The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-23
HARVARD AT BEST IN
TWO BIGGEST GAMES
Against Yale Plays With a Sure
ness and Finality Seldom
Attained.
BOWL OFFERS FINE VIEW

1912 were crack teams but neither used
its mower with more skilful application
10 produce precision than the 1914 out
M. THE best coached team l ever saw"
remarked a former player OF note and
one who has seen many teams.
There is an ever present difficulty in
reckoning the strength OF any team, and
that has to do with adjusting the fac
tors OF that teams strength and the
defensive ability OF the other side. Yale
made il easier for Harvard on Saturday
by damaging misplays when within short
scoring range of Harvards goal and by
some Of HE poorest tackling a Yale team
ever did. The tackling weakened a de-
fence which all season was shaky
But if flaws in the Yale defence helped
Harvard the results obtained by the et-
forts Of The splendidly drilled Cam
bridge men helped still more. The
fact remains that this Harvard team
made more points than Harvard
team ever had made against Yale
or Princeton and that its defence was
good enough TO prevent scoring by
a Yale team which really had strong
points of off,rce. Ffty-siX points against
Yale and Princeton is prat7y good evil
dencc OF an unusually strong attack.
Inere WAS a SultntsS ana illltllly III
wards playing rarely attained BY any
team, and in the superiority OF Harvard's
line to Yale's Is big part of the answer
20 Saturdays result.
Tile Haugh,on system OF offence has
netted thlrty-nine points for Harvard
agains, Princeton for the last three years,
Princeton having scored six points on
Harvard in that time. The Haughton
system has earned seventy-oue points in
II flrap AGAINST Vale and
only rVc points have been made 10y Yale.
This rs AN impressive record of COM
bincd offence and defence against the
two teams the Crimson desires most to
beat. II is something for Yale and Prince
ton to ponder deeply while laying next
years plans TO stop the mastery of the
Cambridge elcvens. 1t also shows The
faculty OF the Harvard teams for being
at their best for their most important
games Harvard was much better against
Princeton than against Michigan and still
better-at the zenith of its form-against
Yale than against Princeton. And we
aren't convinced that Yale or Princeton
could have beaten Michigan on the day
the larsr met Harvard or that either one
o! hem could beat Cornell.
The craftiest move in football in long
time. if il WAS so planned, was the way
thngs were worked up To the appearance
~ Biyiiey in the Ialo game and what
was done when he did appear. Ever
since the Harvard captain left the hos
pital there had been talk thh he might
get INTO the Yale game just to kick
q field goal During the prelnlinares
on saturday Bricklry was off by him.
self at one end Of the field carefully prac-
Using drop Kicking. Designed ly or not,
he stage WAS set SO that most everybody
~ the 10000 present looked Tor a held
goal attempt when Brickley did appear
II II was "a coup in psychology ii Was
stroke of genius. When BriCkleN went in
The ball was near the Yale goal line, at
easy distance for a field drop kick. though
over 10 one side. and IL looked as II
Harvard would run j play toward the
middle line Of the fields length To permit OF
a straight kick II one wasn't attempted
right away. What happened? Harvard
ran plays, but they didn't involve Br!ckley
a. all except mental suggestion created
BY his presence. II there were Yale
PLAYERS and coaches who were wise
and the latter couldn't do anything II
they were, great WAS the surprise In the
stands. with all eyes on Brickley, when
that player merely looked on and another
back took the ball and went hurtlng
still nearer 10 Nale's goal. Brckley
kicked 4 goal. but II was from touch
down and shat that was the sort of goal
he Was going TO kick there hadn't been an
4nkiug
The game didn't prove that the attrac-
tive, open work passing wasn't an cfec-
two device for ground gaining rather
the reverse. What times worked 1t was
valuable and it put Yale in position 10
score The complex passing did its share
IN providing opportunities which were lost
by poor handling of the ball in other
plays. Harvard stopped lateral pass
plays. but Harvard didn't stop all OF them
or enough OF them TO have prevented
scoring had Yales running attack done
a. much for its part Not once in the
Princeton game was lateral pass inter
opted and only once in the Harvard
game, proof Of how experuy these passes
were manipulated With that experiences
acquired the prevention of some Ions
cams is something no team has been able
TO 10. YalC's rushing attack wasn't IN
the same class with HarvHrds and that
helped in the downfall of Eli.
As a cnntributory factor In offence the
transverse passing game and its varia'
IONS have frightened up football more
Than anything that has been developed
In long time. and Frank liinkey. the
complete subiugation of his team In IT.
last game Notwithstanding, has been d
bold pioneer He will have better line
Material next year, and we believe thai
win that and the lessons learned he
VIII have a team better grounded In de
i'uct At tho same time having made q
good start along new offensive lines,
The immense crowd in tho Yale Bow
was efficiently handled. especially so see
ms That u Was the first time. striking
'eaturr Of the spectators side OF the oc
'dslou Was the admirable view to be hat
81 the play. somehow or other the rise
o' tho stand and the distance from thu
rridirou blended 80 as to make everything
on the held stand out clearly. suitinl
me eyes range nicely, creating no I'M
preston of being far away, but on tn
Other hand bringing the play close enough
10 make IL easy to take In the gen
'dl picture and detailed movements OF
tho Held You could look down and a
the same time not have the player
length foreshortencd as when lookint
down from height All that was lack
wr was numbers on backs, so that specta
tors would have known who the play
wer" All teams ought 10 come e
'"s IN another year, II is magniii
cent plant which Yale has erected spa
'.sls, comfortable and well arranged T.
~. tie biggest of crowds the best o
N,Ws
Idb.ts LEFT on the football menu ar
me ioun-Conell, lsutgers-W. and ), an
Arunv-Ndvy games, \ decisive victor
tF Cornell will make that eleven ran
hgh for after "A poor start It has bee
gong strongly. The defence Is fair an
ne offence powerful Cornell and IN
Amy ara faVulites for their rcspCCtiV