Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26
YALE AND PRINCETON
TO MEET ON THE FOOTBALL
FIELD TODAY.
A Great Game Expected-Princeton Said
to Have a Strong Team to Meet
the Famous Yales-Races.


New YORK, Nov 25.-That forthcoming
Yale-Princeton football game scheduled
for tomorrow will prove one of the
most important intercollegiate athletic
events of the century. There is no meeting
of recent years, professional or otherwise,
that has aroused more general enthu-
siasm. Every seat in the grand stand
was disposed of before shutdown
yesterday, and late corners had to
give up to spectators, of whom there were
a little army around Madison square last
night. Ordinary seats brought as high
as high as so pair. Eary in the evening
everything was Yale, but after the Prince
ton boys were sized up Yale stock went
nown. At six O'Clock the odds were in
favor of the New Haven boys, but before
ten O'Clock the betting, if there were any
bets made, was even. Admirers of
Princeton players are very confident that
the team viii put up good game.
and that if they stand Yale's first weighty
rush they will win q victory through
their great skill in playing a de-
fensive game, their splendid endurance
and the acknowledged ability of Romans to
drop the pig-skin between Yale's goal
posts. The players bave steadily
Now all the new men are playing football,
and the old men, Warren, Riggs, King and
Romans, are doing all that could be asked
of them. Poe. one of the half-backs,
has special skill in running around
and lodging through a broken field.
Flint is another plunger, he goes right at
the line with head down and usually car
ries the ball three to five yards in his rush
Vincent, left end, is as agile and active
as a cat, he is a clean tackle and has what
might be called a gift for the game
Harold and Hally, the tackles, both new
men, are heavy, powerful men and may be
expected to do some frst-class work
in breaking the line and tackling
and carrying the ball. Wheeler, new
man is big, powerful man, capable of
playing a fine game, but he has been rather
lazy till the past few weeks and
may not play the game he should.
Sun uis, center, has developed wonderfully
within the month, and it is consequently
expected he will outclass Sanford. The
King and Romans, are old men
whose style of playing is familiar to all in
terested in football. With this team
Princeton expects to show the pub
lie what training can do for mex
perienced men and to surprise Yale.
The great trouble with Princeton players
is, that they ale all green men, and so have
regulations like the Yale men. So if
their rivals succeed in planting
the ball behind the line during the first
few minutes they will become dis
couraged and will not play the
game as they can. There seemed to
by tonight feeling of quiet confidence
among the boys from Jersey whose quiet
demeanor is regarded by Yale men
with some disquietude. The Princeton
men undoubtedly are a great deal stronger
than was generally believed, and late to-
night the New Haven team were hot favor
ties in the betting by long odds.
1t is believed that upwards of
forty thousand people will Wis
1t the game. Beginning with
the intercollegiate association in 1877.
Princeton has held the champion
ship seven times and Yale a
like number. In the Princeton
Yale games Princeton has made
the largest score five times and Yale six
times. On account Of Harvard's great
pretensions this year it may be of
interest to recall the fact that since 1877 !
Princeton and Howard have on the |
football field eleven times. OF |
these games Princeton won eight and |
Harvard two, and one game was draw. |
The championship has always lain between |
Princeton and Yale.