The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-29
HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONS
BRIDGEPORT BOYS ZION ANOTHER
 GAME FOR THE YALE CUP.

0AAhE ROh HI " I ALE GOIs
 A Good Game Played Yesterday Morning at
 Yale Field Between Football Teams from
 Hartford and Bridgeport High Schools
 Nearly $500 People Attended-BrldGe-
 port Favored by Luok-Hartford Played a
 Superior Game-One More Game Won
 Gives the Cup to Bridgeport-Brldgeport
 Wheelmen Attended.
 Yesterday morning Yale field fairly shook from the yells of the rival rooters of the Hartford and Bridgeport High school football teams. It was indeed a fair sight. On the left of the gridiron crowded on the bleachers and behind the ropes were fully 900 Bridgeport boys and girls decked in red and blue, while across the field of battle in Yale blue sat the young folks from Hart ford A more perfect day to decide the championship could not have been wrought by Dame Nature, for the field had been washed down by the recent rains and dryed by Wednesdays sun. The Bridgeport boys were favored by luck, and having won the toss chose to defend the south goal, leaving the Hartford lads to the mercy of a dag zling sun, which nearly blinded them at times. Promptly at 10:40 Umpire San ford of Yale blew his whistle, and quick as a flash the Hartford boys sent .the pigskln flying down towards Bridge ports goal The game had begun A Bridgeport man grabbed the ball, but was quickly downed After Bridgeport was held for three downs it was clear ly seen that Hartford, as far as straight football was concerned, was far the su
 perior. so the Bridgeporters resolved to resort to tricks, and it was owing to these that they won the game In the first half their fakes simply dazed Hartford's team, as will be seen below. At the very onset .Keene, after three downs, made a touchdown by forty yard run on a fake kick, while Foster a few minutes late made fifty yards, | after another three downs, through a double pass. Bridgeport made her sec ond touchdown from Keene's run of forty yards through a double pass, and her third by Foster, two thirty yards and twenty yards run made on the same trick Foster kicked two goals out of three. Therefore Bridgeport's 16 points, all made in the first half, can be traced to her tricks Again the shining sun played a great football game for Bridgeport, because many times Foster was obliged to kick on three downs, and when some Hartford player was about to catch the flying | pigskin old Sol would blind him by his bright rays, and Bridgeport would cap ture the fumbled ball. In this manner Hartford lost much valuable ground, | Toward the end of the first half Hart 1 ford took a great brace and carried l the ball to Brideport's 5-yard line | by run of thirty-five yards by Suce. | As interesting as the first half had been i 1t did not compare with the second for ! excitement Hartford came out with 1 an up hill fight of IS points before her, 1 but she played grandly. She had | Bridgeport on the run and broke up her l tricks She made twelve points through hard earned straight football, and prov l ed clearly that she was the better team l although beaten It was another Har- Pennsylvania game. Luce and ! Ingalls made Hartford's touchdowns, and Ingalls, kicked both goals. Once in a while Bridgeport would participate in some slugging, and Twitchell of Hartford was hurt and retired. Strong was substituted. In short, Bridgeport won her game by tricks, luck, and the playing of Keene and Foster. Hartford lost on account of i'll luck and fumb- ling, although she outplayed Bridge port. Considering that Hartford had, after going out of training and with but one solitary days practice, faced the Bridgeport team, which has not yet ceased training, and played so we'll, it is most worthy of great praise. For | Hartford, Luce and Ingalls did the star work Ingalls, doing the best individual playing of any one on the gridiron. This was the third game between Hartford and Bridgeport, the other two being ties, to 4, and 10 to TO- If Bridgeport wins the championship next year the Yale cup goes to her. The attendance was very large, being about 2,300.
 The lineup was as follows:
 Bridgeport. Hartford