Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-20
HARVARD APPEARS TO HAVE
EDGE ON YALE'S BULLDOGS"
Crimson Football Team Shows Up on Paper as Superior in
Every Department Except Forward Passing.
Result, However, May Upset All Dope

In part to the fact that the rushing game
has been the basis of Harvard's attack
N all fall and also because Yale's attack
has been built upon the forward and lat
eral passing game. The Ellis, OF course,
have not neglected the rushing game al
together, but they have shown none ot
Harvard's skill in carrying the ball Bs+
line plunging. Likewise Yale has no backs
who can compare with Bradlee, Ffancks
and Mahan In this sort of play. The
manner in which this trio OF Harvard
backs marched from their own 30-yard
| line over Princeton's goal without losing
the ball or attempting a forward pass has
not been equaled by anything Yale has
| done. It IL an attack with punch to IL.
When Harvard gets ready to score. a
touchdown has to come, as the Michigan
and Princeton games will testify
Yale's rushing game depends TO a great
extent upon Knowles and Ainsworth, two
fast and heavy backs. But the Ellis have
used the rushing game rather to vary
their passing attack than because Of
Its intrinsic worth.
There are two men on the Harvard
team who carry the ball most frequently
on end runs. They are Hardwick and
Mahan, both players of All-American
calibre. Hardwck Is an end who, rum
ming from his position, has gained more
ground this year than any other man
back OF the line. He is undoubtedly the
most useful man on the Harvard team.
In the matter of interference he does
the work of two men, while he is equally
good as a defensive player. Mahan
should prove to be the fastest man on
the field, particularly the best i'm OPEN
field running and returning Of punts.
In kicking, Harvard enjoys a decided
advantage once more Mahan is Har-
wards punter and dropkicker He can get
more distance to his kicks than either
Knowles or Legore, of Yale Likewise,
he kicks ball very hard to handle and
with so much variation that Yales backs
are likely to content themselves with
avoiding fumbles by making free catches \
or letting the ball roll as they did last
year. This will give Harvard a further
advantage Mahan Is likewise Harvard's
dropkiclSer. The writer has always in
sisted that Mahan is as good n drop
kicker as Brickley himself. He can score
goals with half of his attempts and from
any point inside the 4O-yard line. He
kicked two such field goals against
Princeton. Both Legore and Knowles
can dropkick for Yale, but neither is in
the same class with Mahan.
Summed up. Harvard seems to have
the edge on Yale In everything but for
ward passing. Between two evenly match
ed teams the breaks in the game fire. +
luently decide the victor. They may do \
so in this instance but all things con-
idered Harvard is deservedy the favorite. -
Out on Franklin Field the Pennsylvania
are waiting. for the first year
men from Cornell The Quaker young
tiers want to win the worst way because
hey think a victory may point the way
o a similar triumph for their varsity
leven. An additional attraction at this
'ame will be the play-by-p!ay reports OF
he Harvard-Yale game.