El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-21
Little Early For Compare
sons, but They Are
in Demand
CBy w. S. Farnsworth.)

New York. n T.. Oct. 21.-The most
interesting bit Of news football follow
ers can secure at this time of the sea
son is a line on Harvard and Yale. Any
one who can furnish comparison is
a hero and his chatter" is devOured
with relish. The first man of import
ance to go on record in regard to the
respective power and strength Of the
two eleyens IS Tim Larkin, the able
coach of Holy cross.
At present there isn't a man whose
observations regarding the respective
development Of the teams at New Ha-
ven and Cambridge can be cherished
more than LarkiE's- He watched ev-
cry move Of both teams in the games
against Holy Cross. Yale defeated his
team by q score Of IS to 0, while Har-
ward, week later, won. over the WOr
cester eleven by the small score Of
1t is early in the season to make COM
PARSONS, which the writer appreciates,
but as Yale and Harvard meet but thu ee
same teams, it bears a heap Of interest
just the same brown and princeton
are the only other elevens that clash
with both the Crimson and Blue, and
these games come later in the season
Little Difference in Rush Lines.
Il watched the work OF both Harvard
and Yale closely" says Larkin, and
I found very little difference IN the
two rushlines- Yale did appear TO be a
trlfle more aggressive, at that. Holy
Cross was unable to gain much ground
by our regular attack against either
team. The forwards OF both teams were
staunCh when Holy Cross was in pos
session Of the ball, but I must say that
neither did much breaking through on
our plays.
IN neither the Harvard and Yale
games was our attack upset before It
reached the line of scrimmage, but
rather smOthered. Yale turned our end
nj r HnN ETrr=r ord %
that accounts for the fact that our at
tack at Cambridge did not seem as pow
erful as at New Haven Rarvard's tack
ling in close scrimmage was awfully
Wendell Good One.
In Wendell, Harvard has a back who
am sure stands head and shoulders
above any player Yale has behind the
line. but aside from having Wendell,
the CrimsOn's backfield, as # performed
against Holy Cross, did not seem to be
as well developed as Yale's. AS far as
weight went the backfields seemed to
be equal, but st New Haven the backs
worked much better together.
The fact that Yale had been longer on
the field than Harvard, counts for
whole lot, naturally, but I make an al
lowance for this when I analyze my i'm
preston that the New Haven eleven at
present is a much better machine than
Harvard's-
In the game against Holy Cross both
Harvard and Yale displayed a lot Of
crudeness, but the New Haven indiyid-
ual players seemed to be working out
the lines on which they have been
coached better than the Harvard indi-
viduals did. Still, my team would have
held Yale to a much smaller score than
the % points scored against them had
1t played the same brand Of football at
New Haven that it did at Cambridge.
Smith a Great Player.
Harvard has a wonderful player in
Smith and he did some corking work
down the field, but the New Haven ends
looked immense against US and ap-
peared TO me as though they were capa-
bic Of being developed into firstclass
men for the big games which come
later. Holy Cross did so much FUN
bling against Yale and there was such
erratic passing back from center that