The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-22
HARVARD BETTER
THAN ANY OTHER.
DAY ALL SEASON
Yale Exceedingly Poor, and
How Much Each Counted
Is Perplexing Question.
sHEvI1N OF
PRAISE, NOT CENSURE
n WILLIAM =. HAMNA.

To rate the football teams At the end
q the season. Il anybody feels impelled
% that onerous task. will he a fearful
Duxsie, but Harvard can be rated above
Yale without any convincing arguments
being brought to bear TO controvert the
losic Of that arrangement. On mature
elaboration II eeerne only fair TO place
the Cambridge men above those OF New
2a~en.
On the whole and looking at Il from
every aneie, II appea~ that Harvard
rs the better team on Saturday IN ad-
drespn 70 having tho better record for
0s . Harvard. wa are convinced
seser aieepirS On II, would have won
v Q had she not got the breaks" We
don't know. what getting the breaks
- or consists OF, but Harvard got them.
Through such fiuky happenings as
superiority IN pretty much every depart.
0Gnt and position. Harvard won; and
but for tho whims Of fortune IN Har-
wards favor such as the refusal OF
llAhan to run backward when nearing
Yale's goal. tho luck OF King in not
Vanishing into thin air when scootinS
U"8Hu ROdhs dio tto huo'tN ~
6poe which attended Harte when the bail
"a not bound up and stick in his throat
md choke him when he WAS gathering
tumble for q touchdown-but for these
eortuitous twists, Harvard might not
have scored. But as Harvard did score
forty-one points and Yale none, there
10 no way out OF II but TO rank liar-
ward ahead.
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That decisive victory over Yale. how
ever, does not put Harvard q Cor
nell. Anybody who thinks to the con-
trary has the 10 to . Cornell-liarNard
score staring him in the face. More
over. there Is no reason 10 doubt that
Cornell. playing Yale a week after the
latter's Princeton game, when the Blue
wasn't A. keen as against the Tigers,
would have made a big score also.
Two things are true of Saturdays
game. that Harvard was "a splendid team
and much better than AT any other time
OF the season. and that Yale WAS cN-
ceedingly moor. The exact adjustment
Of how much IL was one and how much
the other is one OF those pcrpleNing
questions ever arising on such orca-
eions. But that Yale. with the very
best thai could have been made OF its
material from the outset, could have
escaped defeat by The Harvard of last
Saturday il entirely unlikely. For one
thing, Yale never had as good back
field material. and that the Haughton
method Of getting results is superior to
anything Yale has annot be doubted
until Yale proves otherwise. The bur
den OF proof. even with material OF
equal possibilities. is on Yale.
Yet. considering that Cornell was 10
10 0 better than Harvard in October
and without Barrett for most of the
game, that the Cornell squad was COM
poeel of men as big. speedy, earnest and
Intelligent as Haryard's and therefore
Just as susceptible to Improvement. Cor
neil cannot Ice dismissed as IA mere un-
important Incident in AN otherwlse as
big a triumph as Harvard and Haugh-
Ton have experienced.
Near the close of the fIarvard-Nale
game a wall went up from the end
stand. Oh. YOU Shevlin :" II created a
laugh and did strike those who heard ii
as funny, but II IL was meant in n spirit
Of dsrision for Shevlin and what he had
accomplished II was decidedly unfair.
Shevlin did a big thing for Yale. M mat
ter whether his team beat Harvard. tied
Harvard or lost to Harvard 90 10 ..
Without him Yale wouldn't have beaten
Princeton. There WAS precious little
football that he could teach the Ellis in
tho short time he was with them, hu'
nc did put them in tho frame of mind
which went far VIA beating Nassau.
Ana that Is quite as substantial a factor
in considering which side Is the better
team as are "a rds gained.