South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-23
HARVARD TRIMS
YALE GRIODERS
SO, 900 Spectators Attend Big
Eastern Football Classic
Final Score 1913.

By Associated Press:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Nov. 22.-
Harvard today defeated Yale IN
their annual football classic. Play
ing before $4,000 spectators in the
stadium, which was crowded as
never before. the Crimson eleven
triumphed. 20 10 3. The game.
marked by several striking plays.
was the climax OF the first football
season at Harvard under the new
coaching regime OF Robert T Fish
er. 1t was the first time in 20 years
that a Yale team had gone down 20
defeat in its two big games with
Princeton and Harvard.
Braden Makes LonN Kick.
In a season Of advanced develop
ment Of the forward pass and the
field goal IS weapons Of football
attack. today's game stands out
with notable instance Of each.
Spectators will long remember the
field goal kicked by Braden for
Yale's only score in the last period.
The ball carried SO yards with a %
mile wind through the center Of the
Harvard goal, after Braden had
booted II with his line bending I'M
der a strong Crimson attack.
Scarcely less notable was Caseys
touchdown FOR Harvard. gained in
the second period, through the sur
prise accomplishment of a forward
pass The Harvard star. catching
a pass thrown I 8 yards by Quarter
back FELTON,, ran from Yales o.
yard line to the goal. using all his
qualities of elusiveness and speed to
avert overtaking by the Yale pur-
suers, KemptOn and Reinhardt The
Crimson's touchdown was com
pleted by a goal kicked by Ralph
HOrween. The latter in the first
period had sent Harvard ahead with
a field goal booted from the 40yard
line.
Harvard Holds.
Harvard's backfield men. as rep
resented by Casey and Ralph Hor-
ween, furnished the punches which
registered Crimson victory. The
Crimson line supplied a defense
which, under menace OF Blue
touchdown in the third period held
fast six inches from its goal and
robbed Yale Of a tie and OF the
ball.
It was virtually the only sustained
show of strength by Yale in the
game. Starting from a 20-yard run
back of a punt by Kempton. tho
Blue forced the ball almost from
mid-field for as yards to the brink
OF the Crimson goal with the tao
tics Of "barnyard" football. Braden
and Neville breaking through the
line. Three first downs were scor-
ed. 1t seemed that the Blue could
not be stopped, but the word went
down the Harvard line, they shall
not pass"
Within the five-yard zone, Yale
made four rushes. a yard was
gained on each OF the first two. and
then the Crimson forwards braced.
They held fast on the brink OF the
goal and Yale was thrust back with
six inches 10 go for a touchdown.
Except for Braden's overhead at
tack, Yale did not menace again.
At three other stages of the game
Harvard's line held Yale for downs
Many Fumblcs.
The Blue team was its own great
est enemy today. II fumbled fire.
quently. Four times the ball head
ed for the Harvard goal. was lost
10 Yale and turned against the Blue
by fumbles in the Yale backfield.
On four other occasions, Yale play
ers lost the pigskin, but their err
rors were retrieved by fellow play
ers. Men who have followed foot
ball for years said there had never
been so much faulty handling OF the
ball in any other big game.
The line-ups and summary:
Harvard (1O). Yale 90.
Desmond ........... Reinhard
Left End.
Sedgewick ...............-... Dickens