Evening star., 1932-11-20
Ellis REDEEM POOR
YEAR WITH 1870 WIN
$4,000 See Blue in Most De-
cisive Victory in 80 Years
Over Crimson.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

deluge and the full fury of
Yale's greatest scoring
wave of the 1882 season struck
Harvard today at one and the
same time. The combined out
burst swamped the Crimson under
a score of 19 to 0, and marked the
most decisive defeat Yale has
handed it's old rival in 80 years.
Forty-flve thousand spectators, lashed
by a gusty rainstorm, sat huddled and
blanketed through a mud battle that
saw Capt. John Wilhur's Ellis redeem a
dismal season with crushing triumph
in the fifty-first gridiron battle between
these ancient foes.
The smallest but one of the hardest
crowds that has turned out for the
game in more than score OF years
looked on while the Blue mastered the
Crimson in every department Of foot
bali. scored three touchdowns with a
magnif1cently executed running and
passing attack, and wound up with the
biggest margin of victory since Yale'S
23-0 triumph in 1902.
Yale saved its biggest offensive
splurge in eight years for this dismal
afternoon, and poured it all over the
Crimson forces. On a day and under
conditions that looked destined to pro-
duce a sti lemate in the mud, the Ellis
gave dazzling exhibition, running and
passing tn, Crimson dizzy as the stall
wart Blue Defense, meanwhile, stopped
every HsStard surge.
TN between the sensational attacking
i exploits of Bob LasSiter, Walter
Leveriag and Dud Parker, Yale's
defense four times took the ball on
downs deep in its own territory. After
being halted three times in the first
half, once with only 2 yards to go for
touchdown, Earvard's offense, led by
the gallant Jack Crickard, crumbled.
TIE Cambridge "crew' threatened only
once in the last half, and that was no
mere than gesture, as the Ellis ran
wild through the mud and rain.
But for the overeagerness of the
blue-shirted reserves, Yale might have
scored two more touchdowns. They
penetrated Harvard'S 10-yard line twice
in the last quarter without being able to
produce another scoring punch.
The chief honors of this Eli holiday,
which the boys in blue celebrated by
tearing down their own goal posts, went
to the lanky, long-striding boy from
North Carolina - Bob LaSsiter. He
didn't cross the Harvard goal line but
his running and passing were the main
factors in each of the three touch
downs, aided by the plunging OF Walter
Levering and the blocking OF Joe
Crowley.
LaSsiter tossed only three passes but
he completed all of them for long gains
that helped demoralize the Crimson de-
fense and square accounts for some OF
the aerial damage inflicted by Har-
wards Barry Wood here two years ago.
r ASSITER'S first pass to Dud Parker,
- the kicking end, was good Tor
28-yard gain in the opening period anc
led to a touchdown by Levering on a
short buck as the climax OF a 45-yaro
advance. The next heave, to O'ConneH,
for 81 yards, failed to increase the
scoring but the third and last pass, to
Parker, with the ball on Harvard's 25-
ward mark, accounted for the final Eli
touchdown in the fourth period.
In between these aerial attacks, Las
siter's twisting dashes off tackle in the
heavy going accounted for so OF the 90
wards the Ellis marched for their other
score, in the third quarter. Yale usec
UP only seven plays in this brilliant
drive. Lassiter, skidding 10 to Is yards
at a clip, was hauled down from be-
hind by Jack Crickard within yard
of the Harvard goal, but Levering easily
bucked the remaining distance for the
fullback's second score.
AS If to celebrate this torrential
triupah, even the skies cleared and
rainbow reflected its brilliant colors
over the big bowl. against drlpplne
background of blue, as the last of Ellis
celebrators left the arena.
Harvards rout, after failing in the
three desperate attempts to overhaul
her rival in the second period, ended
dismal campaign for the Crimson
marked her second straight setback a.
the hands of Yale and the third defeat
of the 1892 season