New Britain herald., 1914-11-23
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 Michigan, twenty against Princeton thirty-six against Yale. and if they plaxed somebody next Saturday they d kmake a hundred. The Harvard teams Of 1901 and 1912 were crack teams. but neither used it's power with more skillful application to produce pre- |cision than the 1914 outfit. 'The best coached team I 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 factors of that teams strength and the defensive ability of the other side. Yale made it easier for Harvard on Saturday by damag ging misplays when within short scoring range of liar wards goal and by some of the poorest tackling a Yale team ever did. The tackling weakened a defense which all l season was shaky
 But if flaws in the Yale defense i helped Harvard the results obtained | by the efforts of the splendidly drilled Cambridge men helped still more. The fact remains that this Harvard team made more points than a liar ward team ever had made against Yale or Princeton and that it's de- ferse was good enough to prevent scoring by Yale team which really had strong points of offense. Fifty six points against Yale and Princeton lis pretty good evidence of an unusually etrong attack There was a sureness land finality in Harvard's playing rare 1g attained by any team, and in the superiority of Harvard's line to Yale's ! Is big part of the answer to ] Saturdays result
 ! The Haughton system of offense has |netted thirty-nine points for Harvard against Princeton for the, last three years. Princeton having scored six ] points on Harvard in that time. The Haughton system has earned seventy one points in the last three years agaiAst Yale. and only five points have beer made by Yale. This is an inn pressive record of combined offense and defense against the two teams the Crimson desires most to beat. It something for Yale and Princeton 10 ponder deeply while laying next
 ears plans to stop the mastery of the Cambridge elevens It also shows the faculty of the Harvard teams for heinz at their best for their most inn portant games. Harvard was much better against Princeton than against MiNbigan and still better-at the zenith of it's form-against Yale than against Princeton.
 The craftiest move in football in a long time, if it was so planned, was the way things were worked up to the ap- pearance of Brickley in the Yale game and what was done when he did ap-
 ci IIor r1 ,faiY Heft the hospital there had been talk that he might get into the Yale game just to kick a field goal. During the preliminaries on Saturday Brickley was off by himself at one end of the field practicing drop kicking. De- signedly or not, the stage was set so thai most everybody of the 70,000 present looked for a field goal at tempt when BriclSley did appear. If it was a coup in psychology it was a stroke of genius. When Brick ley went in the ball was near the Yale goal. line. at easy, distance for field drop kick, though over to one side, and it looked as if Harvard would run @ play toward the middle line of the fields length to permit of straight kick if one wasn't attempted right away. What happened? Harvard ran plaMk, put they dldnt lnVOlVe Brlck- A ley at all except mental suggestion created by his presence. If there were Yale players and coaches who were "wise,,' and the latter couldn't do nything if they were, great was the surprise in the stands, with all eyes on Br;ckley, when that player merely locked on and another back took the hau and went hurtling still nearer to Ya1e's goal. ~Brickley kicked goal, but it was from touchdown, and that that was the sort of goal he was going to kick there hadn't been an inkling.
 The game didn't prove that the at tracsive open work passing wasn't an