New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-29


GAME OF FooTBALL-A CON.
TEST OF SKILL, STRENGTH
AND PLUCK-DETAILs
OF THE PLAY
solemn and weird raven who lives in Prince
ton, N. j., WHERE Edwards once planted his iron
heel in historical manner turned a complete
yellow yesterday about p. m, when he re.
ceived this jubilant and pardonably chaotic mes
sage from his master, Captain Edgar Allan Poe,
the general Of the invncible Princeton football
team:
"Veni, vidi, vici. Princetons w on top
Ames's head and heels victorious. Enteuthen
exeavne no Princeton eleven deka parasangas,
Yale in soup. My soothsayer against Yale luck
and mascot VoX populi-we are the people
And so the raven was no false prophet. iie
had triumphantly predicted that Princeton would
defeat Yale although his predictions were Of
negative nature. Amateur soothsayers like Cap
tain Poe, Snake Ames, Hector Cowan, c. Z.
Cuyler, Tray" Harris and Duncan Edwards.
however, had always read him right this season.
And they interpreted his sayings correctly yester-
day.
Would Yale this year against Princeton?'
they asked, and the bird quoth Nevermore'
Would Ames get ratified ~ they tremblingy
"Nevermore" Would Gill get in his great
run ?' they eagerly asked, and the bird an
swered: Nevermore' And after the game
they pressed on him the question: VIII Yale
withdraw from the Intercolle giate Football As
sociation ?' But the mysterious soothsaycr
scratched his bill with his claw and wisely an
swered. We are the people,
Well the Princeton boys were the people yes
terday. The tigers were Princeton's people.
When. at the close of the game, a mighty and
yellow stream of people inundated the Berkeley
Oval football patch and boreAth happy, stream
ing. exuting, irt-bedraggled Princeton champions
off the field General julius Caesar Edgar Allan
Poe must have been reminded of the time tho
yellow Tiber overfowed his banks and swept all
before him, even the docks that we're being in
ves:igated
A GREAT CROWD SEES GREAT GAME
Twenty-Five thousand people were packed into
the Berkeley Oval yesterday, and they saw one
of the greatest football games under the circum-
stances, ever played. Princeton because she
had the stronger team. Yale was defeated because
her men could not stand the strain that the
Princeton men imposed on them. The score was
10 to 0, but that does not indicate, after ALL
the real story of the struggle. Yale was defeated,
but her system was not. Had it not been for her
LneIamped system she would have been beaten
even worse than she was. Her methods produced
team out Of inferior Yale material that was able
to hold Pripcetons powerful combination down
to 10 points But the Princeton team set the
standard too high for the Yale boys. The Prince
ton rushers tired their opponents and what could
the Yale men do then, with Ames playing prob
ably the most remarkable game Of football ever
seen here or perhaps in any contest between the
teams Of American colleges? He kicked, caught,
ran and lodged with equal case. He was every
where-either with on top of or near the ball
whenever it was his turn.
Gill; too, played a great game-in fact, Yales
game. He the life Of his team, while Wur-
temberg was sklful general Princeton scored
in the last part of the second threequarters of thu
game. Warren made a touchdown through mis-
play by Mcbride, from which goal kicked.
Later Cowan made touchdown, from which no
goal was made. But the first three-quarters ended
with Princeton on Yaie's line. Yale came near
scoring several times and would probably have
got a goal from the field il Bull had been on the
team. Princeton's raven says that Yae's little
bear was bad mascot Bull was needed TO prop
up her stocke
No other game between college football elevens
has excited such interest the played yestcr-
day between the champion Yale team and the
for days the controversies between Harvard,
Yale and Princeton had been well aired in the
papers, and added public interest to the contest
and famed partJsanship TO a white heat. Every
body who wanted to the game started early
for Berkeley Oval An exodus seemed to be on
its way for Harlem. Jupiter Pluvius dried his
tears, and everybody started in good spirits for
the game.
FIFTHAvE. GAY WITH RIBBONS.
Madison Square was a scene of gay coaches,
degs, and talyhos, adorned with the blue and
the orange and black, with loads of pretty
girls decked with college colors and happy young
fellows, nearT 1yery one of them footing horn
of some kind. Some Of The coaches were almost
wrapped with bunting with the staring letters
Yale" " Princeton them. There were
about seventy coaches in ALL and they made a
glitt'rng, ever-changing show they wound
up Fifth-ave like long and twisting snake.
College colors greeted them on all sides. Ffnh-
ave. college lane, and bright young faces
in the windows gave pretty touch to the scene.
The trains on the Sixth Avenue Elevated road
were crammed with people who made their way
TO One e.hundred-and-tfty-6 -6fh-st., and the Grand
Central Station was Berkeley Oval itself, except
that the floor was hard and dry Special trains
poured out to llghbrdge and Morris Dock as
fast as they could be dispatched, crowded with q
living freight, who swarmed up the hills to
the Oval Ike an army OF ants. Streamers waved
everywhere, and the sun was almost dazzled.
The merry procession of coaches with their
occupants footing horns and cheering added TO ths
animation of the scene
HOW THE OVAL LOOKED.
The Oval was designed by nature. and with
ns.,,'s No fnfo "A
1t was hardly that yesterday. DE- j. .. "ni's'
president of the Berkeley Athletic Associanon'
directed the handling of the crowd lie did as
NIB ~ ar,, oneroetic. clear-headed man could