With Clasby and Culver alternating short gains, the Crimson moved the ball to the Yale 34, where Jerry Marsh, starting his first college game, called a straight fullback play with Culver carrying. O'Brien and Culolias bowled over Eli guard Dick Polich, Weber hit the tackle, and Marsh took the linebacker. Culver broke through, cut to the sideline, and outraced Corelli over 34 very fast yards to climax one of the great Harvard football careers. This, Ross' extra point, subsequent interceptions by Coolidge and the steadily improving Al Culbert, and the Eli's own inability to pass ended all Yale threats.
This was Harvard's day. Taking the initiative from the start, the varsity, which hasn't been outplayed this year, which finished the season with a 6-2 record, just completely outplayed Yale.
Lowenstein to Clasby
Only a small penalty nullified a perfect Carroll Lowenstein to Clasby pass, a play which found the Crimson captain sneaking behind an Eli just as the spiraling ball fell into his arms. And then, later in the second half, Clasby dropped a Lowenstein pass as he toppled into the end zone. These were two possible scores, but they only made statistical difference. The people who weren't satisfied with the final score were in predominance Saturday--not noisy, slightly more sober, they almost all wore Blue and White scarves.
The Crimson scored its first touchdown in the second quarter. After a sloppy Yale punt went out on the home team 34, the varsity, despite an offside penalty, moved across in seven plays. Culver smashed through the line three times, Clasby hit Lewis with a short pass, and then Lewis took the ball from Clasby, cut through the short side, knocked down one defender, outran two others, and carried one over with him after 22 yards of sheer determination. A holding penalty set the Crimson back to the 17, from where Ross just missed the point.
The Long Read Back
This was the first time that the current Harvard seniors had beaten Yale. It was a fine season, climaxing three years of Crimson improvement which saw the win total grow from one the previous year to three, five and finally six. Many shared a great deal in this road back to success if not superiority, but for two of them today ended three years of hard work. For Captain Dick Clasby, a truly fine all around football player, from his breath-taking running to his constantly improving passing to his punting, a strong point of the Harvard defense this season, this was the final game. In the three years that Clasby was here, Harvard may have been outplayed, but it was never outclassed, because no one has more class than Clasby.
Two Way Player
And for Culver, whose speed matched his physical size, whose inside thrusts often set up Clasby's long outside runs, who could almost always get the extra yard, this was a fitting finale. No player in the East adapted himself better to two-way football than Culver, no one played more rugged football. It will be a long time before someone hits a Yale line as hard as Culver did today.
Carroll Lowenstein played his last game today, and this had been a tough season for a fine passer. Injuries, defensive weaknesses, and the difficulty of working in the same backfield with Clasby, had slowed down Lowenstein this year and had prevented him from throwing touchdown passes more than any defensive backfield could have. Lowenstein was a one platoon player in a two platoon game, a T formation passer in a single wing backfield, yet he was always an offensive threat and a credit to Harvard football.