The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-25

HARVARD vs.. YALE AND FONTS
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Even in the nrst feeling OF satisfaction at
having made a worthy fight against the cham
pion Yale team more than one Harvard man
asked himself why a team that could play
as well as that could not have done better
all season, why men who could put up such
a still fight and show 30 much native foot
ball ability could not have been developed
into a cha mpion. The nswer In up to the
cOachinR system. Those who saw Harvard
play the Indians recognize the fact that
there was excellent material there In the
raw. 10 looked so raw then that IL did noe
seem nc all likely that II would be whipped
into shape to make any sort Of a showing
against Yale: but it was material that was cap
able Of much better football than IL showed.
and had It's full ability been realized on IL
would have had n more successful season.
The coaching Harvard received In the final
week or two weeks did accomplish a good
deal and Ia entitled TO some credit for the
brace. The excellent Individual -wOrk OF
the men themselves. their ungalterinR mental
and physical efforts right up to the last mo-
mene were what accounted for the valiant
game put up once they were on the field.
Yale had these things too, and the brave fight
made by the Harvard men was not sufficient
to stand on eleven men who also were reso-
lute and who had been drilled into n power
full team by masterly coach ing based on
more football knowledge than IL possessed
elsewhere. So Harvard again was beaten.
but not disgraced. That's the way to b
beaten N o have 20 DO beaten. but ie Is more
agreeable to be victorious and not disgraced.
There are plenty OF sound principles in
Harvard football instruction, In the Organiza-
ton OF the attack. in the way the individuals
play their positions. That In shown by tho
way the Harvard attack makes Roadway
through Yale-whose defence IL the best
In the country-and by the way the Harvard
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test. Yet generally the finality to bring
about results 10 m~lssing-that supremsness
or finish or whatever II may be- that Ia needed
to change defeats to victories. When this
quality Of completeness Is had at Harvard
It Is had In impressive quantity. as witness
the superb teams turned out at Cambridge
In lS9S and 1901. Those two teams scored
heavily. the only Harvard teams that have
scored on Yale since isO4. Incidentally. not
since 1904 thirteen years axo-have both
Har and Yale scoAed In one Of their
battles.
Yale had enough power and unison TO
carry her slashing attack over the Harvard
goal line a couple OF times. but the ginger and
IRE OF the Princeton game were absent. It
appears therefore that the Princeton same
took something out of the Blue. Apropos
of this point interesting remarks are made
by Carl Flanders. the Yale line coach;
The Yale team. after an exhausting con-
test with the Tiger. came into the Stadium
confident OF meeting q foe. The coaches
had endeavOred'to instill that fact into their
minds and had met with considerable re-
Spouse 1t was q herculean task to keep the
team In condition after the terrific Princeton
game. and II required the uttermost Efforts
Of John Mack to achieve that object. Few
know that Goebel was suffering from a severe
attack Of malaria. that Tad Jones was nearly
fine. that several men on the team were on
the verge OF staIeness and only saved by the
consummate skill Of Mack.
Let no one construe this as detracting
from Harvard's credit. gameness and
stamina Of men like Parker. Starr. NewhaIl,
even by the most rs6id snti-Hsr SaTd'' paro
tisaH 1 we're not z Yale man should
Through college Without playing on a winning
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game Yale made very little use OF this play.
cards against the Tiger. The fake kick
device, with its end runs and forward passes.
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the lesson. More than once the latter demon
strated that she was prepared for the play.
Thought, however. that MACDONALD the
Harvard end, would do so well at breaking
worked wonders in a short while.
But the onside Kick. practically, neglected
eyecnsed once that Il Cost = toIcbdo oS poS %as
a play that Yale kept back for Harvard and
then used with telling. results. Clearly,
was saving It for the time When II Il would ne
most needed. Still the kick formation play
The latter Il one Of the Important develop
ments Of the season.
the first half against Princeton and the COM
psGtness Of the second half, IL was well
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a drum. II was a historic stand the Ella
made down there when the span OF a hand
ssparated Harvard from a touchdown., the
Pennsylvania repulsed Cornell under similar
circumstances a year ago. Yale defence has
to give and give, yield end stretch. until a
Marked Improvement over previous form
was shown by Harvard at following the ball.
bTt there we're Lost Opp0rtynitles because
stsntly. That showed lqCk. OF Fundamental
loose bali with iiEhtnin9 duickness. the YaIen-
SLAMS In the vicinity were spryer In dropping
not as alert in g~rasping the chan ging phases
o. the game as Yale or IN seizlng opportuni-
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a season that up to saturday was all dis
c0ura9ement
had a shade OF NewhRll and Burr, the latter
for the last season or two rated as the best
punter In the East. Yale punted for a total
OF sos yards in thirteen tries and Harvard
for SS5 yards in fourteen tries. The average
distances were: Yale, ~ 1l-I3 yards: Harvard,
30 3-l4 yards. Pretty close. The Harvard
ends. however, covered kicks better than the
Yale ends. The splendid work OF Capt.
Biglow In getting down the field and tackling
IN the open helped out when the Yale ends
had been blocked OF and did not get To their
man. The Improvement of the Harvard
ends. along the lines of steadinees especially,
was remarkable TO one who had seen them
~ the Indian game, when there were occa-
sional flashes OF ability, but more frequently
lamentable weakness. In the Indian game
Starr did not play at all and Bird, who did
better than Macdonald. was not in against
Yale.
That NewhalI should play good football
was no surprise. He has played well most
Of the season and against the indian he had
his head with him at all times. Tad Jones
and Coy were not an conspicuous as In the
Princeton game but quite as serviceable.
Jones handled difficult punts in rare style,
and at picking out the places TO send plays
he is without a peer. One who justified the
faith those VIII had seen him in action had In
him was Phllbin, the light and wiry halfback.
Philbin reminds one very much OF Tibbott Of
Princeton. He cuts through a line wonder
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