Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-27


interference records a game of fifteen
yards. He is finally thrown heavily by Vim
cent,a rising Princeton star. Bliss now takes
the eye as the ball again comes in play,
with the two lines face TO face, and with
greats squirt makes eightyards, but for the
offside play is allowed but five yards,
another gain by the same player,
two opposing lines the boys face
each other again, and when the
ball is passed swiftly back TO bass he put Ii
high in the air just in tiIue 10 escape
rushing orange and black, and lively Hol-
land catches it for forty yards and returns
ii to the same spot with a punt that SENDS
1t into the hands of Mccormick. The Y ale
man has no time to breathe, for he is
dOwned by Vincent before he can move
from his tracks.
The first five minutes of play elapses as
the men line up at the center with the ball
in the hands OF the blues.
The second five minutes opens with great
applause for Capt. McClung, who makes
gain OF twenty yards. with a
run around left. He was finally
tackled and thrown by Grant Riggs. close
fighting followed, on which three downs
Were counted against the blues and excite
ment of the multitude was at fever heat,
for all the time there was such a mingling
of arms, and legs, and bodies of the play
individual players.
Again the Yale cohorts cheered at a
thirty-five yard bunt by Bliss, but it was
the turn for the Tigers when old reliable
Holland returned the ball twenty-five yards
into the hands of Captain McClung.
AT this point there was Il delay Of five
minutes over discussion of point in the
play. and the first ten minutes have passed.
As the men line up on the far north
boundary of the field Mccormick gains
fifteen yards, to be tackled beautifully by
Poe, when we'll up toward Princeton's TWEEN
ty-fve-yard line. Bliss makes ! wild rush
toward PriLcetons line, but makes
the ball again Holland makes one
of his famous kicks for forty yards, and
his men rush on so swiftly that the ball is
put in play on down. Hefelinger could
make but four yards on a rush on Prince
tons center, and Mccormick follows
with rush for eight more and the ball is
still with the blues. The avs trick fails to
work, and Mccormick muffing Bliss
kicks the bail forty yards, while
the Yale men cheer till the very
air is blue. But little Poe catches the
wind-tilled bag in fine form. and fifteen
minutes have passed with no points scored
by either side.
As Princeton gets the ball and passes it
back to Holland TO kick it high towards the
eastern field, Mccormick stops it on the
bound al the Yale forty-yard limit.
Twenty minutes and with kick out
bound by Bliss. It's Princeton's ball.
Five minutes were filed with active play,
which gained naught for either side until
Holland makes great kick OF
though Yale, by sheer good luck,
retains the ball McClung gains fifteen
yards by the aid of grand interference of
his men, and McCormick's Two rushes of
twenty yards down center
Twenty-Five minutes have passed. With
the ball in play again, Holland works
clean catch of Bliss punt of forty
yards, and after the men line up
Flint makes a gain of five yards. Then
the ball flies back TO Holland, who kicks it
well back into Yalc's territory into Nc
Cormick's hands, forty yards down the
field McClung loses on Harold's tackle,
and Bliss kicks for fifty yards before the
ball is caught by Poe. and the first half
hour goes by.
Again Princeton tries her full-back punt
ing powers, and she does well, for the ball
speeds forty yards away, and for
the third time Mccormick muffs the
ball as the orange and black
pounce upon him. A miserable tumble of |
legs and arms, men of both sides being in d |
scrimmage. where individuals cannot be |
seen, makes thousands frantic. AS |
the tangie is loosened it is seen Yale has |
the ball, and on this the Yale cheer WAS I'M
iversa!. The small gains of the great strug- |
gle were made by McClung and Mccormick. |
Bliss makes great run TO right, gaining |
eighteen yards, where the weighty Flint |
lays him low. The first thirty-five minutes |
have passed as the applause resounds |
throughout the field.
Yale now forces the play as she RECEIVERS
from her surprise at the work of her gallant |
Zoe. She must do or die NlcClung and
Mccormick fail to get in and Flint punts
the ball well into Princeon's ter
fails to catch Hollands punt, but falls on
the ball A scrimmage follows and Riggs
of Princeton shows what Il hero is, rs he
prevents great Eetlefnger from gaining
for Yale by mighty rush of his 200
pounds. Each seemed to be q possible win
ncr. AS the forty minutes passed Yale had |
the ball, but had gained but little. Twice
\ ale tried the Princeton rush, which stands
as Il rock FOrty-ive minutes have passed
while sYale has made little more than
enough to still retain the egg-shape ball.
There are now, but five minutes more of
the first half to play. Five
deIay and lively @ ssa mnst s be Done p 10
score before the close of the
first inning. Princeton gets the ball,
but starts in by losing it
in tumble. McClung made desperate
ten-yard run toward PrincetOn'S twenty |
five yard line. Bliss advanced the leather
spheroid still further, to be thrown heavily
by Vincent.
Wild cheers broke forth from the admir-
ers OF the tigers when it was seen that the
plucky Vincent also gained the bail. Again
Princeton's captain tries his full
backs ability III punting. Through |.
the air the ball flies for forty-fve yards and
finds Mccormick waiting for it. Vincent
is on his back before the ball
is cold. Time is flying, only
two minutes. Every nerve is at
tension. The drilling rain that has fallen
twenty minutes is unnoticed. Yale lines
up opposite her foe. The ball foots back to
Bliss, who punts well to PrincetonS field.
The inning ends with five yards gain for
Flint by the aid OF the great ~" trick to
center
Second half.-In driving rain at BIS D.
m. the Yale and Princeton men leave their
to begin the second half of
their fight Princeton is confident. almost too
confident, and cheer after cheer is sent up
in honor of their brilliant work in
the earliest part of the game Despera-
ton is pictured on the face of
every Yale player, and the followers
Of the blue encourage them with a serbs
Of wild yells. Capt McClung has given
his men some timely advice, and they real
ize that determined effort must be made
at the outset to break through
Princeton's line. Riggs has been holding
big Heffelfnger quite safe, and Princeton
has been tackling well too. 1t is Yale's
ball. and with mighty effort she wedges