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THE PLAY IN DETAIL.
Illustrated by a carefully drawn dia-
gram of both halves.
The game was scheduled to begin at
2 o’clock, but it was ten minutes beyond
that hour before all the preliminaries
had been settled and the teams trotted
to their places on the field. Captain
Burden of Harvard had picked the right
side of the falling coin and took the
North goal which was favored by a
breeze of perhaps 10 miles an hour, not
more.. Yale thus had the ball to kick-
off, and when the whistle blew Francis
sent it to Daly, who took it on his 10-
yard line. Daly returned it, immedi-
ately, 45 yards to Sharpe. Without even
feeling of the strefigth of Harvard’s
line Sharpe kicked short and high to
Daly, who made a gain of 10 yards be-
fore Hubbell threw him on his 35-yard
line. On the next line-up, Sawin, pro-
tected by Daly and Kendall got by Hub-
bell for a run of 30 yards, Fincke throw-
ing him neatly on Yale’s 45-yard line.
Two tries of Ellis’s brought only a yard
each time, but on the next he made 4
yards through the center. It was Yale’s
ball for off-side play, however, and Mc-
Bride dropped back on a punt signal.
Whether it was Hale’s pass, which came ~
a little high, and somewhat to the right,
that disconcerted McBride, or not, is
hard to say, but whatever it was, the
kick went straight into the line, whirling
through among the players and out of
bounds near the middle of the field,
where Hallowell, quick as he was, could
not prevent Richards from getting down
upon it. The result of the play was an
8-yard gain for Yale. McBride’s next
punt was a good one, but Daly, avoid-
ing Gibson, brought it 5 yards, to his
own 25-yard line, where Hubbell threw
him. After Sawin had lost two yards
around left end, through a fierce diving
tackle by Hubbell, Hallowell punted to
his own 45-yard line. Sharpe took the
ball and Yale began her first attempt at a
plunging game. McBride made two
yards through Burnett, Sharpe followed
with the same distance and Richards
made enough to give the first down.
McBride and Sharne alternating on ‘the
next three plays could only cover four
yards, and Harvard took the ball on
her own 26-yard line. Without loss of
time Hallowell got the ball away from
this dangerous territory. Sharpe took it
and made a few yards before Lawrence
thew him on Harvard’s 50-yard line.
McBride’s kick in the next line-up al-
though made against the wind was a
magnificent one for height and distance
as it struck the ground only a few yards
inside the goa! line. Daly let it roll over
and Hallowell took a free kick from the
25-yard line, which Sharpe returned.
Daly made a difficult running catch and
with splendid dodging landed the ball
on his 30-yard line. The next half
dozen plays were kicks with once or
twice a scrimmage, in one of which Har-
vard began to taste the fierceness of
Hubbell’s tackling through her most
compact interference.
Up to this point Yale seemed to have
had the advantage. With the wind
against her side she had kept the ball
in Harvard’s territory excepting a few
plays near the opening of the game. Her -
defense surprised ever her friends, and
as the minutes went by the wntried
players seemed to find themselves, and
grow in knowledge and confidence as
Captain Rodgers’s team had done two |
years before on the same field.
HARVARD'S GREAT SPURT.
But now came a tremendous spurt by
Harvard, the equal of which had probably
never been seen on a. football field be-
fore. Daly had up till this time hoped
that Hallowell, with the wind on his
back, could get the ball well inside of
Yale’s territory, when he could bring his
battering rams into operation. But the
minutes of the first half were running
rapidly by and he saw the hopelessness
of such a plan, for McBride was punt-
ing 40, 50 and 60 yards, or more than
Daly’s return runs and Hallowell’s
kicks put together, could overcome.
Taking the ball on his 40-yard line from
a rather short, high, kick, Daly, on the
first line-up gave it to Sawin, who shot
past Gibson for 15 yards, but was thrown
heavily by Richards, who was showing
himself an alert and sure tackler. Daly
added 10 yards around left end on a
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The above diagrams of both halves were made from a carefully kept note book, and are believed to be very accurate.
They show at a glancc the
distance covered by the ball in kicking and rushing, but do not attempt to show the directions in which it travelled over the face of the field from play to play.
double pass, Hubbell allowing himself
to be drawn in for the only time in the
game. With the ball on Yale’s 45-yard
line Ellis began for Harvard what is
surely a record-breaking performance in
individual ground gaining. He began by
taking eight yards clean through Hale
and an instant later five through Brown.
That five yards seemed to come so
easily that he tried again and exactly
duplicated the performance, following
it up with four yards more in the
same place. So savage were these
plunges and so well backed up, that
_ though Yale was putting every ounce of
weight against them and playing like
one man, Ellis tore his way through.
The next catapult was aimed at Still-
man, and although the latter, backed up
by McBride threw himself with tre-
mendous force against the mass, the
Harvard fullback slid past for another
gain of five yards. Two plays against
Olcott netted five yards; center yielded
for four yards and then Daly tried
Sawin, who seemed inspired with his
team mate’s work and made a gain
through Stillman of five yards. It was
first down again for Harvard with only
four yards to go for a _ touchdown.
Sawin dived into Francis and got half
the distance. Ellis, somewhat rested,
was called upon again and when the
pile slowly uncoiled the Yale heart was
filled with anguish to see the ball resting
less than a yard from the last chalk
mark. But it was the third down, and
about 18 inches to gain.
TWELVE INCHES TO SPARE.
And as the men set themselves for that
last struggle which meant so much to
both, and which must go down in his-
tory as the greatest fight ever seen,
the excitement was so intense that the
multitude forgot to cheer and there was
an almost complete silence. Daly's sig-
nal called for Ellis through Brown.
The pass was quick as lightning and as
the lines met with a resounding crash,