New-York tribune., 1920-11-07
Forward Passes
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From Setback
Buell., Sub Quarterback,
Starts Aerial Attack That
Deprives Tigers of Victory
By Haywood Broun

pacK, began series of forward passes
which gave Harvard a touchdown and
the conventional tie score with Prince
ton. Before that time it seemed as if
Henry Cabot Lodge we're calling the
signals for the Crimson eleven
In Harvard football philosophy the
forward pass has always been regarded
as a sort of life net, something into
which last despairing leap may be
taken jHst before the walls give way.
With Princeton leading by touch
down and the minute hand sprinting
around end, with a clear field ahead Of
1T, Fitzgerald continued to buck the
line, punt on the third down and in all
other respects direct the most cautious
sort of play. We mold no brief for the
s2gacity Of the boy who stood on the
burning. deck, but at least he never
tothered to adjust his mittens.
Then suddenly came the substitute
quarterback, the man you have read
about in all the football fiction, and
forward passes rained and poured
From the 29-yard line Harvard sueed
forward, racing down the gridiron with
time painting alongside.
Beautiful Lateral Pass
Almost the best of these big gain
plays was a beautiful lateral pass from
| Buell. to Fits, which carried the ball to
Princeton's 33-yard line. A forward
pass made only two yards, but then
came another which put the ball on
Princeton's 16-yard line for first
down. There was less than five min
utes to play. A line play and an end
run netted just two yards. Then came
the best play of all. Buell. took the
ball and started to run toward his own
coal line ickatvspljt
BY and by he stopped and. turing
swiftly. let fly. He shot the ball just
into the corner of the neutral zone
over the Princeton goal line where
Crocker reached up and made the catch
5nd the touchdown. 1t was the best
touchdown of the game. 1t was the
best of all possible touchdowns. If
objection be made that Princeton also
made touchdown as the result Of a
long forward pass we can only say
that there was no comparison between
the plays in our estimation.
Up to this point we have pretended
to be fair and impartial, but here and
now we throw off the iask and ask the
printer to insert nine "rahs" with
three Harvards on the end. Grantand
Rice and William McG eehan can sup
ply the impartiality.
They are from Sewanee or Stanford
or some one of those small Baptist
colleges and in any battle between the
Jersey Presbyterians and the Harvard
Unitarians they are coldly neutral.
There's too much fairness and i'm
partiality in the world anyhow. AS
Colonel sRoosevelt once remarked, the
greatest of all neutrals was Pontius
PLATE.
Moral Victory for Harvard
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don't give a hang about seeing the
best team win. We want Harvard to
win. AS matter of fact, we claim a
moral victory for the Crimson. Har-
ward scored first and last. The best
that Princeton could do was to get two
touchdowns in the middle
Of course, there are better victories
.han moral ones, but Harvard and
Princeton just don't seem to be able
to settle this dispute which has been
aGltating them for the last two years.
Joe jeanette and Sam Langford have
heen thrown out Of the ring for a
nN more evident proclvity toward
drawn battles.
tie rules under which Harvard and
Princeton play. Each year they toss
coin at the beginning of the game.
II seems to us that they ought to toss
al the end. To-day, in addition to
scoring. a moral victory. Harvard
guessed sheads, while the coin was in
the air, and it came just so. We claim
victory on that ground also.
We are informed on reliable author
ity that there was a great deal Of rum
IN and about Cambridge before and
after the game. There was no excuse
o-day for that sort of business
Neither Princeton nor Harvard men
could assert with any show of Justice
that they were celebrating a triumph
or drowning their sorrows. They must
nave crunk from sheer natural de-
pravity.
Things Look About the Same. PERCY
Things look about the same here nc
they always did Harvard is still Keen
ing that man back as if he were roinr
TO put when everybody knows he isn'f
ana {. /. Copeland remains in Hollis
eieven. Nothing important has changed
ne lprary is lot bigger than it used
TO punt when everybody knows he ;sn,,
many students still MANAGE 70 wall, sl'
through the card for their four wears
"lthout pumping into it. At least thev
never let 1t throw, them for loss. The
Sahdwlch man in Jimmie's lunch room
is forging ahead, and has been No.
moted from jam to peanut butter. Tho
llesnmcn i've IN their own dormitories
now, and we are told that the elcctive
system has been so seriously curts;lsJ
,hat the popular old policy of NOTHING
oelore ii or more than one flight of
STAIRS up has been seriously affected
Stlil, Judging from a walk thronob
the yard, none of the undergradnate.
seem TO know so very much more than
they used TO back in the dim. dead
days: Certainly there isn't so much
olgn1ty, The Harvard band came on
the field in red coats and wh;ta
trousers, looking for all the world liLe
knights of Pythias parade. Music
was was more formal in our day \en if
the Prlncetons hadn't played us to a
,ie score Gone of their touchdowns was
the result of blocked kick there
would be something sad in coming
back to Cambridge
we used TO sit in Weld and dream
That some day we might be president
out that was IN the days when the ioh
wasn't closed to Republican editors
born IN Ohio. We haven't got that
steam yacht, either, or written novel
or great American drama 1t fairly
tore the heart out of US to look up at
the dormitores where we used to waste
long nights playing low limit jackpots
when We might have been getting
enough knowledge laid by to pass an.
thropology once. We were thrown ont
into the world with very small knowl-
edge of anthropology and less of fine
arts, and as result we have never