New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-28
cOLUMBIA'S MIGHTY STAND
WEEKS THE HERO OF ANOTHER WON
DERFUL DIVE AND RUN FOR
4 TOUCHDOWN
xrF SLOW AT FIRST. RALLIES IN THE
SECOND HALF AND WINS BY y TO .
WILD ENTHUSIASM ON BOTH SIDES.

SECOND HALF AMI WINS - - -
WILD ENTHUSIASM ON BOTH SIDES
WITH 5000 people inside of Columbia Field
,..stardav. and possibly half as many more
,srcbed N the lofty heights of Coogans Bluff
ars the Viaduct. scene presented in the
rnurkv weather Of the afternoon seldom Wit
esse6 in that section Of the city except when
,be iron Of the football gridiron is hot. 1t was
the annual struggle between the lighting football
forces of Yale and Columbia, and the result
must be put down the surprise of the year
so far Yale won by u to after decidedly Inc
most interesting game Of the season. Columbia
clearly outplayed Yale throughout the first half,
and when the intermission arrived for the grid
iron men 10 mend their bruises Columbia had
the lead by TO o. and the thousands were up in
the air, hardly knowing What to expect in the
second period
The Yale team, followed by fully five hum
dred loyal 'rooters" from New Haven, came to
the city determined to snow Columbia under by
all sorts of fancy figures. None of them would
consent 10 a score Of less than 30 to @, and the
majority thought that 30 to 0 or 60 TO would
be nearer the actual figures. Columbia, with an
experimental team, had defeated Yale last year
and every son Of old Eli was determined that
that disgrace" must be wiped off the tabulated
list Of football topics. Harvard had trounced
Columbia by u 10 q at Cambridge. and old
PENNSYLVANIA had taken the local players into
camp upon Franklin Field, at Philadelphia, by
The undignihed figures of 30 TO 0. Yale has not
been slow TO boast this year that her team
was the best for many seasons. A strange re-
lance is placed on football scores at this time
~ the year. and every Yale enthusiast cOnsid-
cred II the duty Of Captain Brown to see to 1t
that Columba's ambition be pushed into the
mud and kept there
A CHILL DOWN YALEs BACKBONE.
And then the Yale contingent received such
fright as it has not had in many day 1t was
worse than last year. when Columbia won be
cause Yale had taken precautions this season
that the mistake Of 1899 should not be made
again in 1900 When the two teams lined up it
was seen that the Yale line lowered several
inches over the Columbia forwards. The heads
OF Olcott Brown. Sheldon and Stman We're so
much above the plucky Columbia line that some
Of the spectators said il was a crying shame 10
see the little fellows swallowed up by such for
rnidable foes But there lot of bone and
muscle in that Columbia column, and il was
distributed sideways rather than straight UP
into the air. Then. too, Columbia had some
smaller men back of the line, who were all fast
and determined, and did not know what fear
meant. They We're as spry as marionettes on
electric wires and they ready to plough
into that mountain of Yale flesh and muscle as
soon as Captain Morley directed the attack.
The game had not advanced more than five
minutes when whistles Of surprise were heard in
the section given over to the Yale followers.
Then the faster the waged the better those
SPY little Columbia men fought. and the
whistles Of surprise gave way to gloomy looks
and finally faces paled with horror were seen in
the Yale section. for Columbia scored, and Yale
had not even made anything like a bluff at do
ing
But Yale continued to yell and sing and shout
for Yale never deserts her athletes as long as
there is living chance to turn the tide Of posi-
bic defeat. The sons of OLD Eli are famous for
that and they are never beaten until the game
is over In the second half Kale's greater sup
Ply Of beef told and the Columbia forces were
battered down and trampled under foot. 1t was
fierce battle while it lasted, and in nearly
every scrirnmage one or two Columbia men were
found on the ground as the mountain of flesh
slowly dissolved to permit the two elevens TO
line up for another clash. Columbia fought
plUckiy to the end, but in that second half the
Yale players fairly ploughed up the damp turf,
and il is doubtful if any reasonable team could
have held them. They were likened mad
bulls goaded TO desperation by taunts. Ger