The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
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the Game
WITH PRINCETON.
A Contest in Which Last
Years Score Was Reversed.

Princeton, N. J., Nov. 12,-The Prince
ton Tigers defeated the sons Of Old
Eli on Brokaw field, this afternoon, by
the score of 6 to 0. While it was one
of the most bitterly contested games
ever witnessed on a foot BAN field, it
was at the same time one OF the most
unsatisfactory, not alone 20 the Yale
team and their supports. but also to
the wearers of the orange and black,
and those who cheered them on to We
tory
The solitary touchdown was made on
a miserable tumble by right halfback
Benjamin, when the ball was within
10 yards of Princeton's goal. The ball
had been carried down the Held by the
Yale team by steady plunges INTO the
Princeton line. varied by an occasional
end run, until it lay between Prince
TONS 20 and 25-yard line
The teams lined up, DeSaulles signal
ing for Benjamin to go through left
tackle, a position in Princeyon's line,
which was awfully weak. The ball
passed and Benjamin dived 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 towards Princeton's goal line.
Quick as a flash little Poe, the right
end had gathered up the pigskin and
was sprinting down the field with
Chamberlin, Stillman and BENJAMIN in
hot pursuit. The further he ran the
greater was his lead. until in less than
1t takes to write it, he had planted the
ball squarely between the posts of the
much coveted goal of Yale. When Poe
started on his 95-yard run up the field,
the scene which followed beggars de-
scription.
All the stands that surround the field
were one surging, yelling mass of hui
| manity in an instant. Old men and
women threw dignity aside for the
time being and shouted with younger,
but none the less enthusiastic, foot ball
cranks in their cheers for Poe and
| Princeton. 1t was several minutes be-
fore the game could proceed because
of the jubilant Tigers crowding on to
| the field Later in the game, when the
| excitement again ran high, spectators
who had seats in the grandstand, left
! their places and surged on the side
lines, the management making no Eff
| fort to clear the field so as to enable
| the working newspaper men To witness
succeeding plays.
Today's game was almost a repetition
| of the game at Cambridge on last Sat
urday between the University Of Penn
sylvania and Harvard. In the latter
game the wearers of the red
and blue gained almost three
times as much distinction on
| line bucking as did their opponents,
while Harvard scored on a tumble
The same can be said of today's con-
test. Yale would carry the ball down
the field toward the Tigers goal only
to lose it on an exasperating tumble.
The game was not what could be
| called brilliant, scientific foot ball At
times both teams played a masterly
game, but at other times many of the
players seemed to have forgotten the
first rudiments of the game and some
of their plays would have disgraced
the foot ball team of a preparatory
school
Before Benjamin's disastrous tumble
the play had been fierce. After the
touchdown the men grew more des-
perate. In every man there was that
bulldog determination and grit that
has won many a hard fought game for
the wearers of the dark blue. Time and
again they would rush the ball down
the field toward the Tigers goal. only
to lose it on a tumble. On one occa-
sion they carried the ball by plunges
into the line 70 yards. finally losing it
on a tumble within 20 yards of the
Princeton goal.
Princeton was content to play on the
defensive until within about Is minutes
before the game was called, and it
looked as though she had been in
strueted on this point by their coaches.
Their entire effort at line bucking dur
ing the first half and four 20 minutes
of the second half netted them all told
about so yards, while their opponents
had carried the ball four times this dis
tance.
There was not however, that variety
Of attack and good runs behind beau
tiful interference which is appreciated
so much by the unadulterated foot ball
crank Yales play in the main was di-
rected against Princeton's left tackle,
the one weak spot in the Tigers line.
The reports that had been sent out
from New Haven to the effect that the
Yale team was in a badly crippled con-
dition had but little effect on the bet
ting in today's game.
The orange and black had been UP
against Yale's ''cripples, and their
spending money had gone toward pay
ing for the tuition of some Yale stu
dent. Before the game there were sew
eral bets made at even money, but the
greater part of the money was placed
at to in favor of Yale.
For the Princeton team the bright
particular stars were Palmer, Poe. Ed
wards. Ayres and Hillebrand While
Durston, Townshend. Brown, Ely and
Gov did the best work for Yale.
When the teams lined up the attend
ance was about $4,000. with the adher-
ents of Princeton naturally in the ma
jority. There was no lack of Yale men
and women, however, and they lifted
up their voices in encouragement OF
their favorites whenever opportunity
offered. The Princeton shouters wers
banked in a solid mass in the east
stand, opposite the Yale contingent.
and they KEEP up an untiring shout for
three hours. varied only occasionally
by a college song.