Football.

Harvard won from Amherst on Saturday in a very prettily played game by a score of 32 to 0. Twenty-six points were made in the first half of twenty-five minutes and six in the second which was a short fifteen. The score last year was 26 to 0 in two halves of twenty minutes each.

Amherst however, is undoubtedly much weaker now than she was last year. Her players were light and there was little or no team play. The line failed completely to hold Harvard's rushers, and her backs, with the exception of the opening V plays, did not make more than 20 yards during the entire game. Amherst's V's generally met the Harvard line halfway the distance between them and then stopped. Only once did she carry the ball more than her distance and that was when Hawes slipped by Beal and made six yards. Amherst played a plucky game but was very much outclassed. Tyler, Rosa, and Pratt, and particularly Tyler, did by far the best work.

The feature of the game was the fine interference of the Harvard backs. Brewer, Stevenson, Emmons, Fairchild, Waters, and Corbett were in almost every end play. Sometimes the runner was only blocked by two, but oftener there were three or four to clear the way for him. Brewer and Stevenson were perhaps, if any discrimination is to be made, the most effective. Still it was the combined work of them all that brought about such happy results.

The running of the backs was brilliant, but they could never have done what they did without the aid of the fine interference. Waters made runs of 20, 30 and 45 yards; Corbett one of 50, and two of 60 each. It was not often that a back failed to make the distance in a single down. As a rule the halfbacks kept well with their blockers, but Corbett showed a strong tendency to break away and shift for himself. As it happened he was unusually successful in dodging his way out from the crowd, but he would never have been so fortunate against a Yale team. This fault is an old one which needs careful watching.

There was considerable improvement in the defensive work of the eleven. To be sure it was a weak line against which they had to buck, still they acted on the right principle of breaking through and tackling the runner before he reached the line of the down. In this way Amherst was repeatedly forced back with losses of from two to ten yards and obliged to kick. Fairchild broke through and tackled strongly; his failure to do this has been his chief fault in the past. Mackie also did good work, several times spoiling the attempted kick of the Amherst fullback. The ends, Emmons and Stevenson, and the tackles, Beal and Newell, were like a wall to the Amherst backs. They guarded their ends so well as to make them almost impregnable.

In the second half Balwin, Parker, Grant, Johnson, Foster and Hoag were substituted for Beal, Warren, Lewis, Newell, Fairchild and Brewer. Later Emmons was hurt and Whittren took his place and Gould went in for Foster, who was disqualified. The defensive work in this half remained about the same, but carelessness in snapping the ball back, holding, and fumbling lost Harvard the ball four times and aided Amherst materially in keeping the score down.

The make up and score:

HARVARD. AMHERST.

Emmons, left end, Rosa.

Whittren, left end, Rosa.

Beal, left tackle, Tyler.

Balwin, left tackle, Tyler.

Warren, left guard, Cauthers.

Parker, left guard, Cauthers.

Lewis, centre, Kimball.

Grant, centre, Kimball.

Mackie, right guard, Penney.

Newell, right tackle, Blagdon.

Johnson, right tackle, Blagdon.

Stevenson, right end. Russell.

Stevenson, right end. Ford.

Fairchild, quarterback, Pratt.

Foster, quarterback, Pratt.

Gould, quarterback, Pratt.

Waters, halfback, Converse.

Corbett, halfback, Hawes.

C. Brewer, fullback, Deering.

Hoag, fullback, Deering.

Touchdowns: Waters 3, Brewer 2, Corbett 1, Goals from touchdowns: Corbett 4. Umpire, Mr. Talcott for Amherst. Referee, Mr. Brooks for Harvard. Time, 25 and 15 minute halves.