Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-31
Praying Colonels
Defeat Harvard

the Stadium today. Centre College
of Kentucky, praying eelonels." and
football players Of high degree. with
"Bo" McMillin driving them on. de-
feated the Harvard eleven by a score
of s to 0. The representatives. Of the
smallest college on the Crimson
schedule had accomplished what no
other team had been able to do IN
40 years-defeated Harvard in an In
tersectional battle. / was five years
since the Crimson last met defeat on
its own or any other field.
The victory was 'redoubtable DO
McMillin's, backed by his mates OF
an aggressive, alert and assisting
team. A we'll knit defensive line held
Harvard safe. McMillin, thwarted
time after time. awaited his oppor-
tunity, seized 1t In the third period
and broke through the Harvard line,
reversing part Of his opposing held
evading the other for q 31-yard run
and q touchdown. 1t was brilliant
piece of football work. calling into
play all the elements Of early inter-
ference, straight arm evasion. change
Of pace, slanting run and forward
wash. For yards McMillin raced
within inches of the edge Of the play
inx field, but always insides and his
touchdown was unquestioned.
Centre reversed the defeat received
under McMillin's leadership At the
Stadium last year with McMillin the
leader again. An injury to Arm
strong had forced the Centre captain
of this year out of the game late in
the third period and the end OF the
game found "Bo" back in the cap
taincy that he had relinquished so
that another man might have a
chance.
With the sound OF the final whistle
he took the ball that was the win
ner's lodge Of victory, tore up the
field in q dance alone. then turned
back sd was overtaken by fellow
players,who kissed his cheeks, raised
him on their shoulders and carried
him into a massing crowd that soon
numbered hundreds. 1t was thus
that they bore him off the field of
his exploits, a hero Of the Southland
gridiron, and an acknowledged VIC
tor in the North.
Although Harvard In the fourth
period had planted the ball on Cen
tres threshold. three yards from the
goal, only to have It called back to
the 32-yard line because of an off
side play, there was no question that
the Kentuckians were the better
team. Bob" Fisher, coach of the
Harvard team that lost today. paid
the tribute where he said 1t was due.
IT extend my heartfelt congratula-
tons to the Centre College team"
he said to the Associated Press, af-
ter the game. "They played a clean
game, a good game, and showed that
they were very we'll drilled team.
In 'Bo' McMillin, Centre had man
who was proba bly, the hardest in the
country to stop. The Harvard men
in today's game gave the best they
had"
Centre college in winning today
a showed that an institution with a few
hundred students could cope in mod
ern football play with one Of several
thousand; that team of corpara-
lively recent development could win
over one with the gridiron> tradition
and the coaching system that are
Harvard's behind it. The fact that
the Harvard team that faced the
sOutherners at the outset was not the
same varsity eleven that will line up
against Princeton and Yale was ad-
vanced in no quarter cts an explan
ton of the Crimsons defeat. Most OF
the first string Harvard players got
into the game before it was over.
The Centre college team of today
was the Centre college team Of u
year ago only in personality, eg-
gressiveness and fundamentals. In
operation it was a far more finished
eleven, It's men drilled in line play.
expert In interference, equipped with
plays that carried to the mind OF the
merest novice an appreciation of
their conception and execution.
Harvard was not as good as week
gao In the spectacular game with
- Penn state. The backs bungled their
assignments. juggling the ball when
they did not tumble it, but their err
rors did not show in the result
Buell.. called into the game for field
goal in the second period, missed by
q wide margin under the Centre
charge, and some minutes later
failed again in an effort to boot q
drop kick for a. goal from the so
yard line. Harvard's best accom-
plishment of the afternoon was the
holding OF Centre for downs on their
eight-yard line at the outset of the
fourth period. the last down being
on an uncompleted forward pass at
tempted by McMillin when all efforts
to buck the Crimson line for gains
had failed.
Lineup and summary:
HARVARD CENTRE
Janln, lie. lie, James
Ladd, It,. 1t, Gordy
Hubbard, lg.. .lg, Shadoan
herhah' c.. .............. c, kubale
a prowh' rS. ..rg, Jones
kunhardt, RI. ............rt, Oregon
Macomber, re............re, Roberts
johnson, OBJ. .......... Obj. McMillir
Chaplin. lg. ...........lg, Armstrong
Roulllard. rh. .rh, Snoddy
GenrKe, ID. .......... .fb. Bartlett
- Score by periods:
? centre 0 8 OF
- Touchdown. McMillin
ia Referee, II. w. Maxwell, Swarth.
= more: umpire, W. J. Crowley, Bow
doin; field judge. W. ]. Crowsll
Swarthmore: head linesmen. r G.