The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-13
STUBBORN FIGHT At CHICAGO
WISCONSIN BEATEN @ TO o BY MORE
WEIGHTY OPPONENTS.
Indians Outrushed by Pennsylvania
Illinois Defeated by Michigan and
Brown OutcIassed by Harvard.

PRINCETON. N. j., Nov. l2-The Prince
ton 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 foot
ball field; it at the some time one OF
the most unsatisfactory, 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 misera-
BILE tumble by Right-half-back Benjamin
when the ball was within fifteen yards of
Princetons goal The ball had been car
ried 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 and twenty
five-yard lines. The teams lined up and De
Saulles signaled for Benjamin to go
through the left tackle a position in
Princetons 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 Jew feet
towards Princeton's goal line.
Quick as a flash little Poe the Tigers
was sprinting down the field, with Cham
berlin, Stillman and Benjamin in hot pur-
suit The further he ran the greater was
his lead until, in less time than it takes TO
write 1t, he had planted the ball squarely
between the posts of the much-coveted
goal of Yale When Poe started on his
ninety-five-yard run up the field the scene
which followed beggars description. The en-
tire stand which surrounded the field was
one surging, yelling mass of humanity in
an instant. Old men and women threw dig
nifty aside for the time being and Joined
with the younger but none the less en-
thusiastic football cranks in their cheers
for Poe and Princeton. 1t was several min
utes before the game could proceed be-
cause of the jubilant Tiger supporters
crowding on the field. Later in the game,
when the excitement again ran high, spec
tators who had seats in the grandstand left
their places and surged on the side lines,
the management making no effort to clear
the field so as to enable the working news
paper men to witness succeeding plays.
To-days game was almost a repetition 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
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 an exasperating tumble.
The game was not what could be called
brilliant, scientific football. 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,
and some of their plays would have put 10
shame the football team of a preparatory
school.
Before Benjamins disastrous tumble
Yale's playing had been fierce. After the
touchdown the men grew more desperate.
In every man there was that bulldog deter
mination 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 towards the
Tigers goal, only to lose it on a tumble.
On one occasion they carried the ball by
plunges into the line seventy-fve yards.
finally losing it on tumble within twenty
yards of the Princeton goal.
Princeton was content to play on the de-
fensive until within about fifteen minutes
before the game was called, and it looked
as though they had been instructed in this
point by their coaches. Their 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 oppo-
nents had carried the ball four times this
distance. There was not, however. that va
riety of attack and good runs behind beau
tiful interference which is appreciated so
much by the unadulterated football crank.
Yale's play in the main, directed
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 condition had
but little effect on the betting on to-day's
game The orange and black had been up
against Yale ''cripples," and their spend
ing money had gone towards paying for the
tuition OF some Yale student. Before the
game there were several bets made at
even money, but a majority of the money
was placed at 4 to in favor Of Yale.
For the Princeton team the bright partic-
ular stars were Palmer, Poe, Edwards,
Ayres and Hillebrand, while Durston,
Townshend. 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 Yale men and women. how
ever and they lifted up their voices in en-
couragement OF their favorites whenever op-
portunity offered. The Princeton shouters
were banked in solid mass in the east
stand, opposite the Yale contingent. and
they kept up an untiring shout for three
hours. varied only occasionally by college
song. The trains Of the service were ad-
mirable. every visitor from New York.
Philadelphia, New Haven and elsewhere be.