The Washington times., 1914-11-21
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less, but with more certainty than Yale.
for Yale this year has been drilled to
take more desperate chances at toss
ing the ball around than any Blue team
Of the past.
Haughton has the advantage of past
experience with great Harvard eleVens
this year. and he has drilled this team
SO carefully that he can depend upon 1t
to do the right thing at the right time.
Hinkev has taken up football at New
Haven with greater earnestneSS than
any OF the coaches of the past. He Is
resourceful, and has taught his men
carefully. It will be a battle of coaches
Just as much as il will be of eleVens.
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In the performances OF the two teams
this season, the Crimson line has shown
itself to be more formidable than Yale's.
In some of the preliminary games the
Yale forwards have been pretty badly
battered and at times it almost looked
as il the Yale offense was being per
fected at the expense of a sturdy Yale
defense. Princeton's ripping Of the
Yale line in the last period last Sat
urday cannot be overlooked. The line
of forwards was swept of it's feet and
was not able TO check the onslaught
of the Princeton backs. Yale's ends
Rrsnn and Stillman. or Carter. cannot
compare with Hardwick. while Coolidge
has shown himself to be just as good
an end rush as the best end talent
Yale can show.
Luck viii play a big part in the
result, for luck is associated with the
aerial football which is necessary under
the rules of the present game. In
both kicking and tossing the ball Har-
ward seems to have an edge, although
1t is not great. If Harvard's defense
can measure up to the standard II
showed against Princeton. the Yale
backfteld will have difficult time CIV
ing thrilling exhibitions OF its bril-
liancy.
The new Yale bowl. where today's
game is being played. covers an area
Of twelve and onehalf acres. The
center OF the arena is or I'LL" Spec
tators gain entrance to the amphi-
theater through thirty tunnels. Relow
the aisle, inside OF the bowl, where
the tunnels terminate. and above II
are thrty-fivc tiers. On the top OF the
embankr?ent is q promenade twelve feet
wide
The dimensions OF the bowl are about
30 yards long by 90 yards wide. The
arena itself forms a quarter OF n mile
running track. and inside OF this is the
gridiron, running north and south The
dimensions of the grldirOn are about
lG7 by 100 yards.
The amount OF concrete used in the
construction was about p G0 cubic
yards. There were about 10000 cubic
yards OF excavation. The re-enforced
steel and ratings amounted to about
600 U0 pounds. There are 1000 square
feet Of turf on the field and on the en-
bankment. The estimated cost was
about $4,000
Here are some of the figures on what
Yale ard Harvard have done on the
sridiron
or thirty-five ,Yale-Harvard football
games. Vale has won twenty-five. liar
ward seven the five tie games have
been Scoreless.
Since 1880 there have been only two
games in which the loser sCOred-ir 1894.
Harvard losing. got one touchdown; in
1912, Yale losing, got one field goal and
two points on Harvard's safety.
Yale scored her last touchdown on Har.
ward in 1905: in the last four years Har-
ward has scored thi rty-fiVc points TO
Yales five. made in 1918.
Excepting in 1912. neither team has
scored touchdown since 1907 when Yale
beat Harvard. y to o: in 1908 Yale won,
3 to @; I'm 1903 Yale won, S too: 1910 and
1911 produced scoreless ties; BriclSley'3
five field goals and Yales field goal and
safety by Harvard produced 15-to-J
score in 1913.
Yale won last game at home in 1906
two Harvard victories and one tie have
occurred at New Haven since then.
No team has ever beat Yale three
straight: Princeton and West Point got
two straight Som2 years ago: Harvard
won in 1912 and 1913.
If Yale wins today's game ii will
make it four victories in the four major
sports.