The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-13
TIGERS DEvOUR
OLD ELLIS SONS
Princeton Beats Yale at
Football.
SIX TO NAUGHT THE SCORE
BENJAMIN MAKES A SORR Z
TUMBLE.
Loses the Ball, Which Poe Secures
and Makes a Ninety-Five-Yard
Run for Touch
Down.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PRINCETON, n. j., Nov. 12.-The
Princeton Tigers defeated the Sons of
Old Eli on Brokaw field this afternoon
by the score of to 0. While it was one
of the most bitterly contested games
ever witnessed on a football field, it
was at the same time one of the most un-
satisfactory, 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 Halfback
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 occa-
sional end run, until it lay between
Princeton's 20 and % yard line. The
teams lined up and Desaulles signaled
for Benjamin to go through left tackle
a position in Princeton's line which was
weak. The ball was passed and Benja
min dived into the mass of humanity
A second later the ball was seen to roll
clear of the bunch of players and ad-
vance toward Princeton's goal line.
Quick as flash Poe, the Tigers right
SIlut udu SdlAcIcu up Tic jail anu was
sprinting down the field. with Cham
berlain, Stillnlan and Benjamin in hot
pursuit.
The further he ran the greater was he
in the lead, until in less time than it
takes to write it he had planted the ball
squarely between the posts of the mucn
coveted goal of Yale
When Poe started on his 95-yard run
down the field the stands which sur
round the field were one surging, yell
ing mass of humanity. Old men and
women threw dignity aside for the time
being and joined with the younger but
none the less enthusiastic football
cranks in their cheers for Poe and
Princeton. 1t was several minutes be-
fore the game could proceed on account
of the jubilant Tiger supporters crowd
ing on to the field. Later in the game,
when the excitement ran high speeta-
tors 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.
To-day's game was almost a repeti-
ton of the game at Cambridge on
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
instructed on this point by their
coaches. 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. Yale's
play in the main was directed against
Princeton's left tackle, the one weak
spot in the Tigers line.
The reports that had been sent out
from New York to the effect that the
Yale team was in 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 pay
ing for the tuition Of their opponents.
For the Princeton team the bright
particular stars were Palmer, Poe, Ed
wards. AyreS and Hildebrand, while
Durston. Townsend. Brown, Ely and
Coy did the best work for Yale.
When the teams lined the attendance
was about $1,000. 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 thelr
fayorites whenever opportunity offered.
The Princeton shouters were banked in
solid mass in the east stand. oppo--
site the Yale contingent, and they Kept
up an untiring shout for three hours,
varied only occasionally by coiiege