The Washington times., 1894-11-11
CLIPPED The TIGERS CLAWS
University of PENNSYLVANIA Obtained
a Great Victory Over Princeton.
SCORE MAS TWELVE TONOTHING
wearers Of the Red and Blue Outplayed the
Orange and Black Boys in Their Annual
Football Contest-Princeton Never Had
Chance to Beat the Quaker Team.

TRENTON. \. J., Nov. 10.-The stalwartssous
OF old Penn to-day clipped the claws Of the
Princeton Tigers by the score OF y to 0. 1t
was glorious triumph for the red and blue,
and places Pennsylvania in the very front
rank Of The football world. Where the sturdy
athletes Of ancient Yale had failed and given
up championship honors, Pennsylvania at
lacked.
Crashing through and breaking asunder that
hitherto invincible line they carried the bah
forward aad onward over the touchdown line
ana plated the red and blue flag behind the
goal post Torn and trampled, its silkeu folds
smeared with the sand Of old Jersey. and the
blood OF the men who maniully tried to win
reaown for it. lies the orange and black. The
Tigers. who three hours before bounded on
the grIdiron .ull Of confidence and hope, now
fled sadly of the field. many o. them so weak
ana crippled they had 10 be borne in the arms
Of loving comrades. Hurled from the very
pinnacle Of fame the champions of the foot
ball field are champions no longer.
Another star has arisen ia the football
armament. When the final touchdown had
been made, the final goal kicked. and the
last hall ended. the big crowd went wild.
The huge yellow chrysaIthemums and the
the mist before tue sun. IN their place hum
dreds Of blue and red umbrellas, blue and red
hHndkerchiefs blue and red ribbons. and
blue eyes and red lips burst into view like
magic.
Rising TO Its feet, as one man and woman.
the vast thr0ng whooped and yelled till the
big statehOnse far away in Trenton fairly
puiyered Men hugged each other and
danced for Joy, women fairly wept with de-
light. and the eleven men who won the battle
we're objects. alike Of the masculine 8dmira-
non and feminine admiration. Finally tbs
enthusiasm became practically boundless. and
like great food bursting its bounds. the
crowd surSed cut into the gridiron and hoist
ing the Quaker kickers up on their shoulders,
sarried them in triumph from the grounds,
then they hastened 10 Philadelphia to paint
he town red and make the air blue.
TWAS GRAND BATTLE.
It was grand battle, stubbornly fought;
but try as they did the Tigers at no time
after Referee Laurie Bliss blew his whistle for
the rall OF play had they chance OF victory.
PENNSYLVANIA outplayrd them man for man.
and never was the Quaker goal in danger.
The mighty Wheeler was tossed IKEA baby In
the arms OF the giant Wharton. Trenc chard,
prince Of end rushers. found in Colbert
king Lea the famous tackle. struggled
maniully and yainly against his curly headed
opponent. Wagonhurst. In fact. the Penn
every point. and it wound be manifestiy IN
fair to credit the victory to any single man.
OsgoOd. Brooke, Colbert Wharton and Kuipe
were all intrusted with advancing the ball.
and all justified the confidence placed in
them.
Williams, the plucky little quarterback,
handled himself like veteran and scored the
first touchdown for the Red and Blue. The
ball had been passed back 10 Cochran for a
kick on Princetons 5 tweuty-yard line. but the
Tiger full-back punted the ball into the ranks
Of his own men and Williams, with Light
Hing agility. dashed forward, tucked the
precious leather under his left arm. dashed
down the field: through the Tigers ranks aud
dropped 1t behind the goal post. Brooke.
with one swing OF his sure right foot. placed
the bail squarely between the posts and over
the bar. scoring six points for Pennsylvania.
This was in the second half and about ten
minutes after play had been called.
= No scoring was done in the first half. al
though the Quakers took the ball within six
Inches OF Punceton.s goal line This hap
pened about the middle OF the first half. and
the Quakers had carried it, thereby crashing
through Princeton's tackles and occasionally
swinging Colbert around the end behind
strong interference The ball was lost on
four downs. within six inches Of the line,
through what was probably an error Of judg-
ment. hnipe sicnalled Colbert 10 60 through
tackle TIE Tigers massed at this point and
barely managed 10 down the Penns lvania
fuilback. il looked as il they were anticipat-
ing center play. and had Colbert been swung
around the end. play on which they nearly
always gain, he would. undoubtedly, have
gotten II over as he had little more than
yard 10 90. Throughout this half, as well
as IN the next. the ball was almost constantly
in Princeton territory.
Never were the Tigers nearer than Penn
sylvania's 25-yard line, and then only on
kicks which Brooke immediately returned,
gaining from ten 10 twenty yards on every ex-
change OF punts with Cochran.
TIGERS wERE NEVER IN IT.
The Princeton full-back' s work was nisers-
bic. Three times did be kick into the line, one
OF which cost the Tigers a touchdown. as
above noted. Ward and Morse. the crack
backs on the Nassau team. had no terrors for
the suakors. The former, much vaunteG as
line bucker made about as much impress
sion onthe Pennsylvania line as a SNOWFALL
on stone fence. Ward. reputed an end
sEirter, -ound Colbert and Rosenearten al