Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-23

Eli Passing Impotent, While
Brilliant TaCkIer Har-
ried HEAVIER.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

N YEW YORK. November 23.-Yale's
nj victory over Harvard at Cam
5ridge was due to a technical
excellence which the Crimson
did not quite match, either defensively
or on offense.
Harvard played a six-line defense
with q two-two-one backfield arrange
ment, and her plan Of protecting against
forward passes involved, in addition to
backf1eld defense, the rushing Of the
passer by the tackles. In this duty
Hardy, Harvards left tackle, performed
as brilliantly as was in human power
to do, and when he left the game ut
terly spent in the last period Yale
flashed through to victory with a rush
ing. passing and drop-kicking attack
which resulted in the slender 3-point
margin of scoring power.
When Hardy went out, some criticism
of coaching judgment was heard, but
the judgment upon which this criticism
was based was much more faulty, mas
much as Hardy had played himself COM
pietely of his feet and would have been
dead weight had he been permitted to
remain in the game. In all, Yale threw
IL passes and completed 2, which means
q very fine afternoon, not so much for
Harvard as tor her gifted left tackle.
Pass Proves Decisive.
One Of Yale's successful passes was
inconsequential in its results, but the
second one, bringing the ball to the
Crimson l2-yard line, led directly to
Booths fatal feld-goal shot.
Harvards defense against running
plays was not so good as Yale's, but still
good enough to have held the Ellis
scoreless had it not been for Booths
toe. On attack, the Crimson could do
very little against Yale's spirited de-
tense. The Blue departed from the
Notre Dame formula on defense to the
extent of playing a 3-2 backfield ar
rangement at all times save when it
was almost certain that no pass would
be attempted. At such times the usual
box was employed with the last pair not
quite so close up as in the South Bend
scheme.
AS for Yale, her rushing attack was
not too impressive. Harvard played a
six-man line defense all afternoon and
held the Ellis safe. The interference
showed no special gift in taking out
tacklers, or blocking in the line. There
were times, indeed many times, when
the New Haven offense looked lethargic,
as though that three weeks respite
from hard foot ball had let the attack
down somewhat. Still, it was better
rushing than Harvard did.
Use Multiple Kick"
After nearly two periods Of rather
dangerous inferiority in punting, Wood
euualized matters by having Orchard
hold the ball and thus booting 1t from
a position about feet in the air.
Years ago. when Foster Sanford was
coaching Rutgers, he devised this idea.
He called it the multiple kick" and
the writer remembers going with him
to the Office Of Ted Coy, through whom
he sought to have the kick used, and
it seemed ironical last Saturday to have
Barry Wood springing 1t against the
Blue.
wood left the game still the happy,
high-headed warrior, but he was pretty
generally blotted out as hero. Yale's
tackles were altogether too rapaciouS,
not only on running plays-wherein
Right End Barres, too, shone-but
against laterals, which fooled badly.
save for two exceptions. Why they
were used as much as they were prob
ably was due to the last-minute ap-
pearance of Arnold Horween on the
Harvard coaching bench.
All in all, Yale outplayed Harvard
generally, but not by a wide margin,
but none the less clearly in all de-
partments. She carried the ball more
successfully, made one forward pass
which indirectly won the day and did
more scientific punting. 1t was time
Yale won from the Crimson, and Har-
ward was an prompt to congratulate
her as any one