New-York tribune., 1919-11-23


odernity came too late. Harvard,
using the forward pass with telling
effect, had already run up 10 points,
and the, e 10 points were enough to
beat the Bulldog 10 to 3.
A forward pass gave Harvard her
chance for fec goal. T forward pass
from FELTON, to Casey gave Harvard her
touchdown. So. while Yale was dab
bling in the crumblng dust of the past.
dreaming gently of the mighty, days
between Frank Butterworth and Ted
Coy. Harvard was winning with up-to-
date football. crossing the Ya'e de-
tense with the open game and thereby
pitlng up lead that left Yale beaten
for the second time in eight days
where on each occasion a modern at
tack attached to her crashing power
would have left the Blue standard one
OF the triumphant banners of the year.
Yale Outrushes Harvard
Yale outrushcd Harvard by margin
greater than two to one. The Blue
ripped open the Crimson line. back
and forth, with o'd-fashioned football
power. In the last ha.f Yae's plung-
ing attack ran almost five to one be-
yond Harvard's, but the absolute lack
OF variety the absolute absence of
threat the absence of anything up to
date rendered this powerful, old fash
toned attack as null and void as if ii
mad never gained an inch.
The Bu ldog's insistencc upon stick
ing to the old dismant' ed style of play
that featured the Neolithic Age was
incredible. After what occurred in the
Princeton game it was beyond any be-
lief that a football team could return
70 make the same mistake, tossing
costly experience overheard as if it
were = useless dummy.
Embracing her four periods against
Princeton and her first two ouarte $
against Harvard. it was not until the
middle of her seventh period against
these two rivals that the Blue attack
gained as much as yard by the for
ward pass. And her first success was
4 7-yard gain interno ated in a 5O-yard
march t at came at last to a melan-
choly end Fl teen inches from the Grim
son line. This sho pass was the first
inch that the Blue had picked up by
the passing route against her two main
rivals.
In spite of all this Yale had two grea,
chances to score by the toucN d y
route. The first chance came in the
third quarter when the Blu ldog began
chopplng away for q 50-yard s'oggng
hike There was gemeness and power
in this advance but most Of it was
as the sunset on the hills.
Yale Missed Big Chance
Less than yard from tie Harvard
line on the final down Kempton called
for rush at cente~ where TIE Harvard
defen was massed and waiting. This
play never had chance Any hint of
deception he~e. ard sudden thrust out
side of tackle, would have planted
Blue runner beyond the Harvard line
Any variation here wou d have pro-
duced a touchd own. but either Yale
never lad any such variation or Kemp
ton forgot it in the gripping tensity
o the big moment.
That was one Yale opportunity gone
20 glory on the wings of broken oppor-
tunity.
The second chance came in the final
quarter. 1t was Harva-d's ball on her
own % yard line. There was a crash
at tackle and the ball bounded clean
and clear into tht opn, bobbing up nd
down with a fre pass attached for
spright'y journey across the Harvard
borderlne. There wasn't a C imson
jersey wit in fifteen yards of the pay
One Yale man. charging head on
had clear sweep. Two additional
Yale men, coming from the side, could
have trrned the trick ard tied the
score. Brt in the wild furry of the
moment they all crashed together and,
although Rhinehardt finally covered the
ball for Yale, the s,ftest chance of the
day to score a touchdown and tie the
count had been wrecked beyond all
hope.
va was beaten then and there.
Power and Fate together had given her
two chances to Joy ride into the prom
ised land, but her lack of versatility
and wide-awake alertness had beaten
her back.
1t was not until the c,osing moments
of the game that Kempton and La
Roche finally decided to try an open
field rushing game, broken up with
forward passing, and this decision ar
rived after the final chance had
passed. Using Mack Aldrich from a
kick formation the Blue otfense began
to gain ground rapidly on sweeping
rushes outside of tackle, with forward
pass thrown here and there, but there
want sufficient time left to profit by
the change.
Harvard had nothing of Yae's power,
but Harvard had the good judgment to
play modern football The Crimson at
tack was smothered the greater part
of the afternoon. In the last two
two quarters it failed to make first
down. But Harvard had jumped far
into the cad long before the second
half arrived.
Early in the first period Casey shot
a forward pass to Murray for a gain of