New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-20


Captain Of Yale football eleven
difficult to Go anything az all with his
side OF the line. He was always found
in every play. and he was there nara
too Smith at right end for Harvard
was very good. He was z hard man 10
DO anything with
On our own team the work OF Howe
stands out prominently His general
ship was always Of the best He has
the faculty of getting the right play ar
the proper moment every time, and ne
drives a team all Of the time. His punt
ing was unusually good Fuller vas a
tower Of strength in cur line but above
The consistently good work Of Morris
Paul and McDevitt was the stellar per-
Torrance Of Jim Scullv. He played all
over the field and was responsible for
several Harvard losses The wing SHIFT
with Scully leading the play, was sure
ground gamer
Johnny FieIds's defensive work was
the best I have ever seen He tackled
50 hard that it caused several Harvard
fIn7bles. and nobody could get by him
He vas the only man at all injured IN
the game Il was the same old weak
ness \ blow on the head dazes him
for a few moments and then he is ali
right. He hated 10 leave the game. and
all of US we're sorry 10 see him break
down on the side lines He is one Of
the gamest boys PLAYING football
The present Harvard team Is ore Of
the best that has represented Harvard
IN several years. in my opinion. but II
was not good enough 10 win. While tie
game is always unsatisfactory. under the
conditions and circumstances Of this
year no-scora game is all 10 Yale's
credit though II is not generally true
of a Yale team. But there is a strong
possibility that in one week more it
would not have resulted IN 2 no-sCGre
game
Harvard had an unusually Capa bic line
OF substitutes. Yale used practically but
one substitute Vaughan and Childs
played only a few seconds, and Corey
not very long II speaks volumes for the
work Of Johnny Mack that the team
came out Of the game eager 10 play
longer. and actually getting stronger a nd
forcing the play every second at the eTd-
1t was unnecessary to have used 4 single
substitute.
The game ended. so far as Harvard
was concerned. with Hove's last punt
AS soon as Howe booted the leather far
down into Harvard territory We knew
the chances were with US Yale was i'm
proving defensiveIv and extensively. and
We had some few plays I'D our sleeves
especially for the eneuy's territory
Foster Sanford jumped UP on the side
lines and said. Its all over now, and
We believed il,
Our chance 10 score came a moment
later, when Yale recovered the ball
Had there been more time left some
thing might have happened. our forward
pass had been untried, and with hiIpat-
rick and Vaughan on the ENDS it would
have been hard 10 break W. However.
ii was decided 10 kick and it failed
We lost our crucial opportunity; then
Harvard lost hers when Wendell fun
bled and McDevitt fell upon the ball on
our own 15-yard line.
It was noticeable that Yale recovered
by far the larger proportion of fumbles-
The way every Yale man followed the
ball was remarkable.
At least we now have something 10
build on next year We started the year
almost with nothing. but it proved sufi-
Gent TO hold off the best that Harvard
has had in years. and il was good
enough TO lick Princeton. With the ex-
perienced men left for next years team.
something will happen It is a hard
wear turned into victorious one. The
men have TO fight very hard uphill
battle. but as is the case with real men.
II brought cut the best that was in
them
The spirit of the players is CrystaIIized
into a few words which Charley Paul
said after the game: Il would rather
pIav on this years team than last
YEARS He meant he would rather
fight against the greatest odds for the
fun of overcoming them than have sue
cess assured from the start He ex-
messed the spirit o. the entire team
With the banquet at the Lawn Club
tonight is disbanded a crowd of fellows
who have stuck together. fought it out
with defeat staring them IN the face. and
won by force Of Will and determination.
| II ought to be easier for them to con
ouer lots of other things now.
TIE possession of the ball viii be de
cided later by the toss of a coin be
tween Captain Wilmington and myself,