The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-27

Percy D. Haughton. coach of the Harvard football team. contributes the following exhaustive analysis of bis teams work in Saturdays game To the Boston Herald:
 .-The Harvard team certainly did more than was expected of them by defeating EYale by such a decisive score as 20 to 0. By their perform they had proved themselves to be 9 yre1l-rounded out team. strong in de- fense. versatile in. attack. and supple knented with two phenomenal kickers la Felton and Brickley in case the att tack failed at any time
 Before the season began, Harvard 2 offensive policy was planned around impossible to tell whether the addi- ton of another down would enable one team to carry the ball consist fen1afned am open question until after the Princeton game. when 1t was con ciusive1y shosTh tkat 2. touchdown ing From sfnaf lime the - < Harvard coaches endeavored to supply their team with & stronger attack
 The only innovation .ss.,tL a,wh4 which they ey the line of scrimmase instead of the customary seven. By this sirn- Is,e operationr the offensive line V
 
 10 accomplish one of two results. IF The opposing tackle went out to meet the Thanking movement it meant that ened- If on the other hand, this tac-. kle neglected to observe the hankfnE man, he was subject to an attack on his out side. may say that this tackle in question, but to every man. on the deEensire line
 By thus removing a haIfback from r~re<f fr.rv. - r1aufffnTa r1iR51f he supposed tat the running attack was weakened by one-third, but since the introdurtion Of the rule forbidding the ball It has been extrerueiy difficult 10 utilize all three backs to their fuH nfleiency. especially in, plays running had two men of exceptfonai ability in Capt wendell and Brick1ey and it was therefore decided that these two men were capable of carrying the brunt of our direct attack
 Again. Hardwiek, although a strong line p1unger and capable of running me ends was doing more than his vas kicking. I doubt if more duties were ever placed upon one player than were assigned to Hardwick. When he was not on che line of scrimmage he Wag often called upon to carry the ball. When he was on the line Of scrimnage he was the principal in ferferer on the secondary defense, but when Harvard kicked he was ex- pscted to cover Feltonss punts as an end When the opponents kicked he ward depended upon to catch punts and run them in. Lastly. he was chosen to make the punt-otits and to surely takes a versatile athlete to do 90 many different jobs, and I .ans con. ndent no other man could have done them all uP fo the hilt as dfd TEard-
 A close observer of Harvardss of fense told me after the. game that he was strongly impressed by the sim 10 my mind, struck the keynote of our success tfn the Yale gam6.E liar ward showed less than one dozen diff drop-kicks and forward passes.
 DefehsiveIy Harvard showed far more versatility in that her defenses the down. distance to be gained and formation of the opponents. It is comparatively simple for a coach to plan a defense against any one play. but 1t is quite different matter to drH a team to meet all offensive con fiugencies. I was rather pleased when various defenses theoretically but I am far prouder of the intelligence shown on the field by the players in working out variations of our de- fense along principles I had given
 During the game there were several of what are commonly called critical plays and should like to refer to them in the order of their occurrence
 The first came on the third play of the game when with the ball on Yale's E5-yard lime Flynn made kick over the side line which netted Yale only co yards, thus giving the ball to liar rard as first down on Yale's S5- yard line Harvard immediately tried put her running attack and succeeded tn taking the ball in short rJsi1es to Yale,s 17-yard line. where a signel was given for Brickley to attempt drop Kick Parmenter. who throughout the season has shown remarkable consist rncv In his passing, here made too hsrn a pass and Brickley did well to even catch the ball for it was high over his head. He then showed even s-rester- skill by getting off the ball cieanIy and missing the goal by 9 seaut yard-.4.
 after. when Flynn stood behind his goal line and kicked to Harvard's 45- ward line. a distance of nearly sixty wards. and this against 3. wind which altfrouzh not blowing hard. was of distinct disadvantage to the kicker who was-pusfsing-again it. With the exceptio4 Of punt by-lnorpe irp of the zsr<afrist Harvard in 1908, can remern- her nothing to approach the. excellence of this kick
 Tremendous performance. was standing on Taless 45-yard line. and was thus compelled to run back over 10 yards 4n order to get under the ball. He can- Iherefore- De exeueed for making the tumble which he did. but here oc- curred what I consider one of the most critical plays of the game. ln Lhaf the hall was loose and Bomeisler was just about to pick it up with clear field ahead Of him. At that mo-. ment Hard wick made one of the clev- sf trying for the bah himself he wen f ~EAAt- Born neiG1er. and by 8 perIecE