Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-23
ZENITH OF EASTERN FOOTBALL
Startling One Sided Scores Rolled Up in Closing Day of the seasOn-Yale's Crushing Defeat Striking Example Harvards Attack Proved Railing Crimson Bacxfeld Worked Like a Clock.

In the closing days Of the eastern football season the varsity eleVens reach the zsnith of their power and fer that reason play nsarer to their true weeks of the fall That the full ex- tent of this form and strength is not always realized by the average fol- lower of the game is demonstrated in the contests Of Saturday. While there were no upsets. such as marked the preliminary games of the year, there were surprises which took the shape of startling one- sided scores rolled up in the process of defeating a rival com btnation credited with the ability to hold any team in reasonable cheek. Yale Met with Crushing Defeat. The annual Harvard Yale game was a striking example, for the Blue eleven, an almost even money wager ing proposition several days before the contest, went down to defeat by a score of 36 to 0. These figures, re- markedly unbalanced as they are, Indi- cate the real superiority of the liar yard combination over it's rivals from the New Haven university In every department of play and generalship, considering the teams as units, Yale was completely outplayed by the splendid football machine which Coach Percy Haughton and his assistants built at Cambridge this autumn to represent the Crimson.
 While it is possible to single out individual players on the Eli squad who equalled in playing ability their Harvard rivals, there is no compari- son in the strength and tactics of the two combinatio considered as teams Beginning at the very basic principles of the play and the game and proceed ing step by step to the finished eleven. the Blue was outranked at every stage. Yale, both on the line and bacfefeld was inferior to Harvard The plan Of attack and defense was wrongly con ceived for stopping a team using the Crimson system of advancing the ball and checking it's opponents invasion. To complete the rout, the Blue had little football intuition and ability to adapt itself quickly to a situation which it had not anticipated
 crimson's Attack Was BaffIine.
 Yale banked upon its power to make it's way through one of the strongest defenses of the season on eastern gridirons by means of a loose-ban at tack, always dangerous method of offensive play. These lateral and for ward passes were worked brilliantly and successfully at times. but the se- quence was occasionally broken, as
 must be the case in this system, with the result that gains half the length of the field were lost on intercepted pass es, fumbles or a stoneWau defense just when a score appeared certain.
 Against Harvard's less spectacular, but more consistent system of moving the ball forward by short runs, line plunges and forward passes, Yale had little to offer in the way of a defense. Coach Hinl1ey was handicapped, to be sure, by a line of novice forwards, but even these failed to show evidence of parliamentary foundation for the task set for them The line played high, were outcharged and easily baff1ed or drawn out of place by the Crimson s slxilfully constructed attack.
 The backfeld, while it outshone the line. was not the equal of Harvards. Le Gore and Knowles played brilliant individual football. but there was none of the valuable interference and CO., operation which marked every move of the Crimson. Once the runner re-