New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

bulldog growl on the Yale side that
drowned out the song.
In the rest between the halves. the
Yale roofing section was quite as
vociferous as it was at the start Of the
game. There was everything TO justify
their faith in their team The Blue
eleven had the power and the deter
mination and in the Harvard sections
there was considerable anxiety.
eff Yale has something that has not
been shown. then" was tie burden
stands. But when Yale continued the
same tactics in the third period the
high dope" seemed to be dissipated,
until that Yale march to the Harvard
goal suddenly started.
1t was obsolete but it was magnif-
cent and it wa effective for the time
Evidently the Harvard defense refuse d
to credit the apparent fact that Yale
would come marchin. down the field in
the formations Of twenty years ago
but it happ med and the Crimson de
fense was puzzled and bafHed.
Ya,e Charge is Blocked
One forward pass vas made and
then Yale came on and through,
Neville and Braden crashing at the
ScHtcI anu lUIUCGr tdChleS, anu lHcy
made their downs.
The B.ue jerseys came on and on
until Neville cras ed through center to
w'.Nin 2 al Yard o the Harvard
goal. 1t seemed as though the Yale
e-even wou.d crash tnroIgn numbering,
as tank crashes through No Mans
Land
In the Yale sections they were
screaming or touchdown. 1t was
the most melodramatic moment Of the
anne. ncmptons signal called for
Tim Callahan, the Yale captain, to
make a hole for Braden. But all the
harvard eleven seemed to know that.
The minute the ball was snapped all
against Callahan, and Braden crashed
into q wall of Drawn that stopped him.
The charge of the Yale tank was
blocked
Again at the start of the fourth
period it looked as though Yale might
eros, the Harvard goal line. With the
ball on the 26-yard line, througl a
brilliant end run by Kempton, Yale
tried a forward pass. Kempton shot
the ball to Reinhardt wao reached it,
but fumbled, and A. Horween, of Har-
ward, recovered it.
Aldrich Puts Brilliaucy Into Play
After that Harvard was putting up
a purely defensive game, for the B ue
eleven was q constant threat. 1t never
admitted defeat. When A drich came
into the game for Neville there was
some reason for the worriment that
seemed to go through the Crimson sec
ton He was a young dynamo, tAis
eighteen year-old Fall River boy. and
ne seemed to put sparks of brilliancy
into the Blue eleven that had been
hounderng so courageous but so
fruitlessly.
On the first play A,drich shot around
eleven yards. He squirmed through
center for gain of two He did not
charge blindly with one lone objective.
There was a threat in the way he car
ried himself, and in his every alert
move the Harvard men saw the danger
of lean young figure with a tawny
headgear shooting tnrough the sec
ondary defense. Why this dynamo was
not connected up with the Yale eleven
earlier in the game ways will remain
q mystery to those on the fence.
Yale's Chance Comes
After Bradcn's long shot 70 rthe goal
on a drop Kick another dash by the
mercurial Aldrich gained nineteen
yards around the Harvard left end.
TIC time was growing shorter and
horter, but there still was the chance
Of Yale touchdown. goal and tie
score.
The chance came in the last few mo-
ments of play, the golden chance that
comes once in a football game the
chance that would have marred con-
iderab Y the Crimson triumph that is
blazing around Harvard Square to-
night. The opportunity came for a
ootball hero who would forever he re
membered with the gridiron great Of
Old Ell.
Casey fumbled the ball on the Har-
ward twenty-five line and il rolled far
out to the Yale leftend Four Yale men
were there and the field was clear for
touchd ,vn. All four started after
the hurtling ball and they got in their
own way. Reinhardt, reaching for il.
was spilled by one of his own men
with hte field clear and the chance
that comes only once.
Yale Lacks Cohesion
On the whole this game probably
will be remembered at Yale as the
game of lost opportunities. The Yale
machine was powerful thing. but it
seemed to lack cohesion and direction
There are. of co lrse, the usual
whispers of dissention and uncertainty
IN me invisible board of sirategists
that direct the football policies of
Yale. There were rumors around last
m ht to the effect the dissention was
of more or less serious nature.
Inc football pvncles of co lege be
long to the college. l maintain that il
IS colleges business exc uSively. It is.
of course. easy to criticise the dircc-
tion of football team after the game
has been played and the breaks 20 tle
way that breaks will go.
But 1t seemed TO me that the Yal.
e.even that lost today had the poten-
tiallties for winning and winning de
cislvely. That is a matter OF opinion.
for if Yale, sticking to the old style
of football. might be writing that il
was good judgment TO play conserva- =.
tive football.
Old Style Football Throughout
Criticising football games is n
rather futile sort of occupation and
rcquent Y is cruelty unjust. TO the
older graduates the game was good
game Tor II was old-style football
excepting when Harvard
showed some knowledge Of the oren
pay. That was none too frequently
ale wou d have shown wonderf5i