New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
HARVARD LUCKY TO WIN
Real Misfortune Keeps Maine
from Getting a Touchdown.
CRIMSON ATTACK CRUDE
Fails to Show Real Power in
Sustained Rushing, Although
Defence Is Good.
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was fortunate to beat the University OF
Maine by score of to 0 I'm the opening
game of the season here to-day. The
Cambridge team showed unlocked for
crudeness on the rush line, the Maine
team almost matching Wendell's eleven
in distance made by rushing, and being
deprived of 4 tie game by q bit of real
misfortune
Harvard started off like a whirlwind,
rushing down the field after receiving the
kickoff and battering holes In Names
line until tile ball had been taken TO
within six yards OF the visitors goal.
Here. however even the powerful Brick
ley could not find a hole, and the ball
was lost on downs. Names kick that
followed Immediately was poor one,
going only 10 the 3O-yard line, from where
Harvard bent itself to the attack again
and ploughed to the goal line, Brickley
reaching the one-yard mark by dragging
several tacklers along for sixteen yards.
IL was after the touchdown that Maine
got going. From mldheld the visitors
gained steadily. putting I'm two first downs
through the efforts Of Shepard and Garlic
ton, and finally reaching the Harvard To-
yard line. Here Shepard dropped back as
If TO make a field goal, but instead he
made a forward pass The Harvard de-
fence was fooled completely, and no one
was near Donohue. left end. az he waited
for the ball to come down behind the goal
line. II looked Ike sure touchdown. but
the ball struck one Of the goal posts,
bounded back into the playing field, and
so Names chance went amiss.
The visitors had no other opportunity 10
DO anything. but Harvard three times
later in the game failed TO present an at
tack that had any power. Once Par
menter recovered the ball for Harvard
when Briant muffed kick on Names 20
yard line. but three plays failed to gain,
and then Hardwicks forward pass was
Intercepted. Another muf by Briant made
II possible for Harvard to get the ball
again, this time on the visitors 30-yard
line, but after fifteen-yard advance
BEETLE fumbled and the ball changed
hands
Once again, when a flfty-yard run in OF
kick by Logan put Harvard within
scoring distance, Names rush line could
not be- penetrated, and when Logan tried
10 drop goal from the field the pass
from Parmenter was low and the ball was
driven into the scrimmage, 10 be secured
by Maine. Shepard did some beautiful
puntng for Maine, and his kicks were
well covered by his ends. Felton's kicks
were not nearly so good as those made
by Shepard, most of them being high and
with little power behind them Hardwick.
who played end when FELTON, kicked. did
some beautiful down the field work, and
was the only Harvard back who played
throughout the game.
The Crimson made few substitutions,
and only one In the rush line. The for
ward pass was used only once by each
team, and neither attempt was successful.
The teams We're well matched IN attack,
I Harvard gaining rs yards from scrim-
mage and Maine i06 yards, the Crimson
/ having only three more rushes from
scrimmage than the visitors. whose dis
lance was made on thirty-six plays. Har-
wards rush line was fooled repeatedly by
Names runs from kick formations, while
Brickley was the only Crimson back who
was not stopped easily by the Maine de-
fence.