Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-20
NEITHER SIDE WAS SCORED ON
HARVARD TEAM FUMBLED BALL
BADLY AT CRITICAL MO-
Poor Judgment and captaincy OF the
Crimson Supporters Cost Harvard
the Victory - Blue Adherents Are
Jubj,ant Over Outcome as Harvard
Was Confident of Victory.
Bv Associated Press.

drawn and scOreless battle was fought
out on Yale field today between Har-
ward and Yale. To the adherents OF
the blue it was more than victory;
for their team which "came back
to defeat Princeton, proved too strong
for the powerful crimson eleven,
which came here confident of vic
tory, When the game, which must
be reckoned among the greatest ever
fought between these rivals, was
over. the great throng of people
quietly stepped down from the tiers
and seats and took up their home
ward journey with mingled emotions
the Yale men supremely happy over
what their team had done and the
Harvard adherents sad in having vic
tory snatched from their grasp
through lost opportunities.
This is the third time that Yale
has rallied at the eleventh hour to
stop Harvard just short of victory,
the others i'm 1897 and 1899 being on
Soldiers field and under conditions
somewhat like those Of this season.
In those years, as in the present sea-
son, Yale had disastrous midseason
but recovered when the time came
for the supreme test.
In the game today both teams were
strong on the defense. but the won
derful mechanicism which Harvard
had shown all season went to naught
through costly fumbles, both when it
was not a long way to the Yale goal
line and when the crimson was bat
tering her way down towards that
coveted place. Poor generalship both
times was the trouble, for Harvard
elected to rush with downs to spare
instead of trying for a field goal,
which seemed to promise success
These fumbles were at critical points
in the game The Harvard team had
gone through the season with clean
record of handling the ball. 1t tseemed
to be one of their strong cards, but
the failure by two Of the backs, Wig
ellsworth and Corbett, to cling to
the pigskin in tight places, probably
cost her the victory.
Yale could not withstand the bat
tering. Onne the Harvard rushes
were for 80 yards on the first down
and in the last period COrbett had
carried the hall to the twelve yard
line when 1t went to Yale by bad
Judgment. Harvard was always the
aggressor. Yale made few consistent
gains. The Minnesota shift used in
several variations was worked for
gain on the first formation, but the
next time almost invariably the play
would be stopped by the Harvard
backs.
Howe, the Yale quarterback, sup
ported the general idea of the Yale
defense by constantly puntirg and
he sent the ball high in the air, CIV
ing Fitzpatrick and Brooks, the ends,
time to get down under them. 1t was
the wonderful work Of the two ends
and Fields tackling which shone in
Yales game The entire Yale team
was quick in action, it's formations
being thrown out and shifted over
with great speed. and when the ball
was put in play there was every evl-
dence that the men had been trained
in the fundamentals which for years
have been the wonder of the football
world.
The Yale line, which had to bear
the brunt of the boring of Wendall.
who seemed to open up holes by
sheer strength, was surprisingly COM
pact. Daily was not used a great deal
at plunging, but was reserved until
the latter part of the game and his
opportunity came just before the END
when he tried a drop kick from the
thirty-five yard line, but it was de-
flected by the wind.
AS to Harvard, the teams disap-
pointment was the running of the
team by Quarterback Wigglesworth
and the fumbling of the backs. Wig
ellsworth was twice taken out and
Potter and Gardner were substituted,
but the coaches pushed the little
quarterback back into the game, and
each time errors in judgment fol-
lowed. The Harvard team as whole
was the same compact, we'll drilled
team of the whole season, but it
lacked the master hand at critical
times. The punting was disappofnt
ing as a whole, although in the first