The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
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CAMBRIDGE Mass, Nov. 23,-Harvard
and Yale will end their football season
with the annual game this afternoon in 4
the stadium. Nearly 10000 persons are
here to see the match, and this crowd is
evenly divided between the two institu-
lions. In view of Yale's great record thi5
year and her sensational defeat of Prince
ton a week ago, the Ellis are a prohibitlve
favorite. What few bets have been wa 3
gered on the victorious team have been at ,
odds OF 6 TO / on the Biis. About the only +,
bets that can be gotten Town on the Har-
ward team are on the relative size Of the
score and whether or not Harvard can
cross the Yale goal line.
Football between the two universities
dates from 1875, when Harvard defeated
Yale at New Haven by four goals and four
touchdowns to nothing. In the ~twenty-six
games which have followed, today's con-
test being the twenty-eighth, Yale has car
ried Off the honors in nineteen Matches
three meetings being without result and .
fourth forfeited by Harvard.
The sentiment regarding today's game 10
that Yale will win another v~ictory--tho
sixth 1t has taken successfully since Dave
Campbelfs team beat Yale % to 0 IN 1901.
The season each team has gone through
leaves this as the logical outcome Of the
contest, and what differences Of opinion
there are relate to the number Of points
the Yale eleven will be able to score
against Harvard.
Nothing to lose, everything to win. This
is what the eleven Harvard football plays
ers will realize when they go into the game
this afternoon.
Yale has had the advantage Of keeping
its goal line clear from all manner Of
straight forward attacks this fall. Her
own offenae as shown against Princeton
was the most versatile the team eyer has
shown. Yale showed which players could
gain ten yards In three rushes through and
around Princeton's equally heavy line, and
when 1t cam to the open game Yale was
there to deliver the goods-and it was the
ability to play new football that finally
won the victory for the New Haven team
Yale's touchdown against the Tigers
were made on plays which seemed invin-
| chile. There were fakes Ind runs at the
end by Jones and Coy which helped a lot,
but had it not been for holding on the
last play Yale would have scored its sec-
ond touchdown against the Tigers on
straight football, line-smashing football.
which carried the ball considerably more
than half the length of the field. These
were the plays that showed Yaie's real
power-a power that Harvard has had no
means of judging by any attack It has
faced this fall, and which to step today
Harvard will have to play a game sucn
as there has been no indication that It
Is capable Of playing. M
TAi0 II llut Is AAAAAA AA0A 100 -
five Of the seven men being veterans. In
the Blues backfield are grouped two men
who weigh more than 100 pounds apiece
and two others who weigh 40 pounds, and
comprising the heaviest backfield the game
has ever known. Last Saturdays game
showed the speed of his combination Of
Brides, Coy, Tad Jones and Bomar.
Az Cambridge this fall a constant criti-
cism of the team has been that the men
have not tackled properly, a not con-
tinued to follow the ball as they promised
to do early in the season, and have not
mastered the problem Of breaking through
into the other fellows territory. nor have
show any ability to fathom the open
plays of any opponent consistently.
The teams line from tackle to tackle
has not been weak this year. taking sea-
sons as they come and go. Grant has de-
veloped into a very strong centre, and
with Parker, Pierce, Burr and Fish Har-
ward will nave five well-developed indi-
viduals, who played better football in the
Dartmouth game than they have played at
any time this year.
But at the ends and In the bacxfield
there has been a constant shifting at Cam
bridge this year. Yesterday Starr and
Macdonald were the eleventh-hour choices
for the ends, while individually Wendell.
Apollonio and Rand are three as good
backs as Harvard ever has sent out into a
game.
The men have rounded into excellent
shape and can be depended on to put "
a powerful fight. Ncwhall is certain to
so In at quarterback and unless he re-
ceives additional injury will last the game
out. Starr will be at left end, having re-
covered from his injury. Burr is in great
shape and punting in his best form.
For hours last evening the vicinity OF
Harvard Square was in an uproar, The
racket being unexeelled In the history OF
football. Roman candles and skyrockets
we're set off. Brass bands. reviewers and
fish horns continually contributed to the
noise. No attempt was made to eat din-
ner at Memorial Hall, the 700 fellows
there d~evoting their entire attention TO
cheering and singing.
Nearly every undergraduate in the coli
lege Joined the big procession tina for two
hours paraded the streets cheering voci-
ferously for everybody on the eleven, The
decorations were profuse and every whisp
OF crimson obtalnable was flying from the
thousands of dormitory windows.