New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
HARVARD BEATS ARMY
MAKES ONE TOUCHDOWN
Crimson Snotches Victory on Long
Ran By Wendell.
by Telegraph to The Tribune ]

tBy Telegraph to Tha Tribune
West Point, n. Y, Oct N.-Harvard defeated
West Point in the annual football game between
the two institutions played here to-day by the
score of 5 to o In the last two minutes OF play
Wendell blocked a try for goal and. picking up
the leather. dashed eighty yards for touchdown.
It the hardest kind of a game for the Army
to lose. On the play of the two teams, Harvard
should have been lucky TO get a tie. The West
Point men, with the wind az their backs had kept
the play well within Harvard's territory through
out the second half. They had smashed their
way TO within twenty-five yards of the Crimson
goal line. Here Harvard braced. and little Mount
ford. the West Point quarterback, dropped back 10
try for a goal from the field Standing directly IN
front of the goal posts and within the 35yard line
IL looked if he would be successful. The on
lockers in the stands held their breath as the little
player waited with outstretched arms. Back came
the ball The pass poor, and the Crimson
team sfted through the Army line with rush
Wendell, the husky Harvard fulback, leaped high
in the air and blocked the kick. The bail bounded
back and from the mad scramble that followed
Wendell emerged with the pigskin tucked under his
arm. There in front Of him, and he
sprinted eighty yards for the only score of the
game.
Burr missed the goal-an easy one IN the re-
naming minute and a half OF play West Point
kicked off to Harvard. forced the Crimson 10
punt, and smashed out a couple Of first downs.
The showing OF the Harvard team was distinctly
a disappointment The will have to show
wonderful Improvement if it expects to hold Yale
It's play was at times ragged. The interference
was not what it should have been at this part of
the season, and the teams whole play erratio
and generally lacking in finish.
Harvard adherents have sickening feeling when
they think what would have happened If Beavers.
Smith. Gary and Johnson had been able to take
their paces In the West Point lineup AS 1t was.
the Army crumpled up the heavier Crimson line
by straight hard football for three first downs
while Harvard got only in this way
The game was intensely interesting, but it was
not exhibition OF first class football. Harvard
used the onside and quarterback kicks frequently
and twice cleverly executed the forward pass for
gains Of ten and twenty yards. These two plays
and Burr's remarkably fine punting the bright
spots Of Harvards play. The powerful Harvard
guard proved conclusively to-day that. as punter
he has few If any superiors playing the game. He
got off his punts WELL and they covered plenty
Of distance yet were high and twisting, giving
the ends time to get down the field and making
1t difficult matter for the Army backs to handle
the ball cleanly. Harvards play showed a thor
ough knowledge of the rules. West Point on
the other hand, did not attempt a single forward
pass and relied upon end and the olG stvle
line plays for her gains. 1t was generally re-
marked that the Crimson was lighter this year
than last
As neither side could make the necessary fen
yards the game developed into punting duel from,
the start. with Burr and Foster against Hill and
Mountford The brisk wind that blew the length
OF the field gave the team that had il at its back
a great advantage
The day was almost ideal one for football
from the spectators standpoint, though slightly
warm for the players. The scene was a brfan+
and picturesque one. Every incoming train brougbt
hordes OF football enthusiasts Girls dressed T.,
gay colors, enthusiastically waved the crimson q.
fair Harvard the black and gold and gray NJ
West Point. In the west stand sat the entfra
cadet corps massed around an enormous army, Aag
lime and again they hurled the defiant army veil
across the field as one man. The singing and veil
ing or the grand old gray battalion" was a feat
ure or the day. Again and again the Rahi Rab,
Ray! West Point! West Point! A-r-rrD,,t ho.or,oa
across the field. Each time it seemed to brace
the light Army team and inspire them TO renewed
eiorts against the heavier men in Crimson. Across
the field bunch of Harvard graduates had GOT
together TO yell for the Cambridge institution and
their crimson flags flashed gayly whenever the rTar
ward team executed some brilliant play Down at
one end of the field the West Point band added an
other touch OF color to the scene with its b,-a
uniforms and bright red capes
The gridron West Point ts not tba ao,,,, 90
,o nose OF many other colleges 1t canaot compare
Yale and Princeton But for scan @'nieuG bG helqs
-, A crowd Of more than seven thousand Witnessed
aro g apout % III me game but this didn't dampen their
1otEght t me nations battles many distant field
IT was in the line OF duty" eyinced almost as
niuGh @ enthusiasm as the embryonic generals in the
Ne,1 IRe We West Shore Railroad two specials from
Street 9 at 5oT the & game The first left Desbrosses
ntes later, from West 42d street. Roth cf them
cant IN either. va
In the first half Harvard had the wind behind
Her, ana within three minutes OF the kck-off Burr
Puntea seventy yards over Hills head 10 the
{arTnys l-yard line. For tho remainder of the
haf the Army kept busy defending her goal
line Wendell actually carried the bali over the
w est Point line for touchdown. only to have it
brought back and fifteen yard penalty imposed
Tor pulling from behind Osborne. the Harvard
tackle was indignant over this penalty. He said
during the intermission that 1T was the most alb
surd decision he had ever heard Of" Right here
toward the close OF the first half Harvard showed
ner best form. Getting the ball in West Point
territory the Crimson eleven worked the forward
pass cleverly for ten and twenty yard gains land
ing the sphere the 12-yard line. Three des-
perate snashes netted drst down, and the next
play Wendell went over for touchdown, only to
DC called back. a little later Newhall tried for a
goal. but his attempt was blocked The half end
Cd with an onside kick which West Point got on
her own 2-yard line.
, The second half saw conditions reversed. West
Polnt had the advantage of the wind, and Harvard
was kept constantly on the defensive. Mortfori
tried FOR three goals from the 80. 10 and 50 yard
lines