New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-12
FOOTBALL.
ALL EYES ON THE YALE-PRlNCEToN
GAME TO-DAY.
A BIG CROWD LOOKED FOR AT THE Ne" 'N''''
COLLEGE TowN-THE YALE MEN PASS
.rHRNI,GH TIE CITY.

. p,c rpo,,.v 1OOKED FOR AT THE NEW-JERsEi
COLLEGE rowx-rHE YALE MEN PASS
THROUGH THE CITY.
1-,o,..on Will be the Mecca to-day Of all football
,ovsrs - well AS Of the supporters OF Yale ana
princeton to witness the great annual game be
tween the TWO colleges In no other game i'll 'eCe'
wears have these two od-tine foes seemed more
evenly matched Critics and pTognosticators conless
themselves fairly puzzled in their attempt TO fofe-
cast victory. and the betting gives h''e i'u''a-
ton Of great confidence on either SIDE
Vale started I'm the season with brilliant pros
meets and with team flushed with the wonderful
victory over Princeton last fall. Several OF 'le
hest players who wear the blue were however i"'u
IN early in the season. and have oeeh III "'o.e
or less disabled condition ever since. Nolu waits
of wounds bruises. sprains. wrenches ana cripples
generally have been coming up from New-HaNeh
all season. and it is fact that in severai OF mr.
most important practice games Yale mas oeeh
without the services Of her stars But frihce'o"
coaches and the public in general know tha' ""ei
II comes TO the scratch Yale Is seldom louhu
wanting They expect therefore, to see Yale start
g. tho game to-day with strong. vigorous team
,,,act with perhaps the single exception OF DUO
10y the heavy line-bucking halfback. who has
poor knee. III,
Princeton has done no very remarKaoie WIN
eu the season and seems also 10 have had her
share Of hard luck In the early part or the IAN
,ha announcement IN the men discouragngy
Sow and at the time of the Cornell game IN
which the Ithacans were scored against only once
the attack Of the Tigers seemed rather leeoe'
Then TOO the tie game against west fonlt '"s'
Saturday was not conducive to much commence
Tut In the last week 1t is declared. the princeton
eleven has shown wonderful improvement. and all
DISPATCHES from the New-Jersey college town inoi-
cate that the students are pretty connoehl OF d
victory for the Tigers. OF one thing they are
certain at any rate. and that is that the staying
powers OF their heroes are better than they Were
last year when toward the end OF the struggle
yhev weakened badly before the terrific onslaughts
of Yale
There will be immense crowd at the game 10
day II the weather is in any way favorable IL rs
calculated that not less than from seven thousand
10 ten thousand people will wend their way there
from New-York City alone while Philadelphia VIII
send over from four thousand to FIVE thousand, ana
a blue. rbboned crowd OF three thousand from
New-Haven will help to make things lively Inc
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad will run two special trains
10 Princeton this morning starting from the
Cortlandt-st. ferry at 1870 o'clock ien minutes
earlier from Twenty-th and the other al II 80
a. n Ii is expected that both OF these special
trains will be made up in several sections IAe
run 10 Princeton occupies about two hours, ana
Brokaw Field, where the gridiron battle VIII be
fought is only two minutes walk from the station.
The special trains Will return Immediately altel
the game , ..,o,
The Yale eleven. substitutes coaches md , heei-
ers" OF various kinds started from New raven
Yesterday afternoon and arrived mere IN time IOt
dinner They went directly TO the Murray mn
Hotel. which rapidly hled up with crowd Oh EN-,
thusiastic Yale men. who had juDilant possession
OF the corridors all last night Inc Blue eleven
will start for the OF the fray fairly early ths
morning. ,, ~. tho
past OF the betting men on the STOCK * E h
Change Yesterday turned their attention 70 tne
Yale-PrncetOn contest The odds started AT 10 10
Yale. and subsequently went 10 ~ 10 oeNeldl
bets made none OF them large; among M sin
" as one OF 500 on Yale, by r. a. Peabody, to SS,
placed on Princeton by another broker '9tNti a,
bets were recorded last night OF TO on ale ana
there little even betting that filnce'O"
would not score. -, ..,. mn
ale eleven and three games have beeh '!tu' o,
ls77. when Rugby football was adopted the games
have resulted - follows:
ls77-Te.
is7s-Princeton ! goal. Yale o. ,,.,,..
is7o-Tie. tprnceton Won championship by defea'tns
ISt6~T,e 1Prrceto.. winning ohamponship) 5000
1881 Tie. princeton winning championship "' '-i'"'
i>~2 rae : goals. Princeton o
lS~2 Yale c. Irnceton ,. 49,, ,,
lSsi lame unfinished, no championship a"a'-cu'
i>Se Gsr,e Unfinished: no championship being awarded
lss7-Ya.e y. Princeton o
lsSs-Ya.e ~. Princet. n
ise9-pr.ncetor L.. Yale q.
isai 9 1ae H. rrinc''on a.
isg2.Yalo T. Princeton d"
lss3- princeton g. Nac
iSq4-Yale "a Princeton q
lse'-yale a. Princeton 10.
iS4c-lr'nce'on - Ya.e 8.
fs97-Nalo 4. Pr nceton ~
Other interesting games to-day will he the on
At PHILADELPHIA between the University or PennsEl
sania team ana the Carlisle Indians. and that a
Cambridge between Harvard ard Brown