Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-22
THREE BIG GAMES
Trio of Contests Mark the
Closing of Foot Ball Season.
ARMY-NAVY'S HARD BATTLE
Yale and Harvard Struggle Will Be
the Most Important of
the Year.
BY Edward R. Bushnell.

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ball games to the season of 1911. Two of
them, Yale VS.. Harvard and Army VS..
Navy. will be played Saturday, and the
last one. Cornell VS.. Pennsylvania, will
be played Thanksg wing day. Of the
three the Yale-Harvard match will at
tract the widest attention, and will be the
most important from the foot ball stand
point The Army-Navy game will still be
wonderful spectacle, in which the foot
Dali issue will be secondary. The Penn
sylvania-Cornell battle Will undoubtedly
be great foot bal. game, but both the
Quakers and the 1thacans have been
playing such an in-andout game all sea-
son that ITS result will have no bearing
upon the Intercollegiate championship. 1t
VIII merely serve to help rank the two
eIevenS.
At this writing the issue between Har-
ward and Yale is very much in doubt.
dc L"o t.a...s Zen. Lnruu eu Li.e -
hmlnary season showi.-s~ very much the
same sort of strength. Yale was the
inst to get setback, this Coming in the
west Point game, which the Army lads
won by the sore OF 60. Previous to
that game Yale men had been compIi-
menting themselves upon the wonderful
foot ball their team had been playin,
against smaller elevens, and to lose to
the soldiers for the second year in sue
cession was a severe blow to them. Since
that time the EMS have been getting TO-
gether and have been developing an at
tack which they expect will reach its cul-
minat1on in the harvard game.
The overthrow of Harvard was a longer
time coming, but it reached the Crimso
at last After defeating Brown, 1876, and
displaying what was thought to be the
strongest attack of the year, the Grim
son went to Princeton, and there, after
lapse of sixteen years, lost to the
Tigers by the score of SO. There was
not much comfort for Harvard even in
the knowledge tnat Princeton had scored
all of her 8 points on fiukes.
With her men in a somewhat injured
condition Harvard faced the Indians a
week later and lost by the score Of IS to
10. 1t Is true that Harvard started a
substitute team against the Indians and
did not put in all her regulars until the
last period. Whether or not Harvard
could have Won had the regulars started
the game is a disputed question. The
fact remains, however, that the Indians
played just as hard as they needed to win
the game. When they faced the substi-
tutes they used nothing but straight, old
fashioned foot ball. and the wonderful
kicking of Thorpe was sufficient to out
score the Harvard substitutes. When the
Harvard regulars went into the game in
the last period the Indians changed their
style of attack and they We're just as in
vincible as they had been against the
substitutes. Abandoning old-fashioned
line 'plunging, they started a new often
sive machine, with which they carried
the ball from their own 15-yard line over
the Harvard goal without once losing
possession of it or being compelled to
kick. In this wonderful run every play
started with a fake into the line or
around the ends. So cleverly did the In
dams mask the point of attack that the
Harvard regulars were completely baf-
fed. 1t was without question the finest
exhibition of offensive foot ball that has
been seen this year.. The critics who saw
the game were unanimous in their state
ment that Harvard was Outplayed conSid-
erably more than the score indicates.
The Princeton game, in particular,
showed that VIII e Harvard had a power
full offense 1t was not varied enough nor
fast enough to gain ground consistently
will present. Furthermore the loss of
Quarterback Potter and the fact that
Harvard had no other capable field gen.
eral were demoralizing to the. Crimson
Harvard and Yale played their first game
in 1875 and. with the exception of five
years, have not missed a game since.
They did not play in 1877, 1885, 1888 1890
and 1895. All, told, they have aged thirty
games OF this number Yale has won 81,
Harvard has won and have been tied
scores.
The result Of the series to date follows:
Is7s-Yale, goal; Harvard, touchdowns.
sTYss s sss mar Har. q satetes
1sso-Yale. goal. touchdown; Harvard, 0.
1SS Yale, safeties: Harvard, safPti s.
1ss2-Yse e. goal, touchdowns; Harvard, 2
safeties.
lsss-Yale, goals: Harvard. touchdown.
1ss4-Yale. goals. touchdowns; Harvard, o.
isss-islss, SANE g goals; Harvard, touchdown.
lSs7-Yale, goals, safety; Harvard, goal.
lSSS-No game.
lSSJ-Yale. / goal; Harvard, O.
1s90-Harvsrd, goals: Yale, goal
1S9 .-Yae. goal touchdown: Harvard, O.
1S92Yaie, 1 goal; Harvard, o.
1S93-Yaie, goal; Harvard, o.
lS94-Yale. II: Harvard, 4.
1S95-8-No game.
1s97-Yale, o: Harvard. 0.
1SJS-Harvard, IT; Yale, O.
1s99-Yale, 0: Harvard, y.
l900--Yale. IS; Harvard, o.
190l-Harvafd. %: Yale, o.
1GO2-Yale, %: Harvard, o.
l903-Yale. Is; Harvard. o.
904-Yale, IL: Harvard, q.
1905-Ya'e, 6; Harvard, O.
19O6-Yale. 6: Harvard. O.
lJO7-Yale. IL: Harvard, O..
l9OS-Harvard, 4: Yale, D.
1NO9-Yale, 8; Harvard 0.
19l0-Yale, o: Harvard. o..
*'Tie game; safeties not counted in scoring.
The fact that Harvard has won but