New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-26
Blue and White Eleven
Beats Wesleyan Before
a Big Crowd.
MILLER AGAIN USES
TOE WITH EFFECT
Morningside Heights Quarter
back Drop-Kicks Four Goals
Against Connecticut Team.


Columbia swept through the Wes-
leyan eleven for football victory yes
terday, GROWING season of success
with triumph that will go down in
Columbia annals. II was a game in
which Columbia showed superlative
football ability. and the defeat of the
Wesleyan team was every bit as de-
cisive a. the score Of IS to would in
dicato.
Inasmuch as the victory marked the
end Of a series of victories unmarried by
a single setback. Morningside Heights
was delirious with JOY last night
as hundreds of Columbia undergradu-
ates and alumni paraded the streets.
II was fitting conclusion 20 a foot
ball season, Columbia's first in ten
years, which. begun with much trepida-
ton by the Blue and White, has ended
in glowing success.
Although the Columbia victory yes
terday was gained largely by the SUI
perior work of the Blue and White
eleven as a team. too much glory can
not be showered on Howard Miller, the
sterling quarterback, who burst into
sudden fame last week by defeating
New York University in The last half
minute of wildly fought game with
long range field goal. Miller's work
Yesterday consisted of drop kicking
four goals from the field. sending Co
lumbia into commanding position
when a touchdown was forced across
the Wesleyan goal line to clinch the
victory.
Miller Rouses Rooters.
Miller stirred up the Columbia root
ers when he drop kicked a goal in the
first period and put Wesleyan, which
had outrushed the Blue and White
eleven, at an initial disadvantage
When he duplicated the feat IN the
second period the excitement IN the
Columbia stands knew no bounds. Then
when he added third in the thru
period and made a fourth IN the last
and final session he had won place IN
Columbia's hall of football fame that
Is shared only by Harold Weekes, that
doughty hero of a decade ago.
But Miller shone not alone as
kicker extraordinary of field goals. He
ran through broken fields with the
speed and swoop Of giant hawk bat
Ting TO its stronghold Although he
failed to gain by smashing at the line,
he made a total gain of 154 yards in
running back Wesleyan kick-offs and
punts. His longest run was 35-yard
dash in the first half but in addition
10 this he made three flights of twenty
wards or more and his average gain
each time he got the ball was more
than fifteen yards.
Columbia had a versatility of attack
that was shown to wonderful advantage
in the opening half. Outweighed ten
pounds to the man right through the
line, Miller found that his backs could
gain next TO nothing by plunging, and
he resorted TO an open game that swept
Wesleyan back into defeat.
On four forward passes, each timed
and executed with minute eXactness,
the Blue and White gained seventy-fve
yards. And then with the ball close
enough to the Wesleyan goal line to
permit of an aerial attack, Miller
launched his drop kicks. Out of three
tries in this half he was successful
twice.
But in the second half Columbia
played against a Wesleyan team that
had lost its fight, and in every branch
Columbia outmatched the eleven from
Connecticut. Where Wesleyan had
held the advantage in rushing in the
,pening period the tide was running
lst as strongly for Columbia, and in
'dition the Blue and White was using
- open plays with telling effect.
five times, Columbia worked the ball
10 the threshold of the Wesleyan goal
line in the last session and only twice
did IL fail 10 register, Miller missing
a chance for a field goal on each of the
two occasions. The other three times
saw the Colun "a attack successful,
once for a touc avn and twice for
scores from drop AXIS. In all, Miller
had seven tries al Wesleyan goal.
A greater outpou, 2 than has ever
attended a universit. function Of any
kind on Morningside Heights thrOnged