The Washington herald., 1915-11-21
Big Crimson Eleven Crumples
Old Eli Gridironers IN Foot
ball Classic, n to O.
EDDIE MAHAN FEATURES
Full Back of Harvard Scores -Four of
the Six Touchdowns Registered
by His Team.
By DAMON RUNYoN.

By DAMON RUNYoN.
The Stadium. Cambridge. Mass, Nov. 20
Tom Shevlin's celebrated psychological
punch was about $50 miles too short. 1t
carried from Minneapolis. Mimi, to New
Haven. Conn, with such force that It
rocked Princeton. n. J.. with great vio-
lence, but there its effect ended. II never
touched Cambridge. Mass. 1t was not
even swung at Cambridge. Mass. In fact
there Is a strong suspicion abroad in this
tonight that Yale. which was
supposed to be the custodian Of the
Shevlin psychological punch mislaid IL
before coming to Cambridge, along with
all its other punches
Percy Haughton. who yearly contrives
ways and means for defending the grid
iron of Cambridge. with fair Harvard as
his agency, had gone to a great deal OF
trouble to figure out a guard against
the psychological punch, but by the end
of the first period of the Harvard-Yale
football game this Afternoon, he discov-
cred that he did not need a guard for
the punch. All he needed here was a
full back. Edward Mahsn supplies that
need. He supplied il SO well that 7.
Haughton had enough fullbacking left
over to stock another season or two.
AS the shades of night enwrapped Sol
Hers Field. and Cambridge. and Boston,
and the State Of Massachusetts, generally.
the score stood II to 0. And. as there
seemed TO be no further public demand
for scoring, and no good reason 20 cut
Mahan loose again and causing him a
lot of unnecessary exertion. the boys
knocked of, and called II a full union
day.
Statistics prove that this was the
largest score. with but one exception.
Ia h. IL II ard
md Yale began enjoying football rela-
lions some forty years back.
Fifty thousand Present.
Fifty thousand people were remark
ing on this fact as they marched out
81 the exits into the gathering night.
In 1854 Yale bested Harvard by a score
Of IS to 0. but that was under the old
scoring system. and il is quite reason
able to suppose that Harvard had no
Edward Mahan at that remote period
Last year. with an Edward Mshan,
Harvard beat Yale Sc to 0. and that
stood as the next best mark until to-
day.
This was Edward Mahan's last foot
ball game as a Harvard cOlleEian- He
stretched himself over enough of il to
cover the history of the gridirOn for
the next fifty years He made four out
VI SlA uNt
goals from touchdown out of a total
Of six chances. 1t was about as re-
an exhibition of football
playing as was ever seen on any field.
A word here about Edward Mahan
may be in order. He is now % years
old. He stands five feet eleven and a
half inches on the soies of his feet.
and weighs III pounds. Every ounce
Of that poundsge was in action today.
Il, sS a
and about the psychological punchless
Yale team for % points out OF a total
Of 81.
Hard to stop.
Mahan is a loose jointed rangy fell
low, like a race horse. Once under
way II is almost impossible to stop
him. With a football tucked under his
arm. or cuddled to his bosom. he is kin
to the well known irresistible force.
II must not be imagined that Mahan
was all alone in his efforts today, for
he was merely an important cog in a
great machine, but the noise Of his work
ing could be heard so distinctly above
the roar and rumble Of the other parts
Of the machine that he is entitled to a
separate niche in this narrative.
King and Harte and various other
Harvard players stood out but Mahan
was-he was Mahan.
There are few Mahans in the run Of
the old Eridiron game. II is doubtful
that even had Yale packed the psyche
logical punch along to Cambridge that
n would have awaited anything. Harvard
had too much all-around competency 4
punch is a grand thing. but
all-around ALFRED competency
and Eddie Mahan-Is very different
Assortment of Kicks.
Some times Harvard played one kind
OF football against Yale today. Then
she would try another kind. Then again.
boys would try still another
brand. Yale was In the position of p
fighter who gets hit in the stomach at
the first punch. and then IL hit there
again every few seconds without ever
having a chance to recover from the first
blow. Harvard used a little old-style
football. n little new-style football. and
a little football that was all Harvard
style football. AS a result the Yale foot
ball folks were soon pOpeyed with be-
wilderment.
A sort Of delayed double play that
would send a Harvard man skittering
down thts field with the ball while the
Yale boys were probing the situation
for some one else altogether was a fea-
ture. but Harvard had other interesting
forms Of bewilderment. And Yale had
Alas. Yale did not have even the Shev-
in psychological punch. Those who be-
Ieved what occurred at the Princeton
game might occur here are now meta
phorically kicking themselves for per-
hitting the Yale money to go imploring
A press stand wag thought up an ap-
oropriate interview for Frank Hinkey, the
iispsossessed head coach at Yale as the
yame was drawing to a close. II is not
ikely that the interview will ever be
yiven out by Mr.. Hinkey; for fear that
{ may be lost to the world, II Is oven
lere in its imaginary form.
There were several incidents that
brought the spectators up standing with
IeIls in their throats too. notably the run
" Harte to a touchdown in the early
tages of the game. But after touch
Towns got a little too common to cause
my vast excitement. the spectators could
My sit and marvel at Mahan. and the
machine that Haughton had wrought