Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-27
A CHALLENGE.
John L. Suilivan's Money Up
for a Fight With SIavin.
WACO WINS THE BICYCLE RACE
A Great Football Contest Between Yale
and Princeton Won by Yale IN a SCore
of 10 to Gully $1,000 People
Pressnt-Flowers and Flags.
Yale Wins.

MANHATTAN lElsD. ". i 4SON. gu AC
greatest athletic event Of the year Is over.
Yale and Princeton have fought their battle
for the supremacy on the football!
field, and long will it De remem-
bered by the thousands who saw one
of the finest games ever PLAYED
in this country. For weeks the generals OF
the two little armies of eleven were drilling
their forces for t0-day'S work. The struggle
was one of the events in the sporting world
in which lovers of sport nave faith. II was
fight on It's merits. The best team won,
and the bettor who lost will pay
over his cash knowing that he had an
honest run for his money. The gates were
not open until 10 o'clock, buti by that time
great througs of people had gath
cred about the different entrances.
When the gates were opened there was
Il rush that would have done credit 10
d member Of either eleven. By IL O'Clock a
great throng mad gathered on the ground
and every moment il was augmented by
fresh arrivals. Taliyhos and all manner
Of vehichles began to arrive at
that hour. Tallyhos crowded with
shouting students We're to be seen IN every
thoroughfare leading to the grounds. They
were drapei in blue and draped in orange
ana black, but whichever color 1t was, the
noise was just the same. Many
were the ways in which the students
showed their preference. As was expected,
the free stands filed up frs. From every
row of seats huttcrcd orange and black
flags and blue flags. Il WAS diticult to tell
which color was more prevalent. The
wearing OF flowers appeared to be mode
of expressing a preference on the part OF
women VINO We're present, and women
formed no incOnsiderabie portion
of the immense throng. Some,
so there would be no mistake as
to how their sympatheS went. Wore
llna while nj pT. and ion
Iarly Z bevy of handsome bruncJtGS, wore
striking costumes of orange and black.
BY noon the grand stand began to I'LL up.
The first person to take seat il that
portion was handsome young woman, who
wore immense yellow ChrySanthcmumS.
She occupied seat in front, and when the
Princeton boys saw her they hOwled loud
and for a long time.
The managers had prided themselves on
one ching which they were disappointed in
afterwards-they had said that the grounds
sned water like sand. This was far
from being true. The rain of last
Monday had left more marks than
could be covered up. by the little
sawdust on hand. More than this,
the game of yesterday between the Wes-
leyan and University of Penn sylvania had
left the turf in a badly cut-up condition,
which the rain that fell early in the after
noon did not help in the least.
At II O'Clock steady stream of humanity
flowed in upon the stands. Pretty much all
other available places had been taken by
that time. The Yale flag was
hoisted on the northern end of the
ground, where there was much hurrahing
and blowing OF horns. 1t was repeated
when the tiger skin representing Princeton
was hung out in front of the upper balcony
of the main stand. Up to that time there
was Il preponderance of Prince
ton colors about the grounds,
but the adherents of Yale kept
coming in at the gates in whole droves and
the stand soon became a moving mass of
blue Yale and Princeton were not the
only colleges doing the yelling, there
We're delegations from every other
college within a radius of BOD miles
from New York and they all cheered for
one side or the other on the slightest provo
cation. The University OF Pennsylvania,
small bunch of Harvard men cheered
for Yale, while among Prince
tons hackers were Rutgers, Swarthmore
and number of Pennsylvania colleges. 1t
did really seem as II the crowd would yell
itself out before the game began.
There was not still moment from
II TO y O'Clock At l 30 every avail
Every seat on the different stands was oc-
cupied. On the long line of tdllyhos
stood students waving the different colors
and blowing long and particularly villain
Gus sounding horns. College cries
and college songs arose on every
side The rain had ceased entirely before
that time and everyone was happy. 1t was
estimated that there were about thirty
thousand people on the grounds fifteen
minutes before the hour set for the
game TO begin, but more kept ar
irving constantly, not by dozens or
scores. but by hunGSeds. Fully 81, 600 per-
sons were in attendance before the game
Was called. 1t was estimated that the sum
paid for admission to see the game would
reach 1000.
At last, after the crowd had waited hours,
the Yale team filed out of the clubhouse,
jumped over the fence and on to the field.
1t was the signal for renewed shouting, but
the crowd had yelled so much that there
was really little difference in the total
noise. McClung was the first, followed by
Hartwell, and all had their sweaters on.
They had scarcely got to the middle of the
field and tossed the ball around for 4
minute when Stumpy King vaulded over
the fence and led the black aud
orange striped young men into the arena.
Princeton made more noise than Yale on
this occasion and did not grow tired SO
soon. With the large number of substitutes,
there We're about fifty men on the field.
There was sudden wild deluge of shout
ing and blowing of horns and waving of
flags when the two teams were seen 10
crystalize out of the scattered lot of play
ers and line up in the middle of the big
gridiron. Then, as each man bent
forward with his hands on his knees and
gazed hard at his opposite, the noise as sud
denly stopped and everyone of those more
than thirty-seven thousand wild men and
women, was as still as j
statue, and everyone OF those eyes
We're focused on the little spot where
the ball was. The great struggle that had
been written about and talked about and
dreamed about and bet about for Just one
year, was about to begin. These we're the
men who stared each other hard in the eye
and waited for the first plunge.
Yale Position Princeton
Hickey. end. ............ Vincent
Winter .....Left tackle Holly
Hehelhnger. ......Lett guard Wheeler
SANFORD $780,. Center. -. ......SymmeS
Morrison ......... Right guard..-.... ...-.Riggs
" sllis Right tackle....... Harold
Hartwell. Right end. Warren
Barbour Quarter back. King
McClung Lett half-back .......... Flint
Bliss. .Right haif-back. .......Poe
Mccormick. ........F ull- back $50. Romans
Referee-WilliaIn Brooks of Harvard. I'm
pire-S. V. CONN of Wesleyan