New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

twenty-five yards. and this play left
Ralph Horween with a forty -two-yard
drop kick for field goal.
Later on in the second quarter with
the ball on Yale's 43-yard line, FELTON,
tossed pass to Eddie Casey, who was
eft unmolested by the bewildered Blue
defense. Kempton was the sole Yale
man in the neghborhood when Casey
took the ball on a run, and in the dash
that ensued Casey outran the Yale
quarter for a touchdown.
Sixty-eigAt Yards on Two Passes
On these two vitality important passes
Harvard had gained 68 yards, and they
were responsible for all her points.
These two plays were only brace of
game, but they were sufficient to beat
far more powerful eleven that had
refused to come forward to meet and
learn the newer game.
The big tragedy of the afternoon for
the Blue is that she put her faith in
old-fashioned football, and even this
deserted her. For one of the founda-
tions of the oldtime game was to hold
the ball. Yet Yale fumbled no less
than seven times, and on four of the~c
occasions Harvard man wrapped his
person around the ball.
You can figure that these four lost
fumbles cost Yale total of lao yards,
or almost the entire amount she gained
by rushing. A tumble recovered by
the enemy means the loss Of ground
that he can gin plus a 80 or 40 yard
punt. Figaro it out for yourself.
For that matter neither eleven can
expect to be crowned with a wreath OF
apple blossoms for holding the ball.
Their total fumbles were twelve in
number, very close to a worlds record
in final game. For brief period
the indications were that some fend in
human form had dipped the oval in a
barrel of grease. Harvard came within
an ace of tossing her victory away by
this lapse and only the luck that is
born of dreams came to her rescue.
Pair of Long Field Goals
The kicking game was handled we'll
by both elevens. Horween's 42-yard
fed goal was the first feature, to be
&C ipsed later by Braden's 53-yard
drive across the bar. Horween, how
ever, was driving the bu bous ball
against a heavy wind, while Braden
had the advantage of a young gaze
back Of his well-aimed attempt.
Casey, outside of his 25-yard dash
from forward pass, was he d in check
The fleet Harvard star had but little
assistance from his mates and while
twelve yards he had no chance to break
away, and more than once was thrown
back for tidy loss.
Yale had even more power to-day
than she offered against Princeton
But she also had even less versatility
in her selection of p ays. This monot-
onous thumping at center cannot be
charged to Kempton, for there were
Captain Callahan and Coach Sharpe
~tlil upon the scene. The first cou d
have switched the system in the first
upon departure in the third quarter.
But evidently no such instructions
came. for Kempton stood there rapping
away at the center of the line as if
every other form of attack had been
barred.
RELYING upon straight, old d-fashioned
football last Saturday in the Bowl, Yale
had her chance to sit silent and watch
Q d Nassau's shouting band march be-
meath her goal posts. What did it
profit her? Was that disaster suffi
clent to prove that 1900 belonged to
another generation? 1t was not. The
answer was that. banking again upon
an obsolete attack, Yale again had her
chance to sit silent while 1000 raving
Harvard students berbboned the field
with a snake dance tinged with Grim
son.
Yale, possessing courage and power.
had refused to learn. The new game
meant nothing in her ife. Her de-
tense against the forward pass was
weak and in turn her attempts at the
passing game netted here twelve yards.
tor on the third successful occasion
the receiver dropped the ball after
taking step or two.
Yale, averaging 1875 pounds to the
man. with at least normal speed, went
to war with the blunderbus and the
pike against the machine gun and the
automatic plus the airplane The tina,
result could have been no other,
unless an accident had come to her
help in the way of Harvard tumble.
Harvard's artillery and Harvard's
ammunition were none too plentiful.
This Crimson eleven was not an old
time Haughton machine. If Yale had
only begun the game as she finished it,
with variety added to power, she might
have won by two or three touchdowns.
But Yale had evidently made up her
mind to match the past against the
present; to overthrow tradition: to
prove that Time stands still where the
years refuse to pass.
Wen says this for the Blue: she
struggled gamely against the tide. But
the double verdict handed down at New
Haven and Cambridge is sufficient to
round out final answer