New Britain herald., 1926-11-08
ELI ACCEPTS LOSS
 TO SAVE REGULARS
Jones Risks Criticism . NeY
 Sensation in SWitz
Special to the Hernldl


 stands in civilian clothes Saturda, and then watched shifty, aler
 Maryland team trample over hi. substitutes with decisiveness whicl led 10 the suspicion that it may bt
 just as we'll after all that the regu. lars were not out on the field talk. ing the beating. It is not inconceiv- able that the southerners would have stopped the Blue first team, but they did not have to. The regulars, un- less they had been sickened by the sight of fales' third consecutive Shut-out defeat and gona home in ! disgust, were still looking on from the stands when the final whistle gave the signal for crazed group 1 of loyal Maryland rooters 10 spout onto the field. demolish the Yale ! goal posts, and carry them out of ! the Bowl as a souvenir of their teams 15-o victory.
 : early 70-yard run for a touchdown after picking up Garvey's tumble on q dead run. the invaders fought their 1 way frequently to within scoring distance, Slt were stopped once with yard to go added to their score on Stevens field goal second , time. and finally crashed through 1 beneath the goal posts following a kick which Adams blocked and fell cn. Stevens proved himself speedy and versatile man. while Kesslcr { slipped past paving tacklers as if he were greased and made long broken field runs. The big Leatherman was a sure gainer on high passes iu9t over the line, and Bafford play ed rowing center as it should be played. figuring out the plays snd moving to the danger point before the Yale backfield was in motion The tricky multiple passes in the southern backfield confused the Yale team considerably and made the ball hard to follow.
 As preparation for Princeton or as q basis for predictions on what Yale might do in the Rig Three con- tests the game was an absoltue zero. But there was one hero developed. and he was not Stevens nor any of the Maryland victors. He was little Johnny Switz. Yale's third string quarterback. Switz replaced Decker and put the fire into the team that he injected agains the Army a week ago. He bent double to scoop up low forward passes, jumped to haul down high ones. and proved a gen eral sensation on the receiving end Of these losses. His defensive work through ring of interferers to haul was fully as good; he stopped ar least one touchdown by battering kessler down after G0-yard run back. And his generaship was fine. He brought the team on a long march which ended on the one-yard line as the first half closed: it was too bad. for he deserved that touch. down. Garvey, in spite of his disas- trous tumble, showed himself plunger who was hard to stop. Decker made one or two lodging gains, but that was all Yale had to offer. They tried the near-record number of 31 forward passes, but the alert Maryland defense inter- cepted or broke up p of these and held the others to short gains with the exception of the ones Switz nabbed
 There was plenty of com edy about the game. Garvey's jersey was rip ped to shreds by tackler and the Yale huddle system proved very handy while he clothed himself anew. The news of Harvard's de- feat was received with joy and the stands and band immediately struck up Good Night, Poor Harvard" The Yale band marched across the field between halves and serenadcd a lusty-lungej group of Maryland rooters which it outnumbered.
 Jones Sure of Criticism.
 As result of the defeat and his strange move in keeping out the regulars even at the cost of the game, Tad Jones is certain to re- ceive severe criticism and condem- nation. Another loss in a none-too- successful season, will bring down on his head the tomahawks of the New Haven press which has been seeking his scalp for some time. His disregard of the outcome of the game is probably unique and does not appear to be sound; certainly, the fairly large crowd was disap- pointed at paying good money 10 see only the Yale scrubs. No doubt Jones had his reasons. Probably he feared further injuries to his batter cd squad of regulars. He may have decided they had gone stale and kept them out to put them on edge for the really important climatic games. He may have suspected that he first team. like the second, would succumb before the snappy Maryland array and feared that a third defeat would demoralize his first string men. Whatever his req son, he surely knew what wrath would be turned upon him. and he had the courage to carry out his plan in spite of everything.
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