New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-26

her team did not play with all the keennes' a',u
swiftness that they showed againS. Hai 20,
They were certainly in good physical conoition.
hrt tnev were not 40 alert and played with less
dash than at Soldiers Field. AS at Camorlose
,ho yo,o bools d,d not work very well together,
and except at two or three times In the game
their interference was pretty habby and easily
thrown aside They gained their distance
tbrouob tho Tigers only few times by rushins'
ona made m long runs whatsoever. the faie
hoo,v .,so fumbIed occasionally, Mcbride being
an offender in this particular. though tney
ha,,,,us rrrts f,,lIy as we'll as Princeton did'
7, US =. erd that Yale's greatest weakness
-. c,,zer Of right end was practically
=. .. s,oo, several times, so far as being IN
~ ,,,a,, uas concerned, and Refers long run
auo,,na b,s end made the Tiger touchdown
..,.v cri,zer's successor, Gould, was iar
h.ttor At stopping the play. but he was $40" III
..,, dou,n the field under kicks. The WORK
=, vaIe at end contrasted forcibly with that OF
pr,rceton who was represented by those TWO
,,ors Poe and Palmer the former being by MINI
,t a. brilliant as a whole constellation.
vo,e.s eeneralship rather suffered by conpari-
con with the superb head work shown at oai',-
bridge The Blue could have started IN u MIN
IN the first half with advantage long oe1ore she
did for there was a strong wind az her oaoA'
49, pr,rceton backfelds were known not 70
no sure catchers. Then. too Yale started hei
rame too slowly and did not fairly WAKE up
until a touchdown had been scored against he''
In the second half the men in Blue rusherS
"a o,,,ost wholly on the defensive believ-
,,c &c the battle rolled that all they had 10
do was 10 hold the Tigers down. Perhaps III
&c more aggression and offensive play on fales
mart would have kept that ball far enough away
20 nrevent that fatal goal of Poe's. But theh
such a theory can be hardly more than con-
lecture.
TIGERS THE VIRTUAL CHAMPIONS.
o.. their victory over Yale to-day Princeton
oar fairly claim the honor of being the college
chamnion at football this season, for while there
orc those that having seen both games believe
that Vale played far better against HarVaI9
than against Princeton. and that harVaru Cou w,
readily hold her own with the Ilse5s, yes he he
fact remains that, whatever Harvard ihsnt NC
canable of doing she actually played idlv
RE princeton beat Yale. Therefore Princeton
goes ahead of Harvard on the list Win perieo'
propriety.
THE MORNING AT NEW-HAVEN'
Tho dav opened here with perfect football
weather. and the town. which had begun 10
tote on unwonted signs of life last night, was
all ahum with the throngs by 10 o'clock trains
from the east and the west and from nofth ana
south poured their gayly clad enthusiasts mo
this university city all the morning, ana oy nooi
there was an ever widening stream tnat pouleu
ont into the highways and byways that LEAD 10
Yale Field The stands began TO MI d. L
o'clock and the high bank on the cas- a go
took on a hue of Yale blue while the tier oppo--
site became vivid and aflame with the orahee VI
old Nassau There were probably DetWeen
eighteen thousand and twenty thousand people
in the Enclosure by 2 o'clock, though the SCUM
stand AT the end Of the field remaiheu CUM
paratively empty. A., ho,,,od nm
overhead the sun was hidden in the banked up
clouds OF a gray November day. though eveIy
NOW, and then rays fought their way through
I'D served TO light UP the colors that were re,
snIendent on every side. The air was orlsK; anu
a good stiff wind blew out Of the north' eNins
he nossessors OF that goal an advantage
THE LINEUP OF TEAMS.
u WAS o'clock when the roaring cheers from
either side announced the coming OF the war
r,ors and almost at once silence settled on the
multitude while the captains tossed for choice'
vale won and chose the north goal Then the
teams lined up ready for play like THIS