FRESHMEN DEFEAT YALE.

The Harvard Freshman eleven defeated the Yale freshman Saturday at New Haven by the score of 18 to 0. Harvard was superior to Yale throughout the entire game, though it was during the first half that all three touchdowns were scored. During this half, too, Yale came nearest to scoring when rushing, gains on kicks, and distance penalties gave Yale the ball on Harvard's fifteen yard line. Here, however, Harvard held for downs and regained the ball. During the second half seven of the Harvard players were obliged to leave the game on account of injuries and thereby so weakened the team that although the Freshmen kept the ball in Yale territory and four times had it inside Yale's twenty yard line, they were unable to score.

Harvard made nearly all of her effective plays on quick tandem formations massed at tackle and guard. On the defense Harvard prevented Yale from making more than twenty yards during the entire game by her prompt work in breaking through the line. In stopping the attacks of Yale, Roberts at centre and Shea at right guard were especially brilliant.

The game opened by Yale's kicking the ball to Harvard's twenty yard line, from which point it was brought back to the forty yard line by Pruyn and Meier. Here the ball was lost to Yale owing to the poor execution of a trick formation and holding in the line. Harvard then recovered the ball on downs and afterwards, by straight football only, was able to send Meier, Pruyn and Lindsay across the line for touchdowns with but little resistance from Yale. Hutchinson kicked the three goals. The rest of the game was characterized by a slight spurt on the part of Yale which, however, resulted in nothing more than keeping Harvard from further scoring. In this stage of the game Winslow, Cross and Jennings did good work for Yale.

The line-up: Harvard 1904.  Yale 1904. Burgess, r.e.  l.e., Blount. Jones, r.t.  l.t., Ferguson, Ingham. Shea, Jackson, r.g.  l.g., O'Neill. Roberts, c.  c., Patterson. Robinson, O'Connor, l.g.  r.g., Johnson. Dodge, l.t.  r.t., Drummond. Hutchinson, Lane, l.e.  r.e., Benham. Marshall, q.b.  q.b., Winslow. Mackay, Lindsay, Parker, r.h.b.  l.h.b., Cross. Pruyn, Goodhue, l.h.b.  r.h.b. Welton, Donohue. Meier, Parmelee, f.b.  f.b., Jennings.