Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-11-21
.YALES,HARVARD0

Cambridge, Nov. 20.-The splendid
kicking of Captain Edward H. Coy
brought the eastern intercollegiate
| football championship back to Yale to.
| day in an old fashioned football game
in which harvard went down to defeat
! by score of to O. -
Driving the crimson team steadily
back by his long punts, Coy dropped
two goals from the field and the ag
gressive forwards of the Yale team
contributed two points more by block
ing Harvard punt which resulted
in a safety for the crimson.
The crimson eleven showed more
than twice the power of the blues in
straight rushing and at one time car.
ried the ball So yards in four scrim-
images.
Yale disclosed nothing in the wav
of spectacular football. 1t seemed
Yale's policy to rely on Coy's kicking
rather than on intricate playing. Only
once did Yale seriously threaten the
crimson goal line by straight rushing.
In both instances the Harvard de-
tense stopped progress at the eleven
yard line, and Coy's efforts for field
goals on these occasions failed.
If Coy had not invariably out-kicked
his ends, the Yale score might have
received double figures. for the Har-
ward back fiiel was unable to Judge
the sky rocket punts and O'Flaherty
fumbled nearly every, kick.
While the Harvard forwards "got
the jump" on those Of Yale, their az
gressfveness robbed the team of more
than 100 yards of penalties. III.
The game started encouragingly for
Htrvard after O'F1aherty's first muff
The ball was rushed twice to the Yale
80 yard line, some of the Harvard
gains being Is and 20 yards through
the Yale team. Then came the GRIM
son penalties. u,
Kicking was resorted to ind each
time Minot received poor protection
Finally on his 20 yard line. the ball
was blocked and rolled back over the
crimson goal line, when Corbitt fell
on It for safety and the first sore
r. For the balance Of the half the ball
was alway sin Harvard's TERRITORY
With the ball on Harvard's 25s yard
line and standing ten yards back,
Coy added three points more tby a
pretty field goal with two minutes to
spar :. 8EEy&$E
Yale did more rushing in the Sec
ond half, but usually kicked on the
second or third down and again Har-
ward was driven. steadily back until
the ball wos once more on the Harv-
ards Is yard line. Here Coy repeat
ed his feat and three more points
were added to Yale's score. ALI thru
the latter half Harvard showed abfl-
ity to pierce the Yale line for short
but inconsistent gains. Penalties.
however, almost invariably turned
the forward movement into a retreat.
The character OF. the game can be
we'll understood by analysis of the
play. Yale rushed fifty-one times
for total distance OF ninety-eight
wards. Coy punted twenty-three time
from downs for a total of 715 wards.
The Yale backfeld ran back the Harv-
trd punts for a distance of eighty
eight yards, Yale had two first downs
and suffered twice from penalties: for
a total loss of twenty-five yards. d.
Harvard rushed eighty times for
224 yards and Minot kicked twenty
two times from scrimmages for 59S
yards. The Yale kicks were run back
for total of thirty-five yards while
Harvard scored eight first downs
through the Yale line. Harvard's ten
penalties showed an aggregate loss
of 100 yards. sga.