The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-15
PRINCETON PREPARING FOR YALE
Tigers Are Satisfied They Have a
Team That VIII yy5n.

one more IOotDai game remain Tor the
Tigers to play and then the fifteen or
twenty odd men who have represented
Princeton N the gridiron will hang up
their football armor and another season
will be closed. This one game yet to be
played is the one which will either bring
another championship to Nassau or will
end the season in defeat. To beat Yale
on her own fields is a difficult task for any
eleven to undertake, but the Princetonians
believe they viii be represented by eleven
young athletes who will conquer the rep
resentatives of the blue on their own ter
ritory. If the Tigers should win from
Yale this year it will be the first time in
the existence OF the two universities that
Princeton has won two consecutive foot
ball victories. In '93. when the Tigers
had such a strong aggregation OF players,
the like OF whom are seldom seen on any
gridiron, victory was certain and another
championship team for the following year
was freely predicted. But the Tigers pl
the dust and Old Eli came off the field
after having administered the crushing
defeat of t~wenty-four points to nothing.
Captain Cochran and the ten young men
who. it is hoped. will administer the de-
feat to Yale, nave been working with
might and main all through the season
with the one object in view of whipping
the Ellis, breaking the old tradition at
Princeton that the AigerS cannot win
twice in succession. Until Tuesday OF
the past week practice at Princeton was
so thoroughly poor that the. prospects Tor
victory were by no means bright, ana u
was thought that the Tigers would again
be beaten after a season OF victories. NOW
tho prospects for success are entlreIy
changed and there is probably not a mar
on the campus who would not wager ms
last cent on the result of the Yale.
Princeton game. At times during the past
week the eleven a v fumbled at crltical
points of the game, but SINCE Iuesuay
the team has developed that me team
play both in defensive and offensive pay
which made it such a powerful aggrega-
ton last season. 1t was
agreed that the team Of last Season ul y
PLAYERS but through the concentrated ef-
forts and clock like precision OF the team
taken as a unit. To put eleven men N q
play and to have each with one OBJECT IN
view was the theory held by Princetons
coachers. This is the method pursued
during the present season. N every
scrimrnage each tiger is close 70 the PIG
skin and Captain Cochran's entreatles OF
the early part of the season to the team
ITO get around the ball." seem to nave
brought beneficial results. Armstrong IS
out of theg game for the season, Wnlen WI
resent Princeton against Yale:-Cralg, let
end; Holt, left tackle; Crowds, LETT guard,
Booth. centre rush; Edwards, right guard,
Hildebrand. right tackle; Cochran, right
end; Baird, quarter back; Barnard right
half back; Reiter or Kelly, left half pacK,
and Wheeler, full back.
For substitutes the Tigers have the fol
lowing men, some of whom are pretty
certain to get IN the Yale game befoTe
fine is called=End rushers, Lathrop ana
Schwartz: tackles, Geer and Potter;
guards, Dickey and Filson; centre, Jordan;
quarter backs, Burke, R-osengarten and
Poe; half backs, Kelly, Crane ana
Lathrop; full back, Ayres.
The only doubtful man on the varsity
list is Reiter. Last year he was q sub
stitute and Kelly played in both yale and
me case this year, but Kelly is not in
the best of condition and has been unable
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