New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-17
TIGERS FIGHT YALETO-DAY
ANNUAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN PRINCE
TON AND THE NEW-HAVEN MEN.
THE BLUE A STRONG FAvORITE-wORK OF THE
TWO ELEVENs-PREPARATION FOR
THE GAME.

THE GAME.
Yale is a strong favorite in the annual football
game against Princeton this afternoon. odds Of
) 10 on the Blue have been given the Stock
Exchange and there have been many private
wagers of to offered by the confident men from
New-Haven The short end OF the figures has
been accepted pretty readily by Princeton men,
who. though admitting the great probability Of
defeat. have enough of the vagares and sur
prses of football to believe that to PROPOSE
ton a good take up. Another rather in
teresttng bet that has been recorded is money
that Yale wins by moro than eighteen points This
wager is far rash than . TO 1 bet on the
general result. for margin of more than eighteen
points means that Yale must four times AS
the hour of the game draws the odds from
New-Haven likely to grow lighter. for the
ale men become wary on the very eve OF the
| battle.
| The game is called for ? O'Clock. and will be
played on the old gridiron at Prnceton-not on the
| new Brokaw Field. which saw the contest two
wears ago. The old field is better condition on
| the whole though considerably further from the
railway station. The Pennsylvania Railroad Will
run two special trains, each train in several sec
| uol1S to accommodate the great crowds that Will
! ne rushing Jerseyward. The frs; train will leave
'ortiandt and Desbrosses SITS. ut 1890 a m The
second at II 30 a Twenty-third-st. five minutes
! earlier Each train will go directly through TO
frlhceton without change. the time of the run
pelns one and one-half hours. 1t may he said in
behalf of those not familiar with Princeton
town that luncheon there on the day of the game.
beyond perhaps sandwich and a cup of coffee, Is
almost an impossible proposition. After the game
| the special trains will back for NewYork
| as rapidly as the crowds fill them up
RESULTS IN RECENT YEARS
From football point of view the chief interest
! of the struggle to-day lies in the desperate and
probably successful effort which Yale will make
| to win back her lost laureS. OF the last four
| football contests the Tigers have won three-a
! record that has caused deep anguish NewHaven.
! In 1895 at New-York Princeton rolled up over
whelming score. In 1897 the Tigers sent up to
New-Haven their veteran team of the season be-
fore. absolutely confident of victory. But they
We're all out Of condition. and Yale splendid
| victory. to o. The Blue in turn sent veteran
| team to Tigertown in 1898. hut there met defeat
TO O-at the hands Of A Princeton team. AL
most everybody remembers how last year a! New
| to the last minute of play, when of the invnc-
lnie foes dropped a goal for Princeton and made
| victory of II to 10.
POOR YEAR FOR THE TIGERS
Though this brief review might indicate thai
raw rather than veteran team was generally
| the one 10 win. yet there is little to show that
| Prnceton's team Of material will be victo-
| rtous this afternoon y glance the Tigers
son of 1900 makes clear the fact that there has been
an abundance Of excellent but material, and
; that the coaches have apparently been unable to
round it into Championship form for this year, The
| record OF the eleven has been poor all season.
| Scored against early IN the fall by l"high and
! games against Annapolis and Lafayette. winning
| each time by bare touchdown The later
| Cornell and Columbia probably the freshest
tom mem hnv~ Then ton th Ts s' have a hnd
| good deal Of hard luck in having first class men
! 1t has been doubtful even this week to how the
e The T@1d na na ne a up ns this
| chaotic state of affairs at Princeton could not
that Capan PEI has not BEEN willing TO- rcIy on
his veteran coaches: that he has tried 10 be cap,
! rolled into one They recall how Captain Cham
| thing. and his team was waloped by both Prince
| ton and Harvard BE this hS II may II IS certain
ton this week, and. while may have been
late rESr Sh%utrrs are S%rr%ty h@pStn that thy
ton always piavs at her top speed against Yale.
pernte battle
WHY YALE Is THE FAVORTTE.
As for Yale her stock has been booming since
her easy victory over the Carlis" Indians last Sat
urday. The season at New-IIayen began with
tales Of the wonderful material Vale Field. and
it given out that Yale hal certainly the best
team that ever PLAYED the game Then the Blue
stock got setback in tn" columbia game and the
nesses which that contest disclosed. The chief
Iacks in T gc1n nf a :" Thai Ya h hravy
b baEk d @d T Which hG &g9 the TAX Of the foot
discarded in the last three weeks, and tighter and
seemed to give new lie to the eleven and the work
against the Redskins a wS"k ago was. as has hecn
ahG 2t par. a1Ir las strong ,"arr o ana good
back field and unless her team has been consider
ably overrated Sh" ought to he able to do the
trick at Princeton this afternoon. But yet there's
no telling,
The officials who will be IN charge make il
everything will he done in due and proper
/ order. Paul Dashie. formerly % Leheh. will
umpire Edgar WrRhtington captain of the Har-
ward 81 team will referee and Whiting. captain
of the Cornell IS eleven. will be timckeeper,
The Yale eleven. substitutes. coaches and rub
bcrs arrived last night. and made their
headquarters at The Murray Hin Hotel. They will
go down Princeton about IN O'Clock this morn
ing. take luncheon there and hav" good rest
before the time 81 the game. considerable
crowd Of Yale Undergraduates came down from
w-IIaven last night. hut the greater part will
wait until this 'norning. when the early trains
from New Haven will be crowded