Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
The Harvard Yale Affair.

The Harvard Yale Affair.
THERE Is one answer to the Har-
vard-Yale battle which left the
Crimson Is points above the
Blue. With both running at
tacks halted ARD beoken..up, Harvard
had scoring play left through the air
and Yale did not. Two faxed laterals
and two forward passes were worth
more than all the remaining offensive
efforts both teams could show.
Foot ball at times is funny busi-
ness. Harvard used this same pass
against Michigan. Yale had been work.
ing against 1t most Of the week, know
ing it would be Harvard's best weapon.
Yet when the passes were thrown
Huguley stood uncovered in open ter
ritory, where the Blue defense looked
as baff1ed and bewildered as If some
mystifying play had suddenly been
lugged down from Mars to be unturled
for the first time in foot ball history.
These wood Huguley passes, the run
ming game of Orchard and Mays and
the smashing, far-ranging defensive
play Of Ben Ticknor were quite enough
to leave Yale trailing all through the
game for the third year in succession.
Yale hadn't lost a game since Octo-
Der IL, when Georgia came along.
Harvard hadn't won game since &c.
tober IL, when the Crimson beat
Springfield. Yale had tied Army ana
Dartmouth and both had beaten Har-
ward. Yet it was all Harvard when the
two old rivals met because the Yale
defense was not alert enough to guard
against Harvard's lateral fake and for
ward passes. Either this combination
put too much of a burden on Alnle
Booth or he lacked the starting speed
and height to get there and break up
the passes.
The defensive play of both lines was
too much for either running game, out
it looked as If Wood could have thrown
passes to Huguley all aftlinoon II ne
lead. Which, naturally, he did not.
The Road to Victory.
T7HE laterals employed by both teams
L were pretty terrible, as Tar as any
direct effect was shown. They lost
far more ground than they gained. But
as a threat against Yale they were eI.
fective, Yale remembering 1923 ana
1929. The shadow of these two lateral
passing wears was over the Blue. and II
was this double shadow that lett Yale
in a, fog. It was like feinting with
left and then throwing hard rlgnt 70
the jaw. On these occasions WOODS
passing was perfect, Huguley's receiving
was brilliant, and Yales protectlon was
totally absent.
with Harvard leading. Yale then
could find no way to- get by over or
around Ben Ticknor, even When Some
of the others were passed. on one
occasion Ticknor came from somewhere
and nailed Helm, the fastest sprinter
on the field, after Helm had reacneu
the open on 35-yard run;
Yale could not shake Booth loose, ana
most of the time Booth was stopped
after his first or second stride. Booth
never had chance on attack. Defen-
sively he was unable to fathom or break
up the passing game. His own passing
was first-class, but not of the touch
down variety. The Yale line, featuring
Mike Linehan, held its own.
Neither attack carried any particular
deception beyond Harvards lateral fake
and pass, which Yale knew beforehand.
but which worked under the stress OF
Eli tension on the field. outside OF
Helms dazzling speed. Yale had no run
ming backs to match Orchard and Mays,
who also helped to close in the Yale
defense and make the passing game
possible. Harvard had just enough
along the ground to help clear out the
air route and give WOODS passes an
open road.
The all-around defensive play Of Ben
Ticknor was one of foot balls high
spots of 1880. His speed, power, rug
gedneSs and alertnesS was more than
Yale could beat down or elude. He had
an uncanny knack Of sizing up Blue
plays and he had the physical weap-
ons to meet the situation. through the
line or out around the tanks. His line
played good foot ball, but he was
triple line Of defense alone.
Juggernaut Week.
THIS might be known as juggernaut
i week. The Army, unbeaten, goes
out to face the South Bend jugger-
naIt at ChiNaQn nm Gafurdav and