The New York herald., 1921-10-24

Yale in Great Form.
Yale's fine victory over the Army
was expected. but the showing Of both
Ellis and Cadets exceeded what had
been looked for. The Blue, by virtue
of that splendid threat which is embodied
in its stellar backfield. by virtue OF its
speed and fighting qualities, its fine
lire play and far ..reater mastery
OF the fundamentals than it was able
to show even at the close Of the 1920
campaign, put up November exhibition
against the West Pointers. Scouts from
Harvard and Princeton saw lot and
wondered how much moro the Ellis could
throw into the arena.
Harvard played fine Z, otball against
Penn State, but was Mighty fortunate
to emerge with a tie at 81 to '21. Had
Penn State held on to the ball 1t would
have defeated the Crimson by couple
of touchdowns. But the breaks once more
went the way of Harvard.
There were thousands in that gath
ering In the stadium who gave the credit
to Harvard luck. They gave the credit
| to Harvard luck when Holy Cross was
beaten by a field goal, and they gave the
credit TO Harvard luck When Georgia
was nosed out the week before. But
! when a team makes il habit to win
through the breaks 1t Is not luck. 1t is
highly developed nose for the ball. 1t
is football--fght and alertness.
Tigers Meet Their Master.
AS sor Princeton. it found itself put
into eclipse by better eleven-better
at nearly every position. Had Chicago
got the most out OF it's margin Of superb
ority the score would have been much
bigger But the Maroon very often was
guilty of poor strategy. while the Tigers
fought with utmost determination and
grit, and they had a man by the name
Of keck. Princeton fought even too
hard, for penalties made a lot OF trouble
for Bill Roper's team.
Outside OF the Big Three the most
startling result Of the day was the over
whelming defeat of Syracuse by Pitts
burgh team, which suddenly found itself
The Lafayette victory over F'ordham
here was in line with expectations. So
was the Georgia Tech success over
Rutgers. The surprise there was the
fact that Rutgers got IL points. That
makes things look bad for the
Golden Tornado for Its game with Penn
State here next Saturday.
Penn State Is very likely to defeat
the Southern eleven. and IL would not
surprise us II at the close OF the season
the Nittany Lion stands at the top OF
the heap in the East. State certainly
has the greatest potentialities. Many
a day has passed since a team scored
three touchdowns against Harvard.
To return to what We saw In the Har-
yard-Penn State tie. We saw a Har-
ward line which was very erratic--nore
effective on attack than in defence and
not as effective in a general way as
the forwards OF last season. We saw
some deadly tackling- that by both
teams. We saw some November inter-
ference--that mainly by Penn State. We
saw altogether too many fumbles--
these due no doubt to overanxiety. for
the air was balmy. There was no frost
TO make fingers numb and that gives
that cold weather elusive feel to the
ball.
owen and Grntwick Star.
Harvard did fine work at the ends. 1t
had strength I'm punting and 1t had a
lot OF resourcefulness. II had a power.
full punch at the start and It developed
another one just when everybody
thought that IL was beaten. Owen and
then GratwiclS proved remarkable car
riers of the ball They crashed through
meagre openings for big gains
owen carried the ball nine times for
an average gain of three yards per rush.
and played the big role In the scoring
Of that very important first touchdown.
After Owen had been rushed to a stand
stlll Bob Fisher sent Gratwick 70 tako
his place. Gratw.cl was rushed until
he was done--and Harvard had another
touchdown.
Brell was strong on attack, strong on
defencc-and in every play. His gem
oralship ut times dcviatcd greatly from
what had come TO be regarded as hard
and fast tenets at Harvard. Both teams
very often discarded all theories of zone
play-and II was Harvard which most
often moulded its attack in defiance of
these theories.
For example. in the second period,
Harvard found itself with the ball on
It's own II yard mark. Instead OF kick
ing right out OF danger--and "a great
kick by Fits had led TO the scoring
OF the first touchdown--the Crimson
elected 10 rush the bail. Two rushes
failed and then Fits had to punt in a
hurry.
Pass Deep In Own Territory.
in the third period Penn state was
in the shadow OF It's own goal posts
and yet It dared to fling forward pass.
The pass failed and soon State punted.
Then there was that desperate stage
in the fourth period when Harvard
needed a touchdown 20 tie. On It's own
Is yard limo the Crimson inaugurated
the aerial attack which eventually led
TO it's gaining the tie. However, ot that
time Harvard had nothing to lose and
everything to gain. Zone play be
hanged, The Crimson needed that
touchdown.
Incidentally Harvard was saved by
that very play which IL would like to
ano Hovftaifzcl II had heen expecfcd