Except for the fall to Yale's pride, however, the defeat was decidedly beneficial to Yale. Making no excuses for their failure Dr. Sharpe set to work to build up again his shattered team; and, what is most important, the entire University stood behind their coach, letting it be known to all the football world, that they had every confidence in the ability of their team to come back.

Come-Back Surprises Tufts.

And, in the next game, when Tufts, hoping to emulate Boston College, confidently invaded the Bowl, the supposedly feeble Bull Dog did come back. "Yale Awakens and Runs Wild," said the headlines. There was little resemblance between the hard hitting, smooth running machine which tallied 37 points against the Medfordians and the collection of players which had been routed the week before. The bewildering assortment of trick plays which Tufts uncorked failed to baffle the Blue line as they nailed the Blue and Maroon runner behind the line time and again. Tufts won their first down only twice. And despite the absence of Callahan, Murphy and Braden, the Elis pushed the disheartened men from Medford before them with little difficulty. They relied chiefly on line plunges, attempting little aerial work. A feature in the Yale offense and defense was the way in which they took advantage of the misplays of their opponents.

In the next week the still improving eleven pushed 31 points over on the Maryland team, registering a touchdown in every playing period and injecting a field goal for good measure. As the Maryland team was the weakest they had met, the strength of their attack still remained a matter of doubt. But as to the ability of Kempton, as a field general, there could no longer be any question. He handled his eleven with consummate skill, taking advantage of every opportunity that was offered.

Brown Humbled, 14-0.

Against the comparatively strong Brown team it seemed at first as if the Bull Dog was dropping back to its earlier season form. Fumbling and stumbling through two quarters of erratic football, four times bringing the ball within scoring distance of the Brown goal, the Yale attack lacked the final drive necessary to put the ball across. But in the final half, the Bull Dog recovered from its temporary slump and scored their two touchdowns.

One particular weakness that had not been hitherto revealed was the inability of Yale to cope with an aerial attack. Brown made several gains, of from ten to twenty yards, on passes that could easily have been blocked.

Lateral Pass Gives Tigers Victory.

But last Saturday, it was shown that Yale had not so much to fear from her opponents' passes as from her own. With the score six to six in the third quarter Neville hastily threw a lateral pass to Kempton. The pass went wild and fell to the ground. Scheerer, a Princeton substitute, scooped up the ball and before the Yale players knew what had happened, he had crossed the goal line for the winning touchdown.

The Bull Dog had the weight and it had the fight, but that was all. It had nothing but the battering ram style of play of the early nineties, which is helpless against the defense--of a modern team. Kempton, who had hitherto been regarded as Yale's best bet, showed little and neither Lay not Neville was a match for Garrity or Strubing.

This game, disappointing as it was as a semi-final contest, showed Yale where her mistakes lay, where her powerful team had misplayed, and laid a basis for the final reorganization of the eleven into the more consistent machine which invades the Stadium today