Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-28
GREAT SPORT.
Yale's Giants Defeat The Princeton Foot
ball Team by a'scOre o. 80 %.
One Of the Most Exciting Contests on Record.
Witnessed BY $1,000 Peops, Every
One an Enthusiast.
The Y,,e-prince,on Contest.

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been fought The blue banner file:
| proudly in the breeze, while the orange
trains in defeat. Princeton IS defeat WA.
| complete. Her score was nothing, " hill,
YaIe's was thirty-two. The game va:
witnessed by III least
so eco SPECTATORS,
among whom the partisans of Princeton
were more numerous. but what the
! Yales' friends lucked in numbers they
| made up in enthusiasm.
| The gutes of the park were opened at
! IL O'Clock and there were then hundreds
outside awaiting aimittauce. One hour
J later every seat on the 'bleachers
| were occupied and there was already
4 thickly packed mass of men pressing
| against the uoMrd fence that surrounded
the field on which the game was to be
| played.
| About 1926 O'Clock the crowds that
| were seated on the free stands on the
| eastern eide made frantic endeavors to
get to places of advantage. In the
sIrumb bic that followed IL vast throug of
| men who were standing i'll front
| thought they could see way
whereby they could get seats. In a
rush they crowded on the seats, which
| were riinary portable baseball seats
! made of east iron with plauks across for
! seats. minute later the rush began
| AMI an Omiuous crash was plainly heard. .
| Ii was followed by II crash, the roar of
which was soou drowned by the voices
| OF men and women.
| CRYING OUT IN DISTRESS.
| The North end of the eastern ''bleach-
! eTS' had fallen with results before de-
crihed. The accident east gloom over
| the entire assemhlnge, and the cheers
| and horns were hushed.
| IT was half an hour before
the crowd recovered its wanted
gnyety. They could not hold off
| longer, and Us time for the beginning OF
the game was near the shock of the ac-
| ciieut was soon forgotten IN the expec-
tation of seeing the greatest game
ever witnessed on American soil.
gathered TO witness a football
any kind of game on one side
of the arena, when twenty-five able men
were TO con est tor honOrs. The people
! all had II uit of blue as a distinguishing
mark. The amount of blue ribbon
| sported by the spectators ranged from u
small bow up 10 flag, hat bands,
handkerc hisfs, and one fellow had an
ENTIRE SUIT OF BLUE.
Their cry was Il short, rafting tRah,
rab, rah, y-a-l-I.' AS soon as it died
away there vera echoed by the lusty
"hurruh, hurrHh, hurrah, sis, boom.
h-P-r-i-n-c-e-t-o-n.
From the Orange aud black on the OPP
posite side OF the arena. the crowd yelled
and hooted until their throu,s were sore,
ami by the time the twenty-five stalwnrt
athletics marched on the field the cries
nearly died away. The appearance,
however, of the giants was greeted with
verocions and resouuding echoes. Every
body got up aud yelled tor fifteen
minutes.
TIE sun was shining brightly upon the
field, ana thu ground was good AMI firm,
when at 1850 O'Clock Jim Robinson,
Princeton trainer. rushed into the
field closely followed by the
Prince on Eleven and substitutes.
There we're exactly twenty-five III all.
II was evident that Capt. Poe intended
10 have enough emergency men OF hand.
The yell THAI greeted their appearance
was taken up before it had died away
by the
YALE ENTHUSIASTS.
AS the Yale team with Capt. Rhodes in
the lead, marched steadily on the grassy
field. This is the way they lined up:
YALE. POSITION. PRINCETON.
Hattwell......... e. end ............. Warren
walli,............leIt tackle ........ ..Speer
felinger let Euard.... -.......Thomas
Lewis .......... center ...Svmms
). Mo-rison.... ri sht guard .... Riggs
Rhoues... Captain rIght tackle L avis
Grosley ........r ri M end ......;:.. Furness
Ba bou.... ........quarter back. Poe, captain
McCung. hall back King
harvey.-...- :. hait oack-. :. Spicer
MorrIson full bi K ....... Hemans
Rrieree-BroOks OF Harvard.
Umpire-Coifin of Wesleyan.
IT WAS 80 CLOCK
when Princeton won the Toss and re-
served bali. Yale having choice of the
field. The old V trick was attempted by
the PrincstOnS, but was no go. Yale's
rushers held K.ug down. Capt. Rhodes
got the ball and, guarded by three stall
wart Yale men he got to within three
yards of the goal, aud by u great effort
showed the ball to within yard of the
goal. This was sure thing for Yale,
but they had TO try three times
before they got the ball over.
Princeton did great work here, and
was vigorously appiauded. McClung got
the ball and showed himself through the
hole in the Princeton line and secured
the first point-a touch down. He kicked
the goal soou after. After several in
efIertual passes McCluug made u daring
run of fifteen yards, going by Poe and
Fairness.
LIKE 4 WHIRLWIND.
Riggs tackied low and nailed his man.
McCIung, after four downs got the ball
aud forced his way ten yards. Big
HefTeiinger moved half Il dozen Prince
ton men down and gained another ten
yards.
Princeton's rush line seemed to be
mere stripplings as compared with
Ygle's heavy lines. Princeton used bad
judgment. This was when the SUPERIOR
ity of Yale first began to make it,
self manifest. In their rushes
hey guarded their runners we'll
and this was an important point.
Princeton got the ball on the off side.
Plays aud Homans kicked thirty yards.
McCluug caught the bail and made his
pheuomlnul run, gaining, by lodging
and bunting, twenty-five yards. Il was
a case of see-snw, for neither side gained
much. First one side would advance
and be forced back By the other. When
Yale got the bail again Back Morrison
passed it. McCiung, who made one Of
his