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CRIMSON DEFEATS
ITHACAN ELEVEN
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goal. Score: Harvard, 9; Cornell, 0.
Harvard continued on the often
sive and Robinson tried another field
goal, standing on his thirty -yard line,
but it was carried few feet wide of
the goal Cornell here began to call
on its substitutes. Kelly replaced An
derson and Ryerson took the position
of lander.
Harvard twice backed the Cornell
line for short gains and then kicked
out of bound to the ten-yard line.
Hoffman gained ten yards on play
outside Harvard's right tackle and
Benedict added five more for first
down. Hoffman broke through all
Crimson forwards and passed the mid
field mark by three yards, where
Cornell was fighting in Harvard ter
ritory for the first time. The 1thacans
here called on some of their trick
plays for two rushes and made only
slight gains. Benedict, on the next
rush, fumbled the ball and Thatcher
recovered for Harvard Casey ward
ed off Cornell for twenty-yard run.
Score end second period: Harvard, 9;
Cornell, 0, ... ss ..
Crimson Team Steadier.
Taken as a whole, the Crimson
eleven showed far better team work
and steadiness than the heavier Cor
nell combination. Captain Dadmun's
team got the jump on the Ithaca
players at the very start and during
the first period the play was entirely
in Cornell territory The Cornell
team began to show flashes of its real
form in the second period, but poor
handling Of the ball blocked the at
tempts to score. Harvard gained LIS
yards in team rushes against Cornelps
| 81 in seventeen attacks.
Harvard Scores Again.
Third Period-On the kickoff by
Horween, the ball went over the goal
line and was brought back to the
twenty-yard mark. Muller made two
attempts through the line without
more than short gains. Shiverick then
kicked to Murray, who ran the ball
back 100 yards. Horween immediate
ly kicked from Harvard's forty to
Cornell's twenty-five yard line There
was no run back.
Several substitutes had been
brought into play. Murray, at quar-
ter for Harvard, and Bard at left
guard for Cornell among them. Cor
nell held the ball briefly. Shiverick
kicked to Casey, who carried the ball
thirteen yards to Harvard's forty
Vineyard line. Again Casey dashed
twenty-three yards through Cornell's
scattered defense and Harvard had
the ball on Cornell's twenty-three-
yard line. Five yards were added by
Casey and Horween. Murray tossed a
forward pass twenty yards to Casey.
who brought it within two yards Of
the Cornell goal. Horween pushed it
within inches of the line and later
carried it over, Score: Harvard, l6;
Cornell, 0.
| Little Change in Third.
| Cornell made two substitutions
Dickson for Jewett and Brown for
Carey After Horween had kicked
off, Shiverick ran the ball back
/ twenty yards to the thirty-seven yard
line.
! There was little change in the third
period, Harvard played defensive
football most of the time, while Cor
nell appeared uncertain of its Of
fensive campaign. ,
Fourth Period-Starting from mid
field, Harvard moved the ball five
yards on two rushes, failed in for
ward pass, and then called on Hor-
ween to kick With run back OF
seven yards by Shiverick, Cornell
started drive from the fifteen-yard
line. H. Coolidge went in for Pin
ney and Sutton for Dickson. The
Cornell drive was blunted by the
Crimson offense, which held three
Itahca rushes to a net gain OF three
yards.
Shiverick, kicking from his thirty
yard mark, sent the ball to Harvard.
thirty-yard line, from which it wa.
run back ten yards. Murray sent two
plays into the center of the Cornell
line for short gains and then Har
ward again had Horween kick.
It Is Cornell's Ball.
1t was Cornell's ball on its thirty
six yard line. Crimson substitution.
here became numerous, After two
rushes had been stopped, Cornell
kicked, and Harvard man caugh
the ball. Harvard then made for
ward pass, netting fifteen yards
Minot to Murray. Captain Dadmur
of Harvard was hurt in the scramble
and taken off the field limping. Hi.
hurt seemed serious. Shortly after
ward Speed intercepted a Harvar,
forward pass and Cornell gained tn,
ball on her eight-yard line, only tc
lose it when Sweet recovered fun
bic and ran to a touchdown. Score
Harvard, %; Cornell, 0. Minot kicket
the goal l4
The lineup:
HARVARD. CORNELL
c, A. Coolidge. L. n. r e. ......... .Zande
Wheeler .,.,.,, LIT, lR.T, ........., Jewet
Snow ...,...,., .L,G, n. G....... Anderson