New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-23

amateur proposition-if this stock
could be sold in the open market at
so much per share-Bethlehem Steel
and General Motors would have a
worthy rival
Harvard this season will finish with
four big paying games-Cornell,
Princeton, Brown and Yale.
10000 saw the Cornell game: $4,000
saw the Princeton game 10000 saw
the Brown game and $4,000 will see
the Yale game.
This totals 900 spectators for
Harvard's four big games-167,0 900 at
50 a throw-the answer being 1884,
900, Of which Harvard's share will be
s167, 900 for the year, not including
number of minor contests
This Yale Affair.
The last four years have proved that
Ya1e-Princeton and Harvard-Prlnce-
ton games form no sort Of basis for
any Yale-Harvard dope.
For the last three years Princeton
has given Harvard an even f1ght, Yale
has crushed Princeton and Harvard
in turn has smeared Yale all around
the November sward.
Last year Yale beat Princeton by
greater margin than Harvard did, but
this spicy fact didn't prevent Harvard
from beating Yale, Al to 0. SO in
obtaining conclusions for this game,
all preliminary contests must be
thrown aside.
The past few years have shown they
mean less than nothing.
The Difference.
The main difference, not embracing
a few other Psychological and ply
steal aspects, seems to be this:
Princeton has tried to meet Yale
head-on beam VS.. beam and bone VS..
bone, which is the way Yale has liked.
Harvard, in place Of this, has let
Yale come head-on, blithely side
stepped and then has cantered along
as far as she cared to go.
Hence, all of Yale's aggressiveness
and blind courage was worse than
useless.
The harder she charged the worse
she was crossed; the more desperately
she launched her drive at Harvard's
deceptive offense the deeper she was
lured into the mOrasS.
1t would have been better for Yale
against Harvard, in the past, if Yale
had fought with less aggressiveness,
had cut out her blind charging and
had simply gone in to conduct an
orderly retreat
For Saturday.
Yale has her chance on Saturday to
beat Harvard, if she Van employ this
com bination-to charge and fight with
her old aggressiveness-but to charge
with her head up, her eyes open
briefly. to charge and fight with alert
ness, as we'll as with desperation
Yale has as much power as Harvard.
She has as much speed. She has as
much experience.
But deception is a big part of
modern football-deception plus
strategy-and Yale has been nowhere
close to Harvard in these latter re-
spects since 1911.
Nineteen hundred and eleven was
the last year that Harvard attempted
to meet Yale with the headon stuff.
Harvard has been developing decep-
tive system for five years now,
whereas Tad Jones had only one years
work at Yale.
1t would certainly be no disgrace
for Jones to pit one years experience
against Haughton's eight years and
lose. He can lose with credit If he
can only implant enough alertness in
Yale's defense to meet the bewildering
Harvard attack with fair success, and
this doesn't mean to break up every
play.
For Minnesota.
Sir: Wisconsin was a standard
Western team, a pretty good one. The
powerful Minnesota eleven beat this
Wisconsin team 81 to 0. Does any
one believe that Brown or Pittsburgh
or Harvard could have beaten Wis
consin by any Sd to score? Mime
sofa failed to find her true strength
until late in the year, but today I
don't believe there is another eleven
in America that could beat her at this
stage of her development. Ask With
ingtOn of Harvard.
S1DELINER.