New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
traditional Fighting Spirit Against Win by Only Touchdown
Haruard Wit Triumphs Over
Yale Braun by 10 TO 3 Score

| Princeton would have welcomed with q
| victorious grip. But again Yale, only
a step or two from, the lon9-defended
! Crimson line, had nothing st her com.
mand to force the Issue and win back
/ her fading remembrance OF football
glory, now hardly more than one OF
| the ancient myths.
Tries Open Play Too Late
Once again her play and her finish
were typical Of recent Yale years.
| When the open play was needed, Yale
I in the main fell back or mower. When
| the first streaks of dusk were coming
| down and Harvard was well In front.
| Yale too late went to the style Of play
that might have woH. In the last two
minutes of the game, deep from her
| own territory, Yale made forty-nine
yards by forward passing Of the more
extended type, but these mid-feld
gains all went to complete and utter
waste. They had come too late and
the attack and the strategy that come
too late might just as well never start
at all.
Harvard, scoring seven points in the
first period, had beaten Yale without
making frst down, either by rushing
the ball or using a forward pass. In
this case IL was no particular general
ship by Buell. that carried the day.
1t was that one vital march of George
OWENS, and that march was all that
Harvard needed. If she had never
made another foot OF ground she had
the game won and the day saved
against an attack that was fast enough
and powerful enough, but that had no
scoring quality beyond q drop-kick
from the field.
1t was early in the second period that
q fine forward pass from O'Hearn to
Neidlinger netted twenty-five yards
and again gave Yale another chance,
Two running plays and timely pass
put the ball upon Harvard's eighteen
yard line. Opportunity still refused to
give up its hammering upon the closed
Blue door Here Jordan and O'Hearn
on straight rushing were tried in vain
and O'Hearn on the fourth down fell
back to score Yale's three points of the
afternoon. Three points represented
the total of an attack that might have
been good for almost as many touch
downs. And when this second chance
to tie up the battle slipped away there
was no longer any doubt as to the final
story Yale had gone through four of
her big games, Iowa, the Army, Prince
ton and Harvard, with only one touch
down to show and it was hardly posi-
bic the Blue was to work up a new
habit thus late in the year.
Tale Kick Blocked
1t was late in the third period when
Harvard kicked TO O'Hearn on the
Crimson fortyfive-yard line, and here
O'Hearn took fair catch for try at
placement. He was slow in getting
away his kick. and Eastman, charging
through, not only blocked the attempt,
but finally fell upon the ball on Yale's
own forty-one yard line, sudden turn
ing OF the attack. Harvard now had
her first chance to get anywhere with
her heretofore snlothered offense. With
the period swinging over in the fourth
she made two first downs in succession,
but when the Yale defense braced,
rather than take any further chances
Carl Pfaffman was called in for drop
kick. He wasted no precious moments,
lifting the ball squarely over, and
promptly returned to his place along
the lines, cool, capable workman who
had made good without CULVER.
AS Pfafsman's drop-kick tailed
again and Harvard was now seven
points ahead, Yale still kept up her
running game for the next few
minutes-minutes that to Yale were as
precious as radium. 1t was not until
Neale thrust into the attack, that the
Blue passing game was fully opened,
and then after gaining close upon
fifty yards, taking the ball far into
Harvard territory, the, rally ended as
the whistle blew and Yale, for the
fourth year in succession, had fallen
before Harvard charge.
Yale had made eleven first downs 10
Harvard's three. Yale had gained
243 yards to Harvard's 101. Yale had
shown a far stronger running attack
and better passing game. Yale had
almost completely annihiIated tho
Harvard attack outside of Owens one
long run from recovered tumble.
Yale's kicking game had been almost
full strength. Yet, in spite Of all this.
Harvard had gathered more than three
times as many points, just as Harvard
Gid a year ago under almost the sarne
conditions.
weak Team Wins LaureIs
Harvard had come to the h;v howl
with the weakest Harvard attack ,va
have ever seen In so far as gaining
gfouna ny running or passing was con-
cerned. Yet Harvard had won tina -nn,s
before she had been called unon ~
make a single first down by carrying
the ball and Harvard at no time dnrs
ing ene game wag able to make the
siigntest headway against a strone.
aelaard-working, finely trained Yale de-
Yale had in oHearn Are runner
passer and kicker, who fought hard ali
gay, but who in missing George Owen
IN IN an open field tackle lost more in
thas one play than he could make ND
WIN hand or foot throughout the rest
OF OF the afternoon. Yale tackled well ali
through the afternoon until the one
harvard opportunity came when Owen
caught his stride, and here Yale missed
her great cnance TO get at least tie
score II any one of the four men who
had an open shot at Owen had brought
NM down there would have been little
chance for any Harvard touchdown. But
1or r this unlimited credit must be given
owens feet pair OF feet and his keen.
open eyes. that watched every opening
through which he moved along the field.
Owen Ends Great Career
1t wao o great finish for George
owen, not onlg ons OK the greatest
packs OF his time but ors OK The great
est all-around competitors shat ever