New Britain herald., 1924-11-22

J. Thorp, (COlumbia) linesman, r. ". Murphy, (Brown); field judge. F. J. O'Brien, (Tufts). By The Associated Press.
 Yale Bowl, New Haven, Nov. 22.-- It was raining hard when the Har- ward and Yale football teams met In their annual game today. The Yale Bowl was running over, 1t seemed, as torrents of water slithered off the slickers and oilskins of the specta- tor crowd.
 The grassy plane of the sridiron, well backed below by a. 45 day drought, had a slippery surface that made movements more or less uncer- tain.
 Kicking under these conditions was far from an exact science and in the practice, rushing became skid- ding at times.
 The Yale team, first to get the plaudits of the somewhat scanty early crowd, broke up practice by rolling and tumbling along the sod- den ground to get better acquainted with the conditions. The Blue, over- whelming favorite to win, apparent ly decided it must adjust itself to conditions that might upset all pre- game calculation.
 Harvard Enters Slowly
 The Harvard team, coming onto the field slowly instead of with the traditional snap and dash, was busy moment later tossing and run ming with the greasy ball. The Crimson's team, which came here as forlorn hope, had before 1t the possibility of turning the conditions to its advantage for an upset.
 The downpour and the scenes &C., companying it, with splotches Of yellow and white against the drab background of the Bowl and the drabber background of the skies above, recalled the conditions of scene of play in the Yale-Harvard game at the Harvard stadium last year. A Yale considered as having potential score of many touch- downs at that time was held by Har- yard to a 10 to Q victory, All pre-game calculations today were considered upset by the down. pour.
 The wind with little less of rain than before, was blowing stiffly from the southeast when the rival unt- versity bands parade1 onto the field, 4 Yale's musicians came with slickers that obscured their college colors but the Harvard hand bravelv stuck ! to crimson sweaters and white duck trousers as they marched up and i down the field, arplauded by Yale and Harvard partisans alike.
 The ramps that were tamme1 by those seeking refuge from the rain 1 began to cm9ty into seats and the Bowl was talr,v well dtte with its soaking spectator hosts when the ] Harvard team came back onto the fled ready for pay.
 1 It was f-v minutes later when the Ya,o tcam came oHr and the crowd ,he1 tnrued to the question which players would start for each team.
 Vale Kicks on ! Vale won inc toss and Captain Lo,4.oy chose 10 defend the north goal Harvard elected 10 receive the kick. Iumsn kicked of for Yale. after dlrtrulty in getting the pigskln set on the greasy turf.
 The ball went 10 Harards 80 yard inc where Miller handled ths hall poorly He was downed by Sturhahn st the > yard line.
 Gchrke puuted immediately and the ball was downed on Nale's SS yard line. The Rlue rushed and Pond gained four yards, doWned by Ljndner
 | Yale kicked, Co'tIe's boot being 1 downod by Joss,
 Again the Crimson turned to kick for the advantagr that went with the wind and Gehrke's boot carried down the fe}d 60 wards
 Bench made 8 rua back Of IS yards to Yales s yard line. | Harvard Forwards Full of Fight
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