Evening star., 1923-11-25

uI1l ana tnen for Two hOurS ShOuteG
of them thought OF leaving or OF
There were as many costumes and
adaptations of rubber and oiicloth IS
appeared many years ago when
Haven and under similar conditions
defeated Yale even a little bit worse
than the 13 to score today.
Naturally there we're penalties In
of these blows early in the game for
roughing the forward passer. But
they bravely recovered and by cou-
ou os o. Of RHstS Zn e
forward passes, upon the very faw
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 Checks Fumble.
Harvard's spuntiug was astonishing
ly good. considering the condition OF
the bale 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.
and when Cheeks tumble came, Pond
of Yale seized his opportunity and
went racing down the fed ahead or
while putting on all speed to take no
chances on a slip or fall. He drove
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 Eeid
goals by Yale's great captain, NAL
lory. just as two other field goais
once had come from another Yale
captain, Ted Coy.
The Yale line gave Mallory his
first chance BY blocking Hammonds
punt It had been coming near to 1t
previously. This time the punt was
blocked squarely. Yale tried to al,
vance by running but nobody couM
run today on such field. so Mallory
dropped back TO the twenty-yard line
and sent the ball over with hneiy
directed placement kick. How any
one could get away placement back
on that field is a mystery. But NAL
lory did it and more than that he
kicked 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 a.
longer and better driver than Neale
had shown and Yale no longer sur
fered in exchanges OF kicks. Upon
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
was in Harvard's territory and try
as they would. Fishers men could not
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give them the least chance in the
world to score.
The back field men of each side
very wisely let fall to the ground
any kick and permitted the ball to
do its little trick of skitterins along
any chances with that innocent but
mighty dangerous spheroid.
In the running plays Harvsrd stuck
mostly to drives a t the middle OF the
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 foeting s5ta -,sd was uta TOO
proved SO effective for Eddie Kaw
last year at Penn, namely. heavy
interference sweeping on the tackles
and Kaw. taking short dia gonai run
straight for the side lines, simply cut
ting off a slice of some four or 1--WE
wards 1t worked on Penn and II
might have worked on Soldiers Field
today.
High-CIass Work Impossible.
OF course, all high-class foot ball
was out of the question, and Gale,s
generalship. after obtaining the lead.
was perfect. IS it 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 tnpos-
sible with any weapons foot ball pos
sesses.
The game went to the better team,
but il was unsatisfactory to both, be-
cause the conditions rendered any
thing like advanced foot ball out OF
the question. Many an old-time foot
ball fan made the statement that
there never was a game played under
worse conditions But these men
either forget or were not present
upon a day in Philadelphia when
Penn beat Cornell on field three
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 goal line; Kicking
against the wind the Penn punter
could get the ball only about ten
Harvard wore numbers today. but
the mud soon rendered the players
not only indistinguishable by that
means. but also quite unacceptable
even by their own mothers: So they
became discouraged in the second
half and appeared in their unnum-
bered jerseys.