Evening star., 1923-11-25

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um and then for two hours shouted
of them thought of leaving or of
There were as many costumes and
adaptations of rubber and oilcloth as
Ha2xa1G many ago whe5 9e
Haven and under similar conditions
defeated Yale even a little bit worse
than the 13 to score today.
Naturally there were penalties in
such a game. Harvard suffered one
roughing the forward passer- But
they bravely recovered and by a cou-,
pie of good punts placed themselves
out of difficulty. And. speaking of
occasions when either side tried them
the passer could hardly get the
throw away, and the receiver had no
chance in the world of holding onto
the ball.
Pond Grabs Cheeks Fumble.
Harvard's ypunting was astonishing
ly good, considering the condition of
the balls and footing. During the
first half Neale of Yale could not
match these booming punts. but still
he kept Yale out of difficulties. First
period passed and the second opened
without either side scoring Yale was
quicker on the ball than Harvard.
of Yale seized his opportunity and
went racing down the fed ahead OF
every one. And he was wise enough
while putting on all speed to take no
his cleats well In and kept steady,
and no man on the other side was
fast enough to catch him. So came
Yale's long-desired and first acquired
touchdown in the stadium for some
sixteen years.
AS for these other two scores they
were earned and came from two held
goals by Yale's great captain, NAL
iory, just as two other field goals
once had come from another Yale
captain, Ted Coy.
The Yale line gave Mallory his
first chance by blocking Haulmonds
punt. II had been coming near to 1t
previously. This time the punt was
blocked squarely. Yale tried to aas
vance by running but nobody couM
dropped back TO the twenty-yard line
and sent the ball over with finely
directed placement kick. How any
one could get away placement back
on that field is mystery But NAL
lory did it and more than that he
kicked a much longer one later.
stevens Punting Helps Yale.
Yale utilized her chances thus.
When Stevens went in to punt for the
Blue on the second half he had
longer and better driver than Neale
had shown and Yale no longer suf-
fered in exchanges OF kicks. Upon
two occasions Yale had less than a
ward to gain for first down but did
not take any chances. Stevens kept
on the pressure so that for the great
er part of the second half the playing
t. ~
as they would, Fishers men could not
work out into a position that would
give them the least chance in the
world to score.
The back field men of each side
very wisely let fall to the ground
do it's little trick of skittering along
until it came to rest rather than take
any chances with that innocent but
mighty dangerous spheroid.
In the running plays Harvard stuck
mostly to drives at the middle of the
line Early in the game Yale tried
some end running with Neale, but 1t
was abortive for the most part. The
Blue also attempted the inside drives
which were so effective in the Prince
ton game but the fo9ding sjda sr,sd was ba3 toe
proved SO effective for Eddie Kaw
last year at Penn, namely, heavy
interference sweeping on the tackles
and Kaw, taking short diagonal run
straight for the side.lines, simply cut
ting off a slice of some four or Ave
yards 1t worked on Penn and II
might have worked on Soldiers Field
today.
Hfgh-Class Work Impossible.
OF course, all high-class foot ball
was out of the question, and Yates
generalship, after obtaining the lead,
was perfect. as 1t placed the entire
burden upon Harvard. No general
ship could have saved the Crimson
after that because march down the
field under the conditions was trnpos-
sible with any weapons foot ball pos
The game went to the better team,
but it was unsatisfactory TO both, be-
cause the conditions rendered any
thing like, advanced foot ball out OF
bail fan made the statement that
there never was a. game played under
worse conditions. But these men
either forget or We're not present
upon a day in Philadeiphia when
inches deep in snow. slush and water
and with a wind so strong that a.
kickout would travel with that wind
all the way down the field and across
the opposite gSal line, e.nn klSging Isn,sg
could get the ball only about ten
yards over the forward line.
Harvard wore numbers today, but
the mud soon rendered the players
net only indistinguishable by that
means. but also quite unrecogntzable
even by their own mothers. So they
became discouraged in the second
half and appeared in their unnum-
bered jerseys.
Line-Up and Summsry.
Yale (l3J. Positions. Harvard (ps.
Bingham. Left end .CcomtS
Mlstead. Left tackle. Evans
Eckart. Left guard. .......- ). bunker
Lovejoy. ..... Center ....: .Greenough
Diller Right guard. ... (o.3 Hubbard
Blair Right tackle. Eastman
1uman. Right END. ..sHil
Richeson. .Quarterback .............L u.
Neale. Left halfback. k........ .Chee-s
Pond. ........ Right halfbank. -. Hammond
Mallory (o.) -. Fullback ...........- .Cobur4-
Score BY periods:
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