Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-05
The Largest Attendance Ever Gath
cred Together to Witness a
Game Of Any Kind. .rrv
Princeton Was Easily Defeated by
Yale by a Score of
32 to O..
A Grand Stand Collapsed With
10000 People-Many In
jured, None Killed.
Yalc So, Princeton O.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Yale has downed
Princeton. The football game at Eastern
park. Brooklyn, in which the interest Of
every college man and every lover of foot
ball has been centered for weeks past has
been fought and the blue banner flies
proudly in the breeze, while the yellow
and orange trails in defeat. The Prince
tons defeat was complete-her score was
0, the Yales 80. The game was witnessed
by at least 3 10000 spectators. Among them
the partisans of Princeton were more
numerous, but what Yale's friends lacked
in numbers they made up in enthusiasm.
The hour fixed for calling the game was 2
o'clock, but as early as 9 o'clock this morn
ing the exodus from all parts of this city
and Brooklyn began to flow toward East
ern park. About l o'clock the grand stand
began to fill up, and long before 2 O'Clock
every seat on the stand and in the boxes
was filled. Every minute, coaches laden
with college men rolled up to the enclo-
sure reserved for wheeled vehicles until
that, TOO, was closely packed. The air re-
sounded with their voices as they shouted
their college wal cries. About 1925 o'clock
the crowds that were seated IN the free
stand on the eastern side made frantic en-
deavors to get a place of vantage.
lowed tn the eccurrs scramble tbs accjd thnt Dpf fSl;
described. 1t was half an hour before the
crowd recovered its wonted gaiety afterthe
accident They could not hold off any
longer, and as the time for beginning the
game was near, the shock was soon for
gotten in expectation of seeing the greatest
game ever witnessed on American soil.
Never before had such a crowd gathered
to witness a football match, or in fact to
witness any kind of game. On one side of
the arena where twenty-five athletic men
were to contest for hOnOrs, the people all
had a bit of blue as the distinguishing
mark. The amount of blue ribbon sported
by spectators ranged from small bows up
to flags, hat-bands and handker, hiefs, and
one fellow had an entire suit of blue.
Their cry. was a short. rafting "Rah, 'rah,
'rah, Y-a.l-ew and as oon as it died away,
they were echoed by a lusty "Hurrah, bur
rah sis, sic, boom, ah, Princeton"
from orange and black on the opposite side
of the arena. The crowd hooted and
yelled until their threats were sore, and
by the time twenty-five stalwart athletes
marched Oh the field, the cries had nearly
died away. The appearance, however,
OF the giants, was greeted with vociferous
and resounding cheers. Everybody got
up and yelled for fifteen minutes. The
sun was shining brightly upon the field,
anu the ground was SOOQ ana urn when at
1880 O'Clock Jim Robinson, Princeton's
trainer, rushed into the field, closely fol-
lowed by the Princeton eleven and substi-
tutes. There were exactly twenty-five in
all. 1t was evident that Captain Poe in
tended to have enough emergency men on
hand. The yells that greeted their appear
ance was taken up before it had died away
by Yale enthusiasts, as the Yale team
with Captain Rhodes leading, marched in.
PrlncetOn'S players were mere StriplingS
compared to Yale's giants, ann during the
latter half of the game Yale had it ali their
W way. The final score was: Yale 80,
Princeton 0.