The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-26
Fight Is Desperate and
Spectacular, Blu t
Monotonous,
FREQUENT KICKING,
FEATURE OF GAME
Chief Spectacle Is Punting OF
FELTON,. Crimson's Star Right
End--Fast Work Of Blues
Line Gives This Team
It's Periods Of SUI
premacy.
Special to The Tim eg-Dlspatch.

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
Cambridge, Mass. November 25.-A
desperate and spectacular fight and
one that was dtshearteningly moncto4
Gus. Such. pnradoxically. was to-day'a
no-score battle between Yale and Har-
ward. There was plenty OF individual.
brllliancy. plenty OF hair-raisinS
chances on funbled balls and soma
splendid punting. but neither the Blue
nor the Crimson had it in them to an
compl!sh the almost Impossible task o.
bucking against the ten-yard rule,
There was no baseball sprinter on
either side like Sam White. of Princes
ton. to pick up loose ball and trans.
form the hopeless see-saw Of eEchang.#
ed punts into victory, and SO through
tho Ions afternoon the Blue and Crim-
son hammered away ct one another.
shot off their Intricate and swift plays,
had them torn to pieces, ran all over
the grid!ron under kicks. and In tho
end everything went for naught. Ex-
cept for two chances. 4 pair of drop
kicks missed by narrow margins, tho
game developed no scoring possibili-
ties whatever. To begin with, there
was the field. dry to look at. but slip
perry and treacherous underneath, and
thus diminishing the speed and effec-
| tiveness of soma fairly fast and clever
runners on both sides.
Secondly. veering ice cold" wind
cut dlagonally across the Enclosure
and made catching punts task for
| stout hearts. The whole thing pIaa
heart breaking IN sense to the men
who fought the weather. the rules and
each other for every ounce OF strength
| and cleverness they possessed, ana
could neither WIN nor set decentlY
| licked. tE
The game demonstrated one fact
above ell others. It stood out so plain
that no one who looked at football
game could fail to read what 1t all
meant. and that fact Is. that under tho
rule to-day teams in the same clasa
can do nothing but kick kick and kick
again, and take q chance on regatntng
fumbles. The first bad mistake may
lose the game. nothing in the way of
team play can win It. But enough OF
the rules.
Came Is Spectacular.
! Tho game was spectacular, ard It's
! chief spectacle was the prrting OF
! FELTON,, of Harvard. This man seemed
able to shoot the ball into the winds
| eye with as deadly effect as when the
wind blew at his back. This one rach
| alone, and the way the whole Harvard
team got down under his kicking, was
enough. TO turn tho verdict in Har-
wards favor.
There Is no gainsayins that Harvard
| on the whole outplayed Yale. Yale'a
punts fell below tho average in dis
| lance, and 1t was only the fast work
OF Yale's line In recovering bounding
and misjudged balls that gave Yale
her periods of supremacy.
IN this ono thing. following q loosa
ball. the Yale men showed e cleverness
and determined quality OF play that
outclassed Harvard. In fact this
characteristic was the first noticeable
factor in the contest. The game began
with Yale getting possession of the
ball after q short kickoff to the left
by Harvard, that looked as though IL
was intended for an on-sids victory
In two minutes Yale had swept Har-
wards team off its feet and was lining
up somewhat near tho Crimson tens
yard line.
1t was Captain Howe who began thia
sudden Transformation with . clever
run from 2 fake kick formation with
beautiful interference for eight yards:
next a long punt misiudged By the
Crimson backs sent the ball bounding
toward the Crimson goal line: Half
the .ale team was down the held along
with 1t and they gave prstty exhi-
,bition of defense by diving Into and
upsettins Harvard backs first be-
fore they tried to recover tho ball.
yale lined up Its offenss In one play.
shot the ball to the ten yard line. Hers :
the Yale captain stood back for try
at drop goal. He received q poor pesa
and tried TO run. Suddenly the tide
had turned. 1t was Harvard's bait
on downs. and FELTON, get Off the first
of his long kicks against the wind. and
sent the ball safely to nidhed.
FELTON, Keeps at Work.
From then OH throughout the gama
II was the same story. Feltcn'a kick
Ing Kept Yale on the defensive. Sew
eral times his skyscrapers landed he-
hind the Yale backheld.
II was here that Harvard's generals
ship might perhaps be criticized. Value
able time was wasted by the Crimson
in rushing game. where rushing could
do no good. FELTON, should nave kick H
ed Immediately on every receipt OF
tho ball In Harvards territory.
Yale's generalship might possibly
also be criticized In the sama way
though Ta1e's attempts to rush In her
own territory had the excuse OF equal. s
ling the ground she lost in putting
Yale's offensive game was not 80 con- J;
sistent as Harvard. she used the shift &
play, that has been seen all the fall I;
at New Haven. It lacked snap ana E.
dnickness OF the simpler shfst OF y.
year ago. and 1t alternately gained
nothing and gained twenty or thir iy n
yards. 1t was hard to tell Just what
was going to- happen when Yale had
the ball and started IN With an offenes4
whose success depended SO muck on
anesae. Onse Philbin leaked thIoaEs3Sa