Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-13
TIGERS DEFEAT YALE
A BITTERLY CONTESTED GAME
hut UNsATIsFACTORY.
The SCORE SIX TO NOTHING.
Almost n Repetition Of the Game mt
Cambridge on the 5th-FumbI1ng
renture-Poe Makes n brilliant
Run.

PRINCETON. n. J., November 1.-THE
Princeton Tigers defeated the sons OF
old Ell on Brokaw Field this afternoon.
by a score of to 0. While it was one OF
the most bitterly contested games ever
witnessed on football field, 1t was also
one of the most unsatisfactory, not alone
TO the Yale team and their support
ers. but also to the wearers Of the
orange and black and those who cheered
them on to victory. The solitary touch
down was made on a miserable tumble
by Rlght-Half-Back Benjamin, when the
ball was within fifteen yards of Prince
toms goal.
The ball had been carried down the
field by the Yale team by stur3y rlunge3
into the Princeton line, varied by an
occasion end run, until it lay between
Princetons 20 and 25-yard lines The
teams lined up, and De Saulles signalled
for Benjamin to go through left tackle,
a position in Princeton's line which was
awfully weak The bali was passed.
Benjamin dlved into the mass Of human
flesh. A second later the ball was seen
to roll clear of the bunch of players and
advance a few feet toward Princeton's
goal line.
A BRILLIANT RUN.
Quick as q flash, little Poe, the Tigers
right end, had gathered up the pigskn,
and was sprinting down the field, with
Chamberlin, Stillman, and BENJAMIN In
hot pursuit. The farther he ran the great
err was his lead. until, in less time
than 1t takes to write it, he had planted
tl..a q nf
much-coveted goal OF Yale.
When Poe started on his 95-yard run
IN the field the scene which followed
beggars description. The entire stand
which surrounds the field was one surg
ing. yelling mass Of humanity in an In
slant. 1t was several minutes before
the game could proceed, because OF the
manner in which the jubilant Tiger sup
porters crowded on the field.
LIKE CAMBRIDGE GAME.
To-day's game was almost repetition
of the game at Cambridge, last saturday
between the University Of Pennsylvania
and Harvard. In the latter game the
wearers of the red and blue gained a.
most three times as much distance on
line -buckng as did their opponents. while
Harvard scored on tumble. The same
can be- said of to-day's contest. fale
would carry the ball down the field to-
|. ward the Tigers goal only to lose IL OF
an exasperating tumble.
The game was not what could be caileo
brilliant, scientific football. AT times
both teams played a mastery game, Ou'
AT other times many Of the players seem
ed to have forgotten the first rudiments
of the game, and some or their pays
would have put 10 shame the football
team Of a preparatory school.
THE INEVITABLE TUMBLE.
Before Benjamin's disastrous tumble
Yale's play had been fierce. After the
touchdown the men grew more desperate
In every man there was that bulldog
determination and grit that have won
many hard-fought game for the wear
ers of the dark blue. Time and again
they would rush the ball down the mold
toward the Tigers goal, only TO lose ~
on a tumble. on one occasion they car
ried the ball by plunges into the line
seventy-fve yards, finally losing IL on
tumble within twenty yards of the Prince
ton goal.
PRINCETON ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Princeton was content 10 play on the
defensive until about fifteen minutes be-
fore the game was called, and 1t looked
as If they had been instructed on this
point by their coaches.
For the Princeton team the bright,
particular stars were Palmer. Poe, Ed
wards, Ayres and Hildebrand. while
Durston, Townshend, Brown. Ely. and
Coy did the best work for Yale.
ATTENDANCE LARGE.
When the teams lined up, the atten-
dance was about Il, 900 with the adherents
of Princeton naturally in the majority.
There was no lack of Yale men and wo-
men, however and they lifted up their
voices in encouragement of their favorltes
whenever opportunity offered.
OTHER GAMES.
other football games played to-day re-
suited as follows:
Harvard, II; Brown, 6.
Pennsylvania, S5; Carlisle, 5.
Chicago Athletic Association, S; All
Star Eleven, 3.
Chicago, G; Wisconsin, o.
University of Michigan, II; University
Of Illinois, 5.
University of Cincinnati, 81; Ohio Wes-
leyan. O.
Cornell, A.; Lafayette, .
Franklin and Marshall, IL; Bucknell, ii.
Lehigh, G; Annapolis, 6.