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YALE ALUMNI WHEKLY
Ellis, with lowered head, went in to the
indicated spot with a magnificent reck-
lessness. He was met by a solid wall,
but in an instant his head appeared
above the melee. His brother backs
had seized him and raised him up
to throw him across the line, over the
heads of the crouching forwards, a
means that has often been used stccess-
fully by Harvard this year. But Cap-
tain McBride was watching for just such
a move and threw himself against
Ellis’s head with what seemed force
enough to kill, checking the whole mass.
It saved the day for Yale, for after sway-
ine back and forth a moment the play
fell to the ground with only a six-inch
gain and twelve inches of room to spare.
When the play fell,Richards had the ball,
having wrested it from Ellis in some way.
This failure to gain the necessary dis-
tance was through no weakening of Har-
vard. Daly has been criticised for not
trying an end run, but he had no rea-
son to think that Ellis, who had himself
made 30 yards just previous could fail
now. Moreover, his end runs, while
several times brilliantly successful, had
not a few times resulted in losses, and
had he tried an end run and not made
the touchdown he would have been
severely criticisd for not using the only
sure thing—a line plunge by Ellis.
The danger was not yet over, for Daly
heeled a free catch of McBride’s punt-
out on Yale’s 4o-yard line, and was given
15 yards because of Gibson’s foul tackle.
This left the ball on the 25-yard line,
about 10 yards from the side, an angle
of no great difficulty, but Burnett, after
making himself and everybody in sight
of him nervous by his hesitancy failed
in the place kick, though only by a I2-
inch margin. The ball was high enough
and was so near to the left post as to de-
ceive almost everyone except those who
were in direct line. Thus Harvard lost
her second chance to score.
Sawin took McBride’s kick out from
the 25-yard line and after running it
back five yards was thrown by Hubbell,
who was down like a whirlwind re-
trieving Gibson’s missed tackle. Snit-
jer was called in to take Gibson’s place,
and immediately began to show himself
a man of unusual ability. He was fast
under kicks, sure in tackling, and, though
weighing only 144 pounds put his big
opponent, Campbell, out of the play time
after time on the defensive. Only a
few minutes were left of the first half
and Harvard had lost something of the
vim she exhibited in the first of the
game. Yale took the ball on Hallowell’s
kick into touch at her 35-yard line and by
constant hammering on Donald and
Lawrence carried it 16 yards before los-
ing. Sharpe made nine yards of this
distance, Brown four and McBride the
rest. On Hallowell’s kick Snitjer
showed a very pretty piece of blocking.
Campbell came racing down the field
with his eye on Fincke, who was getting
under the ball on his own tIo-yard line.
Snitjer saw him coming, and turning,
ran close to the elbow of the Harvard
end. As the latter reached for Fincke
Snitjer ran close in to the big fellow
and with a neat push sent him ten
yards down the field and to one side,
and then turning spran~ into Fincke’s
interference. Just as the whistle sounded
to end the half, Sawin made a run
from McBride’s kick of 25 yards which
left the ball in Harvard’s hands on
Yale’s 45-yard line.
THE SECOND HALF.
During the intermission the impres-
sion seemed to prevail among Yale
men generally that Yale would win,
though just how that splendid defense
of Harvard’s was to be smashed no
one could satisfactorily explain. It was
to be done on a fumble, or on a blocked
kick, or by some means which would
present itself later, for, with the wind
on his back, McBride was expected to
keep the play near enough to his op-
ponent’s goal to make any slip a very
serious thing. Looked at calmly, how-
ever, and taking the first half as a
basis of judgment, Yale’s chance of
scoring did not appear very bright.
Daly and Sawin in the back field made
a duo which everyone recognized as
able to take care of any kind of kick-
ing, short or long, high or low, and
with a line in front of them that had
held Yale’s finest efforts at ground
gaining down to 20 yards, and that not
consecutively, it seemed like an impos-
sibility to beat them. Harvard, though
astonished at the Yale resistance, felt
pretty certain that, wind or no wind,
their team would repeat the attack of
the first half and carry it to a more
successful conclusion.
Burnett made the kick-off at five
minutes past three o’clock, or almost
exactly an hour from the time the
game started. Sharpe, standing on the
to-yard line, took the ball and passed
it back to McBride close behind him,
who raised it to the center, where Hub-
bell threw Daly in his tracks. One at-
tempt through Hale was enough, for it
yielded less than a yard and then Hallo-
well attempting a punt, was so badly
hurried by by the Yale backs and tackles
pouring through his formation that the
ball went out of bounds only 15 yards
from where he stood. McBride im-
mediately punted to Sawin, who-let it
slip through his fingers, but the careful
Daly was at his elbow and picking it up
started to run. Snitjer was upon him
like a wolf, striking him with sufficient
force to carry him back bodily about
six feet. Daly was knocked off his
feet, but freeing himself he scrambled
up again and made five yards before
Hale and Francis crushed him down.
In the next play Kendall got eight yards
on a double pass around left end and
was thrown in a great diving tackle by ~
Hale, who was not only playing his
position like a veteran, but was tackling
all over the field and following the ball
beautifully. Kendall’s success tempted
Daly into using him again around the
other end, but this time half the Yale
team were on him. Sawin who up till
this time had been invincible around
the ends, lost two yards more and Hallo-
well had to kick. McBride’s return was
his worst kick of the day, going less
than 15 yards to Harvard’s 45-yard line,
where it rolled out of bounds. Ellis
made eight yards in two plunges into
Francis, but Parker, who. had been sub-
stituted for Sawin, lost two, Hubbell
going head-first throuvh half the line
and getting. the runner. It was one
of the most brilliant tackles of the
game and at the same time one of the
most difficult to make.
HARVARD'S CLEVER TRICKS.
McBride returned Hallowell’s punt
with interest. Snitjer was following the
kick like a greyhound and when but a
few feet from Daly, who was getting
under the ball on his 45-yard line, the
latter signalled for a free catch. It may
be related as an instance of Snitjer’s
quick thinking, that he sheered off al-
though he was within a few steps of his
man, and avoided the tackle. Daly’s
move was evidently a trick to get a
15-yard penalty for interference, as he
had done on account of Gibson’s tackle
earlier in the game, for no attempt was
-made for a place-kick. But though this
did not work Daly had another trick
which but for a little miscalculation in
speed would have worked for a 20-yard
advance. Parker was given the ball
for a right end run. He got off splen-
didly, and cut straight across the field,
and seemed to be waiting for a chance
to turnin. Hubbell, watchful and speedy,
was racing him looking for his chance.
It came and he dived for Parker’s legs,
but as he did so the latter tossed the
ball to Kendall, who had been following
closely and immediately turned in with
a wide sweep and tore down the field.
Harvard’s interference was with him
like magic and it looked like a long run,
but Sharpe and McBride ran him out
and threw him after he had gone 20
yards. The ball was then carried back
to its starting place, and given to Yale,
as the pass had been a forward one.
The whole play had been executed per-
fectly, and would have surely succeeded
had not Kendall’s rush carried him a
little in advance of where he was meant
to be when Parker tossed him the ball.
With the ball on Harvard’s 4o-yard line
Chadwick and Keane, Yale’s light run-
ning backs, were called in to replace
Sharpe and Richards. Keane made two
yards through Lawrence on his first
trial and then another. NHarvard’s line
was so strong that Captain McBride,
rather than risk losing the ball here on ©
downs, walked back to the middle of
the field and took the ball from Fincke
on a long running pass, and touched
it down, thus voluntarily resigning 20
yards. This trick puzzled the grand
stands not a little, but it is one allowed
by the rules and gives a team the chance
to keep the ball. The play is one rarely
seen, as the loss in ground is so great
as to make a captain very wary of its
use. From this point Yale set about
to make up the lost ground. Keane
began it by going through Lawrence
for a clean seven yards and Olcott was
jammed through the same spot for
nearly five yards. Chadwick added two
and McBride two more through the
guards. Sixteen yards of the loss al-
ready made up and still gaining! Har-
vard for the moment seemed demoral-
ized; her splendid defense seemed to
be giving way before the lightning-like
play of the Yale backs. Ellis, who
never was a strong man on the defen-
sive and who had a good deal of the
heart beaten out of him in the first
half, gave way to Reid. The latter’s
presence told for a moment and Chad-
wick only got a yard through Lawrence.
It was third down and three yards to
go, but Chadwick struck the Harvard
Captain with resistless force aided by
the combined driving power of Keane
and McBride, tandem fashion, and made
a yard more than was necessary. Bur-
den was hurt, but after some attention
resumed play. But do what they could
Harvard was unable to prevent the ball
from coming through.
YALE’S DESPERATE PLUNGES.
The ball was now just inside Har-
vard’s 35-yard line and McBride laid
it on the 30-yard line with a desperate
plunge through Burden. The Yale
play, fast and furious, was slowly beat-
ing its way ahead and it looked as
though Captain McBride’s men had at
last got their chance. Brown found
three yards past Donald and it was first
down again. Keane made two through
Lawrence and an instant later added
another, but Harvard was getting over
her trouble and presented so solid a
front that on Chadwick’s attempt he was
thrown back for a loss of two yards.
Captain McBride believed it impossi-
ble to gain the necessary four yards,
and for the second time resorted to the
long pass back for a 20-yard voluntary
loss. This judgment has been criticised,
but it was, without doubt, the thing to
do, for Sharpe, the drop-kicker, had
been removed from the game and no
one was then playing on the Yale side
who had the ability to safely do a drop
kick, the play McBride’s critics say
should have been made. It was a great
discouragement to the 5,000 Yale sup-
porters on the grand stands, whose
cheers had dominated even the great
volume of Harvard yells while the team
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