Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-11-27
HARVARD'S CONCERTED WORK
1T Places Crimsons on Football Throne
For Season of 1912-First Touch
down In Eleven Years of Play
Brickiey Scores Twelve of Twenty
Points For Cambridge Team
HOW THEY STAND
Harvard, 20; Yale, O..
Harvard, IS; 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 but 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
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
they 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 a possible
touchdown either to be gained because
OF run after Yale player haC
handled the ball inaccurately or, il
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 tur
and then accurately lifting it over the
crossbar Of the goal posts. To Brick.
ley belonws the credit of scorinE
twelve of the twenty points made b.
Harvard.
credit ON what has been known as the
Yale style of football. The incessan
mufing and fumbling of puts brough
forth groans from the Yale side anc
Shrieks of satisfaction from Harvard
Punt after punt was lifted by Eel.
ton into the air, only to be squarely
muffed by a Yale back when the bal
dropped in his hands.
The veriest football novice coult
see how the game was lost by the
Ellis. 1t took no expert to figure close
chances or the balance of hard prob
lens. There was no balance-excep
that it was all On the side of Harvard
Wheeler, Flynn, Cornell, almos
every player who essayed to guart
Yale against the punting of FELTON,,
failed disastrously.
Flynn was crude back in thu
Princeton game, and showed littl,
more promise in the game with Har
ward. 1t is true that he punted well
but his good kicking could rot offse
his inability to get through the lin,
with success, nor the blunders which
he made in trying to handle punts il
the back field.
The concerted work of the victori
Gus eleven was fully equal to tina
which was displayed in the gam
against Princeton. There was tn
same admirable display of intelligence
or the part of the players, their keel
perception of where to be and what t.
do.
Percy Haughton finally has coache
Harvard eleven to that point of eff
nciency that it thoroughly outplayed
Yale team, outplayed the Yale syster
and outplayed the Yale idea of foot
ball.