The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-21
CRIMSON KICKS
DEFEAT YALE
IN BOWL 9 TO 0
Buell. Sends Ball Over Bar
for Two Goals HOrween
for One.
Harvard Finds Ellis Much In
proved Over Earlier
Showing.
BY WILLIAM Ii. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM Ii. HANNA.
Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
New HAVEN, Nov. 20.-Dexterity at
kicking off the ground was a weapon
to which Harvard had TO turn to-day
and weapon with which Harvard de-
feated Yale, Q to 0, in the Bowl this
afternoon in the annual football game.
Three drop kicked field goals We're
made by Harvard, and with these the
Crimson made all Of its points. Buell.
kicked the first from the 34-yard line
in the first period; Horweeu kicked
the second from the 42-yard line in
The third period. Buell. a valuable as
set for Harvard if for no other rea-
son than because he twice lifted the
ball over the crossbar, kicked the third
from the 1S-yard line in the fourth
period.
In those pedal feats the attack of
the afternoon, so far as fruition was
concerned, was centralized. but it did
not end there by a good deal in the
matter of advancing the ball. Har-
yard, with a much better offence than
Yale, gained more ground than the
Blue and utilized that superiority to
push forward to within goal kicking
distance.
Athrob With Excitement.
A game athrob with excitement, rap
Idly changing aspects and with valor
and spirited assault and resistance was
admirably played on both sides. Yale
emerged from a grilling contest, hard
and courageously fought by both with
the comfort of knowing that the Cam
bridge team, one rated considerably
better than the Blue. could not cross it's
goal line. The Ellis by splendid defensive
playing inside their 90 yard line invari-
ably were able to throw Harvard back
from the goal line and prevent touch
down and force Harvard to kick for its
wampum.
That was Yale's chief source of conf
fort, that and the fact that Harvard in
stead of annihilating the Yalesnians
found them greatly improved team,
morally and physically. over n week ago
and had the hardest sort of a fight to
win. For fight 1t was, a combat in
which each went at the other from the
start with all they had. and which on
Harvard's part in particular. was con-
=
for zone play which was refreshing and
exciting If not sound and orthodox
The game was still young when Har-
ward was throwing forward passes in
her own territory. and many of the foot
ball savants gasped in horror. Those
who were not savants gasped because it
was unusual and gave them a thrill
more conservative play does not give
I'D and mt EN- Spectacle.
This phase did it's bit to account for
the games being a bristling, up and at
'em spectacle, that feature, also the
quickly recurring ups and downs de-
cided Improvement by Yale In defensive
alertness and vigor. physically and as a
team. and the sweep and swing of
various sorts of long runs and forward
passes. The field was honeycombed
with these.
Errors, such as fumbes, were not in
frequent, and it was football much re-
moved from smoothness and manual
perfection, but to offset such raggedness
there was deal of good, hard playing,
with lengthy runs back of kickoffs as a
conspicuous feature and with Yale some
what surprising the Crimson in that
detail.
It was a gritty finish 10 a speckled
season the Ellis made, and they were no
faded. disconsolate crowd. no matter
what they may have been earlier this
season But an outstanding deficiency
In their game. deficiency which beat
them. was that they had so little in
offence. Harvard was distinctly SUI
perior there, both with the forward pass
and the running game. Yet by and large
Harvards forward pass, which raised
such Cain against Princeton and an
peared to be the most formidable thing
Of its kind along the Atlantic seaboard,
was handled smartly by Yale.
Evidently intelligent means had been
found al Yale to neutralize this play OF
Harvard's. and the Yale men did enough
capital work in various ways in com.
batting the greater versatility and bet
ter organization OF Harvards deceptive
and betimes really powerful onslaught
to prove they were not the dull witted
outfit that they were supposed to be.
Yale had an offence narrow in scope.
a. slipshod forward pass and marked
by inaccurate and hit or miss passing,
an offence able to gain ground only
spasmodically through Harvard's line
and kicking game. which aside from
drop kicking. was consistently better
than Harvard's.
Harvard offence ExceIs.
Yale's was an offence which appeared
thing to happen and not much else. A
strong defence and willingness to
give smashing battle every minute were
Yale's assets and they did not serve
because Harvard had those and a much
better offence as well.
The first kickoff. Cross to owen. was
run back to the centre of the field, and
from that instant II was action. rafting,
resolute battling, with few idle moments
and little that dragged or was slow.
Yale's better punting In the first period
was offset by distance acquired by
Harvard by running back punts. Con-
seauently Yale failed to make most of
"a superiority which should have worked
10 her advantage.
But when Il looked as II fIarvard's
potpourri of passes and runs would
send the Crimson speedily up to the
goal. Aldrich. whose defensive work In
Yale's back field was superb snapped
a Crimson fsrward pass out OF the air
and suddenly Harvard was on the de-
fensive.
Then Fits snatched a long forward
pass from Aldrich and Harvard had the
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