The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
Saturdays Game, to 0, Brought Out
Fact That This Year the
Game Rivals Are Devoid
of calibre.
RECORD CROWD PRESENT
Both Teams Had Many opportuni
ties to Count Victory, But There
Was no Sammy White
To Do It.

To Do It,
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Noy. 25.-The
final impact-that Irresistible impulse
that hurtles aside all human resist
ance-was missing when Yale and
Harvard clashed on the gridiron on
Soldiers field this afternoon, and the
thirty-second annual contest between
the two great rivals, ended in a moth
ing to nothing score--the fourth in
their history.
Opportunity knocked at the door of
both the Sons Of Eli and the descend
ants of John Haryard-but there was
no Sammy White present to grasp
the opportunity.
| Fans who came away from the game
admitted that the two teams that met
/ this afternoon were not of the cham
/ pionship calibre
Forty-two thousand cheering enthu.
/ oluolb, uhulolidS Cu w IuC BOoi piiON-
| ing both Yale and Harvard had made
thus far, begged, pleaded and be-
seeched their favorites to score when
the golden opportunity 80 often pre-
! scented itself-but the score was not
/ there.
The game was totally devoid OF
spectacular features. Both teams
plyade strict defensive tactics.
The greatest crowd that ever over
flowed the huge stadium damned the
seats and made up in enthusiasm
what the teams failed to show in foot
ball.
Many Chances Went Astray.
] Yale had two chances to score
field goals, while Haryard's chances
were almost innumerable. But the
man of the hour" was missing. Fun
bles were responsible for nearly every
failure to score, though poor PASSING
from Ketcham cost Yale one chance
and a high wind took two of Har
wards fled goals astray.
The Yale line, when it did take tn,
offensive, outplayed the Crimson, Ell
making first down on straight rushe'
five times during the game, whil'
Harvard was able to secure the neces
sary ten yards only thrice. On tn,
defensive both teams played magnifi
cent football; but on the offensive
both We're mediocre.
10
came in the first three min
utes of play, and here Ket
, cham failed, Francis had falle1
on a fumbled ball on Harvard's seven
teen yard line Howe dropped bacl
I for an easy field goal. Ketcham':
pass was low and wide-and Yale''
, chance went glimmering
In the second period came Harvard''
/ glittering chances-but no score. Ont
, of Yales numerous costly fumbles
). gave Harvard the ball on the Blues
five yard line Potter's forward pas!
= was recovered by Spaulding.
= Howe kicked to Wendell, who wa'
r slugged by Yale forward and Ell
d was penalized twenty yards, giving thu
G Crimson the ball on Yale's nineteel
yard line and directly in front of thu
r goal posts Potter's chance was a
+ good as Howe's and the ball cam
back straight and true. But the lief
q legged kicker couldn't quite connect
d and Harvard's golden opportunit
y was gone.
d Camp and Philbin Stars.
Il In the third period, more tumble
gave Yale the ball on the Crimson
twenty-eight yard line, but the hig
wind took Howe's kick to the side c
= the goal posts. In this period, too
J. Harvard had two more chances t
d make goal from the field, but fun
O bles robbed the Crimson OF the viz
tory that seemed within her grasl
Harvard essayed the forward pass o
j. numerous occasions. but was success
/" full only once. Yale tried the pas
= more frequently than in any of he
; previous games, but failed every tim
II For Yale. Walter Camp, Ir., an
@ Philbin were the stars, the latter MAJ
ing the only really spectacular run {
the game, when in the second perio
behind magnificent interference, /
X smashed his way through the entil
a Crimson team for forty-two yards.
e Wendell and Potter were the Ha
s, ward stars, Potter's long punts get
a. ing away in far better shape the
i. those of either Howe or Camp. We