The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-23
Sporting NeWs
HARVARD'S GREAT
VICTORY OVER Ell
Expected Happened, but in Larger
Measure than Was Anticipated
How the Predictions Came Out.

''It win take more th$n one mistake
10 decide the game, for 4he victor will
he such by better teanls play and the
Crimson banners will tlannt over the
winning team was the concluding
sentence of the prediction of The Re
former Friday with regard to the Yale
Harvard football game, The score was
Harvard sc, Yale o.,
The Reformer, bearing in mind a
crack made Saturday evening by
dyed int hewool sport that it was the
only thing in the sporting columns Of
The Reformer which he had ever read
that WAS right, taltets no credit for the
prediction, because it WAS something
''any Il fool ought to have known
There has been no time during the
football season when the Harvard team
has not shown more aF(ility than has
Yale.
No prediction was made by The Re
former as TO the score, and private pre-
dictiOns by the writer We're no nearer
than Harvard L. Yale :. Our expressed
expectation that Yale %would score
failed TO come to pass, and none were
more surprised at the size of Harvard :
victory.
The Reformer said Friday: But
| Vale has been weak OF defense, espe-
cially in the center Of the line, and
this wea lness has not been porceptiblY
improved as the games have been
| played.
Again: Barring. this form of at
tack (the lateral passing game), the
efficacy of which remains. 10 he shown
against Harvard, the -baGkfeld of the
| Crimson will compare very fayorably
with that of Yale, even with Capt
| Brickley on the sidelines. - Seems to us
as if the Harvard backfeld showed it
self to be about on par with the men
who wore the blue.
Once more: IF Vale can complete
ly fool Harvard with IT'S wide open
| play and do it. often enough, as the
Carlisle Indians did years ago, Yale
will win, providing, also, that Harvard
has lost her punch. The combination
is hardly TO be expected. = A. we re
member it, Harvard had some punch
ana remembered enough Of basketball
play to put Yale 5 lateral passing game
ON the blink.
Dudley 5. Dean, one of the Eek
perts' whose prediction in the Boston
Globe on Thursday quoted in The Re
former, was Bet Your money nj even>
tHnd then pray has the following
Ialihi:,.
The writer stated in last Thurs
day : Globe that the game was an ever
; proposition. ! apologize, vet As the say
| ing is; ~ should .WQrrX,' they can
come the way they did any too oftet
10 suit Yours Truly" He also says il
his review that the game was won b,
- Harvard sand
1T looks from the road rs if Har
ward Goa ching, Harvard generalshiI
and Harvard all-round ability ha,
something to DO with it. 1t was simpl
"a ease Of one team with a weak de
Tense and with one highly develope
4 mode of attack being swamped by
4 team with strong defense against a.
t forms Of attack and n varied and clel
t pr scheme of attack that had tn
p ''punch.' Hinkev tried to develop
I team that could score by a wide Ope
+ attack "twice as often rs tine othe
fellows and his Theory failed. II
: burned his bridges along the line of hi
- retreat, cut loose from his commune;
I tions and staked all on his ability I
}, score oftener than his opponent, an
he failed. 1t was case of the rul,
II of Il country developing his cavalr
$ and paying no attention to the artiIer
e and infantry. The cavalry slashed the