Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-25
ELEVEN
 ARE SEASONS CHAMPIONS.
Crimson Won Every Game of Schedule Concluding With Victory Over Yale.


 New York, Nov. 23.-With the play Ing of the Harvard Yale game on Saturday at Cambridge the climax of the eastern football season was reach ed. Aside from the Pennsylvania Cornell game on Thanksgiving day and the Army Navy contest on the follow ing Saturday, the important gTidiron games of 1913 are already history.
 Looking back over the short period of play allotted to football in this section of the states, the records of Harvard and the Navy stand pre- eminent. The real test of the middieS Is yet to come, but the Crimson has completed it's season, and there is not drop of bitterness in the Cambridge cup of joy. To win every game Of the schedule, ending with the complete elimination of her greatest of all ath- letic rivals, was the task that liar yard players and coaches set for them selves early in September. How well they accomplished the feat is witness ed by the seasons score sheets and the emphatic manner in which Yale was defeated on Saturday.
 Since the Navy eleven cannot be geographically said to be in the same section of the eastern football world as Harvard. there is no opponent who can stand forth and dispute the claim of the Cambridge university regarding the right of it's football team to the eastern championship of 1913. Hav- ing defeated Cornell. Princeton and Y ale while Princeton, Dartmouth and Carlisle eliminated themselves through games lost to other elevens, the claim for titular honors appears to be well based, and few will care to dfscredit the merits of the Crimson eleven. It was, however, necessary for Harvard to defeat Yale decisively in the final game of the season to complete the championship cycle. and 47,000 persons will cheerfu1ly attest that this was ac- complished at Cambridge on Nov. 22
 Harvard Proved Superiority.
 Harvard proved superior to Yale in every department of the game when the two eIevens are considered as of football will deny that collegiate football is in its fnality a team game. Individually there was but little ad- vantage one way or the other when the combinations are compared player for player, with the one exception of Charles E. Brick1ey, the Crimson's phenomenal field kicker. Even Brick ley owes his opportunities to his team mates and himself, playing in other roles than aerial attacks on the Yale goal bar. and 1t is necessary to look beyond Brickley and his brilliant kick ing ability for the reason of the 15 to victory over Yale.
 The correct answer to the question is to be found in the welI-nigh perfect coaching system and machine-like play of the Harvard team of 1913. Every member of the Crimson combination, regular or substitute, was but per feet fitting and well oiled cog in the mechanism that was built up to bring forth 9 Harvard victory over Yale in the stadium after weary years of waiting.
 Yale Lacked Finish.
 Viewed from the other angle, Yale's defeat can be accounted for along re- verse lines The Blue came to Cam bridge with a team composed of play CTS equal physically to the Harvard representatives,. Beyond that point the comparison fails to show the Blue at equal advantage. Individually and col lectively they were not coached to the stage of perfection reached by Cap tain Storer's men, and the system of attack failed to take advantage of the wide range of plays open under the modern rules of the game. The inter- ference accorded runner and kicker was moi as compact smooth or effec- tive as that built up at Cambridge, and tlee offense, as a rule. was both ant 4dated and haphazard.
 There were several occasions when the men played together effectively, and at these moments Harvard adher-