New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-10
Rolls Up Big Score, De-
spite CarIisIe's Superior
ity in Rushing.
M'KiNLOCK KICKS
NEAT FIELD GOAL
Mahan's Punting Factor in
Overthrowing Redskin
Opponents.

Cambridge, Mass. Oct. g. whsle
Harvard defeated the Carlisle Indians
b. score Of % 70 : this afternoon.
three OF tho Crimson's scores we've
made possible blythe breaks" and that
the margin OF victory was not 3 points
instead o. p was due to mistakes made
by their opponents. which were I'M
mediately taken advantage OF by
Eosghtor's keen. il not finished,
pupils.
Carlisle, with shifty attack and be-
cause Of its wonderful backs. Bowkcr
and Calac, gained more than 275 yards
from scr.mmagc. TO only about about
40 yards for Harvard. Il was des-
perately fought game. and the Indians
made their one score against n fresh
team by carrying the ball steadily
down the field for IS yards and across
the goal line.
Harvard scored one touchdown on q
whirlwind runback of kick by Mahan.
Mckinlock scored another on an So
yard run after intercepting n Carlisle
forward pass. and another touchdown
was made possible by a muffed kick.
Mahan did some pretty punting, and
MS shot for field goal. made from the
i6-yard Inc, had perfect direction, but
went Just under the cross bar Nc
kinlock, who missed so many shots for
held goals last year, scored on his first
attempt this season. Harvard's team
was the best thai could be gathered to-
gether; bat even so, the Indians gained
about l2o yards by rushing in the first
half. Harvard completed two forward
passes for total gain Of 81 yards,
while Carlisle's one completed pass
gained Is yards.
The Indians got of az fast clip, and
had rushed past midfeld from the i5-
yard line before they were penalized
for starting before the ball was pu,
into play. Harvard then made some
slight gains. but finally Carlisle held,
and Mahan narrowly missed scoring by
drop kick from the 46-yard line.
After the touchback. the Indians
were hard pressed on kick, Calac's
punt going only twenty yards to
Mahan, who romped back over thirty
seven yards of ground, lodging several
tacklers and scoring the Crimson's
first touchdown. After that Carlisle
gained ffty-three yards in thirteen
plays. but on Harvard's 25-yard line.
where Cslac throw a forward pass. the
ball shot straight 20 MeKinlock. who
broke away with clear field down the
side lines, racing nearly eighty yards,
and thus negotiating the Crimson's
second score.
The third touchdown came before the
end of the first half. Harvard made
some good ground in Carlisles terri
tory, and then, being placed on its OPP
ponents' 24-yard line when Crane was
disqualified for "kneeing" a Harvard
player. Coolidge made nineteen yards
Oh n forward pass from Mahan over the
middle Of the scrimmage. King COW
cred the remaining eleven yards in
three plays through the line.
Harvard was leading 20 TO 0. when
the second half started. and began to
use its substitutes. The second string
men made one steady advance Of Fifty
yards, but were stopped at the l5-yard
line by being oif-side. Then McKinlock
scored by drop kicking from the 81
yard line
II was from the next kick off that the
Indians began TO show their power, for
starting from their own 25-yard line
they drove steadily up the field TO the
Crimson goal line, seventy-iiye yards
away. Calac made some beautiful
gains. and his tired rush line was more
than a match for Harvard's fresh re-
cruits.
Calac made one forward pass which
Tibbets turned for a nineteen-yard
gain, and the touchdown finally came
on a elevcn-yard sweep around tho
Crimson left wing.
A mufed kick started things for
Harvard's final score, iorgeen ripping
Off two gains for fourteen yards, after
Harte had taken a forward pass from
Watson from a point about twenty
yards further up the field.