The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-26
Crimson OutpIayS Old Eli,
but Is Unable to Shove
Ball Over Goa, Line.
Neither Eleven Has Fast
End Like Sam White.
FELTON, Kicks We'll.
Capt. Howe Makes Qever Run
from Kick Formatin at Start
of Poor Pass Spells
His Chance for aFieId Goal.
Camp Plays Fihting Game
on the OffenSe.
By CHARLES HADwIcK.

Cambridge Mass NOV. ga des-
pcrate and spectacular fight and one
that was dishearhingly monotonous.
Such, paradoxicaD, was to-day's no.
score battle betten Yale and Har-
ward. There wa plenty of individual
brilliancy. plcE OF hair-raising
chances on fubled balls, and some
splendid puntiu, but neither the Blue
nor the Crimsh had it in them to &C
complish the imost impossible task OF
bucking agait the Io-yard rule.
NO SPRINTR LIKE SAM WHITE.
There wa. no baseball sprinter on
either side Ie Sam White, Of Princeton,
70 pick upl loose ball and transform
the homeless seesaw of exchanged punts
into victor and so through the long
afternoon ne Blue and Crimson ham,
mered avg at one another, shot off
their intrtte and swift plays. had them
torn to uces, ran all over the gridiron
under kfs, and in the end everything
went roIaught. Except for two chances,
2 pair ! drop-kicks missed by narrow
margin. the game developed no scoring
possibties whatever. To begin with.
there as the field. dry TO look at, but
siippe' and treacherous underneath, and
TINS diminishing the speed and effective
nessf some fairly fast and clever run
ucrsbn both sides.
SSndly, a Veering ''iCe-cold" wind cut
diaDnaIly across the Enclosure and made
90 hing puntS a task for stout hearts.
TT whole thing was heartbreaklng, in
a sense, to the men who fought the
vAther, the rules, and each other for
cry ounce of strength and Cleverness
icy possessed. and could neither win
br get decently licked.
THE game demonstrated one fact above
in others 1t stood out so Plain that
10 one who looked at football game
'Ould fail to read what il all meant, and
hat fact is that under the rules to-day
cams in the same class can do nothing
Dut kick. kick, and kick again. and take
I chance on regaining fumbles. The first
bad mistake may lose the game; nothing
n the way of team play can win it. But
enough of the rules.
The game was spectacular. and its chief
spectaCIe was the punting of FELTON,, of
This man seemed able to
shoot the ball into the winds eye with
as deadly effect as when the wind blew
At his hack. This one fact alone and the
way the whole Harvard team got down
under his kicking was enough to turn
the verdict in Harvard's favor.
Harvard OutpIays Yale.
There is no gainsaying that Harvard, on
The whole outplayei Yale. Yele's punts
fell below the average in distance. and
It was only the fast work of Yales line
n recovering bounding and misJudged
balls that gave Yale her periods OF SUI
premacy.
In this one ting. following a loose
,alI, the Yale mel showed a cleverness and
qualify of play that outclassed
In fat, characteristic was the
irst noticeable factor in the contest The
game was begin with Yale getting pos
session of the ball after a short kickoff
IN the left bt Harvard that looked as
though it wa intended for an on-side
In ito minutes Yale had swept
tenn Off its rect and was lin
ing up somewhere near the Crimson 10
yard line.
It was Clpt. Howe who began this
sudden traTtformation with a clever run
rom a fall kick formation with beau
.iful interference for eight yards; next
, long put misjudged by the Crimson
Crimson pal line. Half the Yale team
were dow the field along with it and
hey cav a pretty exhibition Of defense
" divinsinto and upsetting the Harvard
packs H6t before they tried to recover
he bal Yale lined up her ofrense in
,ne plF, shot the ball to the 1o-yard
inc. Here the Yale captain stood back
Tor q try at drop goal He received
poor ASS and tried to run. Suddenly the
Iide Bad turned. It was Harvard's ball
Dn Owns and FELTON, got on the first OF
his bng kicks against the wind and sent
The ball safely to midfield.
Fom then on throughout the game Il
va the same story. Felton's kicking |
<et Yale on the defensive. Several times |
NJ skyscrapers landed behind the Yale |
bck field.
IT was here that Harvard's generaIship |
light perhaps be criticised. Valuable |
me was wasted by the Crimson IN a /
lshing game, where rushing could do |
o good. FELTON, should have kicked i'm
lediately on every receipt OF the BAH IN l
awards territory.
Hale's generalship might possibly also
E criticised in the same way, though
ale's attempts to rush In her own terri
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