New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-15
ECHOES OF THE BATTLE.
BOTH YALE AND HARVARD DlSAP-
POINTED AT THE DRAW.

VALE WAS APPRENTICESHIP FOR THE FIRST TINE
-s1owNEss OF BOTH TEAMS IN GETTING
OFF THEIR PLAys-THE HARVARD
CHEER NOT EFFECTIVE.
The trains from New England yesterday brought
IN many wel-known people, who were returning to
home ar business after seeing one of the most
rnarkable football struggles on record. The Yale
Harvard game at Cambridge on Saturday will live
long in the memory Of the thousands who wit
messed II as Of the most peculiar battles ever
seen on the gridiron All agreed that 1t was mag
nifcent exhibition. yet neither side seemed satisfied
with the result.
Few followers CT any sport entirely satisfied
with contest In which there is no result whether
Il be a dead heat in a horse race bicycle
a draw e.. aseball. football or sparring. 1nvar-
ably one or tho other of the contestants seems 10
have had little the better of IT, at least In some
part Of the struggle and the followers Of one the
other will Invariably that II such and such had
been the case the result would have been different.
On Of the trains which arrived at the Grand
Central Station yesterday morning Were Yale and
Harvard rooters by the score. The Yale men
seemed TO think that under present conditions. the
draw was a practical victory for the Blue. Said
one Yale man. While We hoped to win and did not
lose faith in our team all us realized that In
going up against Harvard with practically raw
team stood great chance OF coming out second
best. We knew that our coaches had done splendid
work with the new material. and the result showed
tndt t0ey ndO. Il tHe Sdlnt COulu NC pi'A'" wv
again, I am convinced that our team would win'
and would be willing 10 bet on the result After
That first half It did certainly look as If Harvard
had the bette: Of the argument but the crimson
did not take advantage OF the wind when she
got It,"
HOW HARVARD MEN FEEL.
"whlle we ought TO be satisfied with the result.
possibly" said who still retained an immense
chrysanthemum of crimson IN his butonhole Il
am forced to admit that Harvard had an excellent
chance TO wipe out one Of the many defeats sus-
tained from Yale. and did not do II. We were
strong defensive play. but our offensive work
was not what II should have been. When we saw
that Yale had the wind behind her at the opening OF
the game we were justly little scared as TO the
result. With such wind at her back 1t certainly
looked as II the Blue would score in the opening
half Of the battle ana the first in such con
test means a great deal. And It generally means
more In a battle between Yale and Harvard than
in any other contest. Then there was that fear
that while the wind might help Yale materially in
the first half there chance that 1t would die
down nothing when Harvard took that side OF the
field in the second half.
when however we saw the splendid defence
presented by boys in the first half. and had
little trouble in preventing Yale from scoring we
were particularly confident Harvard would win. We
certainly started the last half well almost lost
my senses when we had the ball down within few
yards Of the Yale goal and then failed make a
touchdown. standing just back OF the goal
post at the time and could holes in the Yale
line through which It looked IL ! could have
driven a team Of horses. STILL our men evidently
did not their advantage. and they lost the ball.
ana with 1t all chance Of scoring
WHAT A PRINCETON MAN SAYS.
Said man who hailed from Princeton. and who
at one time played on the Tiger team II dsap-
pointed. nearly everybody else is, at the result.
for nobody likes TO go such distance 10 see
drawn battle travelled thousand miles to Wit
hat nd incid 70 he N Ia
and witness the Yale-Princeton game at New-Haver
next Saturday. II Yale plays the game in the same
way against our boys next Saturday We will eat her
up But don't think that Yale will play that sort OF
game. If Yale plays her ends far out next Satur-
day as She did, yesterday. ! can see the Tigers ,
plunging through without much danger OF theiF
and Pa doE S 2 a hi. nf UG
do the same thing There Is one man wish you q,
H HHs6 and" He has developed into great player
.ends neE sa 1pa Prnce{on has t Strong Inc
which Will play ana IN be5 & way WAY Eet b nf
our backs have been thoroughly drilled and they
will come pretty close to doing all that Will be
One feature which was commented upon pretty
generally by the critics yesterday was the slow
ine.ups Yale did not line up quickly and follow
rush AFTER T 6rea h9 has s See h IN
years. Her tactics particularly deliberate.
One crus vince nSedicon h1k that
E Ei be eat Yale Yale mex Saturday BY % %
ssturday. | am basing my prediction on the
possibility that the Blue VIII play th 9 same 3s sort Of
YARD I expect 10 see the University of Pennsy-
vania defeat Harvard. but would rot care to haz-
Wine Yale played the game through on Saturday
was not as Fortunate swain, Haskell. Donald and
Warren were placed on the hospital list although
viii not be able to play. in the Pennsylvania game
TS for nO n
who was even slightly injured TO continue IN The
game They say that all Of the men retired could
have continued in the game 10 the end had they
been allowed TO do so. - -. eo.,
sign, and college men say that IT shows how sense
less the alarmst cry is that football should be pro
forced 10 warn q player for rough WORK
OLD YALE GRoUND-GAINERs.
Many a Yale man on Saturday wished that his
team had behind the line Butterworth or n
Theme. Either Of these great gronhu-gaIncrs
would have made his presence felt In the !a'ter
half of the game. Butterworth was one % u,s
greatest line buffers Yale ever had lie "ouiu
bang straight into the opposing forces and pore "a
hole through almost any line In style Wncn
would have broken the meek d or z hy TnneT
and he was as hard to stop as az sr GaryaId line
sr IKE easy aSd BoeRed puns
discussion The hafbaeks were sent me- 70 ba GnS would
be passed to him and he supposed to run n
behind the hafbacks. who would protect nm UNA ID
a en s6s Se haa R DoI n the Yale
times and blocked the kicks. Yale was iqrtunaSS, !,
in securing the ball each time. or the result might
have been different
YALE NERVOUS FOR ONCE
II was said after the game that Yale for once
in her history really feared the Harvard team on
Saturday. This fear, II II really existed cerlahS
vanished toward the close OF the second man, lo'
the Yale team was playing like fury in the last
fifteen minutes of the game. There were Nohc
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