The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-09
RICHMOND Va, SUNDAY 9
FIELD GOAL
DEFEATS PRINCETON 80
Game Hard Fought with Many Exciting Incidents Poor Punt
ing of Hardwick Gives Tigers Many Chances for Field
Goals Several Long Sensational Runs. Game Played
in Sea of Mud. Both Lines Prove Very Strong

PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. s.-On a
sea of mud and with rain falling
steadily a greater part of the time the
| Harvard varsity eleven managed to- de-
| feat the Princeton Tigers hefe today
/ by the slim score of to 0. Harvard 8
points were accumulated when Charlie
/ Brickley dropkicked a comparatively
easy goal from the twenty-yard line In
the second period. Brickley's chance
to win the battle came after Gilman
/ had blocked a punt not far from
! Princetons goal line, which enabled
| Captain Storer 10 fall upon 1t after a
| desperate scramble There was no
| fuke about this play, for the Grim
son forwards literally tore the Prince
ton right wing to pieces, which de-
prived Law Of the required protection
usually afforded for a punt.
| For time the Harvard supporters
who came all the way from Cambridge
expecting to see their team roll up a
big score, were surprised by the stub
born resistance and the really splen-
did playing Of the Tigers. During the
| first quarter Princeton uncovered a
puzzing system of attack, which clear
ly nettled the big kickers from Massa
chusetts. Harvard was kept busy
trying to solve the vicious assaults
driven hither and thither and II was
ed the ball to Harvards thlrty-nine-
yard line, Then HOBBY Baker, after
Harvard's rush line had braced, tried
a dropkick from the forty six-yard
mark. but the bill did not possess
sufficient momentum and dropped to
earth about five yards IN front of the
goal posts
Tigers Nearly Scored.
1t was not long after that Princeton
~ hA haI IN u "a a htyfxF
four-yard mark. where again Harvard
prevented further advance ard Baker
attempted another dropkick. This time
he stood on the ty-three-yard mark
and his attempt was magnificent. The
ball sailed straight for the cross bar.
but suddenly 1t twisted away and
passed one of the uprghts so closely
that for a moment thousands of Mas
sau's sons leaped up cheering wildly
because they believed that d goal had
been kicked.
But wave of the arm, by Referee
LanEford indicated that Baker had
failed and Princetons JOY was smoth-
cred When the first period ended II
hat tlae -I4gars-had- out
played the Crimson eleven, n feat that
made the Harvard players redouble
their efforts when the second period
began.
Princeton again showed q powerful
attack until the ball had been ad-
vanced to Harvard's twenty-yard-line
where the Crimson became invulner-
able and the Tigers lost the oval on
downs. Then came a punting match,
in which Hardwick had somewhat the
better of IL, and finally an attempted
return by Law was blocked. which led
up to Brtckleys goal from the field
Before this period ended, Eddie
Mahan. who had supplanted Bradlee
in Harvard's backfield. aroused the
great crowd with a superb run OF fifty
yards.
In the early part OF the last period
it looked AS If Princeton might tie the
score. Hardwick, from behind his
own goal line, made such a poor punt
that the ball rolled out Of bounds at
the Harvard 24-yard line mark. In
stantly the Princeton shoulders jump
ed up and urged Baker to try a drop
kick. But the Tigers first decided to
pierce the Harvard battlemen IL posi-
BILE. The Crimson rush line was a
stone wall and not yard was gained.
Then Baker dropped back to the as
yard line and tried a dropkick. which
was blocked because of the Tigers in
ability to keep the Harvard forwards
from breaking through.
Lost Chance to Tie
A few minutes later Hardwick made /
another ragged punt, driving the ball |
out of bounds at Harvard's 25-yard |
mark, which paved the way for sttll |
another dropklck by Baker on the 39-
yard line This time Baker could not !
raise the ball above the heads of the |
struggling warriors and the chance
to even the score was lost
A brilliant feature of this period was
a smashing run of sixty yards by
to Princetons 2o-yard mark.
A few more plunges by the Harvard
backs worked the leather to Prince
toms 17-yard line, which WAS the near
est Harvard advanced in the fight to
cross the goal line. Brickley. when
he made his great run, might have