The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-20

was every evidence that the men had
been trained in the fundamentals which
for years had been the wonder of the
football world.
The Yale line. which had 10 bear the
brunt OF the boring OF wendell. VINO
seemed 70 open up holes by sheer
strength, was surprisingly compact.
DAILY was not used great deai at
piunging. owing. 10 is understood. 10 a
weak knee. He was reserved until the
latter part Of the game and mis- OppOr-
tunity came just before the end. when
he tried a drop kick from the 55-yard
Ire, but fl VAS DETECTED by the wind.
As 10 Harvard. the appointment
was the running OF the team BY Quar-
terback WisgleswOrtE and the fumbling
or the backs. MigglesWorth was TAX en-
out and Potter and Gardner were sub
stituted. but the coaches pushed the lit
lie quarterback into the game and each
time errors Of Judgment followed.
Tile Harvard team. as a whole, was
the same compact and well drilled team
Of the whole season. but il lacked at
critical times "a master-hand.
The punting was disappointing a
whole, although in. the first period ii
gave promise of being a feature. Howe
ala not get distance and FELTON, only
was. able 10 gel telling distance.
In the game Harvard punted fifteen
times for GO yards and Howe booted
Tie bail twenty times for $40 Yards.
From the spectators point of view, the
ieat lures of the game were the variety
fact that the BAH could always be
seen.
Forward Pass Fails.
The forward pass was used by Har-
ward five times. Three tries were fail
ures, and of the other two only one
made a gain, and thar only eight yards.
\ ale did not use the play Days drop
KICK was matched by one made by
Lewis, which was a similar failure.
The superiority OF Harvard ever Yale
was shown in the rushing. for ten times
the Crimson got first down. and her
work ia this style. tried 50 times,
brought gains of POI yards. while Yale.
following first down six times tried
rushing b times for III Yards. Yale
discarded the On-side kick entirely,
while Harvard tried il four times as an
effective ground gamer.
The game was short. lasting less than
an hour and three-quaFters The scene
which had its setting, a patch Of green
iurI with banks OF humanity on a y four
sides, scintillated with color in the sun
as II Slowly crept down the horizon.
The singing was effective, and one of
the striking color effects was when the
Harvard cheering section in the west
stand outlined great H in crimson
and white remnants, waving them TO a
college air.
Yale today used nothing new except
Narla lions Of the famous Minnesota
shift shown ia the Princeton game.
These consisted chiefly of changes of
the objective point of attack and new
shifts of the men carrying the ball.
In secret practice these were inter
spersed with the forward pass of the
usual type except one straight down the
field with an even chance that the
opponents would get IT, This variation
was MOI used at all in The game, nor
was one calling for "A double shift of
men in the back field.
In actual playing today nearly all
the plays went 10 wreck The forward
pass and double shift were not tried
because of Harvard's qUickness and
skill in diagnosing the Yale play.
As the game went on with its varying
changes. Yale adopted mainly defen-
sive tactics. The Blue never came
nearer HarVaTd's goal line than the
45-yaTd line except at the close. when
Daily made his try for goal. For a
few moments Yale men believed their
team was Outplaying Harvard. but
Days try for goal changed posses
sion Of the ball. and the game ended
just after Harvard had kicked out of
danger TO near midfield
The playing of Howe at quarterback,
where he was charged with punting,
carrying the bail and running the team,
was 10 Yale men a prominent incident.
lie is understood TO be slated for next
years captaincy.
Fifty thousand persons saw the game.
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