The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-27

CAMBRIDGE CANE
IS DISAPPOINTING
sCOREI4EsS TIES BECOMING AL
TOGETHER TOO FREQUENT,
b.
FOOTBALL MEN SAY.

FOOTBALL MEN SA1s
More revising Of the football rules
II sure to follow this winter. The
Harvard Yale game assures this. 30
leading football men say. Neither Of
the two big colleges scored in the
game Saturday at Cambridge and the
struggle was FAR from satisfactory.
Scoreiess ties are altogether TOO ire
quent.
Harvard had one great chance to
win. but failed to turn the trick. In
spite of--or owing to--the fact that
Coach Haughton pulled Garoner out
OF the game at the critical moment
and sent in Potter with special M
structions what to do.
The latter style Of playing smacks
too much of professionalism. 1t may
be SAID, without any fear of con-
tradtction. The coach VINO wants to
run the game from the siaelines. CIV
ing signals for plays and sending IN
substitutes with messages, II too much
like the boss OF zig ieaguo BASEBALL
outfit. Sucn methouS should not ob-
tain in college foolbaii or oaseoaia
eitner. tor that matter. .
hut anyway, the game was = 1rosS
from 4 IootDail point OF view ana the
rules commattee may take UP 1om
Hheviins suggestion that four downs
tnstsau OF three be allowed, now that
4 team must gam ten TO make
Nrst GOWN. Inc suggestion looks
goou. what Is more the forward pass
rule should be Anlenaed 20 that We
bali 10 anybodys ball once the PASS
II maze. lhe latter rule would help
TO open up the pay and give the OPP
and DTE EADif
= sensational run or two in the course
OF the game. But to get back to tae
harvard ale game:
Yale Nearly scores
Right OH the reel In the hrSt peFsoo
Yate threatened TO score. A punt oy
Howe was funbled and Francis Tell
upon It on Harvard's IL yard line.
The ball was worked eight YARDS
nearer the goal post and Howe AZ
tempted 10 make drop KICK. put
the pass was wild and harvard got
the ball on downs.
Later In TINS period Harvard lost
q rare chance to score. A great punt
by elton sailed tar over the heads
OF the tAle backs and Leslie grabbed
the ball eight YARDS from the New
Haven goal line, Yet II was tmpos-
sible TO advance for material xalns
at that point. 20 Potter tried tor
ward pass. the ball sailing directly
into the arms OF Yale man on the
yard line. After which II was
punted down the field and Harvard
opportunity waS gone.
When the nrst period ended Har.
ward had the bail on Yale's 70 yard
line In tho second period Potter tried
4 drop-kick for the goal from 1Aies
20 yard line and missed the mark by
tess than two yards--another mar
row escape for tho Hue team.
Long Run by Phubtn.
A few minutes later Pnflbin. Yale .
fullback. made the longest run OF
the game. he tore througn = noie N
Haryard's right wing and had covered
thirty-fiye yards when Potter stopped
further progress with deadly tackle.
Had Potter missed his man Tale
might have scored q touchdown, a.
PhneA had q clear field with q BIZ
lead.
Right on top Of this came an onside
kick by Howe. which was caught by
GallAuer. but as the drive didn't cover
tho necessary twenty yards Yale lost
the ball
Before the second period ended
Yale lost the services of Bomeisler.
the star right end. whose shoulder
was knocked out of joint in fierce
scrimmage.
In the third period there were
several startling features, Including
two successive punts by Camp. which
were fumbled by tho Harvard backs
ana secured by the Yale forwards.
These gains landed the bali on HAr-
wards 50 yard line. whereupon Howe
made q beautiful dropktck. only to
have the heavy wind defect tlee ball
from its intended mark by mar
row margin.
Howe Muns Punt.
There was another harasSang play
when Howe muffed punt on Yaie's
10 yard line Had It not been for
Camps alertness on falling on this
bali Harvard probably would have
carried 1t over for = touchdown After
Gardner had made perfect forward
pass to FELTON,. who caught the ball
on Yale's - yard line, the gain was
nullified by = fifteen yard penalty for
holding. q fault in HArvArd's play
that was further penalized at q criti-
cal juncture.
Frothingham was sent into the
game for a moment just before the
third period ended to make q DROP
kinck for goal, but his attempt was
decidedly schoolboyish. The last
period saw Yale's regulars gradually
used up. though they fought gamely
to the end. Harvard had tho ball IN
Yale's territory the greater part Of
Il near enough for another goal trial
by Potter from tho 10 yard line.
which was low ana wide.
When the game ended tho bid
crowd failed to show tho usual en-
thusiasm and passed silently out Of
The Stadium on the way home.