The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-27
L ALKING
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-One of
IN the grave dangers that exist
in these traditional football battles
such as Yale and Harvard, for
examples that there is likely to
be a great deal more traditional
than football This was the case |
the past weekend when 10000 Gus
toners completely filled one of |
Americas most magnificent stad- |
iums to watch two old rivals meet |
for the forty-seventh time in a |
game that had no Importance at all |
in championship sense.
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ON THE PART OF YALE THE GUS
TONERS SAW NO FOOTBALL TO SPEAK |
OF, THAT is, IN A FLATTERING WAY, |
AND AS HARVARD ESTABLISHED ITS |
SUPERIORITY BEFORE THE GAME |
WAS MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES OLD |
THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT LEFT TO |
DO. BUT TALK OF TRADITIONS IN
HUSTLED ONES AND LET YOUR EYES
FEAST ON THE CROWD SPECTACLE.
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And as every sports writer in the
land has commented at one time or
another there is no crowd spectacle
to match that which unfolds in the
bowl OH the day Harvard plays Yale.
1t has sweep and a movement that
places it ahead of any other sports
turnout in the country, ahead of
the derby, the world series, and even
those spectacular two million dollar
gates that patronize Tex Richards
battles of the century.
TT was not easy to tell whether
l. Harvard had a great team in this
game or Yale a lamentably mediocre
one. Certainly no supposedly major
football team ever has looked more
impotent and generally ineffective
thaH Yale did in losing to the GRIM
son for the first time since 1922. An
Army scout sat next to me in the
press coop. There is a belief that
both Yale and Harvard hold their
ace plays up their sleeves until this
game. The scout had come to see
what these ace plays were, and to
chart them for future study in the
football laboratories at West Point.
ABOUT ALL HE SAW WAS A TRICKY
LATERAL PASS AND ITS CHECKS, MA
NIPULATED BY TWO HARVARD BACKS,
WHICH REPEATEDLY FOOLED THE
YALE DEFENDERS. TINE AFTER TINE
THE PLAY WAS PULLED WITH GUAR
NACCIA CARRYING THE BALL AND
FRENCH RUNNING EITHER TO THE
RIGHT OR THE LEFT OF HIM. ONE
OF THE YALE ENDS WOULD COME
SURGING IN, DIRECTING HIS TACK
LING FURY AT GUARNACCLA.
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There would be grunt and a
crushing sound as the two bodies
coIlided. The Yale end would look
up and find that he had tackled a
man who didn't have the ball, for
just as the end made his dive Guar
naccia would toss the ball over his
head into the hands of French and
off that fieet-foOted young man
would go for sizeable gain.
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VALE had no defense for this
4 play, and the longer they
looked at it the more puzzling it
seemed to become. This was one
Of the strange things about a
strange Yale team. Generally Yale
teams have alertness and adapti-
hility. They showed none of it
against Harvard. 1t was astonish-
ing to see Yale team that blinked
and rubbed its eyes at the enemy's
forward passing. In the past Yale
has usually been strong at both
ends of the passing game. A year
ago a beautiful pass, strategically
conceived, beat Princeton in the
closing minutes of play.
AGAINST HARVARD SATURDAY YALE
HANDLED THE PASS AS IF IT WE'RE A
NEW SCORING DEVICE THAT HAD
JUST COME INTO THE GAME AND AS
IF THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH
1T FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT WAS ODD
ALSO THAT THE LATERALS SHOULD
PLAY SUCH A CONSPICUOUS PART IN
HARvARD's VICTORY. EARLY IN THE
SEASON, AGAINST ARMY ESPECIALLY.
HARVARD LOOKED THE PART OF THE
WORLDS WORST FORWARD PASSING
COMBINATION.
1t is plain that Arnold HOrween
brought his men far in the strata
gems of the play since late October.
Those who were inclined to favor a
Yale victory did so on the theory
that Yale would Outpass the Grim
SON and that Harvard had no con-
Sistent air attack.
TNHE Yale line was outplayed, /
IL and Harvard could have won
just as decisively With running
game as 9, throwing game. A year
ago Yale had the best line in the
east. Perhaps it was the best line
in the country. This year the best
you can say for it is that is fair.
No team could play impressively
without good line. Harvard had a
good line, which is one reason it
stood out as fine football team.
A lot of people are beginning to
wonder just how badly Myron Fuller
is being missed at New Haven these !
days. Fuller was the line coach
under Tad Jones.