New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-23

q ne umpire IN tO-days RameD
around the burly form OF each athlete with the
same care that the fond mother looks after the
comfort Of the first baby
The Princeton team will not arrive until this
morning. the players going to the Murray Hill
Hotel.
The craze for colors seemed TO have struck the
whole town yesterday and no matter which way
one turned it was impossible to escape the blue Of
Yale or the orange and black OF Princeton.
Broadway. a part of Fifth-ave.. Twenty-third
and Fourteenth and Forty second sts showed
these coors in bewilderng confusion. Many
shopkeepers had decorated their windows, and
the young men about the hotels last night who
favor Princeton wore immense yellow chrysan-
themums in their coats or, If they were Yale ad.
.herents. they wore punches of volets
GREAT DEMAND FOR TICKETS.
The demand for tickets yesterday was great
as ever and the spectators who have good seats
will do a lively business. The quotations for seats
last night were follows: 81 SO seats in stand
sold readily at 81 50 the seats in the south stand
sold at $2 while 81 and IS the price asked for
seats In Stand d. Grand stand seats, and not
particularly good ones at that, were selling at IS
each.
The committee announces that the gates will be
thrown open at noon, and the game Will begin
promptly at O'CLOCK. AS all tne reserved sedtss
both in the covered and uncovered stands. have
been disposed OF, the committee have decided to
limit the admission tickets 10 5000. When these
are sold the gates will be closed.
There was little change In the betting yester-
day Yale continuing a slight favorite. Less
money however. put up than one would
have expected wher all the noise which has been
made about the matter Is considered. While
the majority Of the Yale sympathizers are con-
fdent Of a victory this opinion is not unanimous
by any means The prevailing ODDS yesterday
were to In favor of Yale.
Captain Lea will play for Princeton. but he Will
go to left end, leaving Tyler, who has been doing
such good work. at tackle. Manager Milbank.
however does not believe that the Princeton
captain will be able to last over twenty minutes.
The followers or the Tigers think that II their
captain can play out the game they will defeat
Yale TO certainty.
Yales system Of attack, at least at the starr,
will be at Princeton's ends and II the sons OF
Eli can make any gains that way they will LET
that formidable Tiger centre alone.
RECORDS AND PROBABILITIES
II the game should be played a wet field,
Princeton's superior weight ought to be to her
advantage The Princeton rush line outweighs
that Of the blue at every point except centre.
Here the advantage IS with Yae's man by eleven
pounds Back Of the line the figures are reversed.
but Yales advantage Is slight. The average OK
the Princeton backs is 1924, that OF lales. 1881
In football ability the lines are evenly matched.
but Yale has the advantage in backs Thorns
and De witt easily outcass Armstrong ana
Rosengarten. or Barnard and Kelly. all OF whom
are likely to play. In kicking ability. Yale 10
likely to prove superior also although Freshman
D. in no
whole as good as Charley" Brewers. Fincke Is
Suffers SUPERIOR both in weight. experience and
general football ability but the Princeton fresh-
man Is likely to surprise those who have NOT
watched his play the last few weeks
II prestige counts for anything, Yale ought to
win But this has been year Of football sur
pIses, and no conservative man would want 10
wager odds on either team The two teams
have been playing annually since 1876. and In
that time the Blue has won fourteen times to
four victories for the Tigers the game OF 1881
! being a tie. Yale's longest run Of consecutive
victories was from 1873 TO 1884. winning hve
times. and the battle the next year was tie.
Yale won in 1890 1891 and 1892. while Princeton
won the battle Of 1925 by to o. Last year Yale
won by the score of "A 10 o.
THAT GAME WITH ORANGE.
Princeton played Orange game of 90. but
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much because the halves were less than fifteen
minutes duration. and Princeton apparently ala
not try while the score last Saturday with Yale
and Orange was go. Scores and performances
during the year. however, do not count for
much, except among the enthusiasts. and they
! figure that on the showing made Yale has mucn
the better OF 1t. Ths following Is complete
record OF games played this year by Yale and
| Princeton Yale has played fourteen games IN
which her total score has been 2ss, ana her op-
| ponents 2S Princeton has played eleven, making
| a total score of 2o4 10 her opponents ).
! The scores OF each game are as follows:
September IS Yale s. Trinity o: October 2, Yale
T. Brown 0; october 5, Yale %. Union o; october D.
| Yale 3s Amherst .: October Y, Yale Crescent
Athletic Club =: october l6 Yale 70. Dartmouth "
october 49, Yale "a, Orange Athletic Club IL; Octo-
ber q. Yale 81. Williams 0: October %. Yae o.
! Boston Athletic Club 0: october 80 Yale 32 Dart
mouth 0: November 2. Yale 2s West Point s; No
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