Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-28
WITHINGTONA
FOOTBALL HERO
Honolulu Boy Won Game for
Harvard from Army BY
Lucky Stroke.

IOtnrOp wilmington OF Harvard
WAS the hero of the lIarvard-West
Point game, according to a graphic
1 account of the contest In n New
York paper. 1t says:
Luck won Harvard's game against
the Army on the academy field at
West Point yesterday afternoon. In
the score of to there is summed
up the story of not only the hard.
est game the Crimson has had this
season, but of the hardest 1t is likely
| to have. The Army fought it's heav-
Ter opponents through every second
of the play. and in the opinion of
the great crowd that witnessed the
contest honors were even, despite the
score.
Harvard Used Best Team.
Harvard put its best team into the
field. 1t brought three full elevens
along, and during the warming-up
practice, all thirty three men were
at work. The full squad of the Army
looked very small beside this aggre-
cation, but the knowledge that Har-
ward had more substitutes than 1t
was likely to use in half dozen
games made little difference to the
soldiers. They seemed to find new
inspiration in the knowledge that
they We're outnumbered as well as
out weighed
Harvard's beef was very apparent
throughout the game. Most of her
gains were made with straight plung.
ing through the Army line, and there
was time after time when II seemed
that nothing coul stop her logged
progress down the field. But the Army
found a way each time. even when
II was pressed so close It almost
literally braced itself against its goal
posts to stop the hammering.
The play was too open to mark
ed degree, even for the new rules
Hardly Il movement of the ball was
hid from any of the stands, a condi-
ton for which West Point was large
ly responsible. Harvard played her
men close all through the game;
even when kicks were plainly com
ing none but her backs played away
/ from the line. West Point, on the
other hand. kept either tackles or
ends well back at all times, and
found the policy valuable one ev.
cry few minutes. Her great weak
ness seemed TO be In getting her
men down the field on kicks. Again
and again, Harvard aught punts
and regained heavily on the slow
ness of the Army.
ket. The signal came for fake In
side kick, but just as the ball start
ed for Dean Capt. wilmington leap
ed forward from right Ia kle and
took It, wilmington swung on his
heel toward the Army goal, and as
he tucked the ball into the crook
OF his elbow n groan went up, for
the ball slipped away from him and
went bounding toward the line on
Its own responsibility.
What followed was more basket
ball than football The Army men
seemed rooted to the ground where
they stood, and the Harvard men
were not much more sprg, FOR what
seemed minutes passed before any
defense at all rallied around With
ington. He plunged desperately af-
ter the ball, and Just as his fingers
touched IL 1t rolled away again. For
ten yards he dribbled II for all the
world as II he were on a gymnasium
floor but Just as his men closed in
around him and the{ soldiers came
pounding after him he got real
grip omit snp went acress the line
for the onIXjtoucbdown of the game.
Fisher lsicl&d 1tRs' goa,,
The, first s3ywAfd pass of tnhsams
folloWfdf Spjtbs appearance TAl lthe
line, Frothingham's throw being
blocked, however, by Spaldings
impetuous leap into the air. He
came back five yards with the ball
and Mcdonald kicked for twenty-five
more, Arnold getting down under
1t so rapidly that the gain was full.