Superior generalship won Yale the great game at Springfield on Saturday. This tells the whole story of defeat in as accurate and concise a form as possible. The score was 6 to 0, but while it suggests the closeness of the struggle, it tells little about the comparative merits of the teams.

The victorious Yale eleven was run with superb management on the part of Captain Hinkey. They followed out a well defined policy with perfect coolness and confidence. Their tactics were finely adapted to the conditions which were brought about by their luck in winning the toss. With the wind at their backs they played strictly a kicking game and gained enormously by it. Harvard was not able to punt more than half the distance against the strong wind, consequently she was put upon the offensive for the greater part of the first half.

In sharp distinction to this was Harvard's lack of generalship in the second half. It is a serious matter for a team to lose its captain and it is the exception under such a circumstance when demoralization does not set in. All that Harvard can say is that she deplores the unfortunate occurrence and hopes that future elevens may be spared so great a discouragement.

The advantage which Yale gained by winning the toss and her choice of goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits.

A decidedly gratifying feature of the game was the utter absence of anything which could be interpreted as ungentlemanly playing. A true, manly spirit previled throughout and the game cannot fail to be raised in popular estimation as a direct result. Harvard and Yale in a way set the standard of all the college sports, and anything which in the contests between the two universities tends to raise this standard must be welcomed.

Yale's team as a whole gave perhaps the best exhibition of football seen in years. This was truer, however, in the first than in the second half. Brilliant individual work by Butterworth and Thorne was admirably combined with almost perfect team play; so perfect, in fact, that the few cases in which Harvard was individually supperior to Yale in the line, did not affect the result to any great extent. There was the same elock-like regularity in their movements and wonderful steadiness under all conditions which is one of the striking features of Yale elevens. The fierce, sudden onslaughts upon the line made particularly by Butterworth, although also by Thorne with fine effect, were irresistible, and to this persistent bucking of the line is due Yale's victory. It was an exact repetition of the Pennsylvania game in this respect, where Butterworth with his inimitable skill followed the same tactics and saved Yale from defeat. The evenness of Yale's play in both offensive and defensive work was one of the most striking features of the game. So equally balanced were they that in point of comparative strength it is hard to distinguish between the two.

Harvard's work in the first half was very satisfactory even to the most critical observer. She fought against odds with a splendid show of grit and determination and, if anything, outplayed Yale both in defensive and offensive work. It was a magnificent struggle and the fact that such strength can be showed should be incentive enough to the eleven to put a winning team into the field next Thursday. In the second half, however, Yale clearly outclassed Harvard in every respect. Harvard's great fault then, as before, was too deliberate playing. She was far too cautious considering the seriousness of the situation. More reckless dash and head-long impetuosity were the qualities which the occasion demanded, but Harvard had no captain to rally her men and infuse into them this winning spirit. A great mistake was made in not trying around the end plays oftener, and also in failing to take advantage of what little wind remained to play a punting game. It is also a question if Harvard's policy of playing her halfbacks fully five yards behind the line is as effective as Yale's, whose runners invariably are placed close to the rushers and are thus much quicker in striking the line, apparently too, with even more force.

Yale's centre was without a doubt stronger than Harvard's, although Lewis put up a superb game. Hickok and Beard also outclassed their men. It was by Yale's persistent massing of plays upon Acton and Manahan that she drove her way slowly but irresistibly through the rush line and to the longed for touchdown. Emmons, though at times pushed out of the play, repeatedly came to Manahan's support and saved dozens of yards of gains. On the other side Stevenson and Newell were about all that could be desired. Only occasionally, however, were Yale's attacks directed against them. Behind the line Harvard was outclassed, man for man, but in justice to the backs it should be said that they did not receive the support that was accorded Yale's runners.

For the fifth successive year Yale won the toss. On account of the heavy wind that was blowing, Captain Hinkey chose the side for the obvious advantage in kicking.

Harvard, with the ball, opened the play by a flying wedge, corresponding to the one used by the U. of P., all the men starting in a body. This play netted 23 yards.

The next play was an equal surprise. Four men, Newell, Stevenson, Wrightington and Brewer, lined up as if for a flying wedge, some five yards behind Emmons. At a signal from Beale they started for centre of Yale's line. The minute they struck the line, Waters got the ball on a pass and ran behind them between Emmons and Manahan, who had made an opening for them. Five yards were gained on this play.

Harvard continued to repeat this trick, following with one where the ends came back and Emmons ran with the ball. On the ninth down the ball was on Yale's 13 yard line. Here Harvard lost it on four downs.

Butterworth kicked to Yale's 43 yard line, but Harvard could not gain, and had to give Yale another chance. After two unsuccessful attempts, one being the interference used by Pennsylvania, where the tackle and end start before the ball is put in play, Butterworth again punted to Wrightington, at Harvard's 10 yard line.

Brewer returned the ball to the 30 yard line. Thorne made his first 5 yards by Manahan. On the next play Yale dropped the ball and Beale fell on it. Brewer kicked and followed up the ball, which Butterworth dropped, Brewer securing it on Harvard's 30 yard line. Then followed a succession of plays, including several repetitions of the new "fake" wedge used in the second play of the game. Finally Brewer was forced to punt on the third down. Thorne secured the ball on Yale's 39 yard line.

Butterworth immediately returned the ball to Wrightington at Harvard's 12 yard line.

Again Harvard tried her up-hill work, but Brewer was forced to kick. The ball went out at the 20 yard line. After several short gains, Yale in trying a trick dropped the ball.

Harvard steadily gained on sharp plays at guard and tackle for some 15 yards, when holding by Newell gave the ball to Yale. After three or four times trying in vain to rush with the ball, Butterworth tried for a goal from the field.

This failing, the ball was brought out to the 25 yard line. After two or three short gains by the new wedge, Brewer was forced to kick. Hinkey got the ball 40 yards from Harvard's goal. On his fair catch, Yale tried a flying wedge. Thorne dropped the ball and Emmons fell on it.

For about a dozen downs Harvard played fine football. Several times the new wedge was used, and once or twice the mass play with ends back, in which Emmons ran with the ball. Waters, Brewer, Wrightington, Emmons, Stevenson, all helped carry the ball down to Yale's 24 yard line, where Harvard made her first fumble. Butterworth kicked out at Yale's 35 yard line. Several more sharp plays, directed mostly at guard and tackle, and finally Harvard lost the ball on four downs. Butterworth at once kicked some 55 yards to Brewer at Harvard's 30 yard line. Waters ran twice with a gain of only 2 yards. This ended the first half.

During the first half Harvard gained 208 yards, only 71 being on punts. They lost but 9 yards, on Newell's off-side play. Harvard had the ball in 55 plays. Yale on the other hand had the ball only 17 times, making 237 yards, 210 being on punts before the wind. Yale's rushes netted just 27 yards.

The second half Yale's players were much less tired than Harvard's, by reason of the punting game they had played. Yale's flying wedge on the opening play gained only 10 yards, but this play was followed by a dozen others, some ten of them directed straight at Acton and Manahan, all netting good gains, though none of them very large. Butterworth once broke through the gap between Acton and Manahan and was downed by Beale after a gain of 10 yards. It was on the fourteenth play that Butterworth broke through again and made a touchdown. He crossed the goal line 25 yards from the goal posts, yet no Harvard player tacked him until he had dropped the ball behind the goal posts. He had no difficulty in kicking the goal.

Harvard had the ball once more at the centre of the field. The flying wedge advanced the ball 18 yards into Yale's territory. On the fourth down following Yale once more got the ball.

Thorne made the best run of the day, 40 yards by Manahan and Emmons. Three of Yale's rushers lined up five yards back of Greenway, who played opposite Emmons. They started for Manahan, Butterworth and Armstrong for Emmons, and Thorne with the ball slipped through the gap. Butterworth and Thorne carried the ball by short rushes at Manahan, down to Harvard's 20 yard line, where they lost it on four downs.

Here Harvard enthusiasts had a chance to shout. Wrightington ran 15 yards round Hinkey. Brewer pushed 10 yards more past Greenway. With a clear field before him he slipped on the hard turf and fell. By several successive rushes aided by off-side play on Yale's part, Harvard got to Yale's 43 yard line.

From this time on there were some 60 plays. Yale had the ball for nearly 45 of these, making gain after gain by tackle and guard. Harvard would get the ball on four downs or on a kick, only to be obliged to punt back. The ball was never once forced near Yale's goal, never again did Harvard enthusiasm rouse itself. Just after the fine runs by Wrightington and Brewer, Waters, who had already been hurt two or three times, was obliged to leave the field on account of a knock on the head and water on the knee. Dunlop, who took his place did very well for the few chances he had to show himself.

The game closed with Yale in possession of the ball on her own 45 yard line.

This half Yale had the ball in 75 plays, Harvard 31. Yale gained 247 yards, 21 being on a single punt. Harvard had only 31 plays, with a total gain of 205 yards, 109 of which were made on 3 punts. Yale lost ground but 3 times, then only 4 yards in all. Harvard lost 9 yards on a failures to kick by Brewer on account of Beale's slow pass, and 10 yards on 3 other plays.

Following is the make-up.

HARVARD. YALE.

Emmons, left-end-right Greenway.

Manahan, left-tackle-right Beard.

Acton, left-guard-right Hickok.

Lewis, centre Stillman.

Mackie, right-guard-left McCrea.

Newell, right-tackle-left Murphy.

Stevenson, right-end-left Hinkey.

Beale, quarterback Adee.

Waters, halfback, Armstrong.

(Dunlop), halfback, Thorne.

Wrightington halfback, Thorne.

Brewer, fullback, Butterworth.

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