The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-05
PRINCETON VS. CORNELL
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE RE-
 CENT GREAT CONTEST.
Princeton Won an Unsatisfactory Victory Over Cornell, Says the Record-Herald Correspondent
 Who Describes the Fluke.


 The following special in The Chicago Record Herald about the Cornell Prince ton game Saturday will be interesting to local friends of those teams:
 Princeton won an unsatisfactory vic- tory over Cornell this afternoon. The contest was decided on a fluke five min utes before the game ended and a score of to was announced. Referee Wright ington gave the tigers a safety on tech nicality which Cornell coaches claim should not stand.
 The game was evenly waged from the start and late in the second half, when 1t was growing dark. Princeton was held for downs on Cornells forty-yard line. Dewitt dropped back for a goal from the field and his kick fell short by few feet. The ball struck behind the Cor nell line and bounded back. Brewster, Cornelrs quarter back, strongly contends that 1t hit Princeton player and as it was rebounding over the line he grabbed It and was downed behind his goal line. The referee declared the play a safety. Cornell men who were on hand say that when the ball hit the Princeton player he was off-side and the score should not be allowed
 No Scores in First Field. It was one of the greatest games ever seen on Percy field. Cornells lighter line played the Princeton forwards to a stand still and time and again hurled her run ners back for losses. In the first half | Cornell fairly outplayed the visitors and the half ended without either side having scored.
 The game was on fifteen minutes in the second half before the first sensation of the day occurred. There has been several | exchanges of punts, in which Cornell had gained. and Brewster had sent the ball | fn Princeton tried the ends and the center without avail, and then Dewitt tried a punt, which was blocked. The ball fell | near Coffin, Cornell's right half back, who made a brilliant dash of eighteen yards and scored a touchdown from which he kicked a goal
 | With the score six points against her, Princeton started in with relentless rush. les. The ball went to her on Cornell's ffty-yard line after Brewster returned the kick-off. Short but continuous gains took took 1t to Cornelrs thirty-yard mark ball was near the side lines. Princeton had but one more down and on a de- layed pass in which her interference made for the end the ball was passed to Davis, who dashed through the Cor nell center, broke free from tacklers evaded Brewster in the back field and scored. A goal by Dewitt made the score to 6.
 Strenuous Battle in Second.
 For the remainder of the half the ball passed from one side to the other fre- quently. Neither team was able to make consistent gains. and frequent bunting resulted. The ball finally went to the l tigers in mdfeld. They played with great dash and gradually forced Cornell back twenty yards when the advance tempt ps at goa % which % by the the decision hls a of the referee gave Princeton the game. Percy Held never before witnessed such a. crowd. It was the first time in the | Princeton that the tigers felt it neces- | sary to come to Ithaca to cheer on their eleven. They were on hand 200 or 300 rooters until it seemed that the hills overlooking the field would split from | the echoes and re-echoes. The attend ance was 10000.
 Odds of to and to were offered all morning, without many Cornell takers. l Just about noon the Cornell coaches gave out Stsr hope to the teams supporters. and had an even chance. After half dozen plays they were confident they could | hold the tigers.
 Cornell Kicks Of. Cornell kicked off in the first half. her favor and Underhill punted at once The ball went to Princeton's f1fty-yard | line. Cornell secured 1t and made a strong showing on offense. She sent Purcell around Princeton's left wing for good gains and Coffin and Schoellkopf | hammered the tackles. The ball was carried to Princeton's five-yard line, but here the weight of the tigers told and they hurled Schoellkopf back on his last trial for the necessary distance. The ball was punted out of danger and then the playing was transferred to Cornelps territory.
 Princeton got no nearer to Cornells goal than the twenty-yard mark, and Dewitt's three trials for placement goals failed. The half ended with Cornell in possession of the ball on Princeton's forty-five-yard line.
 The second half was marked by the work of the punters. Brewster on the whole outdid his adversaries, Underhill work, Cornell was placed in a position to make her first score.
 Cornell Better Physically.
 Even after the tigers had crossed Cor nelPs line, 1t looked like tie game for more than twenty minutes of play. Cor dition than Princeton, five of whose players retired during the contest Cor | nell stood the brunt unexpectedly well, and two of her men were all that had to give up. Princeton insisted on thirty five minute halves, believing her men could better stand the strain. Cornell gave faint signs of weakening just before Princeton scored her last | two points. The tigers centered all their | force on her tackles and made a total of thirty yards before she was stopped. | The Ithacans had enough left in them, | however, to bring the advance to a halt, and if the safety had not been allowed | the contests would have ended to 6. | Coaches Starbuck and Reed refused to express an opinion on the decision, but their assistants, Coaches Wyckoff, Dyer and Fennell, were indignant, while some of the players talked of protesting the result.
 The lineup follows:
 Lineup and Scores.
 Cornell-Taussig, l. e.; Lueder, l. t.; Warner (Captain). l. g.; Lent C.; Hunt, r. g.. Smith, r. t.; Tydeman, Ransom. r. e.. Brewster, q. b.; Purcell, Shep- perd, l. h. b.; Coffin, r. h. b.; Schoell-
 'rinceton-Henry. Roper. r. e.; Dewitt r. t.; Mills, Biskiewick, r. g.; Fisher. C.; Dana, Short, l. g.. Pell (Captain), l. t.: Davis. R. McClave. l. e.; Freeman, Meier, q. b.; McClave, r. h. b.; FoulkeA l. h. b.; Underhill. McCord, f. b.
 Touchdowns-Cown. Davis. Safety-R. McClave. Goals from touchdowns-Cof- fin Dewitt. Referee-Wrightingto liar ward Umpire-WRte Harvard. Time keeper-C. Young, Cornell. Time of halves-35 minutes.
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