Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-29
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Yale-Princeton Football Match.

Yale-Princeton Football Match.
New YORK, November 2Sth.-The great
annual Yale-Princton football game took
place at the Polo Grounds yesterday after
noon. 1t brought together the largest
crowd which has ever visited the Polo
Grounds. The assemblage numbered over
II 900. There were over 10000 present at
an early hour yesterday. Fifth avenue
was filled with four-in-hands, loaded down
with Princeton. Yale, Columbia, Harvard,
Dartmouth and Wesleyan College students,
shouting their respective college cries. The
grand stand and open stands were packed
all around, and in the field stood a great
crowd, eight or ten deep. and triple row
of carriages, coaches and stages, all pro-
fusely decked either with orange and black
or blue, surmounted by a number of
healthy, bright-looking sanxious and noisy
young men. There was an unusually
large number of ladies present. The game
began at 2:40 P. NJ. Princeton played u
better game than Yale most of the time.
She excelled in tackling, passing and kick
ing. Yale was quite her equal in running
and more than her equal in weight and
strength. Coke, the 247-pounder of Yale,
proved very useful man in all the
struggles. The finest individual playing OF
the game was done by Terry, of Yale, whose
running was splendid, Motfat, next to him,
excelling in quick and sure punting to long
distances, and in passing and running.
Referee Appleton. of Harvard, had his
hands full, so hot were the scrimmages. So
close and exciting was the game at all points
that it looked as though it would result in
a general row, particularly as Princeton OBJ
jected to the referees decisions, on the
ground that he favored Yale. Many out
siders shared this opinion. The game was
a very hard-fought contest from the begin
ming to the end. In one of the numerous
scrimmages, Captain Richards, of Yale, lay
underneath pile of struggling players
with the ball clasped in his arms, and when
the men separated it was discovered that
Richards was badly hurt. His lips were
drawn wide apart, showing his teeth, tightly
clenched; his face was white az chalk; his
hands wandered up and down his body,
beating and pressing it and tearing his
shirt Suddenly he threw out his arms,
tore himself away from those who were
supporting him, and rolled over on bis
stomach, rubbing his face into the muddy
turf as though seeking for a soft spot in q
pillow. In an instant he was on his back
again, clutching his breast and gasping as
though each breath was to be his last 1t
was a silent and frightened pack that
walked nervously back and forth
near him. He was carried of
the field and doctor summoned
when it was found that he had dislocated q
thigh bone. Still the game went on. Yale
secured the goal and Princeton touch
down. Then the real struggle of the day
began. The players began to look like men
fresh from real battle. Big Peters OF
Yale and Adams of Princeton, looked like
butchers. Their dirty canvas jackets and
knickerbockers were streaked and flecked
with blood. All the men were tattered and
muddy, and nearly all had bleeding
wounds or bruises showing amid the dirt
crusteG on their heads and faces. 1t became
too dark to play further, so the game was
though the or wd thought Yale had Won
by a score of 6 to 4. Later in the evening
representatives of both teams met Referee
Appleton at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, whe
after an hour spent in consultation, finally
decided to call the game draw The
referee said to your reporter: Properly
| speaking Yale won the game, but on {
mere Iechnicality | was forced to call the
contest draw. The rule calls for two fpl
| three-quarter innings to be played
| This rule was not complied with | an
compelled to decide as l have done" The
Yale men say they will bring the matter
up in the annual Convention, which prob
| ably will be held at the Fifth-avenue Hote
| next Wednesday. They are confident the
game Will be decided in their favor. They
appeared very much displeased with thu
verdict of the referee