The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-23
TIGERS AND QUAKERS
WERE THE WINNERS
Yale and Harvard Meet Defeat in the
Big Annual Games.
SEVENTY THOUSAND LOOKED ON
Princeton Had it Easy With the Sons
Of Old Eli, but Pennsylvania Had
to Resort to the Fierccst Kind Of
Foot Bali to Win and Then Gained
a Victory Only Ten Minutes Before
Time Was Called. Games ON Local
EridirOns.
From a Staff Correspondent.

From a Staff Correspondent.
| New York. Nov. 22.-Yale went down
before Princeton yesterday because OF
! the unreasonable all around superior
ity of the Tigers. Yale was not especial
ly strong at any point. Princeton was
not weak at any point. Individually
and collectively Princeton had the bet
ter team.
Between forty and fifty thousand
people witnessed the game. There
were $4,000 in the stands and boxes and
on the coaches. Fully 5000 more stood
up along the fence which enclosed the
grid-iron. The viaduct, dead-head hill
and the boulevard contained 10000
more. A fine drizzling rain fell all the
time, but this had no terrors for the
crowd. Every manner of man was
there from the Van Der Stuyvesants
who came with coach and liveried at
tendants to the little Harlem street
urchin who had saved up dollar after
weeks of great effort and sacrifices and
made 1t up again after getting In by
selling soap boxes and blocks of wood
at 80 cents apiece to the spectators In
the outer fringe Of the crowd which
stood up along the gridiron enclosure.
Nearly everybody took sides one way
or the other and gave token of his par
tisanship by the display Of some en-
blem or another. Yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS were the favorites with the
Princeton adherents. Yalesians were
partial to violets. Many also carried
orange or blue flags and few, say
about ten or twelve thousand, were
armed with fish horns. 1t was the
usual THANKSGIVING Day foot ball
game, with all that days incidents,
only that 1t took place five days be-
fore Thanksgiving.
1t was Princeton's intention to make
II kicking game as Baird they knew.
could kick fifteen yards better than
Hinkey. They however changed this
style of play and pursued straight out
and-out lne-bucking football when
they discovered there was a weakness
in their plans for carrying out this
style of play. This weakness was the
formation for protecting the full back
when making the kick. Princeton used
very open system. Five men We're
called back to form the defense. They
were pasted In the form of letter wv"
one man at each of the extremities of
angles Of the letter.
BLOCKED THE KICKS.
The full back stood just back of the
middle angle of the wv" When the
ball was snapped some one of the Yale
men managed as a general thing to
dodge the Tiger who was supposed to
block him and Baird would have his
kick blocked. Three times did this
happen at the very outset Of the game
and 1t caused Princeton stock to drop.
The last time it happened it resulted
in touchdown for Yale. Rodgers
blocked the kick. the ball rolled over
the line and Bass fell upon It,
After this Princeton decided not to
rely on it's kicking and when 1t did
have to kick to make the interference
close up. But for this one mistake
Yale doubtlessly would have been shut
out.
up was enough to make the most con-
fdent Tiger quail. Yale went at her
opponents as If she intended to win,
and as IL there was no question about
it. When the preliminary exchanging
of kicks was over with. Yale had the
ball on Princeton's ffty-yard line.
Yale forged forward ten yards but here
Princeton made stand and got the
ball. Baird kicked. Hinkey returned II
and Barnard sent 1t back again. Fincke
caught the ball and Cochran downed
him before he could get rid of it. Bro
kow on a double pass made run of
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THE ASSAULT BEGINS.
After the preliminary exchanges
which followed the kick off Prince
tnp I., In In vala nd I,n.
and commenced a terrific assault on
Yale's wall. Kelly, Barnard and Baird
plunged through the guards and
tackles and past the ends for sure
gains every time, and by this constant
hammering carried the ball all the way
from the 5O-yard line to the goal with
out once losing il. Yale fought hard
all the while and like veritable demons
when the ball was on her five-yard
line. but it was of no avail. Baird car
ried il over and kicked the goal. Time,
II minutes.
Princeton repeated it's line kicking
work. directing most its attacks against
Captain Murphy, who was preceptibly
weakening, he having received bad
bump on his lame shoulder. Yale
seemed to become demoraliZed and
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cOrdingly as Yale's line weakened. Muir
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