The Republican journal., 1915-12-02
THE HARvARD.YALE CANE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: TIL
red of Harvard waves triumphantly il
Cambridge and Boston, while Yale's blu'
reflects the disconsolate spirit of its sup
football career at Harvard gloriously. as
captain and mainstay of the team that
beat Yale by the largest score known in
a Harvard-Y ale game since 1884. Incl
dentally, the result indicated the sys-
TEN of Percy Haughton, the Harvard
coach. Before the game the Yale coach
said. rather emphatically, that he con-
sidered the Haughton system worthless,
but have not heard his opinion since
the close of the game. Presumably it
has changed,
The Harvard team, taken individually
or collectively, was far superior to Yale
in every way. Black, the much heralded
Yale guard, was completely outplayed
by his opponent. Scovil, who played
regularly during the earlier part of the
season, but was put into this game as a
substitute, was the only Yale man who
played we'll consistently, although ''Pie"
Way, the tackle. did quite well. Scovil,
from the time he entered the game until
he was taken out in the third quarter,
fought hard every minute, often strug-
G ing ahead two or three yards with
Harvard tacklers clinging to him.
Captain Eddie Mahan, of course,
was the particular star for Harvard He
made four of the touchdowns, and kick
ed five goals, thus making twenty-nine
of Harvard's forty-one points. 1t was
partly Yale's fear of him that enabled
King to break through the center of the
line. while the ellis were watching for
one of Mahan's famous kicks or end runs
But King himself deserves lot of credit
for his playing His rushes through GEN.
ter, in one of which he ran fifty-fve
yards for touchdown, gained much
ground for his team. Harte, Who made
the other touchdown by picking up
fumbled punt, also did very we'll. But
. it is useless to attempt to pick out the
individuals who did we'll That would
merely be equivalent to giving list of
all the Harvard players. But brilliant
as the Harvard players were, individual
ly, 1t was the team that proved so disas-
trous to Yale's hopes.
1t was not necessary to advertise this
contest. Every seat in the vast en-
closure was taken, and thousands of
people offered incredible prices for seats,
without avail. Approximately fifty
| thousand people sat in the stadium
although most of the Harvard adher
ents sat down very little after the game
started-w watching the game and incl
dentally, the antics of the man who
signals to the score board, and cheer
leader, ''Biil'' Bingham, as he led the
songs. The latter young man, who is
also captain Of the track team, was well
worth watching, as he danced up and
down the side lines, in perfect rythm to
the song he was leading.
While in Cambridge | am staying at
my brothers. rooms in the new fresh
man dormitories. Harvard certainly
does treat its freshm en- well, and |
would advise any Belfast boys who are
intending to go away to college next fall
to come up here. For a very moderate
price a large, comfortable suite of
rooms NAV be obtained. and the food ia
excellent Which reminds me that |
must walk across the courtyard and get
some of it now, since l can see from my
window that the big dining hall is light
ed up and all the boys are going to din
ner. J. BARTLETT RICHARDS.
Harvard University, Cambridge Mass.