Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-11-21
YALE AND PRINCETON
The Great Foot Ball Game of the
Year Being Played.
THOUSANDS ARE In MANHATTAN FIELD
New Haven Soon Scored, but They
Were Quickly Tied.
HARVARD AT PHILADELPHIA

NEW YORK, November 2l.-The outlook
this morning, SO far as the weather was
concerned, was anything but propitious for
good day for the YaIe-Princeton Co..
bal game. Since early morning a cold
sleet and drizzling rain fell and tho rL,
was overcast with lowering clouds. which
threatened a downpour AT any noo,,or.
There was a light ortheasterly wind blou-
ing. The college boys who were To fry
their prowess on the gridiron this afternoon
were not in the least depressed by the
gloomy aspect. Inside and outsid.. of the
Murray Hill and Plaza Hotels where the
princeton and Yale teams were stoDpiny
respectively, there were hundreds of their
cohorts and brother collegians assembled
me cries and slogans of both colleges were
necessarily shouted and echoed in the vi
entity of each hostelry, and pandemonium
would he a quiet retreat sompared with Tho
Rruesomc yells and cat calls seemingly
never ending in the neighborhood of Cen
sral fark Plaza and the Grand Central
depot.
frofuse Display of CoIors.
fale's blue and Princeton's orange and
black were generously distributed through
out the city In every nook and corner of
the big office buildings down town. in the
elevators. public, municipal and federal
ofhces, structures, street cars elevated rail
road trains and every other mode of con-
Veyance the colors OF the padded gladia-
tors were lavishly displayed Ninety out OF
every hundred of New York's popula.ion
which has been considerably increased Nv
Nlsitofs VINO wish to see the supreme eff
fort for the honors this afternoon, spoke
of nothing but "bucking the center" ''rln-
ning around the ends" and the thous ana
%, 1,
OF chasing the pigskin.''
Captain Cochran felt confident that his
team of Tigers" would more than eclipse
ti.er big successes during the season, and
this morning he declared his picked nine
ana their substitutes fit as fiddles"
Equally confident was the irrepressible
captain Murphy. He solemnly declared
this morning that the Bulldogs" of New
Haven would rut up the game of their
lives, and squelch the swapping Tigers
without the proNerbial Yale luck"
Plenty of YnIe Money.
Yale morey was we'll in evidence all
through tie forenoon. and there was so
much of it that the "cinch" betters who
were pl1nging reoklessly on Princeton's
chances at odds of 10 TO on even had 10
shorten this price, and by noontime several
even money bets were registered. The pre-
Valilng odds, ht wever. among the Wall
street division which is looked on as a bet
ting thermometer, were 100 to 90 at
@ clock.
Bulls and bears on the street took Diff
ferent views of the situation, and they fro
quehtiy changed places. as many ali OK
was found to he on the short side while
the bruins" frequently took the long end
AS the day advsn need the weather became
worse and worse, and in the language OF
one gridiron enthusiast it was TOO mean "a
coin a suitable adjective to qualify what
kind of a man the weather clerk was"
Despite the effoIts OF the committee of
arrangements, tie Spectators managed in
some way TO eobble big lot of paste
boards, and the rnuch-wanted tickets were
Rapidly bought up at prices which eciipsed
All the most saf guine anticipations of the
gentlemen who lined the sidewalks In the
vicinity of Manhattan field.
ThronEfnc TO the Field.
Long before II o'clock, although the
game was scheduled to begin at . the
Il roads and Broadway cable cars. which
land passengers close TO the gates Of Man
haitian field, were crowded 10 suffocation.
and there was a continuous Jam at the
different entrances. BY O'Clock a close
estimate of all who gathered within and
without the Enclosure and the neighboriug
vantage points exceeded 10000.
The tickets which had fallen into the
hands of spectators early In the week
and which had been held until today in
the hope of getting greatly advanced prices,
We're sold at the gates for face value.
Yale supporters were very much more i'm
evidence than those of Princeton. Twenty
four coaches. tally-hos. drags ard buses
were lined on the north side of the field
Two-thirds of them were flied with Yale
Shouters and the rain did not seem to have
any effect their cheering and singing
That noted cry, the frog chorus of 'Aris-
tophanes, was heard continually on all
SIDES, answered by Princeton with 'Oh,
my, oh. my: how well do up old Eli,'
The Tigers were evidently reserNing their
lungs for later period of the game.
The day furnished a perfect example of
the Inconvenience and great personal dis
comfort which people are willing to bear
OH occasions. Women who had never In
their lives before sat in a IriZZlng rain
and atmosphere which penetrated TO
the very marrow now sat aid chattod anG
helped their brothers out with their added
enthusiasm.
The great viaduct and Coogan's Roost
We're crowded long before the grand stands
received their thousands, and one look
ed up at the closely packed mass Of hu-
manity he could not help think what the
consequence would be should that iron
railing give way.
No sooner had the colegians assembled
than they began their shouting. Yell
answered YELL and many comets and other
wind instruments added to ;he general din.
The Lfne-Up.
The lineup was follows:
Yale. Positions princeton
Bass................Left end...........B rok1w
Rodgers ..........Left tackle...... Church
Chadwick. guard. Crowds
Chamberlain. Center ..-..---..... Ialley
Murray. Right guard. Armstrong
Murphy. ........ Right tackle. Hill"branc
Conner ......... Right end........ Cochrane
Fincke tguarter....... smith
Hine .......... Left half back.......... Kelly
BENJAMIN .. Right half back. Barnard
Hinkey ...........Full back............. Baird
Umpire. Dashiell, Lehigh; referee, Nc
Chung I.ehigh: linesmen. Garfield of VIII
liams and Smith of Wesleyan.