Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-16
ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW
CRIMSON MUST DEFEAT
 BROWN TO RETAIN STANDING
Sport Writer Says Harvard Has Little to GIoat Over Unless They Win.

w. J. Slocum, football expert gives Brown due credit for the 21-6 victory over Yale Saturday, and incidentally stated that Fritz Pollards work stamp ed him as one of the greatest players of the year. He writes as follows;
 Yale's hope of a season without de- feat has gone glimmering, and unless Harvard can run up a decisive score against Brown this week-something which now appears unlikely-there will be little to gloat over this year for any of the once supreme Big Three of Eastern football. Yale and Princeton lately have tasted failure, as Harvard did early in the season. The Crimson's one hope of a strong finish to offset early failure rests in the game with Brown. The battle with the Ellis a week later can hardly afford much glory for Harvard even in a deci- SiV victory over Yale.
 The Jones pupils are going through what so many Yale teams have gone through in recent years. Washington and Jefferson made Yale's defence, particularly against the forward pass, something of a joke. Then Colgate Outplayed the Ellis, though defeated by the New Haven collegians, and fin- ally Brown comes along to hold Yale away from a touchdown, at the same time scoring more touchdowns than
 
 New Haven.
 It may be that Yale has gone stale. Certainly Capt. Blacks team is far from the power which the early days of the present season promised. Poor condition appears to have been the main weakness Saturday in the Brown game. During the first half Ealer went through the Brown line as Yale teams of other years have been accustomed to do in their earlir gams.
 T1, T,.. r. defence which Ina dbeen so strong in the first half, caved completely. Like wise the attack, which had continual ly hurled the Brunonians back toward their own goal line in the first half of the game, lost al it's power. From the time the teams returned to the field after intermission until the final whistle sounded the game was all Brown. The Ellis made one great stand under their own goal posts and took the ball on downs when Brown needed inches only to make a touch down. This was the final flash, the only one in fact that Yale mare in the second half of the game.
 Some Yale enthusiasts are inclined to make capital out of the fact that in juries kept Bingham, Baldridge and Sheldon out of the game. There is no denynig that the Ellis could put bet ter team on the field with these three stars available, but it is unfair to Brown to consiao" only one side of the story. The Prcvid dn~re eleven suffered in the same way. The loss of Ward, Conroy and Brace. hes tal-on no little strength from Brown, and .frs' Weeks who had been on the hospital list since the Rutgers game, is far from being at his best.
 It is safe to assume that Brown. with all its strength available, is a, better team than Yale under similar condi- tionS. Certainly the pupils of Ed Rob- inson were several degrees better on Saturday. Their tackling was poor at tims and the passing was not of the best, but even these faults were not enough to offset the poor playing of Yale. Brown was better conditioned and played more versatile brand of football.
 The color line may be waived with propriety by those who soon will busy themselves with task of Choosing an all- Eastern football team. Any back field in the country could use to ad- vantage Fred Pollard, the dusl1y half back of the Brown eleven; !Eis indi- highly spectacular, and the greatest crowd in the history of the Yale Brown series left the Bowl with the conviction that they had seen one of the greatest players of the year
 Pollard's superior as a broken field runner has not flashed on the gridiron in recent years, unless it was Jim Thorpe, whose success was helped along by size and strength, which Pol lard does not possess. Thorpe could throw off tacklers who apparently had secure holds. Pollard, making up in agility what he lacked in phsyque, simply lodged his way through.
 Pollard's running with the ball, sure 1y as spectacular as New Haven crowd has looked upon in years, was only one feature of his brilliancy. Three times he recovered fumbles by his own team as Yale players threw themselves at the ball and once he prevented a touchdown by recovering the ball after a kick by Hillhouse had been blocked behind the Brown goal line. He ran out 12 yards before he was downed, depriving the Ellis of as much as a safety.
 On the secondary defence Pollard was as strong as he was in advancing the ball. Once he stood alone between a Yale runner and the Brown goal line, but he got the verdict in the battle of lodging.