New-York tribune., 1920-11-21

tlSt Oh passing yeats lctI Wltt d
nrst time in her football history VA
Harvard on top of her second success
And while this record was in tf
sons paid out S237,oo0 to see the G.
,he margin Of drop kicks. leaving II
These $4,000 football fans formed the
greatest crowd that ever paid TO see a
sporting event on the Western Cont
nent. Crowded into the greatest of
all amphithoatres they saw a Yale
team minus an attack of any sort hold
It's goal line uncrossed and inviolate
by a series of superb defensive stands
shat were aided and abettod by some
loose generalship on Harvard 5 part
These 5000 saw the Harvard ma
chine rush up and down the held only
10 fail and falter between Nale's TWEEN
tyyard line and her we'll defended goal.
Ihey saw Harvard sain ground almost
Il, VIII b. rushing or by forward pass
ing. with Yale offering little in the way
OF modern attack, but for all that they
never saw d Crimson runner plant Z
football back of the blue guarded
goal posts.
Drop Kicks Only Scores
First Buell.. then Horween and then
bueil again lifted drop kicks across the
wooden bar. but these three successful
attempts ended Harvards 5 scoring.
Yale. with q numbering, unwieldy at
tack and . wild-ered passing came. had
no chance to score by any route. aerial
- otherwise. IN the course OF the
Whole battle the Yale otfensc gained
cnl. forty-oight Yards and three first
downs nv IoIl i.
forward passes in the main We're thrown
and handled with too little skill to
bring the Crimson goal line into any
danger
Harvard opened the contest as if She
meant to drive the Blue bulldog out OF
his kennel and chase him off the Con-
necucut reservation. Owen, the first
man who caught a Yale kickoff, start
cd from his 5-yard line, dashed through
the first sweep Of Blue tacklers, and
then by sudden squirt fought his way
INTO the open, with only Kempton left
between MIN and the goal He had
raced for fifty yards before Kempton
threw him heavily around midheld On
the next play Buell. broke through for
twenty yards. and forward pass from
l'ltZ 10 Buell. added fifteen more. But
here Harvard penalty checked the
audden and savage assault Harvard
started, by sweeping the Blue defense
rom its feet in the first few plays,
oply to have this first rush killed by a
costly peralty, with a possible touch
down in sight.
But from that point on Yale rallied
With swift certainty. Her line held,
and her two ends, with Cutler the
eature, began to spill Crimson end
-uns for little or no gain: 1t was quite
pparent after the first few plays that
Yale was keener For play and had lost
ihe staleness of week ago 1t was
quite apparent that Yale was out to
play better, keener football, with not
only big Improvement in her end
play. but also a vast Improvement in
Ter kicking game. In fact Yale, out
classed by Princeton at the kicking
Eame, in turn outclassed Harvard in
his department, with Aldrch more
than holding his own even against the
wind.
Harvard Starts Aerial Spectacle
With the Harvard running attack
checked after the first few PLAYS, the
1900 then looked down upon be
Tildering spectacle. They saw Har-
ard toss conservatism to the drifting
~inds b. suddenly starting series Of
Onward passes deep in her own terri
tOIt, lcE6iQltSS VI zone play or any
hing else. And on two Of these occa-
ons they saw alert Yale backs inter
sept these passes where, if Yale had
ad any sort OF attack, considerable
mount OF damaga could have been
lone. Yale could intercept passes and
lold Harvard for downs, but having
,ecured possession Of the ball she had
aothng 30 offer by way of rebuttal, as
ne could neither rush nor pass.
Here is one vivid mple-early in
me first quarter Aldrich lifted a long
quarter fumbled the punt on his own
ilyard line as the brilliant Dickens
uounced upo nthe Topping oval. ale
saYG the ball in Harvard territory,
Dlt on The first play her forward pass
cent directly into the arms Of Fits
nd the chance was gone.
1t WASH. that Yale didn't try out
arious forms of modern attack. 1t
as merely that her passers and re-
ceivers we're novices in d department
fine game that isn't built up over
night, or within any 1--WE or six weeks.
Harvard's sudden furry of forward
passes within her own territory proved
70 be costly. And later on when she
reached Yale territory the passing
game vas abandoned where it might
haev proved an effective scorer.
How, then. did Harvard look com
pared to Princeton? Harvard rushed
me ball even more effectively than
Princeton did against the Blue. The
rimson attack gained more ground
'Aan Princeton did, made more first
Gowns by rushing and more first downs
by forward passing.
But Harvard had no Don Lourie to
direct her offensive. The Crimson zen
cralship WAS far below that shown by
the Orange and Black Princeton,
granting that the breaks were in her
faVor, made better use out Of less
ground gained by striking in the right
way al the right moment. Princeton
vas far more alert 70 seize every ad-
vantage offered by Blue lapscs and to
press TINS advantage with the best she
rad 20 give. And Princeton cxccllcd
Harvard aiso in the kicking game, as
ne Cambridge machine had no Schcer-
cr 70 rap the ball high and far down
ne field.
Harvard Misses Many Opportunities
A. the end o. the first half Harvard
by rushing and forward passing. had
gained l55 Yards - Yalc's %, better
tnan si< yards 10 one. Yet ali that
Harvard had TO show for this tYcmcn-
Gous advantage vas field goal by
bucll from hig ~ yard line Harvard
rad bigger ground gaining adyan-
fage IN the hrst half than Princeton
rad ~ many, many yards, but Prince
'on a. this stage mad ten points 70
Haryard's three against Yaic'8 de
fenHe.