New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-17
Harvard Captain Conquers
SOuthernerS with Three
Goals from Field.
CRIMSON LINE
SHOWS STRENGTH
Cambridge Eleven Unable to
Endanger Opponents Goal,
However.

Cambridge. Mass. Oct 16 Univer-
sity of Virginias football team. which
came 70 Cambridge confident that it
had an even chance to beat the Grim
son to-day, did not fare so well as il
did down at New Haven two weeks ago.
The Southerncrs. by putting UP the
most stubborn of line dcfences when
driven down into the shadow of its
goal, was able to rcpulse the Crimson
attack and 10 save its line.
But Harvard, while it made no touch
Down. Was able TO win the game. 20 0.
by virtue CT he accurate drop kicking
Of Captain Ned Nahan. who three
times drove the ball between The Viz
gnia uprigh:s. Mahan made his scores.
each ore in the last three periods. his
first goal being driven from the VS.
itors' l3-yard line at the end OF a long
journey I'D the field. thc second boin"
a long low shot from Nirgina's IL
yard line and the third coming e. the
end Of another repulsed advance and
icing driven through the space abovr
the cross bar from the 25-yard line.
The Southerners had little in tho
way o. attack with which to bother
tho Harvard team. They had few
frills, trying the forward pass only
once during the game. and then in des-
rcratlOn IT, the fourth quarter. and this
enc attempt was rot successful.
The Nirginians beat through the
Harvard defence for only one first
down all day. and their longest consec-
utivo gain was sixteen wards, this be
ing covered early in the battle Just
before this Harvard had kicked out Of
canger after Wilcox had barely saved
himself from being forced TO a safety
after he had picked IN a Virginia punt
rear has own goal line.
The best chances the Southerners
had TO do anything were turned into
attempts TO score field goals. But
where Mahan scored three of these for
Harvard, the three Virginia attempts
failed. Early in the match, Thurman
tried a shot from the 3S-yard line.
sending the ball low, and later Berke
ley endeavored TO count from the %
and az yard lines. but each of these
kicks was partially blocked by the
Crimson forwards.
The Harvard team. which played far
better football than it did a week ago
against the Indians, who were not set
up so well physically as Virginia,
gained some 2l3 yards on their sixty
two plays from scrimmage, in four Of
these rushes, however, being set back
for a total loss of about twenty yards.
Twice, also, the Crimson Indian" in
reference cost 20-yard penalties wher
things were going mighty well.
In the first period Harvard did not
do much rushing, but early in the sec
ond half after Wilcox had recovered
the ball when Berkeley's first try for
goal had been blocked, the Crimson at
tack punched together. and in eighteeT
plays, embodying end runs and tackle
drives, carried the ball steadily up the
field for total distance of fifty-eight
yards
There was first down on Virginia's
9-yard line, but the next three plays
gained only four yards and then Mahaa
dropped back to make his first shot
for the goal.
Mahan's second goal came at the end
of a 25-yard advance in the third
period. the Crimson having approached
the last quarter of the field, but being
set back for holding just when the at
tack seemed to be getting up steam
enough to score a touchdown. Later
thirty-eight consecutive yards we're
ripped off, carrying the ball TO Vir-
ginia's l7-yard line, but here the vlsi-
tors defence was solid and all that
was left was for Mahan 10 shoot again,
vvbich he did successfully.