The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-13
THE TIGERS VICTORIOUS
DEFEAT YALES' ELEVEN BY A SCORE
OF 6 100
Poe's Brilliant Run did it. North Carolina
Whitewashes Georgia. Other Games
of Yesterday.

Princeon. \. T., November 12.-Thc
Princeton Tigers defeated the Sons OF
Old Eli on Brokaw Field this afternoon
by Il score of 6 to O. While it was one
of the most bitterly contested games ever
witnessed on foot ball field, it was
at the same time one of the most unsatis-
factory, not alone to the Yale team, but
also to the wearers of orange and black
and those who cheered them on to vic
tory. The solitary touchdown was made
on n miserable tumble by right back Ben
jamin when the ball was in fifteen yards
of Princeton's geal. The ball had been
carried down the field by the Yale team,
by steady plunges into the Princeton line,
varied by an occasional end run, until it
lay between PrincetOn's twenty ana
twenty-five yard line. The teams lined
up and Desaulles signalled for Benjamin
TO 20 through left tackle, position in
princeton's line which was awfully weak.
The ball was 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 few
feet toward rrlnceton's goal line. Quick
as flash little Poe. the Tigers right
end had gathered up the pig-skin and
was sprinting down the field with Cham
berlain. Stillman and Benjamin in hot
pursuit The further he ran the greater
was his lead. until, in less time than it
takes to write it, he had planted the
ball sauarely between the posts of the
much coveted goal of Yait. When Pee
started on his % yard run up the field
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scription.
The entire stands which surround the
field was one surging, yelling mass of
humanity in an instant. 1t was several
minutes before the game could proceed
because of the jubilant Tiger supporters
crowding on the field
The game was not what could be
called brilliant scientific football. At
times both teams played mastery game.
but at other times many of the players
seemed to have forgotten the first rudi-
ments of the game, and some of their
plays would have put to shame the foot
ball team of a private school.
Before BenjaminS disastrous tumble
Yale's play had been fierce. After the
touchdown the men grew more desperate.
In every man there was that bulldog de-
termination 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 fun
bic. On one occasion they carried the
ball. by plunges into the line. 10 yards.
finally losing it on tumble within TWEEN
ty yards of the Princeton goal.
Princeton was content to play q the
defensive until within about fifteen min
utes before the game was called, and
it looked as though they had been in
structed in this point by their coaches.
For the Princeton team the bright par
ticular stars were Palmer, Poe, Ed
wards, Ayres and Hillebrand, while
Durston, Townshend, Brown, Ely and
Coy did the best work for Yale.
When the teams lined up the attend
ance was about $4,000, with the adher-
ents of Princeton nearly 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 offered.