The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-30
SYRACUSE BEATS new YORK.
FORMER COLLEGE STARS PLAY
FOOTBALL IN THE GARDEN.
Up State Eleven wins by . Score OF to o
In . Red Hot struggle on . Small
GrldirOn-MOnitors Defeat Colonials.
~ to S-Big Crowd watches the sport.

!" "Su uOu StTuH8Ie on y Hm1u
Gridiron-Monitors Defeat Coioniais.
~ to S-Big Crowd watches the sport.
Red hot football by professionals, all of
whom were formerly members OF leading
university elevens, drew crowd OF $500
enthusiasts to the Mad IN Square Garden
last night. There were two games. the best
being between the New York and Syracuse
teams. the latter winning by a score of
TO 0. after two Commute halves. The SYRIA
cuse eleven contained sucn well-known foot
ball stars as the Warner brothers Of Cornell,
the Fierce brothers Of the Carlisle Indian
School, Jack Wright of Columbia Draper Of
Williams and Bot ger OF Princeton, while on
the New York team were Davidson. Stehle.
Kennedy. Wallace. Teas. Roller and Colbert.
all Of whom have worn the red and blue Of
Pennsylvania: Bachman of lafayette and
kindgen of Columbia
The floor of the Garden was covered with
soft earth. well rolled. on which an attempt
was made to Place the usual chalk lines which,
however. ere soon Obliterated. The dis
lance between the two goal lines was only
seventy yards while the "gridiron" was about
thirty-hve Yards wide. yet there was plenty
OF the real article of football, some genuine
smuggling and numer Gus punts which did
not break a light in the roof of the building.
The New York and Syracuse players we're
giants in stature and the way they went at
one another made the crowd wild with delight,
The teams, who received a guarantee of
$500 each. lined up at a45 o'clock II WAS
Syracuses kickoff and Glen Warner drove
the ball to Roller, who caught ii behind the
boxes up against the Fourth avenue wall
He ran it back fifteen yards. when O'Neil
got him. Roller punted and in few moments
Glen Warner tried an IN successful goal from
placement In the middle Of the field After
New York had punted, Glen Warner made
another attempt 20 kick goal with the same
vance the ball and then Glen Warmers third
attempt at goal was beautifully blocked by
ab b FSer made so; sh9 Ss
Of short runs. carrying the oval to New York's
The only change when the second half
kicked OF for New York. and the syracuse
and tackles with so much viRor that the ball
was driven straight down to within two feet
Bin Warner and Benna g Pierce doins r sreat
work. Then a. Syracuse lined up for a final
plunge across the inc several New York
"Offsids. New York;"
BO,ss1 Ss5Eisd the ball oyer the goal line
New York team instantly protested the touch
down on the ground that as one Of his men
back to be played over and Syracuse should
receive a penalty of half the distance to the
goal line. or one yard Umpire Wenck then
reversed his decision and there was a long
wrangle which was ended when Referee
Smith of Union declared that the touch
down counted. Glen Warner missed an easy
goal and the score was 5 to q.
On Davdson's kickoff Bott ger and Bnmis
Pierce made twelve yards between them,
play Of the game Draper got through the
New iork's goal with clear field before
fine low tackle. and laid Draper low ON the
TO a point which enabled Glen Warner TO try
good. but he did not give SUFFICIENT Impetus
70 the ball for II shot several inches under
the Crossbar.
Punts we're exchan Red and Barrett made a
couple OF good runs around the ends In
each instance he was thrown by Bemis Pierce
who was slugged by Stehle. The big Indian
turned furiously on the Quaker and aimed
blow at his head, II looked as " there
would be a free fight and the crowd yelled
n approval But the men were separated
and the struggle went on.
IL was not long after that Carver and
Stehle INDUCED in hsticuTs with another
row imminent. which was cut short by the
COOLER heads The teams were lighting des-
perateiy, with Ave minutes to play, when
somebody said that time was up. Before the
mistake could be rectihed the crowd had
surrounded the players and II was impos-
siblc TO proceed. So Syracuse got the ga me.