The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02
YALE WINS IN RAIN STORM
The Sons Of Eli Score "a and Shut Out
the Princeton Tigers.

OF Rival Rooters-A Cleaner Game of
Foot Ball Never Played on Manhattan
Field-A Large Force of Police In
structed to Stop the Contest if 1t Be-
came a slugRing Match-Prinoeton's
New Formation Proves a Failure.
New York, Dec. lon a splashing field
and under a pouring rain. the Yale foot
ball eleven vanquished the Princeton
tigers to-day in a well fought game whose
final score was "A to 0.
There was many a downcast face in the
great metropolis this morning when the
thousands who had gathered from all
quarters until they had filled every hotel
in the city to the point of congestion,
rose from their crowded apartments and
looked out upon a dreary prospect of a
drizzling rain storm. Dunn. the famous
weather wizard, tried to allay their fears
by giving forth a prophecy which. was
read with eager eyes in every morning
paper. He said the drizzle was meant for
snow, and if the pretense was not turned
into the real article by the time the sun
was high the rain would cease. But. alasl
in mud and slush two inches deep, under
pouring rain and in air loaded with
pneumonia that 10000 people stood. sat or
leaned upon the fences all the time the
great battle was fought. AS only a small
portion of the stands was covered, it be-
came question for most stockholders Of
sitting in the rain or going home. The
rain sat in soon after the opening of the
gates of Manhattan field.
Umbrellas were opened and the crowd
concluded to sit it out. The attendance
was probably 5000 less than it would have
been on halfway fair day.
tifteen thousand seats were sold and,
while many of them were not occupied
there was no financial loss on them. Ad-
mission tickets emitting holders to stand
ing room were printed to tho number Of
$500. Only 1000 of these We're sold.
The Princeton men had blocked
out in their grand stand 400
seats for the rooters and these
were all filed. The spirited songs
of "Old Nassau and Rocket cheers for
Princeton evoked a storm of answering
yells all over the field for Yale. Yale's
supporters were more numerous than
Princeton's and were well scattered
through the field.
The north side of the field was lined
with Yale and Princeton coaches with
their accustomed prodigalty of college
colors and deafening yells. Yale had
twelve and Princeton four
Superintendent of Police Byrnes was de-
termined that if an army of blue coats
could protect the populace they were to
be on hand. Fully $50 of these officers were
on the field and Inspector Collins saw that
they did their duty. Those on the
side lines had minute instructions as to
what a gentlemanly game of foot ball
NxaG WEI ~ raf1t11xr in Iaf &
a repetition of the slugging so widely con-
demned in the Springfield match should
be begun to put stop to the game at
once. This order was not needed, for there
never was a cleaner game of foot ball
played than was played on Manhattan
field to-day. The playing at times was
hard and even desperate.
Two Yale men, Murphy and Thorne, and
one Princeton man, Cochran, had to be
taken from the field. All three went into
the field in bad condition and received
their bruises to-day as much from their
own as from their opponents knocks.
1t was just five minutes past O'Clock
when the captains came together and the
coin was tossed. Yale's luck was with
her and the choice was hers. She took the
west goal, with the slanting rain to her
back Princeton took the ball and the
game began.
Princeton's confidence was in her new
pretty sceptacle, but it was worthless be-
fore Yale's agile forwards. Only once or
twice in the whole game did it work at
ALL so that though it was tried repeatedly,
it was hard to tell from the side lines
wherein its much lauded qualities for
ground gaining were thought to lie The
formation was the whole team, except
Riggs and Ward, who ranged themselves
in a group five yards back Of the line
Ward, instead of playing his usual posi-
ton at quarterback, moved up and made
a bluff at playing guard. AS the signal
was given. Brown, Holly and Wheeler ran
around and blocked off the forwards on
one side of the line, while the rest of the
team formed running interference ahead
Of the ball, which was snapped by Riggs
to Trenchard, instead of Ward, and de-
livered by him to one of the backs. The
trouble was that three men who ran ahead
to block off the forwards were fooled by
the willy Hinkey, who lodged around them
and tackled the runner behind his own in
reference. If the other end were tried,
then the giant Beard or ButterWorth sim
ply annihilated the interference of Prince
tons light weight backs and got the man
before he had skirted the ends a yard.
With this, her greatest ground of conf
dence destroyed, Princeton was not
in the same class with Yale
to-day Neither Cochran nor Ban
nard could begin to kick with the
mighty Butterworth, and when it came to
hitting the line all the backs Princeton
had, combined, could not drive such hot
ones as Butterworth made to-day. He
played the game of his life. Some of his
end runs and some of his line plunges in
which he shot over the whole Princeton
team as they knelt to stop him and used
their slippery backs as a toboggan slide
to advance the ball behind them, were
something that will go down for genera
tions in the annals of foot ball. Prince
tons backs made good plunges at times,
but none of their plays were great and the
ridiculous fumbling which they served up
to the weary public was certainly not
worthy of the great game they were play
ing. Yale's line, too, outclassed Prince
toms in every way save one or two.
Wheeler began the game by kicking off to
Yale's 20-yard line. Two minutes later
Butterworth was over the line with the
pigskin and Hickok kicked an easy goal.
Score, Yale 6; Princeton O.
Wheeler kicked off again, and after five
minutes of sharp play Brown of Princeton
was knocked out and the game had to
stop until the doctors sponged him off.
Five minutes later another touchdown by
Ruttervyorth and goal kicked by HickOk