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Show YALE PROVES EASY VICTIM FQRJAHVARD Eddie Mahan Closes Football Foot-ball Career in Blaze of Glory; Score Is New Record. Yale 0 Harvard -U By DAMON RTJNYON. Bv International Newa Service. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20. Tom Shevlin's celebrated psychological punch was about 150 miles too short. It carried from Minneapolis, Minneapo-lis, Minn., to Now Haven, Conn., with such force that it rocked Princeton, N. J., with great violence, but there its effect ended. It never touched Cain-bridge, Cain-bridge, Mass. It was not even swung at Cambridge, Mass. In fact, there is a strong suspicion abroad in this community com-munity tonight that Yale, which was supposed to be the custodian of the Shevlin psychological punch, mislaid it before coming to Cambridge, along with all its other punches. Percy Ilaughton, who yearly contrives wava and means of defending the gridiron grid-iron honor of Cambridge, with fair liar- 1 vard as his agency, had gone to a great deal of trouble to figure out a guard against the psychological punch, but by the end of tho first period of tho Har-var.l-Yalo football game this afternoon he discovered that lie did not need a guard for the punch. AH he needed here was a fullback. F.dward Mahan supplied sup-plied that need. Ho supplied it so well that P. Huugliton had enough fullback-ing fullback-ing material' left over to stock another season or two. Overwhelming Score. As the shades of night enwrapped Soldiers' field and Cambridge and Boston Bos-ton and the state of Massachusetts generally, gen-erally, the score stood -II to 0. And as there 'seemed to be no further public demand for scoring and no good reason to cut Mahan looose again and cause him a lot of unnecessary exertion, the bovs knocked off and called it a full union day. Statistics! prove that this was tho largest larg-est score with but ono exception ever made bv one side since Harvard and Vale began enjoying football relations some fortv years'baclt. Fifty thousand persons were remarking remark-ing on this fact as they inarched out. of the exits into Ihe gathering night. In 1Ssl Yale bested Harvard by a score of -IK to 0. but that was under the old scoring svstein. and it is quite reasonable reason-able to suppose that Harvard had no Continued oa roUowing PagKj. wpjjum.muwwmmwM.MMi"ii inn.n . i'"im YALE PROVES EASY ViCTIMFOR harvard; Continued from Preceding Page.) j Edward Mahan at that remote period, j La?t year, with an Edward Mahan, Har- i yard beat Vale .'') t 0. aud that stood as the next best mark until today. Mahan's Glorious Finish. This was Edward Mnhao's la?t football foot-ball ga:ne as a Harvard eollegian. He stretched himself over enough of it to cover the hiMory of the Lriiitron for the next fifty year.-;. He made four out of .si x tom'bdown and k ieked live goals from touchdown out of a total of six f ha nee-. It was about as remarkable i an exhibition of football playing as was ever seen on any field. A word here about Kdwarrt Mahan. ! He i now '2Z years of age. Fie stand? ; 5 feet 1 1 1 - inches iijion tbe soles of, his feet and wpighs 1 1 fiounds. Every on nee of t hat pound agp was iu aftion j today. Me earned through, over, around , ami about the psych oiogiral -pun c bless i Vale team for twenty-nine points out of j a total of forty-oue. Mahan is a looe-jointed, rangy fellowj I with a knee action like a race horse.-Onee horse.-Onee under way it is almost impossible to ston him. With a football tucked j under nis arm or fuddled to hi bosom, i he is kin to the well-known irresistible j foree. There Were Others. ' It must not be imagined that Maha.n J was all alone in his efforts today, for i he wa.- merely an important cog" in a ! great uiachiue, but the uoise of his j working eould be heard so distinctly j above the roar and rumble of the other ! partp. of the machine that he is entitled j to a separate niehe in this narrative. King and Harte and various other Harvard players stood out but Man an was lie was Mahan. There are few Mahans in the run of the old gridiron game, t is doubtful,! uven had Yair packed the psychological j'linch along to I am bridge, that it would nave availed anything. Harvard had t oo in u r h a II -a round com potency. , psychological punch is a grand thing, but general all-around all -fired competencyand com-petencyand Eddie Muhan is a very dill'ere'nt combination . Sometimes Harvard played one kind of fonthaUVagaihst Yale today, Thrn she would try another kind. Then again Haughton "s boys would try still an- i other branch. S'ale wns in the position ' of a fighter who gets hit in the stomach j at (he hrst punch, and then is hit there n gain every few seconds, -without ever having a chance to recover from the Hrst blow. Harvard used a 1'ttle, old-stvU-football, a little new stylo football and a little football that wns all Harvard style foot bail. As a result the Yale football folks were 50011 pop eyed with bewilderment . All Sorts of Football. j A orl nf .klni.l nnl.lf. pm. that Willi!,) mmk H Unrvlirrl rn i 11 Mri it 1 iM'ill y .low .1 tin1 fii'M witli tll !:ill vtiil( tli,. j Xlllr t wert' prulun tlli ."itii-'itiou ! t'ur sniiiiMiiio 'Mm1 nil iil'pI Iiit iviii, a tV.t- I turn, lint HnrHiYl hailoltuT intcritinij Iniins ot' lipl'iul'llcinont. ' j A ml Yule h:il nothing. Ala?, Vnln 'li'l cot Iihvo cvon thi Sl.pvlin .syi'liolof;ipiil punch. Those wh" ' .'I'tcl I ho r'ntic-oton Hs rororiHini'r of what m i i Ii t o.'.'iir hprc nro now inol a ihorica 1 1 y killintj tlicm-solvit tlicm-solvit for jiorm il t in t; ili'n 'alo numov In' (,'0 i in 1 ilf ir i 11 jc- A iirrss slnn.l lliouiiht nj, nn np.ro nrialo iiitoivirw for Knuili llin-toy llin-toy thr .li".Mi'.SPMi.'r h''ll. i-oapli at nlo ' as llio v.'""' was .liawioi; to a i-lo-,... 1 It is nol likoly tliHl tho into r-j .- wi ivor I'p sivi'i. out t' Mr. Ilinliov. f,,,-four f,,,-four Hint It may I if l"s to tho worl.l, il m v i'ii horo in its i in.'i t;i tm ry form.' "I hao no .tosiro to tako o'm whit nf tho Pifflit for poaphiiip thi' Yii,i toiim t'roni -lr. .lii-lm. Tho on. lit j.i all hi.-." ' Life nnd Kvcitcniciil. ' Stii.-lly , a fooll.nll p.-imo, Iholl. tins I'ont.'-t i n s opt toii.-h. Kill iipvprtllo Ipss. it liM.I all Mil- 1 1 1 p mul -,.,., ,,' an-Ihimn-.l "inh- i;ti.iroii pinpplr. It .row Ihp proltip-l i;iils in all Iho vnr. an. I it 1 r 1 1 1 1 1 1 oni tlio ro.lili-sl l.looiio.l in i'ii, anil Ihoiiih yront was Iho fall of Yalo' tho ji ii in : fnraishrii a on-lorf nl spi- I Im.'Io. -I Thoro woro ftr-irHl iiu'tilonts that ' brought, the speotators upstanding with veils in their throats, too. notably the ran of Harte to a touchdown in the earlv stages of the game. But dtter touc-Vlowns got a little too common to cause any vast excitement the "P'?';"-tors "P'?';"-tors could onlv sit and marvel at Mahdi and the machine that Haughton had wrought. , . Theoreticallv, tbe game did not carrx with it tbe championship of the oast, as Harvard had been dcteated by Cornel, but tbe championship of the big three was at stake and rhat was enough to make it worth whi e. Yale's sudden revival and deto.i. of Princeton had given Yale men n-w hope. and. until tho close of the tir.st period today it seemed that tho hope was iustified. Harvard 's squad was the first to appear, ap-pear, but the Yale bunch trotted on the damp field almost immediately afterward. aft-erward. At 2 o'clock Wilson and Mahan, Ma-han, the rival captains, met in the c-en-ter of the field with Nate Tuits, tho referee, and after a l.ri-f conference Tufts flipped a silver co:n lush in the air. Mahan won the toss and puked the north goal, getting the advantage of the wind. Harvard Wins Toss. Guernsev toed up the ball and kicked off for Yale. Boles took the ball on the bounce, hut was downed before ,:e had gone verv far and Harvard kicked again, Yan N'ostrand making a fair catch on Yale's thirtv-five. yard line. After a brief scrimmage Vale pinned the ball into Harvard territory. he'.' a penaltv for holding finally j.ot tti i ball on 'Harvard's five-yard iin -"C'l compelled the Crimson to kick. Mahan made a terrific punt of fully f'rV" vards. Ouernsev making a fair . at"h. Alex Wilson galloped twenty-five yards through the Crimson, but on the :k-m play Bingham fumbled the ball, which was recovered by King on Harvard s twenty-fivc-yard line. Mahan again kicked, the ball dropping drop-ping fortv vards bevond his toe to Yale's thiftv-'vard line. Bingham was under the ball' as it turned in the wind, but dropped it, and Harte, coming down the field with a terrific burst of s-p-ed, grabbed up the bounding leather. The Harvard man also fumbled for a min-lite, min-lite, but never completely lost his clutch on the ball, and the nest moment he was bounding over the Blue goal line for a touchdown. No Yale man was even close to him'as be made his recovery recov-ery and he had a clear field before him. Mahau missed his att-mpt at a goal from a touchdown, owing to the tricky wind. Harvard Drives Ahead. From the center of the field Harvard Har-vard began a drive which earned through "Yale's left tackle to Yale's thirtv-vard line. A dash by Watson, the Harvard quarter, put trie ball on Yale's ten-yard line, and then Eddie Mahan lugged it five yards more. Yale was penalized for holding half the distance dis-tance to her goal line, leaving just aoont another yard to go and Mahan snatched 8 pooT pass otf his sboetops and carried the ball across, running under the goal posts. This time Mahau kicke.J with better judgment and added another point to the Harvard score. Karly in the second period Harvard made another march to within lifteen yards of the Yale goal, the New Haven team having now shifted to the other end of the field. Then, after several scrimmages, Harvard Har-vard pulled off a marvelout.lv quick double pass that put the ball in Mahan s hands and the big back crushed through the very center of tbe Yale oefenve with the queer twisting motion that 1 marks his running, and planted the ball behind the posts tor Harvard's third touchdown. It was a grtat play well executed. All through this march the agiii'v of the Crimson carriers of the nail, including in-cluding the tackles, was wonderful. Soon atterward almost identically the same play in the middle of the field cave the boll to King and the Boston hoy dodged his wav through the Yale players, now scattered wide between hini and the Yale goal, to another touchdown. Once or twice it looked as if the outstretched arms of a Yale tackier would enfold the runner, but I King eluded them all and not until he had crossed the line and had gone some distance behind it did a YhIc man get up. As the first half was nearing a close j the Harvard rooters began singing Y'ale's celebrated " Undertaker ' ' song, as the Yale side showed uo disposition to strike up that lugubrious dirge. The half ended with the ball in the center of the field in Harvard s possession an.t the crowd poured out upon the side lines for a promeuade. Uses Open Game. The white clouds in the skv had darkened dark-ened by tho end of the first half and occasional splashes of ioll lain were felt by the spectators. For the first time in the game Harvard Har-vard began using tlie so-called open game. A lateral pass and a bcautitul forward pnss then went from Mahan to Coolidge and lifted the ball right up against Yale 'a goal. I Coolidge juggled tho ball for an instant in-stant after he caught it and oven while he was .juggling it a Yale tackier had him around the wnist. but Coolidge I clung to his precious burden as he hit tbe ground. Soon afterward Mahan carried the ball over tor a touchdown. Mahan kicked the goal troni a tottvh- down. After .his touchdown, Yale also resorted to a forward pass, the fust at tempt from Scovil to lavage netting a fair gain. V.mboldened hv this success. Savage tried another and a very long' one nu.i Alex W ilson, the Y'nle captain, carried the ball over the Harvard goal line, but Yale wns off side and h.i.l to take the ball back without profit. It was now getting quite dark and the spec tutors on top of Ihe great stand had a hard lime in keeping Ihe ball in i,-w. Ill the closing siages of the game Mahan rooted his way mound n dor the Yalo line for still another lunch-down lunch-down and booted still another p,,a from touchdown. l.ncinsp' suffered a dlnlo.-au-d sNnh,,,. Sec-nil .I'h-r phivers were Inl'iid' ,,1( their hurts were not serious, i inr nf 1.,'vr was semll. who play.-tl t errl fl.-a 11 v until the fourth period ' 111 Only one atlenipl n t fiH.i :oi, tim.ie. Tills wns In- Neville. ,,ul.,i p,',,', the pin-, I,, the last p,.ri,.,i at ,, , si.Ipip.1 opportune f,.v in,,,. ,v Ihe Ha l onss.'.i il,,. ,, pro .!,,.. ,,,' ,,' lwelve.Mii, lr,-. 1 "r The Sunwniivy. . 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