The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-23
WILL DIE LIKE SPARTANS
Princeton Promises 10 Give Yale a Royal
Battle on Manhattan Field.
Every CaIvinist Will DO His Duty. and There
Will Be No Surrender-40, 900 People Ex-
pect to See the Great Foot Ball Contest.
THE YALE-PRINcErON GAME.
Gossip About the Great Football Cham
pionship Contesr To- sdnrrow.

THE YALE-PRINcErON GAME.
Gossip About the Great Football Cham
pionship Contest To- Morrow.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Foot-ball people
are full of gossip about the coming Yale
Princeton match and there are nearly as
many predictions of the outcome of the
ThanksgivinR-day game as there are mos
Quitoes in Jersey. From az far west as
Kansas City and as far east as CALAIS. Me-.
there have already come to this city gradu-
ates of the two colleges and lovers of the
game. who intend to see the struggle on
Manhattan field. They are veritabie en-
but il Is almost an assured fact that q
grand contest will reward them for their
trouble. Granted that Thursday is fine
day, Manhattan field will overflow with q
throng such as never invaded 1t before.
But it will be an uncommonly well-dressed
crowd. and it will be decorous to q nicely in
its demonstrations of appreciation for good
and clever plays.
The committee In charge Of the sale of
admission and grand-stand tickets is now
able to form some estimate of the number
of persons who Will attend the game. and
it predicts that the crowd will be larger
than that of any previous year. The seats
In the other covered stand on the south
side of the field are also gone, so that the
only stands on which seats can now be pro-
cured are those at either end of the field.
AS they command somewhat inferior
view of the game those seats have alwayc
been the slowest to sell, but fully hun
dred more had been disposed of mp to to-
day than at the corresponding time last
year. Out of total of $4,000 seats more
dreds of persons, the committee
says, have already been turned
away disappointed. The universal desire
to see the game. however. Is best shown by
the sale Of the admission tickets. There Is
standing-room In Manhattan field for about
fifteen thousand persona, and in former
years. the majority of those who bought
admission tickets have done so on their
way to the gate. This year, however. more
than half of the admission tickets have
already been sold.
BETTING IN YALE'S FAVOR.
The betting on the game has now be-
come lively. The Yale men are especially
anxious to avail themselves of any suit
able offers. for. although Yale won the game
from Ear ward, they lost slightly on their
BETS There was more betting on the score
of . the Springfield game than on
its result. Many of Yale's sup
porters who won money on the re-
suit of the game, really lost more than
they won because Yale failed to score more
than six points. They are now anxious to
make up their losses, and the lowering of
the odds on tho Yale-Princeton game, due
to the somewhat poor showing made by
Yale ut Springfield, has given them fair
opportunity. Several small wagers at odds
faf To mr. IN m all haU haan made
between the undergraduates. and pool OF
nearly $4,000 will be sent down from New
Haven Tomorrow TO be- placed at the best
obtainable odds. There has also been con-
siderable betting among the graduates In
this city. One prominent Yale graduate
has bet 81 900 TO $3.50 that Yale will win by
at least ten points. A number of other bets.
ranging between S25 and $500 have also
been made while countless private wagers
have been made on the result of the game.
Despite the talk about McCormick's
cool headedness. he really became very
much ratified at various crises OF the con-
test at Springfield and. If the spectators
had watched him closely, they would have
seen him look to the side of the field before
giving his signals. in order that he could
see what signals the men in the space set
apart for the graduate coaches made with
their hands.
The Yale eleven will line up just as they
did at Springfield. Laurie Bliss and Butter
worth being all right. Graves may take
Pop BLISS place. but this is not surety.
Prlnceton's team will probably line mp in
tackle; Wheeler, left guard; Ballet, center;
Hail. right guard; Harold right tackle
Trenchard. right end; King. quarter bac n;
Poe, lett half back; Morse, right half-back;
Homas. full-back; substitutes. Flint. Els
Gus, McCauley. The team took it's last
practice this afternoon. Most OF tEe.even-
Ing was spent IN rehearsin z the signals and
the tricks that will be used. If possible
Tomorrow little or no work will be done,
as the men need rest. The team and sub
stitutes VIII leave for New York tomorrow
evening on the GAO train. They will stay
at the Murray Hill Hotel. About noon on
Thursday they will be taken to q hotel in
Harlem, where they will dress and prepare
for the game, and thence will be driven in
stage TO the grounds. In comparison
with Yale the team averages ga pounds
lighter in the rush line. one pound heavier
In the backs. while the average weight of
the whole team is lighter by three-quar-
tiers of q pound.
To-day Jack McMasters, the Princeton
trainer, said: The men are in the best
possible shape so far as training could
make them. Two or three of them are not
fully recovered from injuries, but that is
something over which have little control.
Spfains and broken bones require time.
However: can sey my boys will make q
gallant fight. and if they must die. they
will die like Spartans. There will be no
surrender. Every man will do his duty.
They Will all 60 in to win, and win they
will If pluck and brains, and muscles can
do it. am satisfied that they will give q
good account of themselves"
A coacher. who desired that his name
should not be used. said: THE eleven arc
putting MP strong game. 1t 10 so per cent.
better than it was eight days ago. We got
q pretty good idea OF Yale's game and will
spare no effort to beat the blue on Thurs
day. Phil King has several good tricks II
he can get an opportunity to put them into
execution. The only things we have to re-
greet are that our tackles and one of our
ends are rather weak. Two or three of the
men have not played for two weeks Had
we all the men for Thursdays game which
we started out with in the early part of the
season. nothing could prevent us winning
the game
Yale Does Not Expect an Easy Victory.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, Nov. 22-The Yale
Varsity eleven rested yesterday, but this
afternoon the men were taken out to the
field for half hours practice. This even.
ing the team went through the usual sig
nal practice in the gymnasium. Tomorrow
afternoon Captain Mccormick in tends to
give his men come light practice at the
field, and 20 take them 10 New York on the
ESQ train. In former years the men have
always gone down early Wednesday after
noon. and this extra practice we'll shows
that Yale VIII not go TO New York with a
swelled head. Yale men. although conf
dent of victory in the struggle with
Princeton. are NOT expecting q walkover
by any means
THE NATIONAL GAME