The New York herald., 1922-11-26
OWEN FOLLOWS RUN
With A TOUCHDOWN
Crimson Back, Hero of Game,
Takes Ball Over From Three
Yard Line.
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Pfaffman of Harvard and
O'Hearn Of Yale Kick Goals
From Field.
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BY w. o. McGEEHAN.

BY w. o. McGEEHAN.
Special Dispatch to THE New YORK Hr1sLs.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 25.-Harvard up
set I'll expert predictions in the Yale
Bowl to-day with the same startling
suddenness with which George Owen,
Jr., the Harvard back, upset ten Yale
tacklers in brilliant 81 yard run.
The Yale team, displaying the same
lack of conference that it showed
against Princeton, was beaten by 10
to g. In the last few moments the
Yale men in desperation started a
passing game that had the Harvard
team utterly bewildered, but this flash
came too late.
That dash OF owen was one of those
highly improbable events that come
about once IN football season when
teams are as evenly matched as the
two were to-day In the middle of the
first period O'Hearn, for Yale. punted
from near his 15 yard line. The punt
was low and two Harvard men were
after it, The ball glanced along the
leg of one Of these. Owen, playing
back, sprang forward and scooped
1t in.
BY this time the entire Blue team
was strung along the field. Owen
lodged the first two men that sprang
at him. Then he twisted and ssQuirmed
through Il little knot of Ton. men In
Blue jerseys Another Yale tackler
hurled himself at him and was flung
aside by a straight arm thrust. The
Crimson jerseys focked behind Oweu
as he sped for that Yale goal line
spreading out toward the left 1t
seemed that he had cleared all OF the
Blue barriers and that the way was
clear for a touchdown. Yale tacklers
lay sprawled in his wake.
owen Makes n Touchdowu
Huffman, the Yale left 80. s-e.acd 10
cling on. and as =
steadily to the Heius st Mu
out of bor- .t ss rsi, saro Zoo.
The rest .r p1 tsr hsu-
mering throus C e.rsA ne
ball across l.raoj mao. re goal
with drop kick
Harvard team scored their h
points before the crowds in the Yale
cheering section could recover from their
bewilderment. Even the occupants Of
the Harvard sections across the field
seemed startled by what had occurred.
The Yale team recovered quickly
enough from the shock. and they started
to fight not only with ferocity but
effectiveness. II seemed after the Yale
team had steadied itself that the expert
opinions might yet hold good. In the
second period Yale started one march
to win striking distance OF the Harvard
goal. and o'Hearn scored a drop kick
from the % yard line.
When the second half started the Yale
adherents felt sure that their team would
come back and sweep through the Grim
son line. But the Yale men seemed
tagged out rather than rested. They
lacked fire. They lacked inspiration.
To use the symbol Of the college, IL was
sullen and floundering bulldog that
faced the Crimson in those last two
periods
In the fourth period Harvard started
another march toward the Yale goal
Hammond fumbled and the Yale line
started TO hold Pfaffman. the Harvard
substitute quarter. was sent in for Just
one play. drop kick He made Il
standing on the Yale 20 yard line and
Immediately was taken from the line
up. That. they say. was in accordance
with the Harvard system.
Pfaffman in practice showed himself
20 be rather a mediocre quarterback.
but a specialist at drop kicking. Where
upon he was called In to do his speciality
and then taken right out again.
II was in the last few m'ru.es OF
play that the Yale team started 10 turn
loose with ts forward passes. Neale.
who replaced O'Hearn. threw hem to
Neidlinger and the combination worked
so surely that tho Harvard team was
in something bordering on a panic.
Fate Against the Ellis.
Those passes brought the line Of Blue
rapidly up into Harvard territory and
the Crimson Jerseys were being spread
about the field IN panicky fashion.
Those Of the Yale men who are brood
ing over the game tonight have Il that
II the Yale men had started their pass
ing at the start OF the game instead of
at the flnsh the result might have been
decidedly different But fate was
against the Yale team. IL had been
picked by the experts 20 win and IL
has held consistently this season. with
the big three" that the team favored
by the experts had not been favored :
by the net results.
Again IL was demonstrated that tho
Yale team could launch a splendid at
tack. They could march up 20 within
striking distance Of the Crimson goal
line. but when the time came TO strike
they failed. II Is rather brutal for one.
who sat on the rim OF the bowl cooling
his heels while the game was on 20
begin to get critical over athletes that
gave as much as the Yale men did to-
day.
The thought occurs 10 your corre-
spondent that other Yale teams have
fought just as doggedly aud as ineffec-
lively as did this fine team to-day. IL
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