
For the first two or three downs with
T:rill heading the tandem, some pro-
gress was made, but on Yale's 30-yard
line, the blue team held StubbOrnly and
got the ball on downs. The Harvard
| line was too quick for the Yale backs
| and Roome was forced to kick on the
| third down from his 30-yard line. Ihe
ball went straight up in the air and on
Iy covered a distance of II yards. but
the attempt ct fair catch was not al
loved. Yale stopped the next Harvard
onslaught on the Blues 31-yard line,
the Crimson tandem seeming to lose
much of it's force. The ball again went
to Yale on downs. At this point Yale
made the most determined rally of the
game In seven rushes, which We're sent
of in lively shape and which showed Il
fine variety Of play, the ball was car
ried TO the middle of the field, but an
off-side penalty sent it back five yards.
| On the second down the Yale right side
| for the first and practically the only
| time in the game was able to form Il
stone wall protection for the runner.
Roome, who carried the ball, with
Captain Shevlin, Bigelow and Trip
running at his side, circled the Har-
ward left end and started on a dash
down the field with the crimson goal
| in sight unprotected by single Har-
ward back Although the Yale half
back is not fast runner, he covered
yard after yard through excellent pro-
line had been reached. BY some means
Star broke the fast moving wall of
blue and caught Roome by the ankle
after he had covered 45 yards. Here
came one of the finest exhibitions of
| Harvard'S play during the entire game.
With Roomes run as incentive and
urged on by the frantic shouts of
touchdown" from the Yale side Of the
field. the Yale backs threw themselves
against the crimson line four times
and still could only gain four yards
and a half The ball went to Harvard
for the second time on downs and af-
ter Burr had kicked it out of danger,
the half ended without a score, to the
wild joy of the Harvard stands and
the dumbfounded surprise of the Yale
supports on the opposite side of the
field.
After Yale had returned Harvard'S
kickoff to the center of the field in the
beginning of the second half, Harvard
began another determined march to
the Yale goal. 1t ended, however, on
the 35-yard line, where, after Foster
had been thrown back for a loss, Burr
was obliged to kick. The punt went
to Tad Jones in the Yale back field,
who made a brilliant run back of "a
yards. The first rush netted Yale
seven yards and the next one 10, but
in the center of the field Harvard held
again and Yale was obliged to kick.
From their own 25-yard line. the Har-
ward team started again to recover
lost ground and this time 81 yards
We're covered in II rushes. When
Harvard reached her own 5O-yard
line a penalty sent the team back five
yards. but Starr more than regained
the distance by his 1S-yard run across
the field.
Plays in which the spectators saw
lonly struggling mass of players NOV
ing along a few yards at a time, was
the type of the Harvard offense, which
Yale seemed unable to stop, but when
harvard had reached Yale's 24-yard
me there came an unfortunate penal
". This was followed by the Yale
team breaking through on a double
pass and throwing the runner back 10
sards farther. After that Burr was
oohged to kick, but his attempt was
weak On the other hand. Hoyt, who
nad taken Morse's place at right half
JACK Tor Yale, and Roome's place in
the kickoff.
harvard kicked 10 times for 365
Sards' rushed IS times for 1855 yards,
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