Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-26
YALE STRATEGY WON
Qridiron Battle a Waterloo
 For Harvard.
BLUE TEAM SWEPT ALL BEFORE 1T
victors Used Every Bit of Modern Football They Knew-Game Was Sensational From Start to
 the Finish.


 NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 26.-Yale
 triumphed. Superb strategy, mastery
 of the "new footbalp and a spirit ex-
 celled by no blue eleven of the past
 culminated in the humbiing of the crim-
 son on Yale field by the score of 6 to c
 before the banner crowd of the year.
 1t was one of the finest football ac-
 complishments in Yale's athletic his
 tory, history already replete with accomplishment. Fully 3S,000 partisans of the two great elevens saw the game, fought under bracing weather condi- tions, and found in the new football' as developed by the master hands of New Haven and Cambridge specta- cle surprisingly sensational from start to finish.
 Yale's daring simply swept Harvard of its feet and the crowd with it. Nothing seemed impossible to the blue and if impossible so only for the mo- ment. Again and again the advance of the crimson became peril to 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 triumph as the victory itself.
 To Yale thus passed the almost un- disputed title of the college cham pionship of the country, clouded only by the drawn, no score contest at Princeton a 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 req son If for no other the game on Yale field was of unprecedented importance. and to Yale once more has come vic tory which will live forever in her ath- letic history. It was victory won not by any luke, but through greater foot ball knowledge, superior team play, al most unerring accuracy in developing the possibilities of the new rules and through the magnificent work of indi- vidual players. The score of 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 a foe man worthy of all the resourceful abil- ity of Yale. Her men repeatedly shone conspicuously. and the flashes of bril- liancy in individual plays as time and agsin 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 a reward. Harvard was a trifs 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 ofensively at every opportunity. driv- ing her plays hard and t.king advan- tage of every opening 0en her op- ponents had the ball. Intsrference 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 nercsr and rolled the crimson line into a heap time and again. It was only Harvard's stubborn contest of every Inch of her own ground that kept the score at the single figures.
 The game was attended by all the incidents which have be- come a part of 1t. The gridiron was framed with a mass of humanity, in which three sides were blue end the other crimson. The cheering and sing 1 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 l much attention to the cheer leaders. ] Not a seat was vacant. and at the gate | a few stray tickets brought phenome- nal prices. one pair changing hands at | sJO. The game opened under gray | skies and wns concluded in radiant 1 sunshine and rr's- canopy of blue.
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