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Show HARVARD' ' AUEUeES; ITS DEFEAT BY CENTRE 171 JS H TO 10 CRIIWSOW TEAM K RUBBER CONTEST "Prayin Colonels" Make a Game Fight but Lack Big Punch CAMBRIDGE, Maw., .Ov.t fl.-Ovr-whclmed by m first period collection of twenty-one point. Centre collie w& de-fested de-fested by Harvard here thla afternoon hr final score ot 24 io 10, but the cold' nure do not tell the couraeoue battle by the Bouthernert In the latter rertode of play a battle which Uftrd the am from a draht defeat Into a thrllllna-etruMle thrllllna-etruMle that clamped fifty thousand spectator, spec-tator, to their aeuu until , the oloein second of p!ay, GOOD AND BAD. considered the'tw'o elevens' hMtled ItTa furious mixture of bad fcnd brilliant foot-ihh foot-ihh and It wa In part carelewe handling; or the ball In crucial situations that a 1,01,1 th downfall of the psn-v psn-v Me. K. combination. It was the valedictory vale-dictory of the Bouthernere In the Harvard stadium for some eesaons to come,. yt in their nasalnv U thoughts or looseness loose-ness In the play which paved the way for a Crimson victory wfil be forgotten in the brighter recollection of the flghtlnjr spirit and sensational charges which Centre Cen-tre flung- forth In th face of almost certain cer-tain defeat. Three times In the first period of IS minutes actual play. Harvard crossed Centre's g-oal line, due. In part to the Colonel' Inability to hold the hall and to the Olmson'g almost uncanny sense of ball following, plus super-Judgment aa I to when and how to strike for scores. The team which a year sgo defeated Harvard, Har-vard, six to nothing, saw the Crimson score within two minutes after the opening open-ing kick off almost a a-lft touchdown at th very beginning of play. CENTRE RIGHTS. Yet. in the face of this gridiron disaster, centre came back and not onlv outplayed the Cambridge machine In the final periods pe-riods of the game, but scored a touchdown In addition to an earlier field goal. It was the wonderful spirit of courage and battle to the end that thrilled and aroused the thousands of spectators and caused them time and again to emit the rebel yell, or at least the best Imitation of the real southern article that an enthuslastlo northerner could produce In rooting; for a Inst cause. Had the fates, which mard football destiny, been a little more generous. It might have been that victory would have winged Its way southward tontgrfL with the Centre team. Instead of camplnaA In the Cambridge quarters of the Crlm- on eleven. It cannot he truthfully aid' that Centre was a better football team today than Harvard, but there waa not the difference In plavlng ability that the score would appear to Indicate If the occasional oc-casional but costly lapses of form, and luck were eliminated. HARVARD'S BREAKS. A comparison of the first touchdown scored by each eleven given an indication indica-tion of the contrast and the breaks. Harvard Har-vard opened the contest by kicking the ball across the southern cm' line and Centre began with a scrimmage ,on her own 20-yard line. On the second play Rnowday, ln an effort to circle Harvard a right wing, ran wide across the fild. A Crimson tackier partly checked his dash and the colllrion caused him to dmpp-the dmpp-the hall. Following the leather, like hounds keen on a hot scent came the Cambridge players, ever alert to eel upon the sMghtest slip of their opponents. Kitts was on the ball like a flash as It croeeed the side line five yards from Centre's Cen-tre's goal. Owens went over on the firt line up for a touchdown on a well conceived con-ceived and concealed line plunge. START LATE. Late In the third period the southerners southern-ers started on their march to a touchdown touch-down which was mads almost immediately immediate-ly after the opening of the final quarter. Harvard had been held inside Its fortv-vards fortv-vards line and was forced to punt. The ball sailed Into Quarterback Covington's arms and he dashed and twisted his way from his own tn-yrd mark to Harvard's thirty-four-yard line a run of close to half the distance of the field. Captain "Red" Roberts threw his huge hulk Into the Crimson forwards, Covington went around the ends and Halfimrk Tanner slipped through openings made In the ball rested upon Harvard's one yard mark as the third period closed. Three times the home eleen mas&t-d and repulsed re-pulsed the charges of Centra but the Danville Dan-ville collegians had willed to score and would not be checked. Covington fnaily went over on the fourth try for a touchdown, touch-down, made at the end of as consistent an attack as has been seen in eastern football foot-ball this season. CENTRE'S RECORD. Htntistlcs of the game show that Centre gained more yardage by rushing, outpunC ed Harvard, and gained a sliicht aavar.J. tag in run back of punts when Coving- ton's long sprint fs Included. Each made one completed forward pass, but It was Harvard' that proved the real winner. The Colonels had one pass Intercepted and grounded six. Harvard had one uncompleted un-completed pass and none intercepted. The table of fumnle tells Its own tal. v Ths Crimson fumbled but once and re-covered re-covered the hall. r Centre fumbled five times and lost possession pos-session of the ball four out of the five times. Had Captain Roberts and Quarterback Covington been eliminated early In the game the ground gaining statistics of (Continued on rire 3 ) ' CRIMSON TEAM (Continued from page I ) Centra would not have b?n ao Impressive, Impres-sive, for while tha whole Dan villa combination com-bination played a aterling and courage -oua game, It waa theae two knight that atiXHi to the front all through tha struggle, strug-gle, both of ferial velv and defenatvaly. Theae two could not, howver, hold In check th amooth and alert eleven which Harvard placed upon the field and when I It is conaldered that the winning team i alao had stars of no im-an magnitude n Kitta. bueil. t'hnpin and r.hTk. tha rallv , of the aoutherner in th latter part of tha gam waa all th mora lmprtive. I |