Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
TIGERS CRUSHED
BY CRIMSON SQUAD
Harvard Eleven Gives Princeton
Soundest Defeat Ever Scored
Over Orange and Black.
RESULT is TWENTY TO NOTHING
Two Touchdowns and Two Goals
Kicked During Three Quar-
ters and Half Minute.
THEN SUBSTITUTES ENTER PLAY
Visitors 0ffense is Bitter Disap-
pointment to Supporters.
CAN'T GAIN AGAINST REGULARS
Until scrubs Are Put in Toward
Last, They Fail TO Get Five
Yards by Running the
Line.
EsULT is TWENTY TO NOTHING
THEN SUBSTITUTES ENTER PLAY
Visitors 0ffense is Bitter Disap-
pointment to Supporters.
CAN'T GAIN AGAINST REGULARS

Line.
! CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Nov without
showing much OF It's hand. Harvard gave
| Princeton the soundest defeat ever scored
nv the Crimson over the Orange and
Black, the score standing 20 TO at the
| end OF tho game The Crimson first
eleven scored two touchdowns and Mahan
kicked two goals from the field in three
periods and half minute In the fourth.
During the rest of the game nearly
twenty Harvard substitutes went into the
play. Mahan proved himself an able
substitute for Brickley by kicking two
| field goals. The Princeton offense was
a bitter disappointment to 300 cheerers
OF the Orange and Black Until Harvard
substitutes went into the game Princeton
could not gain five yards by rushing.
An unusual number OF fumbles marked
the play, with Logan the principal Of
fender
| Harvard Wins Toss.
Harvard won tho toss and chose the
west goal, forcing Princeton TO face the
sun. There was no wind. briggs kick
off was run back Fifteen yards TO Har-
wards thirty-five yard line. Both teams
at once resorted TO punting on the first
or second down, Princeton recovering a
tumble In the center on the third ex-
| change.
Another punt was forced from the
! Tigers and Mahan returned II. A bad
pass lost Princeton the ball on its own
forty-flve ward line, and Harvard started
10 rush Frdncke went six yards. even
Mahan recovered teammates tumble
and made first down. Here the Tigers
held and Mahan missed field goal.
Kicking after the touchback. briggs
drove the ball out ot bounds on HIS thirty
eight yard line. Francke ana Mahan
again made first down, then the latter
drop kicked goal from the thlrty-eight
yard line After the kick off there was
an exchange OF punts and fumbles and
II was Princeton's ball on the Tigers
twenty-yard Inc briggs punted to Har-
wards forty-yRrd lire and on the first
down Hardwick ran nineteen yards. Ma
han made three and Francke six MS the
period ended. Score; Harvard. 3; Prince
ton, q.
Keeps Tn Attack.
Harvard kept up its successful attack
as the second period opened with the ball
ut Princeton's thirty-three-yard line. A
Crimson forward pass failed and Mahan
missed another try for field goal. the
kick going for a touchback. Princeton
at once kicked and Mahan came back
from his thirty-yard line TO the center. A
Harvard forward pass failed and more
punts were exchanged. Mahan kicked
from center to the Tigers seven-yard
line. and briggs booted the oval only
twenty.eight yards In return. II was
comparatively easy to get Mahan within
/ goal distance again. Franoke. Mahan and
Bradee carrying the ball ON straight for
nations to within ten yards OF the final
line and directly In front OF the posts
Mahan made his second successful drop
from the seventeen-yard mark Score:
Harvard. g; Princeton. o.
Tho first touch down came IN quick
order. Runs Of sixteen and twelve yards
by Hardwick and Bradlee and some hard
bucking bv Francke took the ball To the
Tigers eghteen-yard mark. II took three
tries to make the distance. Bardlee strug-
Cling across the line minus his sweater.
Bardwick kicked the goal, Score: Har-
ward. Is; Princeton, 0.
Kicks OFF Again.
Princeton kicked off agnin and got the
ball when Mahans return punt went out
OF bounds at the center. The Tigers
opened up spread formation, but for
tercepted an on-side kick Exchanges Of
punt after short gains by Harvards backs
worked the ball into Princeton territory.
the Tigers having tho ball on their own
twenty-five yard line when half time was
called
In the first half the Princeton players
seemed completely bewildered by the con-
cealed ball attacks which the Harvard
backs repeatedly used at the outset OF
their charges Both Francke and Mahan
outpunted briggs. but this advantage was
nulified by the speed with which the
Princeton ends came down the field under
kicks. The -taekllng was hard by both
sides, but that Of the Harvard players
was cleaner than the Tigers.
Princeton coaches substituted Law for
briggs and f. Trenkman for Click at the
opening OF the third period Smith re-
lieved Hardwick at Harvards right end.
Mahan kicked Oft TO Law. who ran back
twenty-five yards and then punted to
Haryard's thirty-tiye yard line. where
Logan muffed. Trenkman gained four
through centerA when Law kicked short
on an attempted>field goal Logan came
back TO his thirty-yard line.
Engage In Punting Duel.
Law and Mahan then engaged in a
punting duel. Harvard was more success
full In running kicks back and Mahan
| finally kicked TO the Tigers three-yard
line. The officials for some reason de-
clared It a touchbaek and Law punted
from his twenty-yard line. Mahan's fair
catch was interfered with and PRINCETON
| drew the first penalty of the game-fif-
teen yards. This gave Mahan another
chance to drop kick. but he missed by a
narrow margin. More kicking followed
neither team being able to gain consist
emily by rushing. Harvard got TO going
again as the period neared It's end Brad
lee finding one hole In center through
which he ran to. the twenty-five yard
mark. Wilmington replaced Pennock and
Francke made a first down on the six
teen-yard mark Again the fake drop
kick formation worked and Bradlee ran
10 the three-yard mark. Francke made
another yard as the period ended. Score:
Harvard. 10; Princeton. o.
Hardwick took Mahans place and ON
the first rush Of the last quarter made