Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-27
VALEs YALE! YALE!

The Greatest Kicking Game in Years |
 Princeton Played a Better Game
 Than Harvard Did-Yale Scored by
 Phenomenal Playing-Forty Thou.
 sand People Present-The Game In
 Detafl-Many New Haven People
 Present-TigersSkins and Flags in
 ProfusiOn.
 One of the most exciting football games ever played was that contested yesterday at the Manhattan Athletic grounds, be- tween Yale and Princeton. Surely the crowd which reached nearly 40, 900 was the largest that has ever witnessed an athletic contest in this country. Princeton played better than was expected and put up much better game than Harvard did last Saturday. Yale made her score by fine playing. The first two touch-downs were gained by hard rushing, and the rest of the score by phenomnal kicking of goal from the field and great run of the whole field for touchdown. cRowDING TO THE FIELD.
 Although thousands of people went to New York Wednesday afternoon to be early on the field, all the passenger trains on the Consolidated were crowded yester- day morning. Long before 10:30, when the gates were opened, such crowds went up on the Eighth and Ninth avenue elevat- ed roads that it was often difficult to close the gates.
 All streets leading to the grounds were crowded with wagons and carts, tally-hos and 'busses, filled with sympathizers of the two colleges. Yards of ribbon and clusters of flags streamed from each conveyance, and the individual pref erences of the riders was as clearly mark ed. All Gotham seemed to have donned some college color and gone to the game. Even the hoodlums were blowing horns and yelling for "the Yales" or the "Prince- tons." During the morning many tally hos containing delegations of Yale or Princeton men drove down Fifth avenue, cheering for their respective colleges.
 AT THE GROUNDS. At the grounds the crowd began to ar rive early. At 1:30 there were 37,000 peo-
 pie awaiting the players, not counting the crowd on ''dead head hill," or that clung
 to the roof of the Ninth avenue station near by. Probably 1000 or more entered
 the grounds after 1:30.
 The field was laid out in the form of q pentagon and so seated the greatest pos sible number. Cheering kept up wirh commendable persistency during the long time of wait ing, Yale was clearly the stronger in
 this, both because of larger numbers and
 the greater masculinity of the Yale ''Rah! Rahl Rah! Rah! Rah! Rsh! Rah! Rsh!
 Rah!," as compared with Princeton's more musical Ray! Ray! Ray! Tiger! Sis! Boom! Ah Princeton! The lately com posed doggerel,
 Hold the ball. McClung is coming, harbour signals still,
 H.'fflefinge- is in the center Win we must and will
 Was sung from the Yale stands to the | tune of Hold the Fort" during the whole day. Every tally-ho coach was greeted with continued cheers.
 The crimson was there in large force, and the purple and white of Amherst and the red and black of Wesleyan and the red and white of Cornell were to be seen in the crowd. For the number of people present the arrangements were the best that could be expected. Three hundred rolicemen were on duty at the grounds to keep order.
 At about o'clock McClung trotted into the field, followed by his beefy men. This was once more a signal for cheering, and when the tigers came on the field few minutes later the cheering was deafening. Pretty misses waved flags and handker- chiefs, and excited freshmen stood on their seats and yelled and did number of other foolish things, as freshmen always do. The teams lined up as follows: