The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
HARVARD MAKES FURIOUS FIGHT WITHOUT RESULT
Vale Wins on Merit, While Harvard's Mistakes Prevent the Team From Scoring Goai-Both Teams
 Badly Crippled.
BY LANGpoN SMITH.

Boston, November 23.-(Special.)-A greater crowd never witnessed football game than that which saw Harvard go down to defeat before the giant team from Yale. Fully 4O,OOO persons witnessed the game.
 The Crimson, in a rage of bitterness over recent adversities, fought like mad men. Time after time they swept Yale back with the savage energy of their attacks. Their unexpected display of fire and force was a surprise to the crowd, although the Yale team was prepared for It.
 There were great holes in Harvard's playing, however, and glaring mistakes, which Yale never failed to take advantage of. Where three or four Harvard men, would fail to fall on the ball, one Yale man would get among them and nip it every time.
 It must be said, however, that liar yard did not lose the game through these mistakes. Yale won on sher merits, while Harvard failed to score on her own de- merits.
 In the latter. part of the second half Harvard had the ball one inch from Yales goal. True to her old Hast ditch" traditions, Yale held fast and true, and with that last desperate rush the hopes of Harvard vanished. Yale got the ball on the third down, made one play, gained a few yards, and then the whistle blew and the game was oyer. It was eart-breaker for Harvard. The sensation happened in this wise: With the ball in Harvards possession, on Yale's 3O-yard line, the Crimson sprang into place. The ' ale team, silent and alert, crouched Yale fashion to meet the attack.
 It came like a thunderbolt
 Back went the ball to NewhaI, the quarterback There was rasping of men, and then out eane Wendell, the burly Harvard back, circling around Yales left end like a greyhound. Cooney launched himself through the air like a cataput, barely missing Wen dell's flying legs. Dunbar half turned him with futile grab as he passed. Jones, Yale's left end, and all the Blue backs were in his front. Jones was bowled over by Mcdonald. The Harvard interference converged rapidly and the Yale backs could not get through it. Down near the goal post big Coy, com ing across the field like the wind, made flying tackle and the plucky Harvard man came down five yards from Yale s goal. Then came the three plunges against the Yale wall and with bare inch to gain. Yale got the ball on downs. The gloom on the Harvard side of the stadium could haze been cut with a knife. Altogether it was a great game.
 A more beautiful day could not be imagined. The air was just cool enough to make oyercoats comfortable.
 There is only one street passing the stadium and this made the gathering of the crowd a wonderful spectacle. At first they came by twos and three with their insignia, flags, balloons, banners and badges.
 Then as the time for the game drew near, as if by magic, the crowd swelled into human tidal waves that converged from either direction and broke into spray at the gates.
 In one of those slow whirls the Duchess of Marlborough and her party were caught and swept to their seats on the Harvard side
 The stadium is SO vast that a crowd of 10000 or 15,0G0 seem lost in it. 1t was 1:90 before the huge structure impressed the sense with the crowds magnitude. On either side of the grandstand were the bands. Harvard was the first to start the tumult. They started q sign of victory, a rather solemn production which rang over the field dismally. Yaie roared back the old time ''Boolah" chorus and the vocal duet was on.
 At Is, minutes to o'clock Yale swept out on the field, ragged shaggy look ing troop, many of them bandaged from former battles
 The Harvard team followed closely up- on Yale's heels.
 Strings of paper tape of all the hues of the rainbow streaked the air coIiine about the shoulders of pretty girls and flowing far over the gridiron The Har- yard men seemed worse off than Yale They wore more bandages, some of them limped, but they looked as though they were eager for the battle.
 Good luck,' shouted the prophets of Harvard
 It did not take the teams long to get to work. Captains Bigelow and Parker met in midfeld. A coin flashed into the air and Yale won, taking the wind. which blew from the northwest and eiy ing Harvard the south goal.
 Burr teed the ball in midfeld. while the Yale men deployed over the field in open skirmish order. Running forward he swung his toe against the ball and tbe game was on
 Tad Jones caught it and ran it back % yards, part of the distance with a Har yard man hanging to his neck and another To ms leg
 The battle ragged in midfeld for 4 time. With the pigskin in Harvard's possession Newhall lifted short twisting nunt over the Yale ranks. The Yale ends came down the field l-1e the wind. The ball barely touched Bomar when Starr grabbed it and set sail for Yale's goal. Twisting and lodging. he ran it to Yale's 20-yard line before Jones threw him. This was the Harvard strength After a few smashes at the Yale hne, Parker dropped back for try for goal from the 30- yard line.
 Parker's kick went wide and the bat tle began to rage in midfeld again. Har- yard. by a series of swift plays again took the ball down to Yale's five-yard line, where the fighting became savage.
 As usual Yale got out of the crisis with ou. hurt. She got the ball on the seyen- yard line and on a try Bomar tore through the Crimson line, leaving a trail of prostrate Harvard men behind. They naileG him after he had covered 30 yards. Yale then began to hammer the Harvard line and slowly took the ball down to midfield, where a quarterback kick took them within striking distance of the Crimson goal.
 Here Yale tried the Harvard scheme and Bomar dropped back for a try for a goal. Like Parker's, It failed, but the ball shaved the outside of the post.