New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
Sol Metzger Describes Game IN
Which FIynn's Long Run
Starts Team Scoring.
LOSERS MAKE GAME FIGHT
Critic Says Eli Eleven Is un'
settled and Must Play Better
to Defeat Harvard and
Princeton.
By Sol Metzger.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune


break down the stubborn and logged de-
fence of Brown and win to-days game
bv a score of 10 to 0. Then it required
the best Yale could muster in the shape
and person Of Lefty" Flynn TO open
the way for the first score by another OF
his thrilling and wonderful runs up the
side of the field.
In this case Flynn made forty yards
TO Browns 25-yard line, from whence
Yale battered its way slowly, sometimes
by bare inches, to the goal line, Wnlch
this self-same Flynn crossed for the
touchdown. Flynn then kicked the goal
And in the final minutes OF the game
Flynn paved the way for Yale's last score
"A pretty drop kick by PumpeIly-py
sending q punt over the head OF Jump
ing Jack" Crowther, Browns admlraDle
little quarter, thereby forcing Brown 10
IT'S 7-yard line, from which position
Henry made weak punt to his 35-yard
line
Then Flynn was taken out, saved TOT
the two Saturdays 10 come, and the pest
Yale could do was to have Pumpelly KICK
a goal. And his drop kick was as quick
as pretty and as accurate as anything
Charles I}rickley accomplished one week
ago for Harvard.
n was "A grand day for football ana
twenty thousand spectators turned out 10
view the game. Scattered in the STANDS
were such notables as Percy Haughton'
IIarvard's coach. and his assistants Leo
I.eary and Reggie Brown, and the en-
tire population Of small boys of New
Haven. who are annually given apsses TO
this game by the Yale management They
filed the north stand, and they went
home full of tales TO last them until
another Brown team comes to New
Haven.
Likewise this was the day on which the
seniors hold their impersonation fete on
the field between the halves, and the tun
was of high order. All the recent Presi-
Dental candidates; Yales own hero,
"Dink" Slower made famous By owen
Johnson: Bunty, who pulled a rope rather
than tsring; the Militant English SUI
fragettes, the Pankhursts, PayloWa ana
NIordkin, bare Russian dancers and our
own John McGraw done in vaudeville
we're all Initiated In humorous style
The game was a great one, from the
Brown point OF view, but great dlsap-
polntment 10 Yale. The Ell eleven did
not have the punch in the first half
though the opening quarter gave the ad-
vantage OF a strong Wlnd, IN winch
Flynn revealed when punting.
On the third play Brown fumbled TO
Yale on it's 30-yard line, only TO prove
that It's defensive strength was equal 10
tho occasion. for Yale lost the BAH on
downs after reaching Browns lO-yard
line. Henry made the irst OF NUMBER
Of poor punts under trying conditions
when he booted the ball out Of bounds
on the next play on his 27-yard line, but
Vale could not gain ground by rushing
and CAPTAIN Spalding, who was called
upon to place kick failed
In the second quarter the game was IN
Browns hands, so far as the attack was
concerned. and four times did the Bro"p
men attempt to score by goals from the
field after Yale had checked their attack.
The first was from the 45-yard line, Dut
Captain Ashbaugh sent the ball Wide OF
the mark. His distance, however rlsnt-
ened the Yale lnemen, who blocked two
of the three other attempts and forced
Crowther to run with the ball in the
third. so closely did they press him.
Henry lost a golden opportunity toward
the close OF this period, when he stood
alone at the right side OF the field, with
no one between him and the Yale goal'
forty yards away, after Flynn had sent
him a short punt But Henry tumbled
and lost an opportunity TO place his eleven
i'm the lead by one rush at time when
matters were none too bright Tor the
Blue. II was a frightful quarter for faie'
and yet the result Of 1t proves that the
Blue is straining a point 10 break the
wonderful and accurate drop kicking
which must be met when Harvard Is
! played.
The second half was Yale's all through
| though Brown proved its willingness ana
strength by holding the Yale attack ior
/ downs on its l0-yard line after Henry
had fumbled 10 Gallauer on Browns 90
yard line at the start. Yale opened the
! half with snap and dash, the best or thee
| q fternoon. hut a gain of seventeen yards
by Phllbin was the only thing the Ell
students were able to cheer about
Shortly afterward Flynn got around
Langdon. Browns left end, for the forty
yard run which made possible fa!es VIC
| tory Then the Yale attack was sore
| pressed TO deliver the necessary yardaSe'
Flynn made five over Kratz and Spaidins
and Philbn beat out first down on
| Browns fourteen yard line.
FLYNN tore over Murphy for four yards
but on che next play tumble by the
Yale idol lost four yards. Philbin came
across with eight yards on a plunge
between Browns right guard and right
tackle, and Spaldng made the first down
by a scant half inch on Browns four
and one half yard line. So close was this
plav that Is was disputed by the Brown
players even after the measurement.
Then Brown fought as it had not fought
during the entire game, even when 1t
had repulsed three Yale attacks. 1t was
first down on the four and one half yard
line. and the Brown cheering section
called for the stand that its team had so
far never failed to make. Yale's support
demanded touchdown. and Philbin
made two yards through Kulp. Flynn
WAS asked for the score but he was
pounded into the earth yard short OF
| the line.
Again Wheeler called on the Yale giant,
| and this time the Eli fullback was fairly
smothered by Brown men. 1t was tense
| x.o,,ant uhan Referee OkesOn disentan-