The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-24
PRINCEToN's SUPREMACY.
Nassau Undoubtedly the Champions of
 1S96-Comments on the Result

lS96-Comments on the Result
 Yale Princeton game on Saturday in
 favor of the pigskin chasers from old Nassau that although Princeton has not
 met Pennsylvania the championship of
 the season of 1896 may rightfully be claimed by her, judging from compar-
 ative scores. Speaking of the game and
 the outlook, last evenings New York
 Evening Sun says Yale has probably
 never in the history of her athletics
 been subjected to such an oVerwhelm-
 ing defeat as she received Saturday.
 Many times have the Blues enjoyed the
 fruits of like victory, but it was an
 entirely new experience to be on the
 losing side with such a score piled up
 against them.
 Outplayed at all points, both individ-
 ually and as a team, a discussion of
 the why's and wherefores. of the defeat
 is unnecessary and super1uous. The
 simple statement that Princeton had
 the better team, man for man, is the
 sum and substance of the tale.
 The Tigers and their supporters had
 been confident of a victory for some
 time past, but probably never in their
 widest imagination did they dream
 that they could defeat the Blue by so
 decisive a score, if for no other reason than that they were lined up against
 the eleven big white Ys, which for
 years have been almost unconquerable
 The game which the Tigers put up was a clean straight and splendid an
 exhibition of football as has ever been
 witnessed on the Manhattan field grid
 iron. Every man played the game of
 his life and aided by Captain Coch-
 rams good judgment and generalship
 everything fell before them.
 Yale also deserves the greatest credit
 and admiration for playing to the very end a plucky and determined uphill game in the face of practically certain defeat, which was almost a foregone conclusion after the Tigers had scored their first touchdown.
 Princeton's magnificent game was a revelation even to those who had care fully watched and noted her progress and development throughout the sea soon. Every point which went down to the credit of the Tigers was, earned by good, straight, hard football.
 Yesterdays Yale News remarks Saturdays defeat at Manhattan field naturally causes the keenest disap- pointment to Yale men; we would show censurable lack of college spirit in-
 deed, if it did not. Nevertheless, this feeling does not prevent us from ac- cording full justice to our opponents Ina D1-in o1l nf finest that ever that university, or any
 other institution produced In offence and defence the work of the team was | universally excellent Their victory | was the inevitable result of all around superiority, andewe' congratulate then upon it. They Yale team, though out. pointed and out-weighed, played pluck5 football to the end. They put forth the very best efforts that they could mus | ter, but their best was not sufficient tC win. If a team and its supporter, how ever, take defeat like men, they car never suffer in public opinion, and al though no one has any preference fol defeat at any time, temporary reverse | if responded to in the right spirit, car often be turned to the advantage of the losers. We have only to look back tc our past football history for instances of surprising recuperative powers or the part of Yale athletics. If the eff l feet of Saturdays defeat therefore, i. to nerve us to more earnest, more de termined efforts in the other branches of athletics this year, and in football next fall, while not pretending to enjoy being beaten, we can afford to take
 the result philosophically and under the goad of defeat, devote all our en. ergies, all our powers to the realization of better things in the. future"