Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-12-05
PULLMAN MAN SAW
HARvARD-Y GAME
Hill Williams, State College Gradu-
ate, Writes Interestingly of Big
Game at Cambridge


teresting letter from Hill Williams
a graduate of the State College, now
a student at Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass, in which he de-
scribes the recent Haryard-Yale
football game. His story of the
game is printed in full below:
The HaryardYale game yesterday
was the most impressive football
game | have ever seen. The play
ing itself was not so remarkable but
the crowd, the enthusiasm and the
intense rivalry made it a wonderful
occasion | can still hear the Yale
battle cry and the answer from the
Crimson sections across the stadium.
And the two or three real features
of the game were made To stand out
by this background.
Eddie" Casey was the real SEN
sation of the day, as he has been in
every game he has played in this
fall. 1t was his picking forward
pass out of the air and lodging the
whole Yale team on his 40-yard run
for a touchdown in the second per-
iod that proved to be the winning
sensation of the day for Harvard.
1t was a beautiful run through a
broken field and brought $4,000
people to their feet and caused about
half of them to go absolutely mad
when it became clear what had hap
pened And it was all the more re-
men had been covering him on every
play.
The most heart breaking thing of
all to the Yale supporters was the
failure of Braden to make the one
half yard necessary to score in the
third period after the ball had been
carried straight down the field for
over 40 yards on line bucks And
that is where Yale's inferiority be-
came most evident. With one a half
yard to go for a touchdown Kemp
ton called for Braden to take the
ball through guard, which was de-
Tended by 'Tubby' Clark, probab-
ly the strongest man in the Harvard
line. Braden was tired out already
and simply hurled himself against
the back of his own right guard,
Gait, and fell back He and Neville
had been gaining consistently
through left tackle and it is reason
able to assume that the ball might
have been put over through that
part of the line, but the middle of
the line was impossible.
Again near the end of the game
Yale showed lack of that alertness
that wins many football games
Casey making his one slip of the
day, fumbled the ball and it rolled
clear of the mass of players and to-
ward three Yale men. There was
not a Crimson player near and the
goal line was only some 20 yards
away. But, instead of trying to pick
1t up as Scheeru of Princeton did
last Saturday, they fell on it. This
came near the end of the game and
was the last chance Yale had to
score.
Braden was the most dangerous
man IN the Yale offensive. He is
wonderful man on straight line
buck and plowed through the heavy
Crimson line time after time in the
second half. He runs very low and
does not seem to choose the holes
very carefully but he hits so hard
when going right that he makes
holes. And his field goal was no.
thing short of miracle 1t was
from the 55-yard line and was
perfect goal
Both teams relied mainly on
straight football and both failed to
gain that way. 1t was only when
Harvard opened up with forward
pass that the one touchdown of the
day was made. Yale especially
lacked variety. 1t was the same old
style of football that the fathers of
the present Yale generation used to
down Harvard so consistently with.
But 1t is out Of date and Harvard
with a newer and more modern sys-
TEN, was more than a match for it
yesterday.
About $4,000 people saw the
game and almost as many more
would have seen it had the big
horseshoe been twice it's size. Peo-
pie IN Boston and New York offered
fabulous prices for tickets but the
regulations with regard to specta-
tors were very strict. Federal
agents were on the lookout for any
one who parted with his ticket for