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Show PENN CORNELL NEXT JO GAME Thanksgiving Day and Satur-Day Satur-Day Close Eastern Football-Array-Navy Record. New York. N V.. Nov. 24: With lb playing of the Harvard Yale game on Saturday at Cambridge, the climox of tbp eastern football soason was reached Aeldf from th Pennsylvania-Cornell game on Thanksgiving day and the Array Navy contest on th following Saturday'. the important gridiron games of ItlS are history. Looking back over the short period of play allotted to football in this "ection, the rcordB of Harvard and the Navy stand pre-eminent The real tfst of the Middles Is yet to eomt but the Crimson has completed its season and tuer Is not a drop of bi'-terness bi'-terness in the Cambridge cup of Joy. To win every, gam of the schedule, ending with tb1 complete ollmlnatfon of her greatest athletic rival, was the taek thAt Harvard plajers and coaches coach-es .et for themselves early In Septum br How well they accomplished the feat Is witnessed by the season's score sheet Since the Navy eleven cannot be geographical I v said to bo in the same pcrtloo of the eastern football world as Harvard there is no opponent who can stand forth and dispute the claim of the Cambridge university Having Hav-ing defeated Cornell, Princeton and Yale while Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Carlisle eliminator themselves through games lost by other elevens, the claim for titular honors appear to be well based. Harvard proved superior to Yale In every department of the game when the two elevens are considered as whole machines Individually there was but little advantage one way or the other with Hit? one exception of Charles R Rrlckley the Crimson s phenomen.nl field enal kicker Even Brlckley owes his opportunities to his team mates and it Is necessary to look beyond Brickley's kicking ability abil-ity lor the reason of the 15 to S victory vic-tory over Yale The correct answer Is to be found in the tc11 nigh per feet coaching svstem and machine like play of the Harvard team of 1913 Every member of the Crimson combi nation was but a perfect fitting and well oiled cog In the team mechanism Such few lapses In team play as de velopefl during the hard games were due to temporary breaks in the machine ma-chine when Individuality rose for t-.r moment above tho coaching system and instruction And it may be said that so well grounded are the meth ods at ('.-. m bridge that almost without exception these "breaks" resulted In lost ground rather than the expected gains Jn punting field goal kicking, tack ling interference attack and defense and other departments of play which go to make the modern football team. Harvard was unquestionably superior Her play was better timed and select ed than that of the Blue and so well was each attack planned that one of several moves waa always open as a sequence . In fact the only fault found with the Har.ard play was that expressed by 6eeral radical Crimson alumni af ter the game when they declaimed against tho ultra conservatism of the attack at certain points In the game According to these graduates, Har vard refused to take an excellent chance for a touchdown, when with a big lead in points. Brlckley was colled upon for another kick The Blue came to Cambridge with a team composed of players equ?l physically to the Harvard representatives. represen-tatives. Indivldualy and collectively they were not coached to the stage of perfection reached by Captain Storer's men and the system of attack at-tack failed to take advantage of the wide range of plays open under the modern rules of the game The In terference accorded runner and kick er was neither as compact, smooth or effective as that built up at Cambridge Cam-bridge and the offense as a rule was both antiquated and haphazard There were several occasions when tho men played together effectively, bu the attack was not sustained , Next in importance to the Yale-Harvard Yale-Harvard game Saturday was the play of the Army and Navy teams, which meet In this city next Saturday for their annual championship contest The Nav had New York university as opponent and the Army finished its preliminary season by facing the Snrlnefleld tralninc school team Both academy teams won, but little in the way of useful information bearing on the outcome of tho big game at the Polo grounds Is available as a result The real surprise of the week came In a minor college game Syracuse, although defeated by Carlisle, ran up the largest score of the season agaln?t the Indians To lose by a score of 35 to 27 against Carlisle in a game where victory was In doubt until the last moment leaves little ground for self-condemnation |