The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-26

The isei and Isse game, would h.x.h
: 'ossup, - Yale defeated both the cot
So In those years. In 1880 Harvard fov
me nrss time since 1875 dsfes,ed Ya.~ hy
'ne score Of 12-6, and won the ch.mnlor.
49,. Ut sns nr.t and only time % 70 the
s.s. o..e Princeton had apparently
80. -. herself In turning Gu. the cham
OF 1885, for she vas badly
Zen Of Yale By the score Of go
s.r Iooi ass resained her supremacy.
- frincetcn 1870 and Harvard
80. IN 1892 Yale again Won hy the
CORES OF 10 from Princeton and 60
s harvard This year Princetoa suf-
,.1sd the Disgrace Of Deing beaten By the
anisers,sy OF Psnnsyivania by sae score
ms defeat was dne TO over-con-
1aence ON Princeton's part, and II second
sAne nad been played the Qaakess would
.ssufeoiy have been badly beaten. for they
never approached the form that Princeton
showed in the Thanksgiving game.
An the fail Of 1888 Princeton pu, an eleven
IN the aeid that was undoubtedly sunsr,o-
20 any football team the world has ever
seen, defeating Yale 60 on the polo
grounds in New York city before nearly
oo"O people. Yale won second place by
GOOD generaiship and bulldog pluck, de-
ieating the supposedly invinciDle Harvard
eleven BY the score Of go.
nave not mentioned any Of the SIN aIier
colleges In this brief record, for the simple
reason that they have always been utterly
ou.ciassed oy the three great universities
As'e nas never been defeated but by Har-
safo and Princeton. except the game
Win Columbia in 1875. Princeton sue
cumosd once to the University Of Pennsyl-
sania, while Harvard was forced once to
lover her coiors to the same university
ana once TO Wesleyan. by looking over
the twenty years from 1873 to the present
cate, W sse that Yale stands first, with
fnncston . good second. and Harvard a
very poor third. Yale has won eight
championships. in 20. 81, 80, SO, 81, -.
VI and " Princeton has won seven, in
the years '73, 70. 20, 80, 's5, 50 and 's3.
and poor Harvard has only one to her
credit. in 80. while no cham pionships
we're awarded in II, "a or 'ss. Yale
has defeated Princeton eight times.
in 70, 81, SO. 81. IS, 80. 81 and %, and
Princeton has won from Yale five times in
rs. rs. IS. SO and SO. while six games
were draw in II, 20. 80, 81, "a and
times in the years '76. rs, 80. 81. 81. 's3,
"a, 3d. 81. SO. 81. '92 and '33. while Har-
ward has two victories over Yale to her
credit In rs and 80. The game in "a was
draw. In the Princeton-H Harvard series
Princeton has defeated Harvard nine
times in 1T. -. 70, 80, SO, 50, sc. 'ss
and 50 and Harvard has won but .ice
from Princeton In 50 and 's7. the game in
81 being draw. In view OF these records
Harvard's desire for . dual league with
Yale on the ground that Princeton was
outciassed by the crimson and blue, Is
rather absurd. Football. from the mere
kicking around Of the bali on the college
campus. has developed into the most
scientific sport the world has ever seen.
While the original game was developed in
England long before Columbus discovered
the Bermudas. a. it Ii now played here,
IL 10 distinctively an American game,
very few Of the old English rules
being still in existence. The eleven in
order to win must work together as ono
man-evsry faculty and every muscle is
called into play, and the man who in
dplges in the noble sport when at school
or college receives therefrom a training
that will stand him in far better stead in
the battle of life than all the Latin and
Greek and calculus he can cram into his
brain. With ali due respect to the igno-
rant crAnks and calamity howlers who
have been trying to dscry the game of late
years because Of its roughneBs, football is
PLAYED in almost every hamlet from Maine
to Seattle, from Canada to Mexico. and it
has come to stay. +. J. G.