The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-25
PRINCETON And YALE.
Which Will Win the Much
Talked of Foot
ball Game?
THE ODDS AGAINST JERSEY.
But No Man Can Tell What a Day
Will Bring Forth-Some Facts
About the Boys.

1t is estimated that thirty or forty thou
sand will see the great football game of
the season, which will be played by the
elevens of Yale and Princeton tomorrow
afternoon at Manhattan Field, to decide
the intercollegiate championship of 1891.
1t is said that there is seating room for
$1,000, but except in the case of the grand
stand, where there are 1000 seats sepa-
rated by railings. this number has been
estimated. The field will be enclosed by
four foot fence. and those who would
rather stand for four hours in order to
see little better can cluster around three
sides of this. The fourth side, directly
opposite the grand stand, Weil be reserved
for vehicles. There are twenty-eight
stalls, and each of these. will he divided
into three compartments. All have been
sold long ago.
The gates will be opened at 1890 o'clock
a. m. and the game Is announced to be-
gin aJ O'Clock pm. Stands A, and z
are free to holders of admission tickets.
Everybody knows tnat the Princeton
team is green, but muscular and willing.
1t is the sort of team that great things are
expected Of the following year. If the
men that make it had gone to one of
the smaller colleges they would prob
ably have played individually and collec-
lively as second-class players. AS it IS,
with the advantage of the professional
services of McMasters and the no less
valuable suggestions OF such men as
Moffat, Harris and Poe, they put up, a
game thai gives them the right to be
classed with Harvard and Yale.
Unlike former Princeton teams. 1t is
practically without n star performer, that
l. n1 l-oIx
to make Lamar run or kick {. goal from
the forty-fve line as Moffat did five years
since.
The nearest approach to the phenom-
email little Johnnie Poe, a full brother
to the famous Peter, captain of last years
team. The young man is only freshman,
but began playing the game long before
he came to college. He is suffering from
a slightly sprained ankle. but Yale men
will not count very much on this. What
is sprain with $4,000 people looking ut
you and the chance OF perpetual glory at
stake.
1t is very safe to say that the best work
Of the Princeton team will be done by the
quarter back, King. Here is a young
man who has been largely overlooked by
the. chroniclers of this popular sport. The
chances are that few of the great throng
that will fill the grounds on Thursday
will notice the little curly-headed BOY
that stands directly Denlnu the Ene and
passes the ball TO the backs. He
is usually engaged In making openings
for mis- men or warGing off one of
the would be tacklers.
Princeton's team have had quarters en-
gagged for them at the Murray Hill Hotel
and will take possession of them this
evening. They will come up from
Princeton under the charge of Trainer
McMasters, at five O'Clock this AFTERNOON,
dine at Taylor's Hotel, aud afterwards go
to the Murray Hill.
Yales headquarters will be at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and the vicinity of
Madison Square will be alive with Yale
enthusiasts tonight. The team will leave
afternoon.
Today the betting is largely in Yale's
favor. Princeton men want odds of to
/ on the result of the game, which Yale
hackers are slow to give.