Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
GOSSIP AND NEWS
OF FOOT BALL WORLD
Can Harvard's Splendid Rush
Line Down Yale'S
BaCkfieId?

Tie great question of the hour il: Will
Harvard be able I" turn over II new foot
hall leaf and defeat the Blue twice III sue
ceSsion? Never since Yale and Harvard
began 10 play. in 1876. has Harvard been
able to do this And so every eye turns I"
Cambridge today. where one OF the
greatest foot ball aggregations ever turn
cd ont anywhere is now ready and wait
ing for its supreme test. For win or lose,
the Harvard team will go down in foot
ball history a great team.
The me ager reports from Cambridge are
eagerly scanned for news relating to the
welfare of that team upon which Har-
ward rests her hopes. The last days be-
fo- the great contest have been
used for practically nothing but rest
There has been little light signal prac-
lice but that is all. Coach Haughton.
vino led tthe famous 1905 eleven on TO VIC
tory. finished his real preparation iohg
ago IL began in September and followed
"a we'll matured plan through october, and
now In the middle of November. on the
eve Of the great contest. Harvard Is
ready. doubly ready.
Climax Reached Week Ago.
The slow. painstaking development of
individual and team play reached it's eli
max week ago. when the fast Cornell
eleven was beaten II TO u. Harvard has
developed the strongest Offense and de-
Tense on the gridiron today so far as the
Fundamental rushing game is concerned.
The rumors OF al injury TO Capt. Fish.
the star right tackle of the team, and tie
uncertainty as to whether he will be able
tn play should not be taken too seriously
in derogat ton of HarvardS chance 10 beat
Yale.
Last year the Harvard captain. Burr. q
man as valuable as Fish in the line and
more valuable on account OF his punting.
was incapacitated by reason of injuries
from playing in the Yale game at all ana
yet the Harvard team seemed to get on
pretty well without him. The fact Is that
Harvard has such abundance of material
today that almost no one man. even the
biggest kind Of a star. can by his absence
Getract very much from the sum total of
The teams efficiency.
Today while both teams are following
the modern improvements in training
methods by resting far from the fray,
Harvard at Medfield, in the Norfolk Hunt
Club and Yale in the Woodland Park
Hotel at Auburndale. 1t IL interesting TO
compare these two teams OF giants IN
the light of that great contest last year
which Remarks drop kick won. and
which otherwise was pretty even stand
off.
Has Harvard. in view of what she did
last year to Yale and in further view
of the fact that she is credited this year
a
last years. reason for this great wave OF
confidence which has ingulfed the little
town of Cambridge?
Harvard's Great Rush Line.
In the first place SO great an authority
as the veteran Capt. Tobin of Dartmouth
IS quoted as saying that the Harvard line
is the strongest he ever played against.
In the second place games between evenly
matched contestants are won today on
rush lines. Star backs are seen to ad-
vantage by the spectator. but the gradual
work of gaining position in the field of
utilizing that seventy minutes for plac-
ing the star back at last in the position
where he can score-this is chiefly the
work of the rush line. Last year Har-
wards rush line defense was almost the
best. 1t will probably be as good this
year. The question now arises what will
this wonderful strength of the Harvard
eleven accomplish against one of the best
all-around teams ever turned out at New
Haven?
Looking closely AT the matter. Harvard
last year met Yale team which had
played tn its limit week before to pull
a Princeton game out OF the fire. The
not overturned. though some members
of 1t were practically all in owing TO the
gruelling they had received from Prince
ton. And yet Harvard was able only to
get in position for drop kick and after
that 10 oppose her perfect defense TO
Yale's desperate attempts to score
This years Yale team has had an cas-
Ter game with Princeton. 1t has nor once