The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1912-11-29
HOW THEY STAND
Harvard, 20; Yale, o.
Harvard, f6; Princeton, 6.
Princeton, 6; Yale, 6.

New Haven, Nov. 25.-Those three
scores tell the tale of football for 1912.
They tell it we'll and tell the truth.
They tell the story of eleven years
effort on the part of Harvard, not
merely to beat Yale bat to cross the
the Yale goal line by a touchdown,
and in the eleventh year Harvard was
successful in doing this not once but
twice.
No doubt exists after the game Of
Saturday that Harvard is much the
better football eleven of the season.
1t defeated Yale more decisively than
Princeton. 1t would have made the
score even higher than it was had
Brickley made two field goals, which
he tried and missed by narrow mar
gins.
Briefly. Harvard won by repeating
a form of attack which was almost
identical with that which was en-
ployed against Princeton. First
there were the high spiral kicks of
FELTON,, sometimes for a long dis
lance, sometimes for a short dis
lance, always difficult to handle,
and handled with less accuracy than
tEey were handled by the Princeton
backs, and the best back field of the
Tigers was none too accurate In
catching the ball.
Supplementing these punts was the
possibility Of driving the ball close
enough to the goal line for q possible
touchdown either to be gained because
Of q run after a Yale player had
handled the ball inaccurately or, II
the touchdown failed, by using
Brickley to kick field goals. Brickley
was there with the field goal on two
occasions and added to the score
which had been run up against the
Ellis by dropping the ball to the turf
and then accurately lifting it over the
crossbar of the goal posts. To Brick
ley belonws the credit of scoring
twelve of the twenty points made by
Harvard.
1t was not a contest which reflected
credit on what has been known as the
Yale style of football. The incessant
muffing and fumbling Of puts brought
forth groans from the Yale side and
shrieks of satisfaction from Harvard.
Punt after punt was lifted by Fell
ton into the air, only to be squarely
muffed by a Yale back when the ball
dropped in his hands.
The veriest football novice could
see how the game was lost by the
Ellis. It took no expert to figure close
chances or the balance of hard prob
lens. There was no balance-except
that it was all on the side Of Harvard.
Wheeler, Flynn, Cornell, almost
every player who essayed to guard
Yale against the punting of FELTON,,
failed disastrously.
Flynn was a crude back in the
Princeton game, and showed little
more promise in the game with Har-
ward. 1t is true that he punted well,
but his good kicking could rot Offset
his inability to get through the line
with success, nor the plumbers which
he made in trying to handle punts In
the back field.
The concerted work of the victori-
Gus eleven was fully equal to that |
which was displayed in the game |
against Princeton. There was the
same admirable display of intelligence
on the part of the players, their keen
perception of where to be and what to /
do. O.
Percy Haughton finally has coached |
a Harvard eleven to that point of eff
fciency that it thoroughly outplayed a
le team. outplayed the Yale system
d outplayed the Yale idea Of foot
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