Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-01
COMPREHENSIVE
 SCORING MACHINE.
Chadwick Says Yale 1909 Eleven In- cluded Strong Points of All the Stars.

One must go back F years to find the first Yale team that has gone through season without being scored against, writes Charles Chadwick, for four years a guard and tackle at Yale In 1890 Yale was beaten 12 to at Springfield by Harvard. Five days later Yale beat Princeton 32 to 0. The next year McClung's famous '91 team took the field and ran through the season with a clean slate, defeat- ing Pennsylvania, Harvard and Prince ton. In 1892 Vance Mccormick cap tained a team that duplicated the same unscored against record In 1893 Yale went as far as the Penn sylvania game with a clean slate. Thus for nearly three years Yale's goal line was untouched. In fact, Yale's suc- cess had grown almost monotonous when. in that 14 to 4 game Osgood of Pennsylvania crossed Yale's goal line on plunge through tackle That play was one of the great sensations of the time. Philadelphia celebrated, while New Haven was plunged in gloom.
 It is hardly an easy task to lay one's finger on the th1nf' that made Yales team this year a great one-in exag- gerated undergraduate phrase, the team of the century,"
 Eli Lacked Great Field General.
 It certainly did not look like a great team early in that Harvard game this year. Half a dozen Yale cham plonship elevens can be compared with it to it's disadvantage. In the first place it did not have a great field general for quarterback. A half dozen Yale quarters have surpassed in bril- liancy that plucl1y boy Howe who stood at the helm and steered the blue to victory.
 Coy's team was so good it's own faults of both line and back field com bfned with the strength and skill of one of the greatest teams Harvard ever turned out could not win for the crimson or even score on the blue. or put it's defense to an adequate test.
 Blue Aggregation Aggressive.
 Except for small part of the Har- yard and Princeton games Yale was uniformly through the season the ag- gressor. The ball for two successive saturdays was nearly all the time in Princeton and Harvard territory No one ever will know just how strong the Yale team of 1909 was on defense. Its offense is all the seasons record has measured and put to the test and 1t was found to be the most versatile offense a Yale team has shown, one might say, in the history of the game. At least it is the most thoroughly bal anced and comprehensive scoring ma chine I can recall.
 Yale's 1909 team borrowed the dan gerous short end run from McClung of 'g1. It mastered the razor like cut be- tween guard and tackle on a straight dive that Thorne used in '95. It pos- sessed the field goal traditions handed down from the time of Billy Bull in the sos. It could run back kicks like De Saulles in '97, and it could block kicks lie Kinney in '02. It displayed, so far as the rules allowed. the jug gernaut power of Hogan of '04. in the famous tackle back, and it could give a very fair imitation of Butterworth and Hinkey in the bunting game. It was typical of all Yale teams in that 1t grew better and faster as the game grew older.
 Team of Individual Stars.
 This all-round power at the offen- sive game, this remarkable versatility, depended, it seems to me. in the last analysis on the fact that Yale's first and second elevens were individual stars. Sitting on the side lines the heroes of 30 years of Yale football could see themselves duplicated They could dream of the past as they saw the plucky Princeton team. with it's great drop kicker, Cunningham. and that well nigh perfect Harvard eleven swept off the boards. Andrus was Heffelfinger, floss was Chamberlain. Cooney was Stilllnan Philbin was Thorne. Lilley was Winter and Wal lace rolled into one, and so on through the list But Gov was Gov