The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-11-22
,Yale-harvard Game Like Battle
Of Unskilled Fighter Against
an Artist

cras New ,ynss Rr.nins weriA.)
CATURnArs score Of IL 70 0 tn
- dicates fairly well Just how
much Harvard outpiaycd Yale,
And although Mahan scored four of
ehs six Harvard touchdowns and
hoked the, nvs spais that oonpastsd
~ Il SCORE Sfanan wasn't by any
0sans - whole Harvard team He
vas no better than the other backs In
Ondning through the line. In fact, he
vos twice given tho qnal chance to
put the ball over wfpn King had
AgopGht II down within easy striking
d1stapce Of tho goal lima
II was one OF the roughest games of
- season. a.. no doubt the crippled
deliberate effort was made to LAY
out Yale's best men and q was en-
e1gely successful. Plasn, ED -fash-
lSnsd smuggling was frequently In
dplged an by Harvard playsys. and
ohe officials were amazingly short
Aghtsd. Guernssy. Yale's one great
kcher. was put out Of the game early
knocked down and hurt while punting.
Bingham was put out Of the game BY
. Harvard tAnllsr, who Owed at harp
headnrst. running At full speed. Shell
don was put out In the nrst period.
Van Nostrand was knocked silly.
1shers were others
But for all that Harvard played .
brand Of football thAt would have
beaten Yale easily witnout any rough
be done by sheer gAmeness ADD grit
and planned ASSressiveness but Yale
was like q novice who'd never had on
q glove boxing with Q WORLDS cham
pion, Harvard showed . variety Of
play mat kopt Tale bswtadsred.
TN ne begtnn1ag Harvard Won the
toss and chose the south goal.
giving Yale ths worst Of wind and
sun. .Agaie wh1sticd ovsr the stands,
and some of Il swept the neid IN spite
q The hagh stadium walls. Right at
first Yale started out as IL Il were an
other Princeton game, with plenty OF
snap and speed But a. soon as
Aahan began kicking those long.
twisting punts. carried by ne wind.
sQhint UP against tho sun b zee tho
ball. Il was only . question Of time
when something would happen. The
expected came whsn bingham FUN
bled . long punt and Harts mapped
the pali up end ran along for the FIRST
hometown.
From that time on. With Yale
enxsoss and playing desperately.
HaxvArd's football machine worked
nks jitsu artist handling an infant
Nearly everything was kick. fake
etck with Mahan running with the
bail. or a fake kick and q delayed
PASS play In which the bail was hidden
trom the rushing Yale forwards un-
el thsy we're plunging past. when
King neatly shot through the holes for
Rcd gains 4 wasn't until laie in the
bogVard pass. merely by way of vari-
~. She didn't need u.
~ the game went on Tale fought
svee enrder. but II was the unskilled
oGhtAf Against tho artist. ali the time.
Sai1 wee fsinted out of place. vas
efavn tnto helpless positions. was
Aopei>ssly tangled when only quick
ootion oeuld he'd OF the Harvard
tuAaers flashing down the field. Har-
sVnntsd 70. and experiment . little
now end than. There was little iet-up
N ths pace. however. for Harvard vas
but fcr . record score.
TINE suiy times Tale had q
Chance 70 score she booted
away her own opportunity.
6As 0rst was In the beginning of
me first period. when Capt. Wilson
nearly cot away around the end.
and was barely caught by Mahan
ON Harvard's twenty-five-yard line.
A moment later Bingham fumbled
the ball while going through tho line,
an< then came the MAhan punt and
tho tumble that reversed the teams
positions and gave Harvard her first
score. Near the end of the game
Capt Wilson got away again on a
forward pass and ran thirty yards
or 90 for n touchdown. but was
called back because OF off-side play.
And when Yale had worked the ball
down 20 Harvard's six-yard line by
n series Of desperate passes. she lost
II. and the chance 20 score. by an
other tumble.
The development OF a team that
can play modern. highly scientific
football isn't the work Of a single
season. Harvard has a wsil worked
out game. Yale has fighting spirit
and hodge podge OF IDEAS from
coaches who were great players ten
years ago. She has just as much
chance TO beat Harvard. with Har-
wards well developed system Of play
as an army OF Civil War times,
equipped with muzzle-loading Spring
fields. would have against a modern
army armed with gas bombs. modern