Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-11-25

De sleeping dnu. DuflQlnB up strength
for the games. In the sessions of the
coaches each man is taken up indi-
vidually and his good points and bad
ones thoroughly gone over and
threshed out.
The captain generally is immune
from this criticism But to be a
good head coach the sentiment now
is that the man must be one who has
seen more of football than the man
off the gridiron for only year. and
one who has been in the councils of
The coaches and taken part in the
heated wrangles.
A Yale Misfortune.
Those who saw Saturdays game
will realize that there was a turning
point soon after it started. Flynn
began by kicking over the Crimson
goal line-a mistake in my opinion
since that brings the ball out to the
2O-yards line right away. Harvard
Immediately thought it wise to try
the punting game, and the first Fell
ton kick was missed by Wheeler and
bounded along to the Yale 20-yard
line before Bomeisler fell on it. That
soon afterward gave Brickley a
chance to kick a field goal, which
he missed.
Then Yale began to play hard and
showed a good attack. But a PEN
atty robbed them of the advantage
they gained when Flynn made IT.
yard run. Right there is where Yale
lost In an exchange of punts,
Wheeler dropped the ball after being
viciously attacked by Hardwick.
Storer picked it up and ran for a
touchdown. The fumbles continued
and Harvard usually took quick ad
vantage of them, both touchdowns
and one field goal being due to Yale
errors.
Harvard would probably have won
anyhow. The Crimson would at least
have kicked a field goal or two.
But had Yale not made such dis
tressing and costly fumbles in the
early stages, they might have shown
that punch which developed in the
final quarter and nearly resulted in
touchdown. Not once did Wheeler
or Flynn tumble that there was not
Harvard man ready to pounce upon
the ball. And he did so with pre-
cision, too.
1t is all very we'll to tell what
might have been. But the facts are
that Yale made the errors and Har-
ward played perfectly. AS in base
ball, so in football, errors are part
of the game and team which hopes
to win must avoid them. Hats off
to Harvard.
Flynn Punts Well
The majority of Flynn's kicks were
from five to fifteen yards longer than
Felton's. But Hardwick and Gard
ner caught the boots of the big Yale
fullback without much difficulty. And
they held on to them when vigor-
ously tackled by that great end, Bo-
meisler. Therefore. Flynns .advant-
age in kicking was only in distance.
and that was a slight advantage
when Felton's kicks were being FUN
bled constantly.
In rushing the ball Yale had the
better of the argument, making nine
first downs and gaining 154 yards
to five first downs and 1870 yards for
Harvard. The exhibition of the Ellis
in the final quarter, when they took
the ball from their 20-yard line to
the Crimson 7-yard mark. only to
lose it on downs. was the most stir
ring of the game. For every inoh
of the way was met with the most
stubborn resistance.
Some writer's insist that the show
ing made by Pumpelly and r. Baker
in that wonderful march down the
field indicated that they should have
started the game instead of Flynn
and Philbin. That is open to dis
cussion. The Crimson eleven was
tiring them from the long and Cruel
ling battle, and the fres hbacks re-
allied that fact.