Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-07
Princeton's Great Triumph
Thursday.
HARVARD OUTPLAYS THE U. P.
Fifty Thousand People on the
Manhattan Field.


was such game OF football played in
the history of the sport for dash of
movement, exquisite interference, mas
terful judgment and logged persistence.
Yale was beaten at her own game to-
day. Much of the interference used so
effectively against her was first used by
her, and has this year been adopted and
improved upon by Princeton. Yale is
no longer the master of team-play on
the football field, for she was out
classed in this art by her opponents to-
day.
The fifty thousand spectators were
all very impatient when two o'clock
came and no teams appeared. This
was because the special car which the
elevated road had promised to have on
hand for Yale at Fifty-ninth street was,
like every other car, delayed. The i'm
patience begot tension which finally
stopped all the noise, and just before
the teams appeared the vast fields and
the overlooking heights and viaduct
had become strangely quiet when one
thought of the excitement pent up
there. The excitement and pent.up
forces were turned loose in the usual
way when wildly agitated young
man, clinging to the top of an electric
light pole over near the dressing rooms,
startled the stiffness with shrek,
They're coming!"
Then for five minutes there were
wild, indistinguishable cheers, a tumult
of horns and rattles, punctured by the
far-carrying blast of trumpet sound
ing a martial call.
The twenty-five shock-headed young
sters ran out on the gridiron and began
cavorting on the grounds as porpoises in
the water. Still there were deafening
cheers. The substitutes, coachers, doc
tors and attendants spread themselves
out on blankets along the north side
line, the captains were called up by the
umpire tor serious word of warning
against rough play, and at last play was
called.
Princeton had the ball and defended
the east goal. AS the teams lined up
there were cheers for individual players
and some general cheering, but as the
players braced for the first shock of
battle the great crowd again became
absolutely silent.
Princeton forced the ball into Yale
territory, and for a time all the jubila-
ton was by the wearers Of chrysanthe-
NUNS. They became hysterical when
Ward, the New Jersey left half back,
made run of 20 yards, but were sub
dued soon after when five Yale men
went back apparently tor a flying
wedge, but the ball was passed instead
TO Butterworth, who made an unex-
peoted punt, which landed the ball
nearer to the Princeton goal than it
ever was again during the first half.
Blake caught the ball and started to
run, when he was tackled by Hinkey,
then playing left end, and both men
went down hard. Blake got up, but
Hinkey did not, He was insensible and
bleeding from cut near his right ear.
He was taken off the field, protesting in
dazed manner, and it was supposed
that he was out Of the game. The sub
stitutes ran on the field and blanketed
the players, who roamed slowly about,
looking like Indians, while every one
waited anxiously for news of Hinkey.
That intrepid and silent young man re.
| appeared after his injuries were bathed
and bandaged and played out the game
looking CORY, but game.
PRINCEToN's FLYING WEDGE.
Then Princeton tried the flying wedge
which resulted in gain, but Lea came
out of the scrimmage with hurt head
which caused another delay. Aftel
repairs we're made things began moving
in way that worked up the Princeton
partisans to frenzy, which, the cranks
| proudly claim, has never been equalled
at any football game played in New
York. Princeton began logged series
Of rushes against Yale's centre with
| gains resulting from every rush. 1t wa.
fast and terrific work, and Yale, for the
first time in three years, tried desperately
but unayailingly TO keep her line intact
The New Jersey blood was failing wher
a series of their straight rushes had cat,
apulted the ball down to Yale's ten-yart
line.
YALE's LINE BROKEN.
Princeton men, yes, and Princeton
women, were on their feet in every
stand, cheering madly when, witt
the ball just on the l0-yard line and in
Princeton's hand, her big men wen
back to try again for a gain by flyinl
wedge. Yale braced with muscles Sc
and teeth clinched. The wedge came
laundering against them, their line
quivered, broke, there was plunge for
ward, the % men struggled aud fell, blu
down on the 5-yard line, his blonde
head covering the ball, was little King
Princeton's quarterback. Yale wa,
dazed, Princeton was frantic. Her sub
stltutes fought the police in their effor
To rush to their players, and then, sud
denly, when the men lined up again
that silence that was most impressiv,
again showed the degree of excltemen
to which the spectators were wrought
There was another flying wedge, and
as the struggling mass fell, the cry OF
all sides arose, us IL overg"
TOUCHDOWN FOR PRINCETON.
The ball had been advanced only
yard. Every one felt that at the mex
effort the ball would go over if it had I,
be pushed through stone wall Tn
effort was not made by the flying wedge
but by one of Princeton's plunges at tn
line. The mass of players, when the,
fell in the scrimmage, extended owe
both sides of the line, and it was no
known until the men were slowly un
tangled that Ward held the ball ON SAT
territory and touchdown was recorded
against Yale.
Then the New Jersey contingent an,
their friends threw away every restraint
One girl, whose bunch of yellow chrys
anthemums was SO big she coul,
scarcely look over it, waved yellow
flag from the front OF the Princeton sec
ton in time to cheers about her, AM
pretty soon she had repeated the famou
scene of the Minneapolis convention
Princeton men from all parts of til
grounds turned to that girl and cheere,
as she beat time, and that would hay
been going ON until now If her escor
had not dragged her back into seat.
VAIN nEuuAntsD