Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-26
,Yale's Win Over
Harvard Gridders
First in Five Years

New York, Nov. 25.-There was
rejoicing today wherever sons Of
Elihu Yale were gathered, and there
Will be rejoicing wherever sons of
Elihu Yale gather in days to come,
and the cause of that rejoicing was,
is and will be, Yale's 10 to 0
triumph over Harvard on Saturday
afternoon.
That victory marked Yale's first,
win over the Crimson in five years;
1t developed the first Yale touchdown
scoring in the Harvard stadium in
Is years, and 1t won for the Ellis a
place as O leader, if not that of the
leader, OF eastern college football for
the season of 1928.
Just now Cornell and West Vir-
ginia share with Yale the distinction
of being undefeated, but both Cornell
and West Virginia have yet to face
powerful rivals, and there is the
possibility that one or both, in their
thanksgiving day games, may fall a
notch below the Blue
Jupiter Pluvius, who, in all prob
ability, will not be awarded the Yale
football "Y" proved the all important
factor in the Yale triumph. He
coated the Harvard stadium field
with thick layer of mud, and COW
cred the ball with the same Shiny
substance, and by SO doing caused
Harvard to commit more errors in
saturdays contest than Harvard has
committed in any one game in it's
long football history. Yale turned
three of these errors into points,
scoring a touchdown on a recovered
tumble; field goal on another re-
covered tumble, and another field goal
on a recovered block punt. Thus it
was the Ellis won 10 to o. despite the
fact they failed to make more than
one first down in the entire four
periods of play.
Combined with the very effective
work of j. Pluvius, however, was q
display of Yale alertness, and an
ability to take full advantage of
Harvard errors. which reflects great
credit upon the Eli coaches and their
pupils. Saturday was a day for the
elements and for elementary foot
pail and the Yale eleven showed it.
SELF well prepared in football funda-
mentals.
Harvard had the advantage in
Kicking and gained somewhat more
ground in rushing from scrimmape
though making only one first downs
the same as Yale. But Harvard
players made costly fumbles at cri-
elcal times and were not SO alert
in following the ball as their Bmes
jerseyed rivals.
similar conditions to those at the
Harvard Stadium prevailed at tho
poio grounds, where the Army and
tne Navy staged their annual battle.
ana on other eastehrn gridirons. and
WIN Few exceptions breaks" were
TIRE cnlef FACTORS in producing scores.
pas n the army-navy game and in the
poston CoiIege- Vermont contest, the
breaks were less numerous or less
important, and scoreless ties were the
result. ''is
NO more bitterly fought game has
featured ArmyNavy history than
that IN which the service elevens Ell
gagged on Saturday. Up and down
the field the battle waged with first
one team and then the other Showing
10 slight advantage. but neither
able to turn such fleeing favor into
points. Each attempted a field goa
and such attempts proved the onl,
serious threats to score.
Army showed decided advantage
IN the kicking department and car
pc SAID to have been somewhat out
tucked, when, in the fourth period OF
play, it blocked successive Nav,
punts only to sec the middies recover
| the bal, once on te Nays IS yarC
! stripe, and again but two yards from
the middle goal line.
The east and middle west split
even in the tntersectional features o.
the day, when the to Syracuse
victory over Nebraska was counter.
balanced by Notre Danes Is to 0 wiz
over Carnegie Tech.
Lehigh threw a sea into Lafay.
cite when a Lehigh field goal helt
for three periods as the only score
but in the final session of play thu
eastonians came through with 1;
points and thus averted an upset.
| New Hampshire in holding thu
Harvard conquerinS Brown eleven t
a to 0 win. developed one of the
| surprises of the day.
Thanksgiving Day engagements in.
volving Cornell and Pennsylvania
| Dartmouth and Columbia, Pittsburgh
and Penn State. West Virginia anc
| Washington and jefferson; Brown
and Lehigh, and Vermont and Mar,
quette, and Saturday battles in which
| Boston College will meet Holy Cross
and Fordham will play Georgetown
are the feature contests of eastern
interest this week.