The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-11
Princeton Athletes Confident of
Lowering the Colors of
Ellis Sons.
AN INNOVATION IN FOOTBALL
The Harvard. Princeton Game Charac.
terized by Its Total Absence
of Brutality.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Nov. 1O.-Interest
in the struggle for the football champion
ship is increased as result of Yesterdays
games. Princeton had to work hard to
defeat Cornell, but Cornell showed an inn
provement of so per cent over the game
against Harvard two weeks ago. SO it cam
not be said that Princeton has weakened
to any great extent.
The greatest surprise of the week was
the tie game between Yale and Brown.
The Providence boys played for blood and
are celebrating their virtual victory. The
followers of Princeton are jubilant over
the showing of their boys, and are conf
dent that they will make Yale lower her
colors in the great game which decides the
championship on Thanksgiving day
In reviewing the games of the past ten
days credit must be given for the good
feeling displayed at the Harvard-Princeton
game. The contest will stand out for
many day as a credit to intercollegiate
football, and proof that football is not, in
ITSELF vicious, an unnecessarily rough,
or an ungentlemanly game. Throughout
the whole afternoon no man was warned
by either of the two umpires, nor was any
one of the players disqualified. Hardly a
such slight matters as off-side plav, and
the best of feeling prevailed throughout
the entire game. When Lee, the Prince
ton Captain, was obliged to leave the field
| because he had played himself to a stand
still, he was cheered again and again from
| the Harvard side of the field, and the
same thing was repeated when Arthur
Brewer, the Harvard captain, had to go
for the same reason.
| As the crowd walked across the Prince
| ton campus, the Princeton contingent
cheered Harvard men and Harvard men
cheered Princeton. L was not a SNOWY
piece of diplomacy, in view of the recent
| Yale-Harvard troubles. 1t was a general
| and universal feeling on the part of the
undergraduates of both colleges to let the
| victory have no opportunity of separating
| them again.
| This is the best feature of this first i'm
| portant game OF the season, and if it is to
| be suggestion of what is to come later
this year, then the season of 1895 will be a
| wholesome one for football and its friends.
Neither faculties, graduates, general pub
| lie nor newspapers could find anything to
complain OF except one fact, or rather sup
posed fact: Eight or ten men left the field
| during the game, and the average person
who knew nothing of the facts surmised
that eight or ten men were injured. This
was not so. The facts were these: Both
on the Princeton and on the Harvard
| teams there were men who were not in the
| pink OF condition; who were little stale,
or little overturned, or who were not
considered from strictly just trainers
point of view capable of going through an
entire game.
This year and in this game a new prin-
ciple was adopted, which is to the credit of
the two colleges. 1t was not so many
| years ago that if man were taken off the
field because he was merely tired, but
without any serious injury, the opponents
raised great rumpus and charged that
the captain OF the team was trying to work
In a fresh man.
This year the reverse principle was
adopted. All but one or two of the men
could easily have gone on little longer,
and none was of necessity taken off. Each
one had to be practically forced off the
field-he was so anxious to go on playing.
But as the physicians saw man plaving
stale or weakening in any way, or as they
saw he had reached the limit of the time
Whlch they nad judged before the game he
was able to play without straining him
self, they deliberately walked on the field
and took him off, whether he would or no.
And that of itself saved many an injury,
no doubt, and made the game what it
was-a game free from accident, for the
time when men are injured is when they
have become SO physically exhausted that
they cannot protect themselves when they
fall. That time was not allowed to arrive
in a single case at Princeton.