Evening star., 1939-11-26
Crimson Muffs
Clear Path 10
7 Ell TaIIies
Macdonald Smoshes
Across for Losers
In Last Minute
BY BILL KING,
AsSociated Press Sporte NUrftar

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 25.-A
fighting Yale football team took ad-
vantage of every miscue made by
the supposedly smarter and stronger
Harvard forces to gain a 20-to-7
upset victory today before a chilled
crowd of $4,000 at Harvard Stadium.
While ending a two-year Crimson
reign in this 58-year-old Big Three
classic, the Ellis wasted two of the
five trips they made over their ira
ditional rivals goal line and only
one of their three touchdowns was
generated by power.
They outplayed Harvard by wide
margin, despite the latter's 11-to-4
superiority in first downs, and kept
the Crimson we'll under control
until the last minute of play, when
Capt. Torby Macdonald saved his
team from a shutout by running
and passing 30 yards before plung-
ing from the 1-yard line.
1t was Yale's 33d victory of the
long series against 10 defeats and s
ties.
Fumbles Twice Help Yale.
Both of these teams, the weakest
to represent those once great foot
ball powers in many years, got ctf
to wobbly starts, but Yale managed
to pull itself together and started
rolling early in the second period
for its first touchdown.
Harvard's only two fumbles
opened the gates for the other two
Blue counters Little Freddie Burr
and Hovey Seymour sliced through
the Crimson line for 30 yards before
the former contacted Alan Barthol-
emy, the highly polished sophomore
end, twice with aerials. The second
one, a 6-yarder he caught in the
end zone.
Bartholemy, thorn in Harvard's
side from start to finish, made a
diving catch of another Burr pass
in the third period, few inches
beyond the end zone. That tally
was illegal, but the irrepressible
sophomore Immediately put his team
IN another scoring position by re-
covering a poor pass from center as
Harvard tried to rush from its 20.
Yale Finally Scores Again.
Seymour ran three times before
Burr went over from the 3-yard
line, but the latter was called back
because of an offside. The penalty
moved Yale back to Harvards
8-yard line, but Burr wiped out
seven of them by running and pass
ing to Sterling Brinkley, his other
Winger, who was dragged down
about feet from the goal.
Seymour had little difficulty
pounding over the points that put
the definite seal of Yale victory on
the argument.
Yale appeared content with a
14-to-0 lead going into the fourth
period, when Seymour rolled a
mighty boot to Macdonald, who was
smeared in his tracks on Harvard's
There Joe Gardella, who replaced
Fran Lee, fumbled and Cape Bur-
nam smothered it for Eli Yale.
Again Burr and Seymour swung into
action and the latter scored from
the 5-yard line to give Yale a 20
too lead, inasmuch as Howard Kaye
had contributed two extra points.
Macdonald Upholds Record.
There was just enough time left
about a minute-for Harvard to re-
move some of the sting of its unex-
pected setback. Spreyer carried back
Burr's kickoff IL yards and the
speedy Macdonald rallied his team
mates by dashing 30 yards to Yale's
20 after drawing favorable inter-
ference ruling on one of his passes.
With seconds remaining, the
Crimson leader passed to Gene Low
EFT on the l before bucking over to
uphold his record of scoring in all
of his three Yale game starts.