The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
HARVARD JUST BEATS CADETS
BLOCKED KICK AND WENDELL'S
RUN YIELD 3 POINTS.
with % Seconds OF Game 10 Go, Mounts
fOrd's Drop Kick In Cambridge Terri
tory ID Blocked by Crimson Hack. who
Covers seventy Yards for Touchdown.

Covers seventy Yards for uchdOwn
WEST POINT. Oct. 27.-The old original
brand of Harvard luck, which won for the
/ Crimson over West Point in football last year
and the year before. was on tap to-day once
more. TS5 Ca mbridRe men after a game
In which they showed next to nothing that
looked like high grade football won out a
minute and a half before the end OF the second
half. when MountfOrd's attempt at kicking
a goal from field was blocked by Wendell.
who nabbed the leather and ran seventy yards
for a touchdown. Five to nothing was the
best that Harvard could do.
And at that the Crimson would not have
scored had not one OF the Harvard men who
looked a whole lot like Kennard tripped
Hickam. the West Point end, just a. the
latter was getting under way. That left
Wendell. who Is not slow, with q few yards
Roadway. which he had no trouble In holding
while Hanlon and Moose chased him. I'M
fortunately for West Point. Lanford, one OF
the mpires who was nearest the play, was
running on in front Of Hicksm to keep Wen
dell in sight. Too bad for the fair play ideals
OF Harvard.
But the Cambridge men declared they
were cheated out Of a touchdown in the first
half. when Wendell carried the ball over the
line and Orr was seen Juggling at a West
Point man irving 10 draw him toward the
Harvard goal line. Harvard lost fften yards
for holding, instead OF a touchdown. and there
was a roar. A man who talked to Coach
william Reid Of Harvard said that Reid de-
clared 1t unfair. Harvard just outplayed
West Point a wee bit in the first half. but
was easily inferior in the second period.
As an example Of what the new rules can
do TO make a football game undressing.
to-day's probably takes the high premium.
The first half was taken up chiefly with
~punting, both elevens showing very even
in general play. but what advantage Harvard
had came from the punting of Burr. helped
by the wind. The'play was chiefly in West
Point territory. The second half showed
certainly no less %punting. but this time West
Point had the wind and got about an even
break. The ball was almost always in Har-
ward territory. and except for the blocked
kick, which was due primarily to a bad pass
from Sultan, West Point had all the better.
West Point had three chances to score by
drop kicks. but two attempts went pretty
far wrong. and the third was the fatal inter-
rupted boot by Mountford.
There were few injuries, the West Point
men standing up we'll des pite their crippled
condition. In the frst half time was taken
out once only, in the second period IL was
called four times. The game was rapid,
taking little more than an hour altogether.
That is to say. the game did not drag except
inherently. There was not much done while
the game was going on. but the time passed
as rapidly as IL It's wont.
The day was about right for the game,
the early warmth being tempered by a wind
from the south. The crowd was large, the
interest in the game being keen. although a
whole lot of persons had the idea that Harvard
was going TO win easily. The majority Of the
army people said. Well. West Point will put
up a good fight. so we'd better go along and
see how IL comes out"
J. Pierpont Morgan came up on his big
steam yacht, the Corsair. Col. John Jacob
AstOr was among those present too. Gen.
Brook, Gen. Bisbee and Col. Webb C.. Hayes
were among the army persons there.
The usual inspection preceded the game
and the crowd had a chance TO applaud the
soldiers before the team took the field for
the game. 1t took a long time to get all the
people seated and then along about twenty
minutes Of three the Harvard players came
out on the field. They got a perfunctory
cheer from the West Pointers, who were
grouped according TO custom on the west side
Of the field. The arrival Of Harvard seriously
disturbed the wAnderings Of a little wOOlly
white beast that somebody called a rug dog.
The White purp and a big black one departed
hastily when the Harvards came along all
done up In red.
The Crimson players looked taller and
lighter than ordinary. although to be sure
Kersburg and Burr are not In the feather class
But they did not go through their preliminary
work like a light team. They cantered like
drau0ht horses through the signal work and
then trntted of the field about the time that
the West Pointers got over the ropes, There
was n genuine cheer for them from the cadet
CORDS. andwhen they tossed on their sweaters
and got busy they showed much more snap
than the Harvard players.
II took quite some while before Bill Reid,
Can't. Pierce, Capt Foster and the West
Point leader. Hill, could make up their minds
how IOnR the halves should be. The Harvard
men wanted to make them very l3ns so as 70
however. in a crippled state and WITH two
hard games coming on. those with Yale and
Eyentusiiy il was settled that the HALVES
should be twenty minutes eace Ihat sfttled
about all the objections for the time being
and the game got going.
About the Are, thing that showed after
Harvard received the cadet Sci on was
Two tries and the kicking was in order;
Harvard had, the south goal by choice and
good punter anyhow. and this advantage
did not make him any the worse: He out
SS sIyea th siS sa tEst Saofsr we MSf FAR over I, Mount S2Sn
ford's head 20 The cadet is yard line and
then rolled 70 the goal line near BY Mount
hack 10 the rs yard line before he was thrown.
Then Mountford kicked about to midheld
and tried a forward pass on the next play.
That was most exceedingly, miserable snort.
It. vent m, diT Ti,tIs INTO Rsy t bsf6 @sn Ss hi IL t P,s r MseSs.
"TTbere were some more kicks then which
kept the ends very busy and gave Hickam q
chance to show that he IL fast and a very
Accurate tackler. He weSved In q couple OF
times through the Harvard interference
and brought his man down when il did not
look possible, Pullen. the Alaskan. was
another who discouraged many Of the Har-
ward attempts at rushing the ball. He broke
through time and again and broke UP the
loose Harvard Interference which formed
| slowly and ran sometimes with as much
sense Of direction as a chicken lodging an
Rutmobile.
One Harvard nside kick by Cap Foster gave
the ball to West Point on its own IS yard line.
Hill tried a forward pass behind the line
that Melted Ave yards. The first penalty
| Of the game was awarded then, being a loss
Of Ave yards for oTside. The West Pointers
lined up for a kick. and Foster In the back
field with Newhall, yelled out Look out for a
fakel" 80 busy was he that when the ball
did come to him he fumbled. and only hard
work saved 1t from Pullen and Hickam, the
inseparables, who were right on the job to-
Qether, Harvard lost fifteen yards at this
moment for holding by Kersburg. who used
10 be a hammer thrower.
Burr turned loose a punt that covered
eighty yards, going low OWE the side line
near the goal. West Point pfhted from fora
nation and HickRm WINS there when Newhall
took the ball. The Harvard players woke
up the least taste In life then and in two
pIunRes got six yards. Newhall started a
quarterback run and when tackled threw
the ball to Foster, who made eighteen yards
before he was run out Of bounds The ball
WINS down around the 20 yard line then.