Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26
Referees Whistle Ends the Battle with
Princeton Rooters Fairly Crazy.
ELEveNs USE VERY FEW TRICK PLAYS
Edwards Captain of Victorious Team, Does
Some Brilliant Work.
TACKLES ON BOTH SIDES PLAY FItRcELY
Fleet Princeton Ends Arc Too Much
for Their Opponents-Poe's Work
Puts Him mt Head of the
Ends of the Country.

| NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 25,-Just one
short minute before the close of one of the
| greatest foot ball contests ever played be-
tween Princeton and Yale, little Arthur Poe,
Princetons right end. member OF the
famous Poe family, dropped beautiful goal
from the field and won the game for the
| Tigers by the narrow margin of IL to 10.
| All the more remarkable Is the fact that
Poe never before, in practice or game, at
| tempted to kick a goal from the field To
say that Yale wac surprised. dumfounded
and chagrned by that kick is to put it very
mildly, for up to that time the blue was
seemingly a sure winner.
| Princeton had scored previously, after
twelve minutes OF play mainly through a
| grand thirty-two-yard run by Reter, who
carried the ball nearly to the Yale goal line,
where after brave battle by Yale, it was
pushed over for a touchdown. Fortunately
| for Princeton the goal was kicked and six
points scored for ten minutes after Yale had
pushed the Tigers back to their goal through
McBrides great punting, and block kick
gave Yale touchdown. Although Browns
| lightning work in getting through the line
was responsible for the blocked kick, the
failure of the goal Immediately after gave
| Princeton the lead.
| The Tigers felt fairly easy, until five min
utes later, when Sharpe Yale's halfback,
brought the entire blue crowd to their feet
| by one of the most spectacular goals ever
kicked on foot ball field, sending the ball
between the Princeton goal posts from back
of the forty fve-yard line. With the score
10 to in her favor Yale played the second
| half almost entirely on the defensive, her
line standing grandly against the onslaughts
of the Tigers. The playing was almost en-
! tirely in Yales territory in this half al
| though Princeton was never able to get 1t be-
yond her opponents fifteen -yard-line.
Princeton's hooters Go wild.
1t was little wonder, therefore, that Poe's
Kick, which will probably live forever in
| Princetons foot ball annals. coming tvhen
| the entire Tiger crowd had almost given up
hope, should have electrified the Princeton
| cohorts to such q degree that they went
fairly crazy with JOY. And this pent-up en-
thusiasm burst forth with renewed energy
sixty seconds later when the referees whis-
| tie ended the battle in one of the greatest
demonstrations ever seen on Yale field. The
| Princeton rooters were comparatively few
| III HunDeT, DuL dS tney charged over the
fence surrounding the gridron and surged
onto the field the volume of exultapt sound
they made could have done credit to a mighty
| host
, 1t emnently a kicking game, and the
kicking won. although a strong breeze blew
almost directly down the field, which did
| greet things for Yale in the first half and
initiated for Princeton in the second.
Mcbride was easily the star punter, send
| ing the ball with steady, sure aim to just
the right spots Wheeler, on the other hand,
while kicking almost as strong as his rival,
| used poor judgment and was unfortunate
| enough to have one of his punts blocked, al
| lowing Yale to score. But while the punt
| ing was excellent on both sides the two field
goals were the sensations of the afternoc n
While the odds were plainly in Yale's
favor in the punting department, the Prince
| ton forwards and running backs proved
much the stronger, especially in the first
F., half McCord seemed to have no difficulty
in getting through any part of the Yale line,
while Reiter's numerous canters around
| the ends the right one especially, were the
| features OF the running game. Snitger,
| Yales right end. found himself pocketed
time and again by Princetons interference
| and this was responsible for the subsequent
touchdown. Yale's line was stiffened ma
terially in the second half and Gould, In
taking Snitger's place. stopped many OF the
end runs; this was all the more commend
able when 1t Is realized that, while almost
the entire Princeton team was changed be-
fore the game was finished, the freshmen
could make but little impression on the
Yale line.
Play Straight Foot Hall.
Both teams played straight foot ball
throughout, few trick plays being tried.
There were no fake kicks, guardsback or
quarterback knicks 1t was plunging at the
line runs around the ends with a we'll
started interference and both teams showed
marvellous speed in getting the play under
way.
Princeton. II anything, excelled in start
ing its backs into the play. but the speed
shown In the first half was lacking in tho
second. The Princeton defense, however,
was the feature OF the game. Except when
driven back to its goal by McBrlde's long
punts, the ball was almost always in its OPP
ponents territory, and practically entirely
so, TO the second half of the game.
Five times Princeton held Yale on downs
and secured the ball. while its forwards
burst through the blue line number OF
times and threw the Yale backs for five and
ten yards. Edwards, captain OF the victorl-
GUS team, played brilliantly In this respect,
getting through his opponent, Gordon Brown,
with the greatest ease and tackling fercely.
In fact all the Princeton team seemed to
have acquired the tact OF not only mailing
their man, but OF throwing them back two
or three yards. The tackles on hoth sides
played fercely, but Hildebrand was forced
to quit the game and Pell was badly used
up. while the Yale tackles, Stillman and
Francis, were quite fresh at the end.
The fleet Princeton ends were much too
speedy for their Yale opponents and Poe's
work from start TO finish puts him at the
head OF the ends OF the country. His part
ner, Palmer, not far behind and the
brilliant work of the pair In getting down
the field. as we'll as breaking up the Yale
interference. was highly sensational. There
was some fumbling, mum by Hutchinson.