Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-27
FOOTBALL.
Harvard and Yale Play a
SCore|ess Game.
Navy Wins from The Army with
The Score OF 80.
Carlisle Romps Away from Johns
Hopkins University, 29.6.

Cambridge. Mass, Nov. $50 pow
erful was the defence and so neglectful
were both teams of opportunities that
Harvard and Yale walked out of the
Stadium, Saturday afternoon, amid
perfect silence, without having scored
a point against each other in their
32nd football contest.
It was the third time in IA years
that there has been a similar outcome
on Soldiers field, although the score
less ties Of 1897 and 1899 were Fought
before the old wooden stands
Yale's opportunity TO score came IN
the first three minutes of play, when
a Harvard tumble gave the Blue team
the ball on Harvard I7-yard line. Al
ter rushing the ball 10 yards farther,
Captain Howe attempted a field goal,
but the pass was so poor that Har-
ward easily recovered the pigsKin, only
once again and that at the beginning
fthe third period, did Yale get with
in 30 yards of the Harvard goal, and
again Captain Howe failed in his at
tempt at a field goal
Haryard's opportunities came at the
close of the first period when on 4ale's
7-yard line Potter tried a forward
pass, rather than to push his team 10
yards to right and try for field goal.
Twice in the latter part of the game
Potter tried for field goals only TO
send the ball vide of the goal posts.
The game was far more of disap-
pointment to Harvard than to Yale,
although the Blue team was decided
favorite at the beginning of the game,
especially when 1t was discovered that
Fridays rain had not injured the
turf to any great extent. But the Har-
ward defence tore asunder the famous
Minnesota shift, which Tom Shevlin
brought on from the West, and which
proved so effective against Princeton.
Having fathomed this strongest card
in the Yale list of plays, Harvard was
looked upon as the logical winner at
the close of the second period. But
the third opened with two miserable
fumbles in the Crimson back Held.
and 1t was not until the beginning of
the final period that the Harvard Of
fence began to assert itself. Forward
passes, double passes, criss-cross runs
and plunges into the Yale line by the
mighty Wendell, and a cleverly played
fake forward pass, kept the ball al
most continually on Yale5s side of the
field.
Twice, when the Crimson was appar-
nifty marching straight for Yale's goal,
holding in the line stopped the progress
to the encouragement of the Crimson
stands. Lack of generalship on the part
of Potter, the Harvard quarterback, and
the aggressiveness of the Yale forwards
kept most of the game between the two
40-yard lines, although the Crimson al
ways seemed to have the better of the
rushing game but lacked the punch. OF
the direction of 1t, at the proper moment
Like the scoreless tie games of 1897 and
1899, Yale went back to New Haven more
than satisfied with having escaped i'm
pending defeat.
The most eommendable feature of tn;
play was the magnificent work of botf
rush lines on the defence. Eacn side
seemed able to fathom the play before il
started and many times both Harvard
and Yale runners were thrown for losses
The tackling was of the fiercest charac-
ter, while Bomeisler and Smith, the op-
posing ends of the two teams, were dowr
on punts so fast that scarcely any were
run back for distance The summary:
HARVARD. YALE
smith. lie ........................ lie, AverS
Hitchcock. 1t .........,.. 1t, Seully, Perry
Leslie, lg MINIMUM. ig, Francis, Lore
Parmenter, ........-..-...-- c, ketchah
Fisher, rg .......-.......t.... re, McDeNlt
Storer' TT .......... 1T, Galloner, Pau
FELTON,, re ..........re, Bomeisler, Sheldon
Gardner, Potter, OBJ .....::;;....; ab, How
Campbell, Reynolds. Frothingham, lhb,
Wendell, RIB. RIB Spaulding, Freema'
Huntington, fb..........fb, Philbin. Dun
score-Harvard 0, Yale O. Umpire, Da
yid L. FuItz of Brown. Referee, w. ;
Langford of Trinity Field Judge, Wi
liam Morice of University of Pennsylvs
mia. Head iinesman. ]. B. Pendleton {
Bowdoin. Time of periods, 10 minutes.