The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
THE GAME REVIEWED.
Some Interesting Couments on the Plays ant
Players.

Players.
NEW HAVEN. Nov. 2O.-To think that Yale. q
team that the Tigers have looked upon with al
most pity this season. should win from them Is
what is breaking the hearts Of Princeton men
here tonight. But the Tigers were fairly
whipped. and they died game. as they always do
when forced to suffer reverses. There will be
no humiliation for the Princeton varsity. no
stripping of the letter "P" from their orange
and black sweaters, but the mon who fought 80
gallantly for Old Nassau to-day will receive
sympathy, because they were not disgraced.
They were conquered by o football team of true
sportsmen. and to DO fairly outplayed is mover q
disgrace.
But there were several reasons WHY the
Jerseymen were subdued aside from being out
played. They wore perhaps overconfdent and
possibly overturned. Then. too. they had con-
siderable hard luck. and their star players were
injured at critical points. So many of tho
Princeton men were exhausted or hurt. while
the Yale players were without scratches. that
the poor-condition argument was offered by
many. Only Q fow days ago THE SUN called
attention to the fact that the men were ner-
vous and that Capt. Cochran had had some
words with Kelly, Baird. and Wheeler. and this
fact was recalled by hundreds Of persons who
were trying to discover some reason for the
surprising downfall.
lnaL the llRoEb ulu not DeBln 70 compare with
Yale in point Of endurance was apparent to
everybody, and tho palm Of export training
must, therefore, be temporarily. perhaps, taken
from Jack McMasters. and bestowed upon
Keene Fitzpatrick. who received plenty of as
sistanco from Butterworth and the Hinkeys.
Probably the most unlucky piece of business
was the injury to Capt. Cochran In the first half.
He entered the game In splendid condition, and
was playing wonderful ball when suddenly, while
making a fierce tackle Of one of the Yale backs,
he dislocated the shoulder that gave 80 much
trouble to him last year and again In the early
part OF the present season. This naturally
handicapped him during the remainder of the
first half and served to rattle his companions
considerably. So whom he was finally induced
to leave the game during the intermission his
loss seriously affected all of the Princeton
players.
'Cochran's absence proved only tho nrst of 4
series OF heavy blows which broke tho hopes of
the Jersey followers and made 1t easier sailing
for Old Ell. but whom Johnnie Baird. who in
spite of his recent attack of tonsilitis insisted
upon playing. was helped on the field. half
dazed and In tears. tho run Of Ill luck proved too
much, and from that time on the Princeton mon
fought hopelessly against fate.
There was q mistake. perhaps. In the manage.
ment Of the Princeton eleven that may have
b en- ono OF the big causes for the defeat. That
was the failure to play King" Kelly at the
very outset.
KELLY PUT m TOO LATE.
Although 1t WAS said AZ the training quarters
an hour before the game that Kelly would play,
II was decided at tho last moment not to put
him IN. although he sat ON the side limos and
begged for a chance. which. when no finally re-
coived It, proved beyond peradventure that he
was tho only man on the Princeton team who
could mako ground through YAle's rush line
Kelly actually attempted to carry tho ball
single-handed from the middle Of the
field to Yalo's goal line by bucking the
centre repeatedly, so anxious was he to tie
the score toward the close. and the way he tore
things up made the crowd wonder why no was
not put In before. But 1t was too late, and the
Tigers knew it. Barnard, the star half back
was nothing compared to what the crowd ex
pected. and when he walked of the field pump
ing for wind In the second half his friends and
admirers could scarcely believe their eyes
Centre Rush Booth. too. was completely OK
hausted in tho last half OF the game. and was
literally carried on.
Yet Yale did not play an unfair or slug
ging game. 1t was aggressive, though. and &c
fierce that the Tigers were taken completely by
surprise. 1t was kept up. too. until the very
last minute and the great victory was safe
Yale's rush line proved a perfect wall OF ada
mant and also a terrible engine of destruction
From the very outset Its defence was magnih
cent, and except when the Tigers made one des
perate rally In the second half. in which theJ
carried the ball from their own 40-yard line Il
Yale's 35-yard line. no consecutive gain
q any account were mAAa The endA