The record-union., 1898-11-13
YaIe's Football Team Beaten by the
Princeton Tigers.
The Score at the End of the Contest Was
Six to Nothing.
Was One Of the Most Bitterly Con-
tested Games Ever Witnessed ON
the Gridiron, Yet Very Unsatis-
factory Not Only to the Defeat
ed Team and Their Supporters,
But Also to the Victors.


ed Team and Their Supporters,
But Also to the Victors.
PRINCETON IN. j., Nov. II. - The
Princeton Tigers defeated the sons of
Old Eli on BrokaW field this afternoon
by the score of e to o. While it was
one of the most bitterly contested
games ever witnessed on a football
held, 1T was at the same time one of
the most unsatisfactory, not alone to
the Yale team and their supporters,
but also to the wearers of the orange
and black and those who cheered them
on to victory
The solitary touchdown was made
on a miserable tumble by right half
back Benjamin when the ball was
within fifteen yards of Princeton S
goal.
The ball had been carried down the
field by the Yale team by steady
plunges into the Princeton line, varied
by an occasional end rum until it lay
between Princeton's twenty and twen-
ty-hye-yard line. The teams lined up,
and De Saulles signaled for Benjamin
to go through the left tackle, a posi-
ton in Princetons line which was
awfully weak. The ball was passed.
and Benjamin diyed into the mass of
humanity. A second later the ball was
seen to roll clear of the bunch OF play
ers and advance few yards toward
Princeton's goal line. Quick as a flash
Poe, the Tigers right end, had gath
cred up the ball and was sprinting
down the field with Chamberlain, Still
man and Benjamin in hot pursuit The
further he ran the greater was he m
the lead, until in less time than it takes
to write it he had planted the ball
square1y between the posts of the
much-coveted goal of Yale
When Poe started on his ninety five
yard run up the field the scene which
followed beggars description. The en-
tire stand which surrounds the
field was one surging, yelling
mass of humanity in an instant.
Old men and women threw dignity
aside for the time being and joined
with the younger but none the less en-
thusiastic football cranks in their
cheers for Poe and Princeton. Tt was
several minutes before the game could
proceed, on account of the jubilant
Tiger supporters crowding into the
field.
Later in the game when the excite
ment ran high, spectators who had
seats in the grand stand left their
places and surged on the side lines,
the management making no effort to
clear the field.
Today's game was almost a repeti-
tion of the game at Cambridge on the
last Saturday between the University
of Pennsylvania and Harvard In the
latter game the wearers of the red and
blue gained almost three times as
much distance on bucking as did their
opponents. while Harvard scored on a
tumble. The same can be said of to-
days contest. Yale would carry the
ball down the field toward the Tigers
goal, only to lose it on an exasperating
tumble.
On one occasion Yale carried the ball
by plunges into the line fifteen yards,
finally losing it on a tumble within
twenty yards of the Princeton goal.
Princeton was content to play on the
defensive until within about fifteen
minutes before the game was called,
and it looked as though they had been
coachers. Their entire effort at line
bucking during the first half and for
twenty minutes of the second half
netted them all told about fifty yards,
while their opponents had carried the
ball four times this distance.
Yales play in the main was directed
against Princeton's left tackle, the only
weak spot in the Tigers line.
i
from New York to the effect that the
Yale team was in a badly crippled con-
dition had but little effect on the bet
ting on to-day's game. The orange
and black had been up against Yale's
cripples, and their spending money had
gone toward paying for the tuition of
their opponents.
For the Princeton team the bright
particular stars were Palmer, Poe, Ed
wards, Ayres and Hilderbrand, while
Durston, Townsend, Brown, Ely and
Gov did the best work for Yale.
When the teams lined the attendance
was about $4,000, with the adherents
of Princeton naturally in the majority.
There was no lack Of Yale men and
women, however. and they lifted up
their voices in encouragement of their
favorites whenever opportunity Of
fered. The Princeton shouters were
banked in solid mass in the east
stand. opposite the Yale contingent, and
they kept up an untiring shout for three
hours, varied occasionally by a college
song.
CALIFORNIA-OL GAME.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-In the
best game of football played upon a
San Francisco gridiron in several years,
the California and Olympic elevens tle1
this afternoon, with the score ) to 5.
One touchdown each, with failure on
the part Of the Berkeley back to kick
the goal and Of the Olympic man 20
punt out. comprised the scoring. Both
counts were made in the second half.
It was game fulI of star perform
ances, which more than offset the fum-
bles and errors of judgment Percy
Hall, Captain and halfback of the Cal
ifornia Varsity, shone as the bright
particular star Of the day. During the
first half he performed the feat of car
rying the ball sixty-five yards by hard
running, some magnificent straight
arm work aided by interference by
Womble and Prin.le, which was as
fine as anything in the way Of offen-
sive playing as seen for many years.
Morse had kicked the ball, and Hall
got it while running. Keeping his