The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10

forced, and that tie was caused, the
strategists claim, not by the superior
playing of Yale, but by plumbers in the
game made by the captain of the
Harvards. Even Yale comedies that
the crimson team was the better and
should have won. The glory of the
| blue lies in preventing them from doing
so, a merely negative quality.
For the second place there is some
division of opinion. Philadelphia ex-
perts claim that the Chicago team
should be awarded the honor, but that
claim is based simply on the fact that
the Chicago men ran up the biggest
score of the year against its opponents.
That sort of argument does not carry
weight. Perhaps the best test at hand
that would indicate the relative stand
ing of Chicago and Princeton, claim
ants for the honor of holding second
place, would be the scores in the game
against Brown. Princeton won by a
score of Is to 6 and Chicago by II to
G. Brown played fierce game against
both teams, and the PrincetonianS were
said to be fully up to their standard
when they met the team. This would
give the men from Cleveland's home Il
shade the best of that one test. But the
game which Princeton played against
Yale is even stronger argument for
them That was the game of the sea-
son. a fitting climax to a season of
grand ball. Among the great games in
the history Of football the Yale-Prince-
ton contest of 1899 must certainly rank
high. Both teams were at their very
best, the play was fierce and was so
uncertain from kick off to the last
down that the spectators We're in con-
tinual flutter. 1t abounded in bright
football and heart-rending situations,
straight football and brilliant kicks.
The game was won and lost on kicks
from the field. First, Sharpe of Yale.
who had shown good form at the open
ing Of the season, but had rather fallen
eff during it's aging, astonished his
team mates and chagrined his oppon
ents by a beautiful drop kick from the
45-yard line The feat was made the
more difficult because it was at an
angle. But he made it neat and clean.
Moments of burning desire and fierce
effort followed. Princeton replaced
wornout men with new and assaulted
the strong Yale defense. Struggling
and painting through every device that
good generalship could suggest the
tigers sought to get the bali to the blue
goal. Yale was beginning to have Wis
ions of another victory won from an
enemy that appeared before the con-
test to be impossible of defeat The
game was nearly over and the exhaust
ed tackling line was still 80 yards away.
A little swarthy fellow that the same
goal defenders remembered from the
year before dropped back Never had
he kicked goal never had he tried it,,
as far as his opponents knew. But he
was a member of a famous football
family, his nerves were steel, his grit
unbounded, his ability tested in prev
ious contests. Every Yale man set his
teeth and gripped his hands to be the
first to reach the diminutive figure
when he should get the ball But they
were late. Quickly, but with careful
generalization of every move he dropped
the ball to the ground and swung his
foot az it rose. Gracefully the ball shot
toward the goal posts and passed over
the cross-nece for a second time in
his gridiron experience Arthur Poe had
won for his team against the mighty
sons of Eli--for a second time had he
made the score that draped Yale in
mourning. Never before had any team
ever been victor over Yale two success
sive years.