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Despite the display of manpower and hard football the game was marred by a neglect of that more subtle force, brain power. Each team made one outstanding error. In the first period Booth got his team rolling rather nicely, and the ball was advanced on straight rushing from somewhere around midfield to the Green 20-yard line or thereabouts. Fourth down, about a yard to go, Booth elected to throw a very sorry looking pass over the goal line. Now Crowley had been making at least three (and usually more) yards at a clip throughout the advance, and there...
...Bowl. The game, as may well be imagined from the scoreless result, was a rough and tough one with both teams letting out just about all they had in an effort to come through. Dartmouth came closer to succeeding, but even at that Yale, with Booth in action, cannot be said to be very far from a score no matter where the ball is. The little Elis' dancing dervish is never safe until after the whistle has blown...
...Yale team as it played Saturday is far superior to any eleven that Harvard has shown so far this year both offensively and defensively. On the attack Yale has the edge merely because of Booth, who is spark, guiding hand, and the executor of the Eli offensive--in fact, he is the offense. Without him it is hard to determine just how the Blue would stack up, since most of the other backs, with the possible exception of Crowley, would rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game...
Yale, like Harvard, does not use the huddle, but lines up in a curious four-five-two formation for calling signals and then shifts into an unbalanced line, usually one man on one side of the center and five on the other side. On regular formations Booth crouches behind the center and takes the ball from him; on kick formations he is back. The Eli offensive centers around reverse and fake reverse plays, most of which go around the long end of the line, with an occasional reverse play around the short end, usually unsuccessful. Most effective of the plays...
Since it was a rainy day, the recent football game quite naturally became a topic of conversation. Miss Gilmore said that she was a bit annoyed at not being able to be present at the weekly spectacles. "However," she added, "it was little Albie Booth at Yale that really made me football conscious. There is something romantic about his marvelous ability. It is a sort of Saint George and the Dragon, Machiavelli, Ubermench combination, and I should love to watch him play. To see him run down the field and Oh but I mustn't forget that you are Harvard...