YALE VICTORIOUS.

Hard Fought Struggle - Harvard's Plucky Up-Hill Game - Yale's Beautiful Interference and Fine Tackling.

On Hampden Park, Springfield, Saturday afternoon Yale defeated Harvard at foot ball by a score of ten points to nothing. The points were made: four in the first half by Morison's touch down, and six in the second half by Bliss's touch down and McClung's goal.

There was a tremendous crowd of people at the game but they were exceedingly well managed. The police force was efficient and the arrangements for distributing and seating the crowd were wellnigh perfect.

The result of the game was a great disappointment, though hardly a surprise to Harvard. The college had the utmost confidence in the captain and his men, and all eleven of them showed by their work that this confidence was not misplaced. Harvard made a most courageous and uphill fight. While all Harvard men are proud of the work of their team they agree very readily that there was no piece of good-luck which gave Yale the game, but simply superior play from start to finish.

It had been often predicted that Yale would win the contest by her team work, and such proved to be the case. The individual work of the Yale eleven seemed to be, and was, brilliant. But what really gave it the appearance of overmatching Harvard's individual play was the strength of the team work which was the ground work of everything and the secret of Yale's signal success. A Harvard opinion would be that the Harvard eleven, trained to the beautiful team game which Yale showed, would have been superior to the Yale eleven with equally good team work.

Such an opinion, however, is not in any wise held in disparagement of the work of the Yale men. On the contrary, it shows that their work is to be admired the more. Yale's play was well-nigh perfect. The interference upon every rush was superb and the tackling and quick breaking through when Harvard had the ball were remarkable. The rush-line played as one man, and together with the backs formed an irresistible front for both Harvard's offensive and defensive play. At every point was Yale tried and at none was she found wanting.

Every man on the team played an aggressive game from start to finish. There was no let up in the energy with which the runners dashed at the line, nor in the carefulness with which the forwards interferred with them. Once or twice fumbles were made by the men running with the ball; but the backs never failed to catch all the punts sent to them. In fact, Yale's play all around was a beautiful exhibition of science and skill; and while Harvard men deplore the result, they rejoice that they were beaten by men who have brought the game up so nearly to perfection.

Harvard's play, as well, was strong, steady and courageous. Her fatal weakness was at the point wherein the growth of the game during the past season has shown the greatest development. Yale had built up and made stronger this part of play, while Harvard played much the style of game which proved victorious last year. The eleven played it well, but as each rush was made, the inferiority of Harvard's method of play was apparent. The backs reached the line all alone, or at the most with one blocker, and unaided almost invariably went down before the strong tackling and defensive work of Yale.

The Harvard eleven showed a tremendous amount of pluck and endurance. Undismayed by Yale's immediate touch down, they went to work with great spirit, and though Yale twice pushed the ball up near Harvard's line, the crimson rush-line blocked and tackled beautifully and effectually stopped any further advance. Towards the end of the first half Harvard played a distinctly better game than before, and succeeded, to a certain extent, in breaking up Yale's interference. In the second half, also, the physical strength of the Harvard men kept the ball in Yale's territory a large part of the time. After Yale's second touch down Harvard played a beautiful offensive game, rushing the ball steadily into Yale's territory and keeping it there for some time. After the second try at goal, the last chance for Harvard to score was gone, and Yale had things her own way in a few moments more of play.

As for the general method of the game and of the scoring, it was a surprise to almost every one; for the general opinion was that Yale's ground-gaining would be through Harvard's supposedly weak centre, and that nothing could prevent Harvard from scoring through the rushing of her heavy backs and Trafford's punting.

On the contrary, Yale soon found that Harvard's centre was strong, but that at the tackles and ends her own fine interference could do telling work. So Captain McClung attacked these points constantly and by sharp work scored immediately. The second touch down for Yale was not a "fluke." No one was interfering for Corbett, who, in his struggles to get away from Hinkey, dropped the ball. Then Yale's close following of it and her clever interference won the touch down. The reason that Harvard's offensive work failed was, as has been said, because her excellent ground-gainers had the benefit of no interference; and because Trafford's punting had to be made on the defensive and was well returned by Yale.

As for the individual work of the two teams, it is always hard to discriminate when an eleven shows such united team work as Yale's. Yet the play of McClung was easily the best on the field. His runs were beautiful and his tackling was a great help to Yale. The other backs also played with great steadiness. In the line Hinkey Winter played their side of the line well, and both guards did strong work.

On the Harvard side Captain Trafford ran the team with excellent judgment, and played with great steadiness and effectiveness. Lake, as the line half-back, did some good tackling, and gained more ground with the ball than any other Harvard man. The work of the end rushers was broken up by Yale's telling interference. At the other points in the line Newell's and Mackie's work, perhaps, showed to best advantage.

The teams came upon the field at a little before two o'clock. Mr. Alexander Moffat formerly of Princeton, and Mr. S. V. Coffin, formerly of Wesleyan, were respectively the referee and umpire. Their decisions were eminently satisfactory.

The elevens lined up at 2.10 as follows:

HARVARD. YALE.

Emmons, (left end) Hinkey.

Waters, (left tackle) Winter.

Dexter, (left guard) Heffelfinger.

Bangs, (centre) Sanford.

Mackie, (right guard) Morison.

Newell, (right tackle) Wallis.

Hallowell, (right end) Hartwell.

Gage, (quarter-back) Barbour.

Lake, (r) (half-backs) (r) McClung.

Corbett, (l) (half-backs) (l) L. Bliss.

Trafford, (full-back) McCormick.