Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26

twenty yard line but nichols err
ror seemed to sap the fighting spirit
Of the crimson players, and I'm ten
rushes Yale made the distance to the
goal line. Nearly all the Yale plunges
for the score were directed against
the Harvard left wing, where Mont.
gomery had replaced Brill, notwith-
standing the fact that the burly Har-
ward tackle was able to run Off the
field comparatively fresh. Forbes had
the honor of carrying the ball over
the Yale's only touch down and Hoyt
kicked an easy goal from a punt out.
Neither side came within striking of
the others goal after Yale scored.
Big Crowd Sees Game
Forty-three thousand people watched
the game in weather as warm as In
dian summer. 1t was the largest and
most brilliant gathering ever seen at
q football game in this country. The
spectators were Keyed UP to a high
pitch OF excitement by the incessant
cheering of the undergraduates, and
the Harvard stands, which contained
fully 10000 persons after the team had
shown itself able to stop the Yale Of
fense and displayed an ability to make
short gains, became overjoyed at the
showing of the crimson players. on
the other hand the Yale team, until
quarterback, seemed to lack the fight
ing spirit which a week ago tore the
Princeton line to pieces. In the first
half Harvard gained many yards
through Burr's ability to outpunt
Roome, but Burr fell away I'm the Sec
und half and was in turn outpunted
by Hoyt, who took Roome's place in
the kicking. There were very few PEN
alties, Yale suffering three times and
Harvard three times for offside play.
Yale played nineteen men and Harvard
fifteen during the game.
Friendly Spirit Shown
One of the most gratifying features
of the game was the spirit shown by
both sides toward each other, which
was emphasized by the Yale stands
cheering the absent Harvard leader,
Capt. Hurley, who was not able to
play on account of an injury which
has confined him to hospital in Bos-
ton, and the cheers for Yale from the
crimson supporters
After Harvard had won the toss and
had given Yale the kickoff with the
sun in the eyes of the blue players,
each team tried the others speed and
then punted, Burr gaining 10 yards
on the exchange. From it's own 30
yard line Harvard worked the ball
down, principally by tandems headed
by Squires, until it was on Yale's As
yard line. There the blue line held and
the ball went to Yale. Five rushes,
mostly plunges into Harvard's right
side, placed the ball in the center of
the field, and then came Morse's dash
around left end for Is yards. Five
rushes took the ball to Harvard's 25-
yard line. The Yale section began to
shout for a touchdown. Then came
the first Harvard brace. On the Grim
son 17-yard line Yale was held and had
to give up the ball
Harvard tried six times to gain
through the Yale line and after COW
ering only seven yards Burr kicked to
Yales 40 yard line. Roome exchanged
the punt and again Harvard profited,
gaining fifteen yards on Yale's poor
kicking.
Burr's next kick sent the ball to
Yale's 20 yard line. Again Roome was
obliged to kick and Harvard made
fair catch on the 81 yard line. Burr
attempted goal from placement. The
ball had plenty of distance, but it
swerved Just before reaching the goal
posts and missed only by a few feet.
On the kick out Roome covered bare
twenty yards and from Yale's 20 yard
line Harvard again started for Yales
goal
Yale stopped Harvard's progress
again on the blues 81 yard line.
At this point Yale made the most
determined rally of the game, in sew
erel rushes, which were sent in lively
shape, and which showed fine varie-
ty of plays in which the ball was
carried to the so yard line. On the
second down the Yale right side for
the first and only time in the game
was able to form a stonewall protec-
ton for the runner. ROome, who car
ried the ball, with Captain Shevlin,
Bigelow and Tripp running at his side,
circled the Harvard left end, started
on a dash down the field. By some
means Starr broke through and caught
Roome by the ankle, after he had COW
cred As yards.
With Roome's run as an 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
three times, but gained only four
the second time on downs and after
Burr had kicked it out of danger the
half ended without score.
Harvard Strong
After Yale had returned Harvards
kickoff to the center of the field in
the beginning of the second half, Har-
ward began another determined march
to the Yale goal. It ended, however,
on the 35 yard line, where Burr was
obliged to kick. Yale rushed the ball
to the center of the field, but was
obliged to kick from her own % yard
line. Harvard started to regain the
lost ground. This time sixty-one
yards We're covered in seventeen
rushes. When Harvard reached her
own so yard line a penalty sent the
team back five yards, but starr more
than regained the distance by his
eighteen yard run across the field
On Yale's "a yard line, the nearest