New Britain herald., 1921-11-21
HARVARD SYSTEM
 DEFEATED YALE
Old Style Game Instead Of Aerial ! Attack, BeWildered Ellis

The football season reached its clim- nx on Saturday, and in the games which will be played this week there is not much that can change the trend Of events, From the technical viewpoint. the Army-Navy game will be important chiefly in demonstrat- ing how good the Navy eleven will ha in its big game. Cornell seems head ed for a victory against Penn, and unless Pitt undcrEOcs a sharp rcVer- sal of form. the Penn State-Panthers battle at Forbes Field will be anoth- CT triumph for the remarkably fine aggregation that Hugo Be2dek has at his command this year.
 For the football lover who likes decisive C-tories and emphatic de- feats, Saturday was an unsatisfactory day. Harvard's notable success against what had looked like a bet ter Yale team, tied the Big Three series into a three -cornered knot. For the first time in football history each of the trio won from one rival and lost to the other Princeton beat Harvard and then bowed to Yale. The Ellis, holding the strategic position, failed to realize on it, and the 'soph- omore eleven" proved too young and too inexperienced to stack itself up against the willy strategy of the Har- yard system working at it's best in the fastness of the home gridiron
 The outcome of the Big Three ser gl .scribed above, thoroughly typical of / the entire season. There was little left for Saturdays games to decide. Of the five undefeated teams, three were not scheduled to play. Lafayette had an easy test against Lehigh and only Yale was to meet opposition wor thy of an eleven which had not yet met defeat. And Yale had to be beat en, thus scrambling even more vio- lently the dope" that was already in a state of confusion. Which teams stand out against this neutral back ground will be determined later, but for the present it looks like only Penn State, which went through the most difficult of schedules but never once left off winning.
 Haryard's Tactics Wary.
 Harvards victory over Yale had not been exactly foreseen, but at least there was general agreement that the Crimson would test the Ellis more than had Princeton. For one thing, Bob Fishers men were masters of the forward pass, and lack of defense against this sort of play had been Yale's greatest weakness. Also liar ward was on it's own field. It was an experienced and wise eleven, know ing much football and having been tested before in a big game. Back of all this was the much discussed, much -berated also, Harvard system, which emphasizes the quarterback and the playing of scientific football.
 One of the oddities of the game was the fact that Harvard's greatest strength, presumably the forward pasS-was never a vital fac tor in the game. Yale came to the Stadium thoroughly equipped to stop this form of attack. The center, the linemen, the ends and the backs were all primed to squelCh the Crimson the moment they began flinging those passes that Princeton found so bewl- dering. And whether it was strategy or not, the fact remains that Harvard abandoned the aerial game, shifted its plan of attack in an about-face and left Yale holding the bag. all dressed up with a fine forward pass defense but with no place 70 go with it.
 It took the Ellis one-half to discover that Princeton was forward passing it's way into large gains. It took the Blue the whole game last Saturday to lealn that Harvard did not intend to cm- ploy the pass. The result was that Yale's defense never did get settled down to the business of stopping d straight rushing attack. With the center drawn out Of the line, with the ends and tackles rushing in or else waiting on the scrimmage line, with the secondary defense necessarily scattered and drawn back, Harvard rushed inside tackle and between guard and center for the gains which in the last analysis, sent Yale to de- feat.
 Eale'S Youth Handicap.
 Most observers see now what they had not seen beforc-that the youth of the Yale team while it supplied dash and vervc, was also a handicap. only the experienced and brilliant AL drich was himself against the Grim son. O'Hearn was palplbly nervous and unduly handicapped by the soEgy field. He made mistakes of iudg- ment and manual misplays that help cd to weaken the morale of Tad Jones' band of youngsters In the line thoreH was much evidence of high -strng nerves and faitering when Harvard began applying the pressure. The in- terference showed the same inrohc- rent, uncertain quality as if the Yale sophomores did not quite know what to do in certain situations.
 O'Hearn is too young and talented to be given up as hopeless because of his showing Saturday. lt wIs a hard test for a 19-year-old boy playing hsI first year on the varsity and tlEing part in his first game in the Harvard stadium under the eyes Of .noro than 50,00O spectators. He lid many things that make one wonder if Bee ket would not have !frnn the better man for quarterback. with OIfearn doing his brilliant running at a Ealf- back. One instance of bad general ship came when Yale, trailing tEr Crimson by to 3, was rushing down the field in a mad onslaught that - -