The record-union., 1897-11-21
The Eleven Of Old Nassau Go Down
Before Ellis Sons.
Worsted on the Gridiron by a Score OF Six
to Nothing.
The Victory of the Blue a Great
Surprise to the Eighteen Thou
sand Spectators, Who witnessed
One of the Greatest Games OF
Football Ever Played.

NEW HAVEN Comm, Nov. 20
Yale 6. Princeton q. The score tens
briefly the story of the greatest attn
letic football game ever seen. Inc
victory for the blue was as fair as
it was complete and as brilliant as II
was surprising. Except in kicking,
Yale's stalwart men outplayed the Tig-
ers in every department of the game.
Little Bair of Princeton outpunted Nc
Bride in almost every exchange Of
kicks, but in no other respect did the
Jersey men demonstrate a superiority.
Certainly more than two-thirds of the
$4,000 spectators that gathered about
the arena this afternoon expected to
see Yale defeated. 1t was believed that
the eleven of old Nassau would present
a line as formidable to Yale as a gran
ite wall, While the heavyweights in the
Princeton center We're counted on to
brush the Yale forwards aside at will
when the offensive play demanded it.
1t was expected that the swift runners
behind the Tigers line would circle
Yale's ends and plow through her
tackles repeatedly, while Yale's light
backs were not looked upon as likely
to pass Cochran and Craig. Man for
man and pound for pound the elevens
had been compared on paper, and the
prophets could see only Princeton VIC
tory.
But the football generals had reck-
oned without their host. The game
week ago. apparently, was but excellent
training for the ELS. The injuries of
the Princeton men doubtless had much
to do with their defeat. If they had
haan in condition thp
would probably have played each other
to a standstill. The absence of Kelly
from the Jersey ranks in the first half
was also felt
The pilgrimage to the grounds began
early. When the contestants appeared
on the field the high tiers of seats that
framed the field We're filled with ex-
pectant and anxious people. In the
east stand We're gathered most of the
Yale ''rooters," and there was hardly
dash of any color but blue visible.
Across the field the Princeton cohorts
We're congregated, and the alternating
stripes of yellow and the contrasting
black were even more brilliant than the
blue on the opposite side.
In the center section of this stand
almost every spectator carried a Prince
time with the incessant songs of the
Jersey boys and then quickly, madly
as a brilliant play started the cheers,
they made the eyes sparkle and the
pulse quicken In the nerth and south
stands blue predominated
The gridiron was in wonderfully good
condition
The two elevens were a few minutes
in EinU fhaire l,,t
they trotted through the gates into the
arena, pandemonium reigned. The
members of the two elevens tumbled
about the gridiron for three or four
minutes. Then the coin was tossed,
Princeton won and chose the north
goal, with the wind at their backs, the
whistle was blown, and the struggle
was on.
1t was Yale's fate TO kick off. Cham
berlain started the game at 2:0S by
kicking off to Baird. who immediately
returned to Yale's thirty y-five-yard line.
Mcbride kicked on the first down. and
it was Princeton's ball in the center Of
the field
Reiter tried right tackle and Barnard
left end, and neither could gain but
Wheeler made seven yards on a mass
play on the right end. Two more
downs We're tried, and the bali went to
Yale for holding. Yale then tried a few
rushes, but found Princeton's line fully
as strong as Harvard's, so Mcbride was
forced to kick.
For time the battle surged hacl.
and forth in the center of the field mono
of the running backs being able to make
the necessary distance, and both Baird
and Mcbride punting on the third down
Finding that the half backs We're max
ing no impression on Yale. Baird made
three ATTEMPTS to kick a goal from the
field, starting the first from the thirty
Vineyard line. and all three were fail
ures
After that the Yale line was never in
danger during the first half. Baird.
however. showed his wonderful kicking
punts down the field. two of them being
for over sixty yards.
few minutes before time was called
Desaules made his first sensational run
of the day. carrying the hali back after
a kick Of twenty-five yards through the
entire Princeton team. There were
some injuries during the half, but no
one left the field.
When the teams lined uo for the sec
ond half it was seen that Lathrop had
taken Cochran's place at right end, and
Princeton ended the game without her
Captain.
The puntin- began again with even
greater fierce ness. Each team would try
a couple of runs. and then would come
kick. and for a few minutes the ball
seemed in the air most of the time. Yale,
however. was apparently playing with
far greater confidence and when M last
Wheeler caught one of McBride's punts
on Prineeton's five-yard line. and in
stead OF making a fair catch put the
ball TO Baird. the latter was pushed over
the line for a seeming safety and the
crowd went crazy. This score was not
allowed, and Wheeler on the first down
kicked out OF danger
Then came a series of Dlava which in
the end Won the game for Yale. Hard
rushes into the Princeton line by the
y Yale backs began to tell on the Prince
ton team. First Reiter went out and
Kelly took his place. although. strange
enough, he had been kept on the side
lines up to this time Then Baird was
injured, and soon, showing himself to
be unfit for play. was led from the field
weeping. Burke taking his place.
This weakening of the Princeton team
put additional life into Yale From the
thirty-yard-lin Mcbride tore through
the center for three yards, BENJAMIN
added four more, and Dudley carried the
hall by a marvellous run to Princeton's
twelve yard line.
On the next rush Captain Rodgers
nut the ball on the six-yard line.