New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Tiger Learns
New Thrills i'm
Cridiro11 Battle
Clemenceau Pronounces
Yale Harvard Struggle
for Victory Magnificent
If just a Bit Too Noisy
Crowds Cheer Ex-Premier
Visitor Showered With Red
Chrysanthemuns as Snake
Dance Celebrates Score
BY Boyden Sparkes

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 25.--
Georges Clemenceau, whose life has
been devoted to a succession Of strug-
gles-struggles Of ideas, of political
factions, of nations and of alliances
watched the Harvard Yale football
game here to-day and got tremendous
thrill out Of the experience.
Magnificent sportl" exclaimed the
"Tiger," with sparkling eyes, as he rest
ed tonight in thickiy cushioned chair
in his private car in the railroad yards.
poilu's faded cap sheltered his bald
head from treacherous drafts. his feet
rested on thick mat, his hands were
relaxed on the arms of his chair. but
he could not put from his mind the
pictures left there by his days adven-
ture.
"I liked it very much" he said. "sin-
cerely liked it. At first, too, liked
the noise, but there can be too much
of something. 1t was so with the
yelling. should have had less"
The old man who only a few years
ago was keeping alive the courage Of
France while the fate of the world
rested in the struggle Of opposing lines
of undiscovered men who hurled death
at each other from trenches that
SCARED the earth from Switzerland to
the English Channel--this old man
watched with enthusiasm the contest
of two football teams, He cannot be
so very old, in spite of his eighty-one
years, and he was as much college
hero tonight as the twenty one-year
old 189-pound Harvard left half,
George Owen jr, who carried this ball
fifty-seven yards until only g push
over was needed FOR touchdown.
Harvard Cheers "Tiger'
When the game was over it was
CIemenceau who was cheered in the
Harvard section, it was Clemenceau
who was showered with crimson petaled
chrysanthemums, it was Clemenceau
about whose ungainly figure the VIC
tory celebrants tried to wind their
snake dance.
Possibly the old man learned some-
thing as he sat there, first in the sun
in the Harvard section and then In the
colder atmosphere of the Yale rooters.
He may have realized, as more than
half of the Harvard team during the
last part OF the game were assisted, to
the side lines to nurse their injuries,
that there before him was isolated for
scientific scrutiny that something, that
dash and daring, that he remarked
with thankfulness when he discovered
it in two million Yankees who swarmed
into France in the darkest hour of the
war.
Magnificent" was his estimate to-
night, and it is hardly possible that he
was thinking only of the 10 to Har-
ward victory
Nj. Clemenceau left Boston at $3.50
this morning. His objective was the
same as that of some 10000 other
atoms of humanity, surging into New
Haven on trains, automobiles, trolley
cars and afoot, but because Of the re-
spect with which he is regarded the
way was made triie easier for him
than for the mass Of the rooters. The
private car Bethlehem was switched on
to a siding, and Immediately Thomas
Farnum, secretary of Yale University,
stepped aboard, bearing credentials of
admittance to the Yale Bowl, without
which it is doubtful whether even the
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