The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-07
BOLDTRANROBBERY VICTORY IS YALE'S
HARVARD DOWNED BY FINAL
score OF 6TO 0.
:, Mas a Desperate Battle From start
n Finish-Has Had Few Equals
ei,os TWO Universities Have Met
Yale champions Of the Country
other Important College Games.

New Haven, Nov. 25.-Yale's bright
blue banners wave t~riumphantly e
/ the city. the signal of another victory
over Harvard, the final score being
8 TO O. The crimson vent down 10 de-
feat in a desperate battle, which IN
| football strategy and spectacular plays
has had few equals since the two uni
yersities have met.
To Yale passed the almost undls-
nuted title of the college championship
Of the country, clouded only by the
drawn no score contest with Princeton
week ago. A victory for the crimson
would have meant first honors beyond
question. for she had beaten the Carl
| isle Indians. who last week won from
Minnesota, and who also had defeated
the University Of Pennsylvania, the
| %conuuerors of the OhIverslty OF MICH
gan.
For this reason, if for NJ other, the
game on Yale field was Of unprece-
dented Importance and to Yale once
mere has come a victory which will
i've forever in her athletic history.
Il was a victory won through football
k~nowleoge, superior play, almost I'M
arring accuracy in developing the pos
| sibilities of the new rules and the
magnificent work of her players. The
score of a single touchdown and goal
repeats that of last year on Soldiers
field, and it adds to Yale's string of
victories, only twice broken since
1897.
Harvard proved a worthy foeman.
Her men repeatedly shone conspicu-
ously and there were flashes of brill
fancy as time and again her backs
broke through the line and her stall
wart guard, Durr, sent the ball twist
ing through the air on long punts.
Harvard was a tr.ne slow in execu-
ting her plays, which, as last year,
seemed t o hinge on her great strength
on defense.
Yale's success lay in playing Of
fensively at the opening, driving her
plays hard and taking advantage of
every opening when her opponents
had the ball. Interference, forward
passes and on side kicks were well
developed. Not once did a Yale mar
have to run down the field without aid.
AS the game was nearing the close
Yale played faster and rolled the Grim
son line into a heap time and again.
It was only Harvard's stubborn con-
test of every inch that kept the score
at the single figures.
The touchdown followed a sensation
al play. Yale had the ball on Har-
wards 25 yard line. Jones called for
a kicking formation. Veeder dropped
back to the "a yard line with his
hands o%utspread. A perfect pass from
Hookenburger sent the ball into his
hands, and Veeder like a fash started
at right angles and hurled the ball
over the heads of the Harvard men for
q 80 yard pass, to where several Yale
men, as though drawn by a magnet,
had jumped into one little knot. Up
from their midst leaped Forbes, whe
caught the ball and in an instant
placed it down on the four yard line.
Up rose the Yale hosts with cries for
a touchdown, while the crimson side
was hushed. Roome, who had replaced
Knox, was sent to smash the crimson
line. His first try gave two yards, and
next time he was shot over, with the
whole team dragging and pushing him.
That four yards showed what Yale
could do when she was hungry for the
score which vas so close at hand. The
licking of a goal was an easy thing
for Veeder.
The gridiron was framed with a
mass Of humanity, in which three sides
we're blue and the other crimson. The
cheering and singing, while good, fell
far short of that of previous years,
explainable only by the fact that Ine
spectators did not have much time to
pay attention to the cheer leaders. Not
4 seat was vacant, and at the gate the
sale Of tickets brought phenomenal
prices, n pair changing hands at
$50. The game opened under gray
skies, but was concluded in radiant
sunshine and under a canopy of blue.
The Harvard stands at the opening
cheered Yale and Captain Morse, and
he opposite side returned this compli-
ment. At the close of the game the
iubilant Yale host stood ~bareheaded
FOR Is minutes in front of the Harvard
stand cheering and singing to the
crimson, the latter responding. Yale
has always cheered Harvard, but new
n before has she turned 1t into an
ovation.
At Chicago.
Chicago-Walter Eckersall. quarter
back and captain OF the University of
Chicago football eleven, closed his col
legiate football career Saturday by
making five field goals for his team
against the University Of Nebraska in
he final game of the season.
When the game was over the thou
lands of madly cheering Chicago
students swarmed on the gridiron, and.
borne on the shoulders Of two big
athletes, Eckersall led a triumphal