The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-27
ThIrty.Seven Thousand Yelling Enthusiasts
at New York Witness the Blue Triumph
Over the Presbyterian Orange and Black.
Evenly Matched in tho First Halt, butthe
"Tigers" We're Not In tin the Last.
Some Lively Scrimmages, but No Serious Ac-
cidents-COrnell's Crack Eleven Surrenders
to Chicago University by II TOD.
YALE BEATS PRINCETON,
The Blue Scores 10, While the Orange and
Black Fails to Get a Point

The athletic event or the year Is over.
Yale and Princeton have fought their bat
tie for supremacy on the foot ball field, and
long will it be remembered by the thou
sands who saw one of the finest games ever
played in this country. For weeks the
generals of the two little armies of eleven
men were drilling their forces for ro-day's
work. The struggle was one of the events
of the sporting world which lovers of sport
have faith In. 1t was fight on its merits;
the best team won. and the better who lost
will pay over his cash knowing that he had
an honest run for his money.
The gates were not opened until 10
o'clock but by that time great throngs of
persons had gathered about Indifferent
entrances. When the gates were opened
there wasa rush that would have done
credit to the members of either eleven. BY
II o'clock great throng had gathered in
the grounds and every moment it was
argumented by fresh arrivals. Tally-hOs
and all manner of vehicles began to ar
rive at that hour. Tally-bos crowded with
shouting students were to be seen on every
thoroughfare leading to the grounds.
They were draped in blue and draped In
was. the noise was just the same. Many
were the ways In which the students chose
to show their preference.
AS was to be expected, the free stands
filled up first. From every row of seats
fluttered orange and black flags and blue
flags. 1t was difficult to tell which color
was the more prevalent. The wearing of
the flower appeared to be the mode of ex-
pressing preference on the part of the
women who were present, and the women
formed no ineonsiderable portion of the
immense throng. Some, so there would be
no mistake as to how their sympathies
went wore blue costumes, while others,
and particularly bevy of handsome
brunettes, wore striking costumes of orange
and black. By noon the grand stand be-
gan TO fill up. The first person to take a
seat in that portion was handsome young
woman, who wore an immense yellow
chry santhemum. She occupied seat in
front. aud when ths. Princeton boys saw
her they howled loud, end for long time.
GROUNDS In BAD CONDITION.
The managers had prided themselves on
one thing, In which they we're disappointed
afterward. They had said that the grounds
shed water like sand. This was far from
being true. The rain of last Monday had
left more marks than could be covered mp
by the little saw-dust on hand. More than
this, the game of yesterday between Wes-
leyan and the University of Pennsylvania
had left the turf in badly cut-up condi-
tion, which the rain that fell early in the
afternoon did not help in the least.
At O'Clock steady stream of humanity
flowed in upon the stand. Pretty much all
the other available space had been taken
by that time. The Yale flag was hoisted
on the northern end of the grounds, where
there was much hurrahing and blow
ing of horns. 1t was repeated when
a tiger-skin. representing Princeton, was
hung out in front of the upper balcony of
| the main stand. Up to that time there
| was a preponderance of Princeton colors
| about the grounds, but the adherents of
| Yale kept coming in at the gates in whole
| droves, and the stand soon became NOV
ing mass of blue. Yale and Princeton were
| not the only colleges doing the yelling.
| There were delegations from every other
| college within radius of three hundred
miles from New York, and they all cheered
| for one side or the other on the slightest
| provocation. University of Pennsylvania,
| Wesleyan, Trinity, Columbia and o small
| bunch of Harvard men cheered for Yale,
| and among Princeton's hackers were Rut-
gers Swarthmore and q number of Penn
| sylvania colleges. 1t did really seem rs If
| the crowd would yell itself out before the
game began. There was not o still moment
| from IL o'clock to II o'clock.
| At 1:S0 every available space alb out the
field was occupied. Every seat on the
| different stands was occupied. On the
long line of tally-hos stood students wav-
| ing the different colors and blowing long
| and particularly villainous- sounding horns.
| The 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 persons the grounds
fifteen minutes before the hour set for the
| game to begin. But more kept arriving
constantly; not by dozens or scores. but by
| hundreds. Fully thirty-seven thousand
| persons were in attendance before the
| game was called. 1t was estimated that
| the sum paid for admission to see the game
would reach $4,000.
| THE PLAYERS APPEAR.
| At last, after the crowd had waited hours,
the Yale team filed out of the clubhouse,
| jumped over the fence and onto the field.
1t was signal for renewed shouting, but
the crowd had yelled so much that there
was really very little difference in the total
noise McClung was 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 min-
| ute. when Stumpy King vaulted over the
/ fence and led the black and orange striped
| young men into the arena. Princeton III ade
more NOISE than Yale on this occasion and
did not grow tired SO soon. With the large
number of substitutes. there were 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 teens were seen to
crystalline out OF the scattered lot of play
ers and line up in the middle of the big
| gTid-iron. Then as each man bent forward
! with his hands on his knees and gazed hard
at his opposite the noise as suddenly
stopped. and every one of those more than
thirty seven thousand wild men and
women was as still as a statue, and every
one of those eyes as focused on one little
| spot W hero the ball was. The great struR-