The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22
YALE AND HARVARD
EQUALLY MATCHED
Kennard Kicks a Goal From 28-
Yard Line, Making Only
Score of Game.
CONTEST IS BATTLE
BETWEEN BIG GIANTS
Victory Is Due to Quick Judg-
ment of the Harvard
Coaches.


tide Of banners swept In. triumph over
Yale field in the dying light this after
noon. for the men of Harvard, after
seven long years, had beaten Yale, 4
to 0. A goal kicked by Victor P. Ken
nard. Brookline, Mass, fresh from the
side lines and standing on Yale's
twenty eight-yard line, with the crimson
line planted on the ffteen.yard line,
was the winning score Just as the first
half was closing. The game was bat
tie of football giants. After all, grant
ing to the Harvard mea their full share
OF credit for the victory, the sons Of
Eli can point as consolation to their
goal line, which was crossed by a foe
or even such worthy metal. Man for
man, tho teams were equally matched.
Each team s defense was stronger than
its offense and the bnst laid plans of
strategy we'll nigh wclt for naugbt,
The critical point in che game came in
a forward pass. Yale had been rallying
with a desperation born of knowledge
that time was 6eeting and had worked
the ball to Harvard S twenty-two-yard
line, when Johnson, the quarterback,
gave the signal for the play which
proved so successfulg against Brown.
This time the place for IFS execution
was the diagonal opposite corner of the
field. The ball went back TO Philbin,
who passed it cleanly over the on
rushing crimson forwards to Pawn. Bot
the ball was not thrown more than five
yards from the can'r- line, and think
ing tho play was faulty under the rules
the ball went 70 Harvard. A great sigh
of relief went. .up from The Harvard
side OF tho feld AMI nJt fve minutes
later the game cndci.
Some Rushing Work
Harvard rushed during the entire
game siXtY-fivc times, netting 24l yards,
an average distance of three and two
thirds yards to a rush. Yale rushed
forty.scVcn times for q distance of
nincty.five yards or nearly yard less
per rush on the average.
Harvard received the ball four times
on downs. while Yale failed to hold the
crimson for down once. simply because
n kick was resortcd to when two rushes
had failed TO give the needed ten yards.
This made the exchanges Of the ball
frequent and lent spice TO the plays.
The rushing had its compcnsations. for
it worked up the audience to high
pitch of expectancy every few minutes,
In kicking, Coy lifted the ball nine
times for total of Sl9 yards, an av-
eragc Of thirty-flye and one.half yards.
Harvard called upon her fullbacks to
kick, and the total of their efforts was
325 yards for eleven times, an average
of twcnty-niuc and two-thirds yards
From the start Of the game to the end
thcrc was over.cagcrness among tho
PLAYERS 70 be in tho fight and this
brought many penalties, Harvard losing
100 yards on twelve penalties and Yale
fifty-dve yards on six penalties. Neither
team tried many OF the resourceful
plays which tho revised rules have
brought out.
How Victory Came.
The victory of Harvard undoubtedly
was due to the quick judgment Of the
Harvard coaches in sending Kennard
TO try for a goal, though Nerwiebe,
whom he succeeded, had been playing
finely. The change in tho lineup was
instantly made and when il came the
ball was on Yale twelve.yard line.
In another second Kennard, at fullback,
received the ball and applying his toe
TO it, the goal was made amid wild
scenes on the Harvard side of the field,
Few thought that this would be the
only scoro made,
Banked along the gridiron was the
largest crowd ever seen here. The cheer.
ing and singing came only in the mo-
meDtary spells when the game halted
to let player recover his breath. Cheer
leaders found little response TO the call
for Song. except when the tension WAS
relaxed. In this respect the game stands
out unique among the many which have
been played here,
Before the game began, when the tens
Of thousands were pouring into the
stands and the bands were playing, the
songs were inspiring in their volume
and melody.
The lineup: