The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-18
Yale Has No Excuses to
Offer for It's Defeat
Blue Was Beaten by Better Boston Eleven-HaWard
Swept Through Williams and Tigers Walked
All Over w. and L.
BY DANIEL.

Among several startling results in
football last Saturday the most star
Ting by far was the defeat of Yale by
Boston College by two touchdowns to
three. Second among the surprises
was the score of Al to 0 piled up by
Penn State on the North Carolina State
eleven, which had defeated the Navy.
The third unexpected development was
the hard fight which Colgate gave
Brown in holding it to only a brace
of touchdowns.
Pennsylvania's close call against La
fayette, which it was able to defeat by
only to 0. may be rated by many as
another upset, but it was not I'M
looked for by close students of the
game. Neither We're Harvard's easy
victory over Williams, Princeton's
romp against Washington and Lee
and the Syracuse Pittsburg draw. A
highly pleasing feature of the day was
the so to 0 tally by which Cornell won
over Union.
Yale was beaten by Boston College
last year by s to in a game in which
the Ellis had no excuses, but really
beat themselves. There was plenty of
ground for the statement that the re-
suit was more oss of a fiulxe. In
that contest Yale owed material and
what might be termed the divine
spark" but it was hampered by lack
of tools with which to work out its
manifest superiority over the Boston
eleven. 1t was powerful, but did not
know how to apply its strength.
Last Saturday there was a different
state of affairs. In the first quarter. in
which Boston played the old Princeton
game of kicking on the first or second
down and waiting for the Ellis to make
mistakes. the Blue held the advantage.
Each side got a touchdown, but while
the Boston score was due to a Yale fun
bic and Rodericks run of So yards the
Yale march across the Boston goal line
was the development of power.
Boston Better Team.
Late in the game, when the Ellis bat
tied like men inspired to get another
touchdown-and got it--Yale again
showed to advantage. But at all other
times Boston was the better team. At
the end of the game the eleven coached
by Frank Cavanaugh showed enough
credits to earn the decision fairly and
squarely. Boston won because it was
the better team-scrappier, faster, better
drilled for that particular game. with a
far superior gounding in the funda-
mentals.
If it had not been for that great
finish by Yale we would have come
away from the bowl with the impression
that we had seen the worst eleven
which ever had gone into a game for the
Blue. But that fine rally was a saving
grace and showed that the team has
lot of that fight which is a tradition In
Yale football, and which has lifted many
an eleven of seeming mediocrity at mid
season into a high place at the close
Tad Jones is confronted with Her
culean task. But 1t Is not hopeless
one. There is no ground for panic.
The most glazing fault with the Yale
team is its lack of ends. The men who
were listed as ends--converted tackles,
most OF them.-had no real conception
of their duties. They were far too slow
both on attack and defence. They played
neither the waiting game nor the smash
ing game. They just were not there
When it came to running down the field
Under their punts the ELI wings were
slower than many of the other forwards
and even some OF the backs. It was
the worst end play yet seen at Yale.
ELI TaclSling Atrocious.
The second elaring fault with the
Elis-perhaps the worst fault-was their
taclSling. or rather their lack Of it. Bos-
ton tackled low and tackled hard, with
snap, precision and despatch. Yale
missed and missed again, and when one
of the Ellis did get his man ne got him
around his waist or around his neck.
There was nothing sure about the Yale
tackling at any stage of the game. There
was only one certainty about tit was
atrocious, far worse than the sad tack
ling of the Ellis i'm the Boston game OF
1919
Next to the ends the worst spots in the
Yale line are the tackles. We were par
ticularly disappointed in the work OF
Dickens. who stood out as pretty capa-
bic lineman last season. The spot where
Dickens should have been was the me-
dunn for many big gain by Boston,