The New York herald., 1921-11-18
YALE TEMPTED TO
OFFER FALSE ODDS
Talk Of 8 to ) and Even 2 to l
Against Harvard Seems
Ridiculous.
CRIMSON TO STRESS PASS
Ellis Likely to Use Mainly Its
Threat-Other Football
ToII-
BY DANIEL.

For the first time in ten years we
find Yale a real favorite over Harvard
in the betting on their annual football
game. While the Big Three climax in
reality shapes up as no better than an
even money proposition, it is true that
in so far as the general betting public
Is concerned the showing of the Ellis
against Princeton calls for their giving
odds against the Crimson. But some of
the odds we heard about yesterday
sounded ridiculous.
We heard that some of the Yale men
We're sending money to New York and
Boston to be offered at s to and even
2 to 1. These Ellis are superenthus-
lasts and should be disccura ged. If they
actually are willing to give anything
even resembling to /. they are playing
right into the hands of the professional
betting element. If these gentry got
any of that money they will, without
doubt, lay off their bets and be in clover
even before the kickoff. Professional
gamblers have profited by only too
many similar situations in the past.
They stand in the background, always
cool and collected--and they collect
Partisans are swayed by sentiment
tnd tradition. In this instance Yale
men are giving considerable weight to
these facts-first, that there never yet
mas been triple tie for the Big Three
honors and that Harvard having lost to
Princeton, must now bow to history and
lose to Yale, too second, thai never has
Harvard eleven which. lost to Prince
ton been victorious over Yale. third,
never has a Yale eleven which entered
the fight with Harvard unbeaten been
defeated by the Crimson. These be in
teresting facts indeed, but are they up
TO stopping a thirty yard forward pass
or forty yard dash for touchdown?
Pass VIII Figure Large.
The forward pass, let it be understood
Is bound to play q very important role
in to-morrow's shindfg. Yale has q
pretty effective toss. but we do not ex-
pect the Els TO use the pass as q major
weapon. They are sure to utilize the
threat thereof more than the pass itself,
for they have too much that is sound in
the way of ground weapons to throw
major stress on the air game.
But Harvard. we believe, will use the
pass as soon as it gets near midfield.
We do not think that il will wait until
1t gets inside Yale's 40 yard line to
turn to the aerial attack. We build
that supposition on the companion sup
position that Harvard will find its in
side attack stopped and its running at
tack discouraged. We do not expect
that the Crimson will show any greater
punch on attack than it showed against
Princeton.
If Harvard does turn to the pass and
does make it an effective instrument
and the chances are bright-it may toss
and gamble Its way to a victory. The
Crimson has far better conceived pass
than Princeton had. The Harvard air
game usually works out of a very de-
ceptve inside threat ana is far more
difficult to diagnose than the Tiger
aerial attack Harvard's tiptop pass
does not take as long to develop and
it does not require preliminary spread
ing of the attack. 1t has Turing. fool
ing qualities-the best pass we have
seen this season.