The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-23
MY !! HOW WE'LL LICK ELI
Princeton WhooFs Up Things
in Lively Style at Man
haitian Field.

NEW YORK, Nov. 90, 1S95.--At eleven
o'clock the man who always comes early
knocked at the heavy wooden gates of
Manhattan Field and was told that the
gates would not open till 1880. With a
calm philosophy he leaned against the
outer side and composed himself to wait.
He was not long alone. by fives and
tens by dozens and twenties, the early
birds Joined the leader and fell into line
behind him. Then they came by fifties
and long line that finally divided into
two columns four and five deep waited
patiently for the ''open sesame"
At last it came and in they rushed
helter skelter, laughing, cheering and
screaming, they made for the board fence
that surrounded the field and took up
positions along the south and west sides.
With dogged determination those who
were young and strong placed their ell
bows on the fence with a "stay here or
die" expression. The slower or weaker
portion went to the wall or in other
words took their places in the second,
third, fourth or fifth rank, according to
their various abilities in the showing di-
rection These were the men who knew
the game and desired to be as near the
gridiron as possible, irrespective of per-
sonaI comfort. Then came the oc-
cupants of the bleacheries and the
western one quickly began to fill
with blue flags with white and yellow
flags with a black p.
THE FUN COMMENCES.
About noon the coaches commenced to
arrive There were coaches draped in
blue and coaches draped in yellow and
black. Coaches bearing a crowd of
coIiegians past and present, and pretty
girls with rosy cheeks and laughter on
their lips. As each coach filed into
the enclosure on the north side of
the field the occupants set the horns
a-tooting and raised the college yell,
which was resounded to from all sides
of the field. When some 10 or 20 coaches
were in the enclosure the fun commenc-
cd They rah-rah-rahed, they sis-boom-
de-ahed, they sang, they waved flags and
they blew coach horns and tin horns ana
made every other conceivable kind of
noise. The Princeton delegation sang
Bring Back My Bonnie to Me- and as
they sang they stood on the coaches with
hats off On the box seat of each coach
was stentorian lunged youth who act
ed as conductor
He gave the lead and frantically waved
his arms as he kept time to the rythm;
The New Haven men occasionally hurled
back defiance to the frantic enthusiasts
in Orange and Black. The coaches We're
about equally divided in numbers. The
Yales took up positions. alongside, each
other on the left facing the stands,
while the Princetonians were massed to
the left.
were those of the Navage Club, the Cot
taga Club the Colonial. the Cape and
Gown and the Ivy. all from Princeton
From New Haven came the Chi Phi
the One Hundred and Twenty-Five High
Street Club, the Delta Pal ,os and j. tbs las
Princetons class Of '92 had a good sized
coaching parties were:-S. De Garmendia
B. Be Borden Of New York. Miss NJ. e.
Stevenson of Brooklyn, and the 81. Elmo
PRINCETON WHOOPS IT UP.
Princeton kept whooping it up and they
sang with frantic enthusiasm, "Oh My,
How We Will Lick Old Eli" How the
yell The Yale contingent maintained,
dignified silence. The occupants of the
New Haven coaches turned sideways and
watched the black and yellow flags wave
and the waivers yells, but they SAID noun
About 1:3o o'clock-half an hour from
the time of the starting-tne grand
stands commenced to, fiji, and there were ere
the moment when the leather would be
sent flying and the great struggle Woulu
commence in earnest.
MANHATTAN FIELD, New I fork.
Yale won the toss, and, after some hot
scrimmages, in which several men were
hurt, both on Princeton's and yale, s
side. Pass, Of Yale. seq. secured ed, a ara touch-
down. and Thorne kicked goal score
Yale 6: Princeton 0.
Al $40 the score was, first half:-Yale,
twelve Princeton, nothing.