The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Continued from First Page.


James-it was. who slanted and swept
through and around the Crimson for one
big gain after another as the Gold and
White of the Praying Colonels went
marching to the Harvard goal line.
Covington, it was, who fought with
unquencha BILE fury as the shadows
seeped into the stadium and the game
was waning. In desperation, he went
to the forward pass as his chief weapon.
and for a time. II looked as if Centre
would cross the Harvard goal line for
second time.
GcneraIshfp Not Good.
But once Harvard took the ball when
Centres air attack failed on the fourth
down. On another occasion, just before
the battle closed, the Crimson took the
ball out to it's 20 yard line after a touch
back, created when Centre hurled a
pass over the goal line-only to see 1t
smeared and fall to the turf. Centre
had marched forty-seven yards down
that field, only to gamble and see It's
hard earned advantage thrown to the
winds. Its generalship was not always
sound.
Soon Harvard punted the ball back to
Centre. 1t was getting quite dark and
on Covington again--ssked him to drop
kick a goal from midfield. And Coving-
ton failed. Then came the whistle. and
Harvard, with twenty-four points made
In the first half, had won. But Harvard
had known what it was to fight against
a foe which kept surging. fighting
madly right up to the final whistle.
Owen toolS over the first touchdown
after Roscoe Fits had recovered Snow
the Harvard left flank. The recovery
Owen also drop kicked the seventh point
into the-score sherke IL was who .'ar.
ried over the second Crimson touch
Gown, with Buell. drop kicking for the
fourteenth point.
And then toward the finish of the first
reriod, Owen picked up Covifgton's ftm-
BILE on Centres thirty-seven yard mark.
A great forward pass from Buell. 20
Chaplin was good for thirty-three yards
and third touchdown Again Buell.
drop kicked--and now the score was Il
to 0.
While Covington's tumble helped Har-
ward no little, that forward pass was a
thing of beauty and would have made
moro ground had the occasion required.
Chaplin had clear field In front OF him
Harvard interfered splendidly on that
play.
The "sing Sing Shift"
THAT "Sing Sing shift"--the "iock-
step" the "penitentiary." or whacever
else YOU may choose to call that peculiar
play--was kept under cover by Centre
until It was fourteen points behind.
Then It came, all OF a sudden. Without
question it was that mysterious play
with which Centre promised TO score any
time It got inside the Crimson's 25 yard
line.
Nobody ever had seen anything just
Ike that shift before. Nobody fond OF
real. sound football will want to see
that shift again. IL was more In the
nature of a surprising "shoestring" than
a topnotch shift and might have brought
ketter results IL II had not been over
worked. True, Il sent Centre on a
march OF fifty yards in the second
period. but when the Colonels got to
point where real punch was de-
manded, the "Sing Sing shift failed
utterly, where a straight inside game
might have turned the trick.
There were four variations or uls
freak stunt. The shift called for lat
eraI march OF the entire team. The
players faced the side lines and with
lockstep. marched calmly and delib-
erately 70 either the right or the left,
according to signal There was no
hurry about IT, There was no jump tn
tho hip, hip, no attempt to catch the
opposition off its balance. with q quick
maneuyer and quicker thrust.
We want to emphasize this: Never
was there the least bit of hurry. And
Harvard fell for that stunt time and
again. until football men IN the stands
wondered and wondered. The idea of
that shift was psychological more than
physical. without question II left the
Crimson in doubt as TO what TO look
for. since II developed a sweep or a
slant. forward pass or a plunge. As
the ball was snapped by the end. the
backs developed terrific momentum and
went crashing on. But that momentum
and that ability to crash on might have
been put to better use with greater re-
course to the direct smashing attack
off tackle.
SO much for the Lock step shift"
which il the latest thing in football
styles and without question will uevelop
a lot OF discussion. There Is no quts-
tion as to it's legality, for, unlike other
shifts, Il does not call for perfect tim
ing.--momentum developed when tho hall
is snapped--or shading the rule. ITS