New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-25
YALE CHAMPION AGAIN,
THE BLUE WAVES PROUDLY
PRINCETON ONCE MORE GOES DOWN BEFORE
THE NEW HAVEN MEN.

THE SCORE IL TO o-A TOUCHDOWN MADE IN
THREE MINyTEs-THousANDs SILVER IN
THE COLD BUT CHEER THE rLUckY
FOOTBALL PLAYERS.
New-Yorl's grand Thanksgiving Day spectacle,
the Yale-Princeton football match, was given
Manhattan Field yesterday, and Yale won tho
game and the football championship of 1892.
Thirty-fve Thousand persons the victory and
furnished o sight as worthy the seeing as was
the struggle itself This vast attendance and
the interest which the contest aroused among
those who did not see it, made the affair Of such
moment that newly arrived visitor from Mars
would believe that he city had taken holiday
on account Of the game rather than that a holi-
day had given the game its great vogue
Indeed, the city itself is almost wondering
whether the college athletic competition sheds
lustre on the day or the day is boon to tho
match. There certainly seems danger that in the
metropolis the football game will overshadow
the ideas which the celebration Of the last
Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day are
based. At least one minister has discontinued
his services in observance of the day. owing to
the superior drawing powers OF the twenty-five
sturdy college students, and others cut their
prayers and sermons short, TO enable their con-
CregatiOns and themselves to get TO the field be-
for. play is begun. However, football and re-
gious services not Incompatible on Thanks
giving Day, and in view Of this fact one may
turn with unalloyed JOY to the contemplation OF
the nerve-straining but inspriting game between
Yale and Princeton.
THE RESULT NOT LONG IN DOUBT
The score was IL to 0. A touchdown was made
-, tL .,J min oftpr fha hall Wa9
snapped back the first time, and after that there
could be no more uncertainty as T. whether the
blue or the orange should float on top. Tho
game was therefore robbed of the excitement OF
cosenGss. Still in the next hour Of play tho
advantage was now with side and now with
the other, and honor almost equally decided.
fuke," a palpabe fluke' gave the blue Its
second touchdown and goal, and there ended the
scoring.
Looked at purely exposition of the sciences
of football, the game was hardly remarkable or
even notable. A raggcdness characterized toa
much of the work Princeton played hard and
not badly, but was overtopped \ comparison
of her defeat by the University of Pennsylvania
with Yae's crushing defeat over that eleven
led to the expectation of a one-sided match.
Princeton was certainly heavily handicapped by
the absence cf injured men and by the necessity
Of King playing quarterback. She certainly dis
appointed no expectations save those OF her fol-
lowers who were blinded by partisanshp. Thai
conscientious and energetic work had been done
by the eleven since its defeat by Pennsylvania
was evident. and for this full credit was given.
YALEs WORK FAR FROM PERFECT.
The victors were clearly not at their top notch:
The famous Yale snap" was never conspicuous.
Hard tackling AMI fine running were not want-
ing. but there were few evidences of that dash
and brilliancy which have come to mark the
nIav of the men from New-IIaven. II is fair
10 suppose that the effects of the contest at
Springfield five days before had not been entirely
dissipat.d by rest Against Harvard the blue had
10 use every device and every energy of which
il was posscssed No wonder that the eXhaus-
tion following such a strain was not TO be slept
of in a few nights.
IL would be difficult to point out individual
instances of the effects of lassltude, nevertheless
il hung over all the eleven like pail. In ono
or two respects Yale showed Improvement over
her form last week. Her vaunted interference
was pract,ad TO better effect than at Springfield.
In the former game Laurie" Bliss had TO do
far more than he did yesterday, for then he had
TO fight his way single-handed in good many
Of his runs Yesterday assistance frequently came
at critical stages. Butterworth also punted
10 better purpose than in the previous game.
He always managed to kick before the enemy
WAS on him, although his aim at times in-
different, and his force not what it should have
been.
en- THE WAY TO THE FIELD.
The footing Of horns disturbed the slumbers
of many yesterday, for early starts were made
for Manhattan Field. Tallyho coaches numbered
up Fifth-ave. before o'clock their way TO
the place where they should be marned by
Yale or Princeton followers. At that hour the
streets about Madison Square were gay with col
leCe colors New Haven and Princeton had sent
the ma or part Of their students TO cheer their
eevens to their best efforts. Graduates. even
those whose sheepskins were musty before the
war; were as prodigal of their ribbons and flags
as were the youths. \ good many coaches took
on their happy enthusiastic freight in front Of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a little further up
Broadway. Tandems, dngs and other vehicles
made their starts further uptown.
Nobody was afraid to show his colors. The
coaches were masses of bright blue or Of orange
and black All the people them wore but
tons or ribbons and waved flags. Nearly all
who chose an humber method of transportation
to Manhattan Field were similarly decorated and
armed The scene of the battle made a
picturesque sight early noon for the clans
began 10 gather at even earlier hour. When
Princeton or q Yale group became numerous
enough, cheering started, the rattling. in-
spiriting chorus that is heard only at college
games.
THE SEATS WERE FILLED EARLY.
By | o'clock all the unreserved seats were occus
pied. those having tickets for the covered grand
stands not arriving as early as the others. Thou-
sands formed a fringe about the fence inc,osing
the field. At o'clock $1,000 people were within
the gates. and 10000 of them were standing.
The agent of the Lynch estate had reaped small
fortune by charging an admission fee Of so cents
TO the rocky heights west of the field Latea
hundreds were allowed Upon "Deadhead Hill"