The New York herald., 1921-11-20
ny WILLIAM b. HANNA.


sneoiai Despatch to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 19.--Har-
Yards formidable record OF football
successes contains nothing in which
sne can take more pride than in what
her football team did to-day. The
Crimson, with fine and fighting
recovery after mottled season of
ups and downs, was at its best in its
latest and most important test and
won from a strong Yale eleven by
10 to 8.
once again what has come to be
tradition, that Yale cannot make a
touchdown or win a victory in the
Stadium. was fulfilled. Yale scored a
Held goal in the first period and there
Ha,e's scoring stopped.
All of the Harvard points, a touch
down, then a field goal, were made in
the fourth period, and it was there
that Harvard rose to eminence as "a
Fighting team If not as a team of
actual football excellence. Harvard
made ten points on a team which up
TO that period was it's superior but
which did not finish with the power
and speed of the Cambridgians.
Ending I'm Near Darkness.
Blue and Crimson were interlocied in
the dusk of dying day near midfield
and at that moment Crimson was distin-
guishable from Blue only by knowing In
which direction each side -was running.
Otherwise the color of the players jer-
seys told nothing. for the fast falling
darkness had blotted out color with its
opaque curtain
But what the spectators did know
and there were $1,000 of them all sitting
tense and not sure until the last whistle
which way the game would end--what
they did know was that Harvard was
outdoing itself and that Yale, playing
TOO with unshaken courage in the face
of what drew closer and closer to as
bitter defeat as ever was visited on
i. the Blue, had only a remote chance to
win.
Soon the whistle blew. the battling
forces were swallowed up in the night
and the Harvard students flocked out
for their most buoyant. snakiest, most
writhing and most exuberant snake
y N
Harvard, in the opinion Of the proph-
esying elect. had not been expected to
win this game and had been nominated
for defeat. Yale was rated stronger and
Harvard was the under dog. The odds
were on Yale, but the game proved that
odds had no business being ON Yale. for
Harvard reached her last and most i'm
portant game much stronger than she
expected to be and with boundess faith
in herself to prove as good as the Bull
dog.
Costly Penalty Turns Tide.
third period. with Yale leading by three
points and in fair way to hold that
margin to the end. one of the few PEN
altles of the game. costly fifteen yards
foi. holding, was inflicted on Yale--a
vitally costly fifteen yards.
Yale had the ball near her own goal
lire and O'Hearn had just run it eight
yards further into the field. But on that
play there was holding and Yale was set
back to her own yard line. Aldrich
punted a good punt to midfield. 1t was
q good enough punt to have saved the
situation had 1t been properly covered.
but it was not. and just here came the
play which turned the tide from Blue TO
Crimson and which neutralized all that
Yale had done to outplay Harvard, and
that all was good deal.
Buell. Dashes - Yards.
Buell. Of Harvard snatched the punt in
n1dfield, swung wide to his right with
the generally proficient Yale ends and
tackles unable to get near him. Before
he was thrown to the soggy turf he had
thanked the Ellis and run forty-four
yards to Yale's IL yard line.
The period ended and the teams
moved to the other end of the field to
buckle to it again. Yale grimly despcr-
ate: Harvard In q frenzy Of delight and
expectancy.
The uproar was tremendous as they
formed for the scrimmage. then died
suddenly to dramatic silence. Yale
had repulsed stab at her right wing
,As the last play of the third period. The
first play OF the fourth was a fake for
ward pass on which Owen, a catapult OF
a man to-day. drove to Yale's 3 yard
line.
owen Crashes over.
Third down and half a yard TO go.
third down on Yaic's one-half yard line.
her last chance. Harvard piled over the
goal line. Owen carried the ball. and
stopping Owen was no childs play. The
pack heaved and rose on the goal line.
and IL was SO close there that not until
tho pile was untangled could the referee
say IL a touchdown had been scored. IL
had. by inches, but, for oil practical
purposes. BY miles, ard .he Harvard
side OF the Crimson Stadium blazed into
q crimson delirium.
Harvard added three points by drop
kick by the irrepresslble Owen, but they
were superfluous yet useful, for they
meant the best Yale could do was to tie
the score. Yale failed in that, but the
game was not over by n good deal.
Yalo started a ripping drive, cut and
slash march which ran Harvard back
so close to her own goal line that her
men could feel IL OF their backs.
Aldricb Pass Intercepted.
Yale was eleven yards from a touch
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