New-York tribune., 1921-10-23

fourteen points, with the final quarter
fading out and dusk settling over the
scene-to face this bleak, gray outlook
and then surge back with renewed
courage, is something few teams in
football ever do in the closing mo-
ments. French, with his bewildering
speed and his accurate passing, had all
Yale looking for the worst, rs one
touchdown went over and the other
only failed by span. In these closing
moments the crowded bowl, with its
human freightage of $4,000 souls, was a
seethlng, clamoring mass, wrought UP
mene as one brilliant play followed
another and both machines met the
issue with everything they had at the
finish. There was no holding back on
either side.
Blue Forwards Hold Fast
O'Hearn's long distance punting was
by the Army's attack, and French, al
though limping, failed to spare himself
&C any turn. The feature that pleased
Tad Jones above everything else was
the resolute play of his forwards.
Jones had known that his backfeld,
even minus C'Hearn, was ready for the
test. But the line had yet to be proved.
II was proved to-day, for against
Greene, Garbisch, Breidster, Mulligan,
Storck and others it met forward wall
of power and merit, one that was able
to hold when danger threatened, but
ore that also found in the Yale for
wards an aggressive, hard-charging lot
that were not to be swept aside.
For two Of the three touchdowns
were made by Che atmospheric route
ST oY2o RI
to be traversed as q goal was threat
ened. The fast, hard-running O'Hearn
was the only back on the field who ar
rived without using 8 pass to help him
along the way.
In the last half West Point had all
the better Of the attack, but not quite
enough to make up for Y~e's superior
kicking and the seventyfour yard dash
which Aldrich injected at the psyche
logical moment. For Yale the brilliant
play of Into and Mallory upon defense
were shining spots along the road
Both worked their way up to stardom
by their afternoons display Add to
this the slashing line plunging of Doc
Jordan and the fine punting and back
field play of Captain Aldrich. These
two, with O'Hearn, later on featured
Yale's attack. The Blue in Beckett
also proved that it had a worthy sub
stitute for O'Hesrn when he neeaa Sest
later on.
Yale's Play Shows Advancement
.Yale's play showed an October ad
vancement worthy Of extended notice
with her ends, her line and her backs
all moulded into machine that will
bear close watching later on when ad
ditonal stars are ready to start. The
spectacular play Of French was The
main feature of the Army's attack, but
one should not overlook the fine worl
of her forwards nor the hard, con
sistent running Of Halfback Wood, who
bowled along with speed and power anc
who was hard 60 bring down once unde,
way.
Wilhide was one Of the main lumi
naries of the day until injuries forced
him out. The main Army weakness wa:
| erratic punting, where three short kick!
| by Wood, all hurried. cost heavily. Out
side Of these three mistakes the cade
kicker was very good. 1t was grea
game for Yale TO win and hard game
for the Army to lose. But in the win
ming Yale at last can answer the ole
criticism that she has no regard fol
modern play. The machine Tad Jone!
sent into battle this afternoon was
modern all the way through, the mos
alert Yale machine we have seen II
many year