The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-11-26
YALE'S GAME
BY STRATEGY
Gridiron Battle a Waterloo
ForHarvard.
Ellis SCORED BUT ONCE
vietOrs Used Every Bit Of Modern
Football They Knew to Defeat
the Crimson.

trlumphcd. Superb strategy, mystery
OF the new football" aud spirit OK.
cclled by no blue eleven OF the past
eliminated In the humbllng OF the erin.
son on Yale field by the score of q 10 U
before the banner crowd OF tire year.
II WIS one OF the finest football nc.
compllshments In Yale's athletic his.
tory. history already rcplete with
accomplishment. Fully 5000 partlsans
Of the two great eleyens saw the game.
fought under braclng weather condl-
lions. and found In the new football"
as developed 10y the master hands Of
New Haven and Cambridge n spcctn-
Gle surprisingly sensational from start
20 finish.
Yale's daring simply swept Harvard
OF It's feet and the crowd with IL
Nothing seemed impossible 10 the blue
and IL Impossible so only for the mo.
mcnt. Again and again the advance
OF the crimson became peril 10 the
blue. frequently because OF penalties.
but invariably the dangerous line was
driven back.
Yale used every bit OF modern foot
ball Yale knew. and the manner OF the
victory was as great a triumph as the
victory itself.
To Yale thus passed the almost UNI
disputed title OF the college cham
pionshlp OF the country, clouded only
by the drawn, no score contest nj
Princeton n week ago. Never before
In college history has the football sea.
son reached such an apex. A victory
for the crimson would have meant first
honors beyond question, for she had
beaten the Carlisle Indians, who last
week won from Minnesota, and who
also had defeated the University Of
Pennsylvania, the conquerors Of the
University OF Michigan. For this rea-
son II for no other the game on Yale
field was OF unprecedented Importance,
and TO Yale once more has come a vic
tory which will live forever In her ath.
letlc history. II was victory won not
by any fiuke. ont through greater foot
paii knowledge, superior team play, al
most unerrlng accuracy In developing
the possibilities of the new rules and
through the magnificent work Of indi-
yidual players. The score of n single
touchdown and goal repeats that OF
last year on Soldiers field, and 1t adds
to the string OF victories only twice
broken since 1897.
In going down to defeat Harvard. as
was the case last year, proved foe
man worthy OF all the resourceful abll-
lty of Yale. Her men repeatedly shone
conspicuously. and the flashes Of bril-
llancy In individual plays as time and
again her backs broke through the line
of blue or her stalwart guard, Burr,
sent the ball twisting through the air
for long gains seemed to be entitled to
reward. Harvard was a trihe slow
in executing her plays, which, as last
year, seemed to hinge on her great
strength on defense, while Yale was
quick on everything. Her men were
as active as greyhounds and as fierce
as wolves. Her success lay In playing
extensively at every opportunity, driv-
ing her plays hard and taking advan-
tage of every opening when her OPP
ponents had the ball. Interference for
the runner, the forward and behind
the line passes and the onside kicks
were a well developed art Not once
did Yale man have to run down the
field without assistance. AS the game
was nearing its close Yale played
iercer and rolled the crimson line into
a heap time and again. 1t was only
Harvards stubborn contest Of every
inch Of her own ground that kept the
score at the single figures.
The game was attended by all the
interesting incidents which have be-
come a part of it. The gridlron was
framed with q mass of humanity, In
which three sides were blue and the
other crimson. The cheering and sing
ing while good fell far short of that in
previous years, explainable by the fact
that the game was played so fast that
spectators did not have time to pay
much attention to the cheer leaders.
Not seat was vacant and at the gate
a few stray tickets brought phenome-
nal prices, one pair changing hands at
$50. The game opened under gray
skies and was concluded in radiant
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