The New York herald., 1922-10-29
RECORD CROWD OF
7S,O0ON THE BOWL
Largest Gathering to Attend
Amateur Sporting Event in
U. s. Sees Contest.
NEALE AND WOOD HEROES
Eli Back Goes Over Line in
Third Peried-WOod Evens
Score in Final.
BY DANIEL.

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 2S.)Fight, Army.
fight" Across the big Bowl came the
old battle cry Of the Cadet corps this
evening from a thousand besieging,
frenzied stalwarts in the West Point
gray Yale's football team. having
scored touchdown in the third period,
chiefly by grace of a remarkable for
ward pass for twenty nine yards, was
leading the desperate Army eleven by
to 0. The shadows fast We're envel-
oping the concrete coliseum (the
fourth quarter was well on its way)
and the Army seemed defeated by a
superior foe.
Flight, Army, fightA' Through the
gigantic saucer it echoed and reechoed.
and, while nearly half Of the record
breaking crowd of $4,000 took up the
yell, the Army fought. Even as Yale
had struck through the air. so did the
Cadets turn to the aerial attack to
save the day for them. Even as the
Ellis had worked themselves to the
four-yard line with that great pass of
lfeliS ., 81 QlQ lHc w cSt OiiitCio . t4$i .
the ball for one startling gain of
twenty -eight yards, and soon hurled it
again for another brilliant advance of
sixteen yards. Two berserker smashes
into the thick Of fighting mass of
blue jerseys--and Bill Wood was over.
A kick by Smythe and the Army elev-
en-, which only a short while before
had appeared beaten, was on even
terms with the Ellis: z to7.
And so 1t remained to the finish
Rarely have two great football COM
Liratons fought a battle which was as
even in group and individual accom-
plshments. In iaurels and in points
and In tactical errors too-as was that
hard contest to-day.
The game thrilled moro persons than
ever before had seen a football game
in this country--7S.000 men and women
in serted ranks. row upon row-a pic
tcre of high prismatic quality framed
in setting of autumn glories
Not since 1911 had the Army beaten
Yale-6 to O. Not since 1907 had there
cen a tie between the old rvals-and
fh. score that year was nothing to
icthing. 1t was in 1902 that they had
Tut over a touchdown apiece-and to-
gay that memorable battle was du-
Heated. 1t was duplicated with new
Jrt of football. with new weapons,
nth great gains which came out OF
the air instead of the crashing ad-
vances of the old game. To-day an
rny team came to avenge the defeat
~ last year, IA to land the defeats
~ many another year. for only thrice
lave the Cadets scored over the Ellis
twenty-five games. Five times have
eX> tied.
Contest Only Mediocre.
rs great games go these days 1t was
D. what could be called spectacular
lntest-this' hard fought scrap In the
.-cna on the outskirts OF New Haven.
it developed nothing startling in the
way OF strategy and stratagcms. But
Ii on start to finish II was fight-a
hand to hand, man to man setto which
tested both sides to the utmost. 1t
called for o world of gameness. lot
Of that rare ability Ito take It," to stay
out there and meet rslly with counter
rally and respond to those recurring
urgent calls from the rows and rows OF
the brimming Bowl. 1t was as rough and
tough a game as Yale and the Army
have played-but IL was clean game.
out OF this furious tic with the Cadets
came a new star for Yale-"Whitey
they call him-"Whitey" Neale who
looked and acted like an Aldrich as he
threw Consideration into the ranks OF
the West Pointers with that fine pass
to Mallory which put Yale In position
to strike for n touchdown--as he snaked
In and around the Cadets--as he crashed
over the Army line for the thirty-ninth
touchdown scored by the Blue over the
soldiers since 1893.
Whitley NcaIe the star.
This young man. called Whitley
from Parkersburg, w. Va, was streak
through a broken field. as slippery as
an eel, with. neat habit of making his
feint AT the end and then cutting sharp
" outside tackle. He had a fine way
of reversing himself. too. He proved
himself q quick starter, fine kicker
n formidable exponent of that formi-
dable triple threat which came near
causing the downfall of the Army.
II was toward the close of the third
period that Neale made his pass TO
Mallory that Yale topped off steady
advance of so yards with touchdown
by that same Whitley from West Viz
Cinia who had been bothering the
Cadets inordinatcly all afternoon. I:
was an advance which outdid that
made by the Cadets for their touch
down, for they went only AZ yards. The
Yale march was more versatile, with a
series of crashes at the start, one brill
liant pass. then compelling. consum-
mating smash which Pot the score over.
Two penalties for offside--the Army
was being penalised quite often--forced
the Cadets to relnquish the ball soon
after they got IL in that third quarter.
Wood who outkicked both Neale and
Wight and gave one of the finest exhi-
bitions of punting yet seen here. fell
lack and sent the leather soaring to the
Tlir.
Yale put the ball in play on its own
4c yard line--and now the march was
fu,, D.~