Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-09
GOSSIP FROM THE CRIDIRON
Saturday Was a Notable Day in the An.
nails of the Sport,
PRINCETON SHOWS ITS SUPREMACY
Plays nm Encore Game ut Harvard
aud Does it In the Highest
style of Modern
Foot Hall.

Saturday last is undoubtedly entitled tc
be ranked as the red letter foot ball day OF
! this season. 1t is even a question whether
two weeks hence, when Pennsylvania meets
Harvard and Princeton plays Yale, will see
any more brilliant games than were played
on Saturday. The star game was that wit
messed at Cambridge by 10000 enthusiastic
spcctatoIs-thcre are those hercabouts who
maintain that association foot ball Is gain
ing in popularity, aud fast Crowdlng the
grapd American collegiate game into the
background. But this is a dgresson Once
more the striking colors OF Old Nassau wave
VIGOROUSLY over the single colored stand
ard OF the more ancient New Eng
land university. Last year Princeton,
after waiting seven years for tho oppor'
tunity, defeated Harvard, the score being
IL to 4. This year the Jcrseymen just
played an encore on that score, only elm
mating the four points scored by their
Massachusetts fellows Last year the re-
suit was unexpected Harvard had been
picked to win. This year 1t was dincrent.
All the betting was in favor of Princeton,
the odds before the game being 3 to l..
1t was fierce struggle. 1t was played
hard and fast from start to finish, but
the game was lacking in brilliant plays.
Several players, who were In poor trim and
should never have been allowed to enter
the game, We're unable to tinish the game.
Their retirement from the Held VIII prob
ably bring to the front the anti-foot ball
legislation cranks. They gcneray begin
their annual crusade about this time. The
game was played on It's merits, and the
better team won. Yet, IL must be said for
Harvard that its team was in anything
but proper shape. Captain Wrightington,
Dunlop. Cabot and Brewer were not in the
best of trim. and for once the hospital
list sent out from Cambridge before the
game was verified by later developments.
IpVin ~ m NxFuG I'm non
but was in far better shape for the game
than Harvard. Harvard is entitled to some
credit for having held Princeton when
within seven yards of the crimson goal.
PrinCeton's puntng was a strong feature
of the game, and helped to neutralize
llarvard's gains
The greatest interest now centers in the
Princcton-Y Yale game. 1t is two weeks off
and in that time the Tigers should get into
good shape. There is no doubt in the world
hut that they have the best team playing
today. What may happen within "A fort
night is not to be guessed at Though
Princeton Is the only prominent team that
appears on lalc's schedule this season, the
New Haven lads have had plenty of hard
work on their hands. They have been
scored upon by nearly every team they
have played, and sustained a moral defeat
at the hands of the mighty red men. on
Saturday Brown played Yale another close
game, II to 8. n few weeks ago Yale dc
feated Brown. Is to 0. ON Saturday Brown
had not its fun strength represented so
that 1t cannot he seen Just where the New
Haven team is improving Everything so
far augurs a victory for the orange and
black on November 2l hut all signs have
failed i'm foot ball so often before that It
Is not wise TO base much on comparisons
on Saturday Pennsylvania ran up the
greatest score yet registered against the
Carlisle Indians, u to o. The red men
say that the Quakers gave them the hard
est, as well as the most cleanly played
game of any Of the big teams and they
have played Yale d2), Harvard u-M and
Princeton 90 to 81. The Indians were
within few inches of the coveted goal at
one time, but the Quakers met them with
one of the finest exhibitions of defense
given this season. Pennsylvania has been
steadily improving since its defeat 10y
Lafayette, and will undoubtedly give Har-
ward all 1t wants on November 81 though
the crimson team will improve. perhaps,
more rapidly than the red and blue eleven
and should be in shape to play a great
game.
Chicago's line was too light. and as a
result the two Omaha backs and tho other
pair of players in Prof. StaEg's backfleld
to advantage in the game with Wisconsin
ON Saturday. 1t was really another battle
between Princeton and Yale, for PM King
has been telling the Chicaso boys all about
T. princeton methods proved superior and
nois went down before Van DooZcr and his
northwestern comrades. 10 to 4, although
oNbSS Sdlu lllluOlS would win. Cornell
gave evidence of an awakening and ran
up tfty-four points against Bucknell a
team of the keyst one state that has been
playing pretty fair foot ball this season
II Is only five years ago that Bucknell
defeated Cornell. / to 0. Cornell is hus-
tlins to get into trim for its THANKSGIVING
day game with the QuakCTs at Philadel-
phla and may yet give them a contest
worth going to see
In the Western intercollegiate Foot Bah
association II begins TO look like Iowa for
FIRST pace, with Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri following in the order named
tied until the great Thanksgiving day
game in this city, but from the games
that have been played 1t looks this way
TO man up tree. Iowa turned Kansas
down a short time ago, though after a
very hard struggle. on Saturday Kansas
played havoc with Coach Robinson and
his cripples from Lincoln, turning down
the Nebraska boys to the tune of Is to t.
Kansas won the game in the first half
when II secured twelve large points. Ne
braSkaS line was weak and the backs
never had a chance to work. Baine the
Indian halfback of the Kansas team, gave
another Illustration of the red mans PROV
ess as foot ball player, scoring tHyo of
the touchdowns and helping along with
the third The signs point toward a victory
of Iowa over Nebraska here on Thanks
giving day, but IT Is 10 be hoped that the
a cinch on the last place in the race. No