Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-04
GREAT SPORT.
lale'S Giants Defeat the Princeton Foot.
ball Team by Score OF 80 too.
One Of the Most Exciting Contests on Record.
Witnessed by 10000 People, Every
One an Enthusiast.
The Yale. Princeton Conte,,.

NEW YORK. Nov. 27.-Yale ha
downed Princeton. The football gam,
at Eastern park, Brooklyn, in which
the interest OF every lover of football
has beer conferred for weeks past, has
been fought. The blue banner file:
proudly in the breeze, while the orange
trains in defeat. Princeton 8 defeat was
complete. Her score was nothing, while
Iale's was thirty-two. The game was
witnessed by at leas.
| 80 GOO SPECTATORS,
| among whom the partisars Of Princeton
were more numerous, but what the
Yales friends lacked in numbers thew
mads up in enthusiasm.
The gates of the park were oDened at
ii O'Clock and there were then hundreds
outside awaiting sdmittance. One hour
| later every seat on the "bleachers'
we're occupied aud there was aireadv
thickiy packed mass of men pressing
against the board fence that surrounded
the field on which the game was to be
played.
About 1925 o'clock the crowds TINT
were seated on the free stands on the
eastern eide made frantic endeavors 10
get 10 places Of advantage. In the
scramble that followed q vast thrors of
men who were standing in front
thought they could see wav
whereby they could get seats. In a
rush they crowded on the seats, which
were ordinary portable baseball sea,s
made of cast iron with planks across for
seats. minute later the rush began
and an ominous crash was plainly heard.
1t was followed by a crash, the roar of
which was soon drowned by the voices
of men and womena
CRYING OUT IN DISTRESS.
The north end of the eastern nbleach. |
ers' had fallen with results before de. |
cribed. The accident east q gloom over |
the entire assemblage, and the cheers
and horns were hnshed.
1t was half an hour before
the crowd recovered Its wanted
sayety. They GOULD not hold off
longer, and as &aine4or the beginning of
the gape va heaa HE shock of the &C.
eideH was Bon kgotsen in the expec-
'abse ofSsee;k the. greatest game
ese9 witd4sss9 on American soil.
Nel beNG had such crowd
saRer witness football
zen OF IN fact, TO witness
~ kim q game on one side
the a. ma, hen twenty-five able men
1Oi Inc DeODtS !
ri hadh Gjtbf blue as Distinguishing
mark. Ms44e amount of blue ribbon
ported by the spectators ranged from a | ,
mall bow up 10 flag, bat bands,
andkere hiefs, and one fellow had an
ENTIRE SUIT OF BLUE.
Their cry was a short, rafting "Rah.
alb, rah, y-a-l-l.'' As soon as il died
way there were echoed BY the lusty
'hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, sis, boom.
-P-r-i-n-c-e-t-o-n.'
From the Orange and black on the op- q
osts side of the arena. the crowd yelled
nd booted until their throais were sore. c
nd by the time the twenty-five stalwart
thIetics marched On the field the cries
early died away. The appearance.
owever, of the giants was greeted with S
precious and resounding echoes. Every
'dy got up and yelled for fifteen s
inutes. "
The sun was shining brightly upon the ii
I'D, ana the ground was good and firm. b.
hen at 1:50 O'Clock Jim Robinson. OF
'inoeton's trainer. rushed into the b.
Id closely followed by the
'ince.on Eleven and substitutes.
There we're exactly twenty-five In all, u u