New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21

at vital moments. They tell nothing
Of Yale fumbles; Of Yale's eternal in
ability to stop Mahan and King on
touchdown plays. once Harvard drew
within striking distance of the Blue
line.
Harvard got her first touchdown
when Van Nostrand fumbled a Mahan
punt and Harte raced over. But she got
her second by driving Mahan and King
over ffty-yard march until Mahan, at
last, on a bald fake, dropped back and
then for a two-ysrd gain circled over
for a touchdown.
Blue Defence Dazed.
In this march the Yale defence was
drawn out of place and ripped TO pieces.
1t was absolutely and utterly Devil
dered. When it charged one place,
lured by delayed pass, or fake, the
Harvard attack rushed through the
breach thus opened until at last Yale
was afraid to charge at ell in fear that
she WAS taking the wrong route, which
she generally was.
For Harvard's third touchdown Ma
han, the superman, faxed the Yale
team again from the 12-yard line, but
here, in place of circling out, he swept
straight through, and with such feroc-
ity. that the sole Blue tackler in the
wav was bowled over and driven at
least five yards beyond his own goal
line. q,
In the same way from tho 68-yard
line Yale was again faxed out of posi-
ton while King, who played brilliant
". circled out and around for touch
down. Harvard showed in this game
that she could score from midheid.
from the 10-yard line and from the
2-yard line on one play for each score.
Yale fought her best with Scovil,
Plack and Way all starring, but It was
the type of battle that John l.. Sullivan
fought against Jim Corbett when Cor
bett struck Sullivan at will as the lum-
bering John L. lurched and lunged and
heat the empty air. Only the comparl-
son isn't proper, for Harvard had the
skill of Corbett and the punch OF Suiil-
van. while Yale had the skill Of Sulll-
van and the punch Of Corbett.
You had the impression after rev
minutes that the best football team IN
the world was playing the worst, and
that all that could possibly keep the
score under so points was for the worst
to keep on trying, which, in the main,
il did. And this applies above en-
others to Scovil. Way, Black and Will
son.
The Harvard machine looked to be
fully as powerful and resourceful as
that Crimson marching club Of last
fall which beat Yale SO to 0. For
Mahan closed out his great career with
| one Of his greatest games, a game that
combined brilliancy In kicking, running
/ and tacklng, and that at no time fal-
I tered for a moment in its stamina and
versatility.
Mahan tried no field goals, for touch.
/ downs were too cheap. But he finished
with an average kicking distance Of
| forty-three yards, and with four touch
/ downs against the rival that he would
I rather beat above all others. He fin-
/ ished by scoring 20 pionts himself
against old Yale, almost as many as
Harvard one time could score in TWEEN
/ ty years.
! And yet, as great as Mahan was, ne
, WAS not the entire show, including the
| hard blue seats, the elephants and the
pink lemonade. King, at his side, was
I almost as brilliant Watson ran the
team with wonderful judgment, and the
I way Harvard's forwards tore Yale's
apart was crime incarnate.
! With Soucy, Gilman and others rip
ping through, the Yale line was cut
/ into strips as tim as the segment of
/ a toy balloon. Black and Way gave but
/ little ground, but the others were out
| classed, and after Guernsey had been
hurt only Nal Scovil remained TO carry
on the war, although Wilson and Saw
age at times came to his help.
Harvard Stopped Everything.
There was no chance for Yale backs
70 get going because in the main they
were completely Hurr surrey and
blocked before they could get under
way. On play after play Harvard,
charging forwards broke through and
smeared the Blue onslaught before II