Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-30
FUMBLES SPOIL
crimson ATTACK
Old Ellis Eleven Comes Back
and AdherentS Claim
Moral Victory.

week ago Saturday, the wonderful
mechanism of Harvard going for
nothing on this account.
| Both teams were strong on the de-
Tense but two fumbles when the
Crimson was in striking distance of
Yale's goal prevented score being
made. Poor generalship was the
main cause for field goal might
have been made each time when the
team kept battering its way in
rushes.
These fumbles were the critical
| points in the game. The Harvard
team has gone through the season
with clean record of handling the
ball. II seemed to be one of her
strong cards, but failure by two of
the backs. Wigglesworth and Corbett,
to cling to the pigskin in tight places
probably cost her the victory.
Yale could not Withstand the bat.
tering. Once the Harvard rushcs
were for SO yards, first down each
time, and in the last period Corbett
had carried the ball to the ~ yard
line when 1t went to Yale by bad
Judgment.
Harvard always was the aggressor
Yale made few consistent gains. Tie
Minnesota shift, used in sev""al vari.
ations, was worked for gain on the
first formation. but the next time. al
most invariably. the play wcu'd DO
stopped by the Harvard hHckG. Howe,
the Yale qulrtcrhacH. supported the
general idea of the Yale defense by
constantly runting and he sent the
ball high IN the air. giving Ki'pat-
rick AMI Ii"Onkg. the ends, time to
get under it and tackle the runner.
II was tho wonderful work of the
two ends and Fields tackling which
shore in Nalc's game.
The entire Yale team was quick in
action, it's formations were thrown
out and shifted over with great speed
and when the ball was put In play
there was every cvidcn that the
mon had been trained in the funda.
l
the wonder of tho football world,
The Yale line. which had to boar
the bcunt of the boring by Wandall,
i who seemed to open up holes by
sheer strength, was surprisingly
compact. DAILY was not used a great
deal at plunging, owing, 1t is under
stood, to weak knee. lie was re-
served until the latter part of the
game, and his opportunity came Just
before the end, when he tried drop
kick from the 50 yard line, but 1t
was denc ted by the wind.
AS to Harvard, the disappointment
was the running of the team BY
Quarter Wig cswOrth and the FUN
bling of the backs. WiGgleswOrth
was taken out aud Potter and Gard
nor were substituted, but the coaches
pushed the little quarter back into
the game. and each time errors of
Judgment followed. The Harvard
team, as whole, was the same com
pact ana well drilled team of the
whole r2usCn, but It lacked at critical
times n master hand.
TIE punting was disappointing a'
a whole, although in the first period
II gave promise Of being feature
Howe did not get dlstan @, and Eel
ton only was able to get telling dis
lance.
In the game Harvard punted 1;
times for go yards, and Howe boot
ed the bali 20 times for SO yards
From the spectators point of view
the features OF the game were thu
variety of plays used and the more
interesting fact that the ball coult
always be seen.
The forward pass was used b!
Harvard five times.
Three tries were failures, and %
the other two only one made a gain
and that only eight yards Yale di'
not use the play. Days drop kicl
was matched by one made by Lewis
viii h was similar failure.
The superiority of Harvard owe
Yale was shown In the rushing, 70
10 times the crimson got first down
and her work in this style, tried o
times, brought gains of POI yards
while Yale, following first down, si'
times, tried 81 times for III yards
y Yale discarded the outside kick en-
tirely, while Harvard tried 1t fou
times as an effective ground gamer.
The game was short, lasting les
l. than an hour and three quarters. TIL
: scene, which has as its setting
patch of green turf with banks of hu
- manly on all four sides, scintillate
with color in the sun ms 1t slowl
crept down the horizon.
Yale today used nothing eXcel
! variations of the famous "Minnesot
- shift" shown In the Princeton game
!, These consisted chiefly of change
- of the objective point of attack an