New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

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Harvard who had the drive and aggres-
slveness. 1t was Harvard who was
coming up from the depths into the
open country again, and each Yale at
TACK was smothered or broken by q
seam that was out after blood. The
bulldog was now facing q man-eater
VINO had been denied savory food for
over a year-a man-eater who had no
idea OF abandoning the feast. Yale
Was soon forced to kick, and more, the
irresistible Owne got under way. The
great back bowled along until he
reached Yale's 20-yard line, and then
standing upon his 31-yard line he lifted
the ball across the bar for three more
points and Harvard now beyond all
want.
Battle Ends in Triple Tie
After this Yale's attacks in the
swiftly gathering twilight that almost
smut of the players from the stands
were futile and broken. The great
unexpected had happened.
lhe team that had lost to the team
they, IN turn, had beaten was now
rendlng them to pieces. For the first
slme IN football history the three
cornered battle of the old triumvirate
mad resulted in a triple tie Princeton
mad beaten Harvard, Yale had beaten
Princeton and now Harvard was slaugh-
tering Yale.
The story OF the game from an inside
reckoning must come in two parts:
How Harvard Won
How Yale lost.
Harvard won through the brilliant
play OF three stars, Owen, Buell. and
Fltts, working for an almost fiawless
machine that refused to make mistakes.
harvard won because Owen matched
Aldrlch and Yale had no one left to
narch Suell and Fits. Harvard won
through keener. more alert, more in
telligent football that missed no open
lngs and overlooked no chances.
The Crimson system came through
again because it had come to its high
Tor this game and because it was ready
when the big moments came to strike
for victory.
Harvard won because Buell. outgen-
eraled O'Hearn, and possibly as much
as anything else because George Owen
gave one of the greatest exhibitions Of
iooIDaii play ever seen upon any field.
Yale lost because she had no follow
up 1or ner driving power, blocked more
tnan once within scoring distance
through her. inability or refusal to link
deception with sheer power.
Yale lost because her interference
constantly got in the way of her run
ners blocking the path and because on
at least two occasions O'Hearn made
pad mistakes; once when he attempted
to to run sure touchback out and was
thrown upon his own 2-yard line, and
again when ne caught punt and ran
back IN the direction of his own goal.
Crocker mailing him on the 3-yarJ line
Aldrich All-Around Star
Yale lost because her line was fre
quently out charged by the Crimson
forward and because he had no passing
game good enough to get five yards in
time Of trouble. But Yale in no sense
lost through any fault of Captain Aid
rich, who gave an exhibition of all
around stardom that none of the great
crowd will ever forget
Harvard came wfunin whistle
breath of another touchdown in the
second period when Owen tried a kick
| from placement that sailed across the
Yale line. Macomber, of Harvard, on
side at the time, fell on the bali, but
the officials whistle had blown ag the
ball crossed the line, so the touchdown
was disallowed. But for this and the
penalty imposed later on Harvard
might have added fourteen additional
points, which shows again how far this
remarkable team had come back since
the Princeton game and how far Yale
had slipped from her Princeton show
ing. 1t was the case. of Harvard team
coming on, meeting Yale team that
looked to be going back after it's des-
/ pc fate struggle Of the week before
Princeton beat Harvard through bet
ter rendition. Yale beat Prinheton
| through better condition and Harvard
to-day beat Yale through better condi-
tion and quicker thinking. Harvard
will never forget the work this after
noon of Owen, Buell. and Fits, who
have written their names in granite by
the offering that each gave under the
/ big test. They received superb assist
ance from Captain Kane and his entire
/ team, but this lone trio was more than
| enough to upset football destiny and
bring Harvard out of the rut upon
equal terms with those who looked to
have her goal safely corralled beyond
| all hope of rescue.
Yale must wait another year to have
her chance, in the wake of three sue
cessive Harvard defeats. But Yale was
not quite primed for any such unexpect-
ed turn, nor for such terrific hattering
/ as George Owen directed all day
against her often dazed defense.
So Harvard tonight is giving un-
| broken vent to the greatest carnival of
Joy that Cambridge has known in
| years. Her other teams were expected
TO lift the Crimson over the Blue, but
the contribution of this eleven was the
greatest of them all.
In Yale's behalf it can only be said
that she failed to show her form of a
week ago, and that her young team was
! ret quite up to coping with the stuff
1 that Harvard sent her way. Harvard
had the punch at the vital moment
| Yale didn't. That one line tells the
story about as completely as some ten
thousand words.