New Britain herald., 1926-11-01

 
YALE IS SWAMPED
 BY ARMY'S POWER
Gives Wretched Exhibition Cadets Could Have Scored More
Special to the Herald.)

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 New Haven, Nov. 1 An ire sistible Army. steam roller ground relentlessly through a faltering Yale eleven in the Bowl Saturday after noon for one of its greatest victories and for the worst defeat the Blue has suffered in years. Not alone in the matter of the 33-0 score was It's loss overwhelming to Yale, but even more so in the wretched exhibition which it gave, fumbles, missed tack les. and dropped passes cooperating to make Tad Jones' team look like a group of grammar school boys. Yale had something of an alibi in that 1t was playing without a backfield and with many linemen injured. but that hardly excused the tactical and mechanical mistakes made by the demoralized men who did play.
 All five Army touchdowns follow cd Yale blunders. Captain Phil Bunnell handed two scores directly to his opponents, making the mis- take of attempting to snare a crazily bounding put with the Army ends waiting around him and later fumbl- ing In Q scrimmage. In the first instance Born took the ball off Bun nell's hands and stepped across the line with a smile of mingled satis- faction and disdain, while touch down followed the second within two plays. A tumble by Hoben, a blocked punt, and an intercepted forward pass started the Army on its other scoring marches.
 The Yale team was sadly rattled and could not carry out the elements Of football As predicted. Hoben carried the ball most of the time, but he could not gain and exhaust cd himself. Ordway's gains in the | last quarter were brilliant, but the best exhibition was that of tiny Quarterback Switz, who led the Blue substitutes on a long advance with a series of well-conceiyed and baffling plays. The other backs were almost useless, but the patchwork line made q wonderful though unavailing stand against the crushing power of the Army forwards. The ends were helpless. and Fishwick dropped two passes for sure touchdowns.
 Even with so little opposition, the Army showed great power on both attack and defense. The highly praised cadet line further enhanced it's reputation, and Harbold and Born in on every play and down the field ahead of every punt, made Yale weep more than ever for a pair of ends. Tha backfleld fully held up it's end. Harry Wilson whirling through broken fields for long gains, Harding performing ubiquitously in intercepting passes and running them and punts back for good dis Itances, Captain Tiny" Hewett burst ing through the line like cannon ball, and Murrell doing less spec tacular but really more solid work
 in repeated short gains. The cadets interference was nigh perfect and helped Wilson and Harding partic- ularly.
 Army Could Have Done Better
 The Army could probably have rolled up much larger score, but it almost treated the game as minor one and did not at any time have it's complete regular lineup on the gridiron. Captain Hewett play ed only portions of the second and fourth periods and the other first string men took turns with their CT 1Ncf itrIf Jat, u not attempt the worward pass a single inc, using wholly the slower but safer straight football; in this respect the game was perhaps unique.
 Another reason why the cadets did not pile up more points was the fre- qnent pcnalizing which they receiv- ed. Sixteen times the officials de- tected them in rule violations, main- ly because of the too-quick back field shift which left man In mo- ton when the ball was snapped. In the last quarter the winners wanted drop-kicker and the quarterback made kicking motions to the side lines which resulted in Cunningham being sent out, but Bunnell saw this fragrant breach of the rules and his protest gave the Army another 15- yard penalty. The referee was Yales best ball carrier.
 Absence of regulars and Bunnells early tumble had much to do with Yale's poor showing. but the Army had latent strength which it did not use and still made the Blue look sad indeed. Whether or not the injured men will return, Yale Is now facing very black future. Its confidence shaken and it's playing strength problematical. it must perform mir aclcs if 1t is to be rated as a con- tender for the Big Three title It has two weeks 10 prepare for Princeton and a good practice game against Maryland to make 1t ready, so that spirit. coordination and reg ulars may he restored before the next big game. But Princeton show ed against Swarthmore that its strength is developing. and Harvard scored ten touchdowns against Tufts in a game which left no doubt that the Crimson has been brought 10 the point where it is one of the fore most teams in the east. Yale can only wait and hope-and shiver.