The sun., 1890-01-24
PRINCETON MEN MAKE MERRY.
Motehes for the Mntehless and Jests at
Colleges that Can't Play Football.

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Colleges that Can't Play Football.
Three hundred Princeton men sat down at
fifteen tables in the main hall of the
Equitable building at o'clock last
night. The hall was decorated with en-
blems OF victory. as well as with the Prince
ton colons, At one end q huge stuffed tiger.
whose stripes Of yellow and black made q
Princetonian of him. held In its mouth two
footballs. the outward and visible sign OF the
colleges cherished championship. Under one
Of its monstrous paws was miniature horse.
or pony which Chairman James W. Alexander
subsequently explained represented Yale
Harvard. Mr.. Alexander went ON to say. was
inside the horse. while Columbia was nowhere
ghrouded In shades which cast a yellow glow.
light was Aired and a photograph Of the scene Gene
was taken for new college periodical, the
Unirersity. whose frontispiece in III its January
not to be confounded with the Princeton ReUieU.
=, Tho glee club came to the front soon after
the SOUP and aiternated with the orchestra In
Ghairmsn HH Alexander said something about
said was that eighteen year old Capt. Poe. IN
epitS OF MS ,,S sSucGessIGl ieadershiP vas 1eyer %
DeS as eood as he 9s
football. In the language Of Poe's great uncle.
the raven of victory was:
sa,ha Sitting % on r. thS 9s.p bus. v' Of PHt:on'
Because the team had never fonnd its match.
he proceeded TO present the eleven. all OF whom
bisef ens%ei % and the H word S stba@pion s fne in
the. figures 1889, and the name OF the recipient
As he called out the names OF the eleven. they
xmes' x S CAPT Poe made 1eI speec6 In acSaoWIl Vp
edRment OF the match boxes In which he said
the championship was safe SO far as Haryard
was CONCERNED. for she couldn't play out ofNew
England.
The Rev. DR. Patton. President of the Uni
that, In spite Of Harvard, the intellectual capt.
tal o. AmericS had BEEN transferred tran from R Dos
great predecessor Of his he was interested in
the problem OF the Will-when 1t contained be-
quests a g EFT prineetGn. fe had .oLo, ,or o,,,.,o,
ex.Pitcher Wilton Merle Smith for Princotoni
and her sens q and !. Q: FRENCH for Harvard,
bate OF the New YORK Presbytery.
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foE months and II the end PTnsds.ns!ion re tr9@phsd
that Two weeks diseussSn Of tho same subsc. in the
a syn'f 1N1a @
sIgia for ths proclamation nEht SO ably lod BY the
He had this to say Of the football victory:
ago az the Harvard dinner The then President
%SS YS R ssa ss nS sSnb bs ss 10
her modest and unAssuminR way her rllmpha
with bat and ball ami Tor series OF yeATA Never
have liltened 70 another such eloquent and terrific
lurid with bruises ~ and "bruiRerB" and when he
clared that the other colleges OF the would de.
vote Themselves 10 Legitimate academc pursuits and
lsRye muscuar development and ~ TiEhInl results to
hut Princeton wins football match on the Berkeley
Oval this Thanksgiving Day, and behold the change
Princeton. the conservative tho stAid and
the most orthodox OF tue collsGeS believes when
Buccesfu In the doctrine OF tho brutality OF RthecB
Now she SEES In them only the development OF
American manhood and tho true career OF the Ameri-
can scholar
Distinguished Yalo athlete said to mel "HAve you
noticed that our Princeon friende look little Eeody OF
iAtei" ! asked, Why I9r He rsp!isd . BseausS
ThaRksgying Day and they celebrate IL with all the
hohor."
George G. De Witt. Jr.. spoke for Columbia