Evening star., 1934-11-21
BLUE IS FAV0R|TE
| TO WHIP HARVARD
Defeat by Crimson Will Not
Bring AIumni's Ire on
Pond or NeaIe.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.
ENH VAIL Nnura.,ak.

M as now appears likely, Yale
scales the championship
heights of the old Big Three
by beating Harvard this Saturday at
New Haven, it can be said with final
ity that the current Iron men" of
old Eli have started a brand-new
era In foot ball for the Blue.
The eleven conquerers Of Princeton
typify an elemental surge that Yale
hasn't known in years. In fact, they
have had to 60 all the way back to
the bewhiskered, powerhouse days OF
88 to find another Eli team that
went through an entire game with
out making substitution.
Yale has had some great teams
and great players in fairly recent
years, but not since little Albie Booth
flashed across the gridirons in 1929
has anything revived the Blues sag
ging foot ball spirits as much as
Capt. Clare Curtin's ''60-minute men"
Old Blues who journeyed down to
Princeton last Saturday, mainly out
of habit with many misgivings. came
away hoarse and pop-eyed with ex-
element The thrill Of that Yale
teams magnificent fight against top
heavy odds carried them back to the
good old days when the Eli bulldog
was a synonym for tenacity and cour-
age wherever foot ball was played.
Yet it was only couple of years
ago that old grads we're shocked by
a Yale -aptains statement TO the gen.
eral effect that winning wasn't every
thing and it was barely six months
ago that these same old grads were
yelling for complete house-clean-
ing at New Haven.
Pond, Ncale in Solid.
THEY wanted the graduate coach
ing system scrapped and
young man with modern ideas
like Harry K Kipke of Michigan in
stalled in the head mans chair. In
stead they got Raymond w. (Ducky)
Pond of the class of 1925 as head
coach. with corps of outsiders" as
assistants headed by Earle Greasy
Neale-and they're beginning to like
it immensely.
To show how rapidly the wheels OF
fortune can turn in few months.
here's Pond. with no previous head
coaching experience. riding the crest
of enthusiasm aroused by one of the
years finest achievements, while
Kipkes Michigan team has lost six
out of seven games. the most dis
astrous season in Wolverine foot ball
history.
Win, lose or draw against Harvard.
the alumni won't be yelling for Ponds
scalp or Neale's this coming Winter.
| In fact, the old grads more than likely
will display a renewed interest in
seeing that the supply of fast-run-
ming and hard blocking halfbacks
is kept up to the standard needed
for winning results.
Yale probably will not ask the
Iron Men" to duplicate their per-
formance this week. They didn't
ask them to do it. in advance, against
Princeton 1t simply developed as
the. game went along last Saturday
that there was no need for replace
ments. BY the time the second half
was we'll under way. you couldn't
have taken one of those fighting Els
off the gridiron except on a stretcher.
Yale Logical Favorite.
THIS week the pSychologlcai Sltua-
ton is reversed Yale is the fa-
vorite over Harvard. quite log
ically so, but the Ellis will not make
the mistake of Understanding the
tenacity and fighting spirit of Capt.
Herman Gundlach's sturdy Crimson
line. A victory for Harvard would be
distinctly an upset, but it is just as
much within the bounds of possibility
as was Yale's chance of knocking over
Princeton.
Comparative scores indicate the
Ellis have all the best of it. Prince
ton beat Harvard, 1870. before losing
to Yale, TO, but these results may
prove misleading. They do not re-
veal that Harvard held the Tigers to
a lone touchdown for three periods.
yielding two more in the final quarter.
only after several Crimson key men"
had been forced out of the game Har-
ward registered three first downs
against Princeton and Yale four. The
Tigers outrushed the Crimson nearly
to l. but outgained the Ellis. from a
scrimmage, only about 3 to l. Yale
gained 73 yards by passing against
the Tigers. Harvard none, so that it
behooves Harvard to keep a watchful
eye on the Eli combination of Jerry
Roscoe and Larry Kelley. who looks
the part of potential all-America
end.