Evening star., 1912-11-03
ONE GAME MAY
DECIDE TITLE
Foot Ball Honors Likely to
Rest on Winner of Yale
Harvard Contest.
CRIMSON HAS WON
FEW OF THE GAMES
That Have Been Played With
Dark Blue and Tigers.
Other Gossip.
BY n. C. BYRD.

1 STuHSOIi anu Ddfk Btue meet dL new
Haven November 23. the highest honors
| to be won on the gridfron will be the
| laurels for which they will contend. There
| will be nothing to besmirch the record of
the Crimson as far as the coveted title
| is concerned, provided it finishes with
| larger score than ale.
1t Is probable that greater interest will
center in the contest between Yale and
Harvard than will be evidenced in the
one between Yale and Princeton The
crimson eleven probably has one of the
most powerful combinations which have
ever represented it. and that it will put
forth greater efforts than 1t ever did to
win. There is more resting on the re-
suit of the Yale-Harvard contest than
was the case last fall and the latter will
leave no stone unturned to finish in the
lead.
A foot ball championship for Harvard
would mean much. Yesterdays victory
over Princeton, the first in twenty-five
years. came as an announcement to work
for even greater honorS, and in that game
with Yale lies the opportunity to win
the undisputed right to the championship.
There will be doubt that Harvard
will have absolute possession of the title
If 1T defeats Yale. There will be none to
dispute the honor The decisive beating
feat administered by that eleven to
representative western eleven just about
settles any claim that any of the insti-
tutions in that section might put in for
the championship. Practically every
other eleven of recognized caliber ex-
cepting the Carlisle indians has been
defeated by either Yale, Harvard or
Princeton.
OF course it is possible that the game
between Yale and Harvard will not decide
the honor. If Princeton defeats Yale
and Yale wins from Harvard then there
will be little by which a decision could
be made, unless it were deduction made
through having closely watched the play
in each of the contests.
Let Yale win from Princeton, and there
will be one of the largest crowds which
have ever attended a foot ball game pres
ent when Yale and Harvard meet. With
their team a close contender with the
Dark Blue and a championship at stake,
every man who ever owed the slightest
allegiance to either school will be pres
ent besides the army of persons in whom
general interest is aroused. No stadium
in the land would be large enough to seat
the immense throng which would desire
admission to the contest under such con-
ditions.
The Harvard victory of yesterday has
aroused much enthusiasm among the fol-
lowers of that institution and they figure,
and probably the idea is correct, that
their school is represented by its best
eleven this year.
But Harvard will have to have much
better team than Yale to win the decisive
contest, even If Yale is defeated by
Princeton. Tradition has it that a har-
ward team has to be at least 80 per cent
stronger than Yale to win. Whether that
is true or not is question. but it is GER
tain that in times past, even when it has
appeared that Harvard was much the
more powerful eleven, it has failed to ac-
complish much against the grit and cour-
age of the men from New Haven.
Harvard's victory of yesterday is the
first that a team representing that irsti-
tuition has won from Princeton in a quar-
ter of a century. The Crimson has failed
dismally to show itself match for the
Tigers as a general thing, and the result
gained, mainly through the wonderful
work of one man, means a great deal to
the school,
Previous to yesterday no Harvard foot
ball team has been able to defeat one
from Princeton since 1887. In that year
the Crimson was victorious by II to o.
Since that time until yesterday five con-
tests have been played. all of which We're
won by the Tigers There was break
in athletic relations between the two
institutions in 1896, and there was no
game until last year. which Princeton
won by to t. The one previous to that
in 1896, was won by Princeton, by l. to
O. the same score as that by which
break.
The results of all the contests played
between Princeton and Harvard follow:
is1i-Harvard. goal. 2 touchdowns; Princeton
touchdown.
Princeton. | goal. touchdown; Harvard
: tnuchdnwns.s
ISIS Princeton. ] touchdown: Harvard, o.
1879 Princeton. goal; Harvard. o.
lSso-Princeton. = goals. = tourhdowns: Harvard
goal. | touchdown
lssl-f frinceton, 1 safety; Harvard. safety.
L I
goal. / touchdown.
lSs:; Princeton. 2G; Harvard !.
lss4-frinceton, "a: Harvard 6.
iSsG-Princeton. l2 Harvard. -.
lNSt- Harvard, Il; Princeton, y.
Princeton, Is; Harvard q
1883 Princeton, IL; Harvard i5
1s9!-Princeton. II; Harvard 4
1896 Princeton. ~, Harvard o.
l9l1-Princeton, S; Harvard u.
'Note-The second game Of 1877 was won by
Princeton "a goal kicked from touchdown taking
precedence over touchdownsfi. The game
Of ISL vas , won by Harvard whose goal was
touchdown, the former being superior 10 the
latter.
1t will be noticed that the system of
scoring was changed in 1883 to practi-
cally what It is at the present time.
Harvard has been hut little more sue
cessful against Yale than against Prince
ton The results of the contests between
those two elevens since the present sys-
tenn of scoring came into existence have
been much in favor of the Newhaven in
stitution. II has consistently won with
the Crimson getting in a victory every
now and then. The results of games
played between Yale and Harvard since
they have been meeting on the gridron
follow:
isIJ- Harvard. 4 goals: Yale O.
lsI6-fale, goal: Harvard. a.
1sIS-iale, ! goal; Harvard o.
1879 Yale o; Harvard. o.