The New York herald., 1922-10-22
CRIMSON UPHOLDS 1
ANCIENT TRADITION
Kentuckians Fail as Others
Have to Score Straight Vic
tories at Cambridge.
CoLONELs LOSE 2 OF 3
Covington, a Super McMillin,'
and Red Roberts Stumped by
Harvard's Warriors.
ny DANIEL.

SOLDIERS FIELD, CAMBRIDGE, Mass,
Oct. Pin spite OF the Homerio
achievements of Flash" Covingtor
super McMillin; despite the comp
| virility and rowing deadliness oS the
famboyant RED" Roberts. and despite
/ a most peculiar and altogether ne"
lockstep shift which repeatedly threw
the Harvard eleven into confusion, the
| Centre College football team was de-
feated by the Crimson in the Stadium
] here this afternoon. The score was
/ "a to 10.
They never repeat against Harvard
on its own field. Fate--and the vaunted
Harvard systenl--have made that rule
as immutable as the laws of the Per.
slams and the Medes. Last fall great
| fighting combination in the bright yels
low Jerseys of Centre came up herd
from the blue grass of Kentucky and
astounded the football world with a
triumph over the Crimson. to 0. To-
\ day almost that same eleven atternpte$
| what never had been accomplished-<
| endeayored to beat Harvard twice ia
succession in the classic amphitheater
by the bank OF the Charles-but this
time Centre failed
of the Praying Colonels from Kentucky
here. and the series was closed with the
Crimson showing two out OF three. In
1920 Centre was beaten by 81 to -
.Iext fall the Big Three ban on inter-
sectional contests will go into effect
and Centre will be denied the privilege
of showing its splendid fighting spirit.
its dash and It's originality in the
stadium. But having gone. the Colonies
have left behind them a record OF which
they may well be proud--a record which
is not lauded sufficiently by the nlsee
arithmetic Of the scores.
l'H Glory I'm Deis~s..
There was glory aplenty even in -
feat for the Centre team this after
noon. More than $4,000 persons--the
I greatest crowd which vet has jann:ned
the stadium-were thrilled by the s3-
empary gameness and aEgress.veness
% the Colonels as. with the score 81
- 0 against them after the first quar-
ter. they surged with heads unbowed
and rallied brilliantly. When the two
shadows after their furious fight ~ae
done the plardits for the beaten Coloneis
were fully as vocferous as those which
acclaimed the victorious Harvard men
Let not one whit OF credit he taken
away from the Harvard team II Centre
played fine football, and fought hard %
did the Crimson The Blue Grass COM
bnation came here primed to the min.
ute for its greatest effort OF the season
4 7. had been saving It's physical ana meils
tai effort for this attempt to make foot
ball history.
Harvard. too. was all set for a sfne
game But Harvard. catching itself from
time 70 time in the early part OF the
contest, showing a little too much to the
scouts from Yale. Princeton and Dart
mouth. retreated into It's strategic she'll
Harvard had TO treat this battle as q
mile post In its progress down the lone
road. And Harvard acquitted itself we'll
Two major errors practically gsys
Harvard two OF those three touchdowns
which Il piled UP in the arst fifteen min
utes Of play. These errors-hoth
fumbles. one by Terry Snowday and the
other by the flashing Covington--thrc7
Centre of its game and for the time be-
ing dealt IL powerful psychological
blow Harvard. riding the high wavs
of prosperity went crashing and sn1asn-
ing along. apparently headed for at least
Nifty. points. And then 1t was stopped
short
Harvard stops.
Harvard got three more points in tNs
second period when Pfaffman, rushed
into The battle for that purpose. drop.
kicked field goal from twenty-foue
Yards. Centre had stopped the inside
and sweeping game OF the Crimson. ~
had hurled back Churchill for loss
after Il had dropped him In his tracks
~ an effort 10 skirt the left wing. 30
Pfaffman came IL and kicked--and lfar~
ward stopped scoring for the day.
Centre scored. too. in thst second
period. just before the Crimson got Ten
field goal Harvard, which had been
driven to confusion by the peculiar
Sing Sing shift" OF the Keutucky
eleven suddenly got the gauge OF this
play. Three shifts and three smashes
had yielded only fur yards. and then
Centre was forced to resort to the drop
kick. Covlngton booted the ball over
the bar from eighteen yards. Centre
had marched fifty yards to place itsef
IN position TO gain the three points.
rney howailed the Joss of "Bo" Mo-
Mlllin. did those Kentucklans before
they came here. But in the white heat
OF the Berserker battle which unfolded
itself here to-day an even greater Mc-
Mililn came to the fore lie was no
newcomer. this youngster. Covington.
He showed his ability in the closing
minutes Of the game here last October.
The "F1ash" and the RABBIT" thsJ
called him then. The Flash and the
Rabbit--the specdster and the Titan,
too. he was out re to-day.
Covlngton. Il was. who gave centre ns
touchdown In the early minutes OF ths
fourth quarter. Covington. Il was. who
darted thirty-eight yards-for the long.
est run OF the same--ln the CLOSING
minutes OF the third period after catch.
ine Ghcrkes punt. Covington the flssh
from Mayfield KY, who was chfl7tenea
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