The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-01
'RAH FOR THE TIGERS
Orange and Black the Victorious
Football COlOrS of 1893.
YaIe's Blue Buried in the Mud of Man.
haitian Field by the Active Eleven
of the Princeton School.
A WE'LL CONTESTED GAME
In Which the New Haven Team
Was Cleverly Outplayed.
Six Points Scored by the Winners and
None by the Losers-The Battle
Witnessed by $4,000 People.

NEW YORK, Nov. So.-The game on
Manhattan field this afternoon between the
Princeton and Yale football elevens was
as phenomenal in the intensity and bril-
lance of the struggle as it was surprising
in its result. The Yale team was defeated
by a score of 6 to O.
Many moons will shed their luster before
the Yale men will recover their composure
after this Supplying shock, their complete
lack OF preparation for which made this
bolt from their heretofore almost uncloud-
ed skies seem like some wrathful visitation,
for which they are at a loss to account.
From the very start of the game ii was
palpable, even to those totally uninterested
in the mysteries of the game, that the Yale
team, whose glories have resounded so long
throughout the length and breadth of the
continent, that its praises have constituted
an ever reiterated echo, was clearly out
classed, as it was certainly outplayed, by
the modest young giants who went into
the battle with a look in their eyes that
meant victory.
The Yale men looked the superb cock
sureness that they felt; triumph was theirs
under any and all circumstances; they
were indomitable; they could not be van
quished. Had they not, a few short weeks
since, toyed with the University OF Penn
sylvania's team as a mastiff toys with a
fox terrier? Had they not, only a week
ago, in the presence Of the genius and
beauty Of New England, signally displayed
their superiority over the carefully-trained
and splendidly-organized eleven of Har-
ward? Was there any danger that their
laurel wreaths should be. wrenched from
their brows by this unaSsuming team from
a little university town in the interior of
New Jersey? NO. They looked and felt
as winners when they romped around the.
field before the game was called. mo"
was hoarsely shouted from 10000 wearers of
blue who flung their chants of anticipated
victory on high in a volume of sound that
fell upon the ear like the angry defiance of
a mighty army.
Mingled with Yale's all too previous paeans
of victory were the encouraging hymns of
the men who wore the orange and black.
| There was an infinitely less degre of assur-
ance in their shouts, but every man who
wore the color of Princeton had a logged
look in his countenance that was a source
of general mystiication until their favor
ties lined up on the field and began play.
They seemed to be experiencing a certain
inward satisfaction which they did not care
to display until the fierce combat on the
field was well under way. But when once
they opened up their storehouse of thunder,
there was a ferocious, unquenchable con-
q~ueror's note In every shout that served
| almost as much as the fortunes on the grid
iron itself to blanch the cheeks of the men
whose hearts were raging with honor and
affection for the Yale team.
II DAY AND THE CROWDS.
It was a notable exhibition Of physical
prowess. The exhibition on Manhattan field
was a beautiful thing to see and to remem-
Der, for many reasons. The day was per-
feet. absolutely and unqualifiedly perfect.
In the early morning the sky had an evil
look. masses of chilly grey clouds raced
over the duh heavens; there was a humid,
sticky feeling in the air indicative of rain;
there was no encouragement on the face
Of nature.
AS early as IL o'clock the professional
tribes began to pour in. They came in
bodies of from fifteen to one hundred. They
seemed glad to be alive. Their voices were
attuned TO the ordered music Of the march
ing orbs. They sang and they danced.
There were young men with a mission, and
they were there to fulfill that mission.
They tramped around the Enclosure in a
frenzy. Now they sang. and to the Gle
waited spirits of the hordeS their voices
were as triumphant and glorious as white
caps of joy bursting on shores bathed in
southern seas. Now they formed a ring.
and, with wlerd incantations, went through
the wild, tramping movements Of the Nava-
10 snake dance. Now they bounded in the
air, and shouted as men Shout in their
death agonies. Then they paraded again
and sang. richly, resonantly. the songs
that they learned in their colleges.
The tally-hos began to arrive long before
noon. All of them were marvelously filled
with marvellous crowds. 1t has always been
a deep, %inscrutable mystery to the man
who does not know, how these coaches
contrive TO hold so many people. The puz-
zle would have broadened in the mans
mind had he seen the sardine-like exhibit
ton afforded by these tally-ho coaches to.
day. Top, back and middle, they were
damned and from the tips of the noses
OF the first two of the six horses to the
end of the towering vehicle, there was lit.
tie else to be seen but orange and blacl
or blue. There was not room i'm the wild,
air for the men on the tops OF tines,
coaches to flaunt their flags; they had t.
point them directly up to the skies anC
Shrek in lieu Of waving the flags. TIL,
tally-ho coaches all drew up in line on tn,
north side of the grounds in the inclosur,
just outside the gridiron. The Yale am
Princeton colors were pretty evenly
matched.
AN EBULLITION OF JOY.
When the players frisked out on tn,
field, shortly after 2 o'clock, the prelimi
nary cheering seemed like the tinkling o
a little cascade compared with the boomin,
Of Niagara Men forgot to confne. thei
throat utterances TO explicit utterances, an,
transformed themselves into mere ejacu
latory tribesmen, the fever in their bloo'
driving continuity of thought and even o
enthusiasm out Of their minds and forcin,
them into the letting forth OF all the nois
that their lungs and voices could master
Hats. many of them never TO be seel
again in their natural shape. were thrus
into the air, and two exuberant youths oil
a Yale coach were seen 10 deliberately. re
move their high silk hats from their head
and carefully placing them under thei
feet slammed them into an unrecognizah hi