CRITICS CROWN CRIMSON WITH VERBAL LAURELS

Some interesting sidelights on the annual Harvard-Yale struggle in the Bowl at New Haven Saturday, can be gained by comparing the accounts of the struggle by New York and Boston "experts."

Parke Davis, New York Herald authority, says "Harvard's battle plan, resourceful and lively, was an assault by forward passes. This system of attack continued-intermittently during the first half. Four of these assaults by air succeeded, carrying the Crimson forward seventy-five yards.

Yale Played Seven in Line

"Harvard excelled in the backfield and her runners were faster and more slippery. So strong and connected were the line assaults of the Crimson, that Yale was compelled to man its line of forward at all times with seven players, thereby protecting its backfield area with only four men.

"Defensively the Harvard line was a rampart of concrete. Against this impregnable barrier, 27 battering ram assaults by Yale broke for a gain of only 59 yards, in which were only six first downs, and which carried Yale once to Harvard's 32-yard line and once to the Crimson's 35-yard line."

Scouts Fall to Follow Play

Carl Flanders, Yale line coach, waxed sarcastic thusly in the Boston Herald:

"The pass was salvation for Harvard; it was desperation for Yale. Not until the final period did the blue complete one. The number and variety that Harvard used made the observer cross-eyed trying to watch men and ball. The Yale mathematical faculty, which had volunteered to chart the exact course of Harvard's unnumbered individuals in her offence, labored with plotting-boards, range-finders, eleven observers and gyroscopic compasses, threw away their instruments in disgust and concentrated on computing the energy released when 70,000 occupants of the Bowl roared in unison. The offense was safe for another year."

Grantland Rice, in the New York Tribune, says: "How then did Harvard look compared with Princeton? Harvard rushed the ball even more effectively against the Blue than did Princeton. The Crimson attack gained more ground, made more first downs by rushing, and made more first downs by forward passes

"The Harvard team was showing more consummate cleverness in the way of hiding the ball. They had innumerable feints, while the Yale tactics always seemed absolutely obvious."