The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
Yale Praises ELEVEN.

Having been beaten, Yale was not
jubilant to-day. But 1t felt that 1t had
scored a moral victory and was full of
praise for Jones and his fighting team
Yale's two great stands-at the 4-yard
line and again at the 12-won the adj
miration of all followers of football
Having been beaten by Princeton by
20 to 0, the Blue was expected to pro-
vide the medium of a slaughter by
Harvard. 1t was anything but that.
Harvard. by the way. was very disap-
pointing outfit. That patented" attack
failed to put over a touchdown and the
Crimson's deception plays were fizzles.
In discussing the game Jones said :
81 want to make it plain that Yale
has no excuses to offer. 1t is not GUS
tomary here to do that sort of thing
We were defeated and that's all there
is to it. However. with what we had
we did pretty well. l note that some of
the critics say that I scrimmaged the
men too hard and that some Of the best
players were injured severely in prac-
tice.
Well, we had as many as sixteen
men from the first string squad on the
injured list at one time, and only one
of these was hurt in practice. He was
Jordan, who was put out by bit of
carelesSness early in the season. All the
others were hurt in games. The Bos-
ton College game was the most costly
to Yale hopes, for when it was over we
found that not only had we been beaten
by a superior eleven. but that five of
our best men were not available for the
next contest. They were Callahan. Muir
ply. Acosta. Aldrich and Quaile. Bos-
ton came here trained to the minute,
and we were toe short for il.
Not Enough ScrimmaGe.
'Tf you will ask me what the main
trouble with the Yale team was i will
say that it was the lack of sufficient
scrimmage. We could not have enough
of that with the team which we put into
the field yesterday because we con-
tinually were handicapped by injuries.
Acosta went into the game with Har-
ward with less than an hours scrm-
mage In more than three weeks. Murphy
could not scrimmage more than one or
two days a week. and very little even
then.
Callahan. who played against Har-
ward with one arm encased in a leather
brace, had very little work since the
Boston game. Aldrich likewise was not
In shape and should not have played.
AS for Sturm, he is suffering from some
organic trouble which probably is due
to bad teeth and he really had no
business on the field. He. too. was
weeks and weeks short in work. Dickens
went into the battle yesterday with
probably less work than any of the
others. On attack he and Callahan were
90 strange to do their best work as
pair. but when it came to defence they
played a wonderful game.
I'VE had not had enough scrimmage
to develop our offence. but when It came
to defensive work. man to man, our
boys covered themselves with glory
Aldrich was another star. his tackling
on the secondary defence being one of
the features of the game. And this
youngster Kempton was among those
present, too, let me tell you. / always
have admired Kemptons football play
ing, and his exhibition yesterday
strengthened that admiration. Criticism
of Kemptons work as quarterback
prompts me to say that most often it Is
the team which makes the quarterback.
"As for Callahan, he showed that he
was Of All-America calibre. II was a
pity that he had to lead a Yale team,