The morning news., 1898-11-13
PRINCETON DEFEATS OLD ELI.
THE TIGERS VICTORIOUS IN A BIT
TERLY CONTESTED GAME.


,,t,le Poe of Princeton Carries the
p,c~lSin on Ninety-Five Yard
uun to the Goal Line - Yale Lost
rbroug.h Miserable FumbIes-Fif-
.een Thousand People Witness the
came - Harvard Defeats Brown.
Georgia Loses to NOrth Carolina.
connection. Nov. 12-The Princeton Tig-
..e defeated the Sons of Old Eli on
rroxaw field this afternoon by a score of
s+oo While it was one of the most bit
..-,,, contested games ever witnessed on
foot ball field, it was at the same time
o,A Of the most unsatisfactory, not alone
:. the Yale team and their supporters,
.,,t also to the wearers of the orange and
Jack and those who cheered them on to
..,.+orv The solitary touchdown was
5a on a miserable tumble by Right
u,lf Back Benjamin, when the ball was
.-i,bin fifteen yards of Princeton's goal.
rha hall had been carried down the field
s., tbA Yale team by steady plunges into
,hs princeton lines, varied by an occa-
.,,al end run, until Ii lay between
p,inceton's 20 and 25-yard line. The teams
lined up and Desaulles signalled for Ben
i,min to go through left tackle, position
IN Princeton's line which was awfully
naal, The ball was passed and Benjamin
di,ed into the mass of human flesh.
..-ond later the bali was seen to roll
.t.ar of the bunch of players and advance
few feet toward Princeton's goal line.
o,iqk as a fash little Poe, the Tigers
g1t end had gathered up the pigskin
and was sprintlng down the field with
cbanberlin, Stillman and Benjamin In hot
nursuN. The further he ran the greater
VAS his lead, until in less time than it
,skes to write it, he had planted the ball
s5uarely between the posts of the much
coveted goal OF Yale. When Poe started
nm his 95-yard run up the field the scene
tbat followed beggars description. The
entire stand which surround the field was
one surging, yelling mass of humanity in
am Instant 1t was several minutes be-
fore the game could proceed because of the
ubilant Tiger supporters erowding on the
field
To-days game was almost repetition
Of the game at Cambridge on last Satur-
dav between the University of Pennsyl-
yania and Harvard. In the later game
the wearers of the red and blue gained al
most three times as much distance on line
bucking as did their opponents, while
Harvard scored on a tumble. The same
can be said of to-day's contest. Yale
would carry the ball down the field toward
the Tigers goal only to lose it on fun
bic
The game was not what could be called
brilliant. scientific foot ball At times
both teams played a mastery game but
at other times many of the players seemed
to have forgotten the first rudiments of
the game, aud some of their plays would
have put TO shame the foot ball team of
a prep SCHOOL
Before Benjamin's disastrous tumble,
Yales play had been fierce. After the
touchdown the men grew more desper-
ate 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 occasion they carried the ball. by
plunges into the line, seventy-five yards,
finally losing it on a tumble within twen-
ty yards of Princeton's goal.
Princeton was content to play on the
defensive until within about twenty-five
minutes before the game was called, and
it looked as though they had been in
suucted in this point by their coaches. =
For the Princeton team the bright par
ucular stars were Palmer. Poe Edwards
Ayres and Hillebrand, while Durston,
Townsend, Brown Ely and Coy did the
best work for Yale.
When the teams lined up the attendance
was about 1900, with the adherents of
Princeton naturally in the majority. There
was no lack of men and women, however
and they lifted up their voices in encour-
agement of their favorites whenever op-
portunity offered