Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-18
FOOTBALL ONLY
 LOSS FOR YALE.
Blue Men Trimmed Harvard in othe sports-AthIetie Year Has Been Bright One.

Yale's year in major sports against Harvard isn't the gloomy sort of thing that is supposed. The Blue just failed
 to make a clean sweep over the Grim
 son in 1914. the missing link in the chain of major victories being, of
 course, that 36 to Q football trimming In all the other sports that are in the major category at both Cambridge and New Haven Yale defeated Harvard, rounding out the twelvemonth with three quarters of the glory on her side of the fence.
 Harvard ascendancy was checked
 rather unexpectedly during the past year of Yale-H Harvard competitions,
 and in two of the sports-baseball and creW-the Crimson representatives re-.
 ceived punishment that Came out of a blue sky, more or less. The sorry part of it all for Yale. however, is that the
 eyes of the world were watching Cap-.
 tain Talbot's football team in the new bowl Nov. 21, and the routing it re-
 ceived from the Harvard players scat
 tered to parts of the globe that will
 never hear of the victories Yale achieved over Harvard in 1914 in crew racing, baseball and track athletics. It is not at all doubtful, either, that Yale would not sacrifice those victories
 in the other three major sports to have whipped Harvard in football, although
 the crew race, especially, was sweet
 for Eli A victory in football over IItIRdLQ, Ol L1G S61l6 oO to U QIOpOE- tionSs would have gone a long way toward plotting out all previous sores and scores.
 Probably the second event in i'm
 portance to the Yale-Harvard football
 game during the past year was the Yale Harvard crew race, which the Ellis gathered in by a margin that even yet
 is disputed. Experts who saw the finish are still debating whether the nose of the Yale craft sped by the
 G-~rww a--.
 ahead of the Harvard shell but the race was a Yale victory, all right, and it came at time when Yale needed a victory badly. The checking of Har- ward, whose crew men had been clean ing up everything in aquatics up to
 late June, gave spirit to the Yale men
 under Nickalls and those who doubted
 the efficacy of the English rowing
 methods are now roofing strongly for
 1915.
 The Harvard crew was given the
 was superior in every way to the Yale ! crew. But the favorite failed to come l through, and Yale's athletic prestige bounded upward again.
 | The same week that saw the an- 1 nual crew race snatched away from l the perennial Harvard winners saw the Crimson baseball team, which was i elso the favorite, go down in defeat | before the Yale players. For the an | nual baseball series of three games
 was taken by Yale. after the Harvard ! nine had shown far superior form dur ] ing its preliminary season
 The third major sport in which Yale took Harvards number was track The l Eli team by far overbalanced the liar. ward combination, and the dual meet was captured by the Yale athletes without exertion.
 The balance sheets for 1914, there. | fore, show Yale having defeated Har- | ward in three major sports and havins suffered defeat in only one-footbaIl With this basis, the powers that be 1T
 New Haven are insistent on maintain
 ing the old Yale form in baseball, crew l and track, and improving a little 1T
 football, so that 1915 will be a notablt year for the Bulldog if plans come ou right