The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-26
CRIMSON ELEVEN
HAS UPPER HAND
IN GREAT GAME
Owen and Buell. Feature
Battle Against Yale
Grid Machine

BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 90
Harvard defeated Yale today. 10 TO
3, winners with the odds against
them in a game which in exposition
OF play and in scenic spectacle
took high rang in the long line of
these annual contests.
Crimson initiative and Crimson re-
sources overcame the big Blue team
with George owen. Harvard's buriy
back, operating through as indi-
Vidual hero. II was owens run
back of n Yale punt A. yards through
a fighting Yale team that led dt-
rectly to his touchdown and 10 his
succeeding point by kick in tho first
period.
owen Was Star,
Two other scores were made, n
field goal by Charlie O'Hearn, Yale's
star OF the day, from the 22-yard
line I'm the second period, and a fi%d
goal kicked 35 yards by Kari Pfaff-
man, Harvard substitute. who was
in the game one minute and out the
next, in the fourth period. But
owens was the outstanding effort
and the margin OF the Crimson's un-
expected success.
A tactical survey OF the game
shows that Harvard scored on each
OF its real advances into Yale terri
tory: It also shows that Yale five
times drove deep into Crimson areas.
yet scored only once. AS In other
games this season the Blue players,
| by PASS or rush, advanced almost
| twice as many yards as the Crimson.
but were bent back, or pressed to a
| point where their thrusts were In
/ effective all but once.
Held Buell. Back.
Notable in the Crimson system was
| the stategy which kept Captain Buell.
/ one the side lines while third
/ string player, ]. ]. Lee. called sig
/ nails until Harvard had reached o
| commanding position. Then Buel
/ inserted, Notwithstanding a police
able limp from a leg injury, and un-
der the stimulus OF his CALL the
| touchdown came. Under Lee. Har-
ward had twice ,stormed the Blue
goal from the ur-yard line where
. owens was stopped. and still lacked
/ two yards UnGer the captain
Owen was over at a bound,
Harvard's strategy fashioned by
Head Coach Rob Fisher, made fol
/ all-round development that included
surprises in several details. The
numbering Of Crimson players today
for the first time was a surprise
in keeping with the unexpectednes'
| Of Harvard's play.
1000 See Game.
The game was witnessed by 7EeAf
persons in the Yale bowl. From on,
OF the few who were nonpartisans
Georges ClemenCeau. war premier o
France. came the expression tha
was probably representative of tn
opinios OF all, aside from the varied
feeling over the result "Splendi'
sport" he said
Kicking honors between the team
were about even, but a stiff north
west wind. the benefit of which Har
ward had at the outset as resul
of Captain Buells luck in calling tn
J.. coin toss gave the teams an alter
mating advantage. In the first periot
this advantage had forced the BLU
back to kick from their 1s-yard lin
on the punt that owen caught an'
made the starting point of his sensa
tional run.
Great Broken Field Run.
Getting the ball yard beyon'
rlidfield, owen went about. wendinl
a difficult way to the goal, 81 yard
off. with two interferers in tn
early stages. owen slid past A grcu1
of four Yale men. BY straight arm
he Tended off three more at the 80
yard line and changed pace effec
lively to turn back from the sid
Il lines onto which he was bein
! forced Picking up another Inter
fercr. owen faced along spilling
Blue tackler on the 22-yard line b
} his contact. Two other Yale play
ers we're closing in, but Tony HUI
man, star sprintcr for the Blue. VIII
was playlng end today, came teaTin
down. He had almost overhaule
owen at the 1O-yard line, was %
! him three yards beyond, and tn
impetus OF the Harvard's back das
e carried them three yards more.
Bell on i-fard Line.
e Harvard had the ball on Yale
: 4-yard line. The Blue team stoo
t Just outside its goal line to make de