The Washington herald., 1911-11-26

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tory had the excuse Of equalizing the
ground she lost in punting. Yale's Of
fensive game was not as consistent as
Harvard. She used the shift play, that
has been seen all the fall at New Haven.
1t lacked snap and quickness Of the SIM
pier shift of a year ago, and II alter
nately gained nothing. and gained % or
I 30 yards. 1t was hard to tell just what
was going TO happen when Yale had the
ball and started in with an offense, whose
| success depended so much on fneSse-
Once PhiIbin leaked through the line for
a run OF half the length Of the field
In Harvard's back field Campbell and
Reynolds were consistent and fast on.
ofTense and defensive. Wendelrs plung-
ing was of too straightforward a char
acter to gain through Yale's fast defense.
Yale toward the end of the game showed
in number Of men from the side lines.
OF these, Reilly, who played a defensive.
half back game, was sharp and accurate
Camp played a fighting game on the Of
fensive. His punts were the best ground.
gamers for Yale, and through part at
least Of the game, fairly offset FELTON,.
Capt. Howe, Of Yale, played desperately,
from start to finish His running back Of
kicks was sensational Capt. Fisher, Of
Harvard, nailed many of Yale's plunges
into the line.
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Yale's team to a man played a des-
perate game from start to finish. and
when all is said and done credit should
not be withheld from Yale for holding
Harvard to a tie. To-day's contest illus
trated one other fact about football The
modern open game, the result Of the at
tempt to do away with dangerous mass
plays, is a lot more dangerous than the
heaviest and most grinding mass play
could possibly be. No one, when Smith,
of Harvard, nearly broke his neck to-
day IN an open field when he and a Yale
tackler met at full speed with a swift
clip that sent the Harvard man up in
the air like a foul tip on a baseball bat, /
to land head first; no one who saw this
one play can fairly claim that the mod
ern game has anything on the old one
for gentleness. On another occasion a
flying Harvard shift thac spun a back out
for a short gain at end left Hitchcock. /
of Harvard, and Howe, of Yale. stretched
out in its wake on different parts OF the
field.
At the beginning OF the second half
Yale put over a sensational transfer,
scene that was almost Identical with the
start of the first half. Yales quicKness
in recovering a mlsjudged bounding ball
was again in evidence Two punts in
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42-yard line and on Harvard's 35-yard
line, bridged the length of the field IN
two giant strides and made possible
Yale's second try for a field goal, a
narrow miss from the 40-yard line.
Tigers in First Place.
To-days contest leaves the ranking OF
Harvard and Yale unsettled. Princeton
pulled into first place on actual results.
But there is absolutely no means of NAM
ing the owner of second place, for II
favor is resorted TO both Harvard and
Yale will claim superiority to Princeton,
and fairly so, too. And yet this result
is absolutely absurd, in view Of the fact
that Princeton has defeated Yale and
Harvard and so the result of the season
of 1911, with its renewal of the old tri- .
angle, stands with three fast, aggressive
teams repIete with individual players OF
merit and with Princeton on top and an
unsatisfactory tie for second place. May
the change-wearied rules be changed yet
again is the fervent prayer Of the old
player of years gone by.
lIne-uD.