The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-07
HOW YALE WON
The GREAT GAME
IT WAS A VICTORY THROUGH
FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE AND
SUPERIOR PLAY.

0, which was the final score, are the
figures emblazoned on every hand
The crimson went down to defeat in |
a desperate battle which in football |
strategy and spectacular plays has had |
few equals since the two universities
have met. To Yale passed the almost |
undsputed title of the college cham |
pionship of the country ,clouded only /
by the drawn, no-score contest with |
Princeton a week ago.
A victory for the crimson woull
have meant first honors beyond ques-
ton, for she had beaten the Carlisle
Indians who last week won from Min
nesota and who also had defeated the
University of Pennsylvania, the con-
querror of the University of Michigan. |
For this reason, if for no other, the
game on Yale field was of unprece- !
denied Importance, and to Yale once
more has come a victory which will
live forever in her athletic history.
1t was victory won through foot |
ball knowledge, superior play, almost
unerring accuracy in developing the
possibilities of the new rules and the
magnificent work of her players. The
score of a single touchdown and goal
repeats that of last year in soldier
field, and it adds to Yale's string of
victories only twice broken since 1897.
Harvard proved a worthy foe. Her
men repeatedly shOne cOnspicu Iuslv. |
and the flashes of br Killarney in over
plays as time and again her backs
broke through the line and her stall
wart guard, Burr, sent the ball twist
ing through the air on long punts.
seemed to be entitled to a reward. Har-
ward was a trihe slow in executing her
plays which, as last year, seemed to
hinge on her great strength of defense.
Yale's success lay in playing often
stvely at the opening, driving her plays
hard and taking advantage of every
opening when her opponents had the
ball. Interference, forward passes and
inside kicks We're well developed. Not
once did a Yale man have to run down
the field without assistance. AS the
game was nearing the close Yale played
faster and rolled the crimson line into
a heap time and again. 1t was only
Harvard's stubborn contest of every
| inch that kept the score at the single
! figures.
STAR FEATURE OF GAME.
The touchdown followed a sensa-
| tional play. Yale had the ball on Har-
wards 25-yard line. Jones called for
kicking formation. Veeder dropped
/ back to the 34-yard line with his hands
, outspread. A perfect pass from Hook
enberger sent the ball into his hands,
I and Needer, like a fash started at
{ right angles and hurled the ball over
/ the heads of the Harvard men, for a
I 20-yard pass to where several Yale
| men, as though drawn by a magnet
| had jumped into one little knot.
From their midst leaped Forbes, who
caught the ball and in an instant,
placed it down on the courtyard line.
Up the Yale posts, with cries for a
touchdown while the Crimson side was
hushed, Roone, who had replaced Knox
was sent to smash the crimson line.
His first try gave two yards and the
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 was % close at hand. The
kicking of a goal was an easy thing
for Veeder
VEEDER PUNTS TO SAFETY.
There were several anxious moments
for the Yale men, while the Harvards
! never had possession Of the inside of
the twenty-five yard line. Twice Yale
was lined up with the ball in the
shadow of her goal posts, and in each
case Veeder dropped behind the goal
line to punt In both instances Har-
ward, by means of the on-side kick
sent the ball Yale at the twenty-yard
line.
In the early part of the game New
hall tried a drop kick. 1t was blocked
and Forbes got the back, Early in
the game also Yale lost an oppor-
tunity to score a field goal when Veedel
tried for one of Harvard's forty-fve.
yard line. 1t went wide a few fee
Right after this Yale had another op
portunty for a try for goal, but los
it out of anxiety to make a touch
down. Burr had punted to Knox a
the crimson's forty-five yard line anC
the litter, behind of a screen of inn
= reference, ran the breadth of the fell
for a gain Of twenty yards, Tire
line plays which followed resulted il
, the necessary and down and a touch
down seemed imminent. on the mex
= play Jones took the ball and made
forward pass to Alcott who fumbled
= on the three-yard line. McDonal
:. dropped on it and Burr punted out Q
danger.
WOULD HAVE SCORED AGAIN.
ii With the score 6 to 4. Harvard wa
g compelled to change her style of at
J: tack, and Burr was called upon I
pull the bail out of danger with his to
The first half of the second half re
solved itself into punting duel b(
" tween Burr and Veeder From the
,r on the outcome seemed certain. va
s, with new players put fresh life int
+. their team and in the last five minute
r of the half there was a march down IL