Evening star., 1928-11-25
.HARvARD'S ATTACK
ROUTS YALE, ITO
Lateral Passes Responsible
for ViCtory-EIi Never Had
Chance to Score.
BY BRIAN BELL.
Associated Press SPORTS Wrjter


YALE BOWL, NEW HAVEN, Conn,
November 24.-Johnny Harvard got his
gun today and using his lateral pass
for ammunition, shelled Eli Yale out
of his own bowl with a 17-to-O defeat.
Johnny's gun was loaded from first to
last, while the defending home team
had nothing with which to shoot. A
record-breaking crowd estimated at
$4,000. saw the Harvard triumph.
The defeat was as bad as it sounds
Harvard today was at least two touch
downs and field goal better than Yale
The Ellis never had chance to score
Harvard was on in front with a
touchdown in the first period and there
was nothing Yale could do about it
then or later. A second touchdown in
the third period was topped of by a
field goal in the fourth. Harvard in
troduced E. T. Putnam, ir., a Boston
boy, who can kick, to add two points
after touchdowns and then kick goal
on his own account, high standard of
kicking in a foot ball age when kick
ing seems to have gone out OF fashion.
Take Charge of Bowl
Immediately after the victory Har-
ward undergrads and alumni took charge
of the Yale Bowl. With red flares light
ing the gray shadows of the big field
the men of the Crimson Snake danced
to the goal posts and began a de-
termined assault on the uprights Set in
concrete the enblen1s of supremacy Of
fered stubborn resistance, but the
posts really had no chance. They were
being attacked by men, young and old,
who had had no chance to do any
tearing up of goal posts in a Yale game
since 1922.
Swarming like sailors up the rigging
of ship the younger men went aloft
to attack the posts from above while
the older men with red feathers in
their caps waited at the bottom for the
youngsters to get in their work. The
posts finally fell and were carried at
the head of a wild parade, in which
every one was seeing red.
Guarnaccia and French did the bulk
of the ball carrying for Harvard, using
the lateral pass as the foundation OF
the attack. Time after time Guarnaccia
or French started on a slow lope toward
ITlS SlQe lines Wltn tIl6 Dall uQQ6r Ills
arm. AS the Yale man charged at
| the ball carrier he was the ball carrier
no longer, swapping it to the other
member of the lateral pass twins, who
was always able to gain some ground.
Yale threw all its aces into the fray
without avail. Hoben and Garvey, who
did not start were rushed in, and al
| though Hoben ran a kickoff back to
midfield from his 10-yard line and Gar
vey gained in a few running plays, Yale
spent most of the afternoon so deep in
| its own territory that it had no chance
to start a drive with hope of sustain
ing it.
Many Yale Passes.
The Yale passes were numerous, but
the Harvard backs seemed to have fully
as accurate an idea of where they were
going as the Yale receivers.
| The game ended much as it was
played. A Harvard punt was grounded
six inches from the Yale goal line, anc
the Blue began to throw passes from
behind the goal line. Two were ground
ed and the third was intercepted by g
Crimson back.
Harvard took advantage of a Yak
lapse to score in the first period Yale
kicked off and Harvard punted aftel
failing to gain. Yale rushed a frs
down and then evidently decided II
beat Harvard to the lateral pass. Tht
effort was a dismal failure, the bal
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