The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16

s"pres WOrk srsticheu ny the Losers.
PRINCETON. Nov. l5.-With the setting
OF the sun this afternoon Princeton's foot
ball hopes went down. So did the orange
and black streamers and banners that had
been waving aloft steadily for nearly
three hours. Battered and bruised, nearly
all OF the Tigers regular players sat along
the side lines. groaning and In tears. while
their pluoky substitutes made last gallant
fight against the giants from old Yale.
Though the victory went to theNew Haven
university it was not without the hardest
kind Of struggle and when the final Whist 10
blew and the score stood IL to s against
Princeton the followers Of Old Nassau
went away sad. but satisfied with the be-
lief that their repre- sentatives had not been
disgraced.
Yale's tremendous strength in the rush
line, a remarkable heetness of foot on the
part Of the backs, mechanical team play.
coupled with electrical snap and dash and
q physical condition produced by Trainer
Mike Murphy that was well up to the usual
standard. served to carry the day for the
Blue. Princeton had a much better team
than that which was overwhelmed by Yale
last year, but Yale's team also was an i'm.
provement over the previous one: so thai.
oil things considered. the outcome was no,
a hurprise. All OF the scoring was done
in the hrst half.
Nine minutes after the first kick of
Dewitt. Pinceton's big guard. kicked a
magnificent goal from the field from the
4S-yard mark. It was a beginning that
raised Princeton's hopes to such a degree
that there was the widest kind of a srene.
which was cut short two minutes later
when Chadwick. the Yale captain, was
thrown through an immense hole in Prince
tons line and ran fifty yards down the field
for a touchdown. As Bowman kicked the
goal the score was to 5. which was in
CREASED toward the latter part of the half by
similar play by Chadwick. who this time.
made a magnificent sprint Of sixty yards
and placed the ball behind the goal pos,
Another goal by Bowman ended the scoring.
II might he said that Dewitt with his
drop kicking and superb punting was. half
Of the Princeton team. True it il that
Princeton depended chiefly upon kicking
game in the first half. the Tigers reserving
their rushing power for the second period
OF the battle. But Ia the first half Yale
emphaticalIy show wed n superiority in gound
gaining by reason Of the fact that in rushing.
the ball back on kicks and hitting the line
the New Haven men rolled up a total of
3Os yar6's. In marked contrast was Prince
toms ridiculously small gain Of twenty
three yards. To the football sharrs thia
was an indication that Yale would win by
an overwhelming total. but in the sccorG
half Princeton made the pluckisst kind Of
brace and lale's rushing ability vns
limited to 100 yards, with exactly fifty for
Princeton. Summing up, Yale had "A IT,
advantage, with a total Of al yards, aGsirf.
seventy-ttrle for Princeton II the cnti,o
game Princeton punted twenty-five ,imoe
to eighteen for Yale The Tigers received
thirty yards in penalties, while Yale got
five. Princeton received the ball once for
holding and once for downs in the second
half. when by a gallant stand Yale lost il
on the 2-yard line.
The weather was entirely too warm for
football and the players of both teams
in their heavy arnor and thick moleskrs
suffered greatly. Twenty thousand en-
thusiasts sat around the four sides OF the
gridiron, ma jority being in sympathy
with the Jerseymen. hut the utmost good
feeling prevailed between the partisars
and the players. The game ITSELF barring
few little incidents of roughness. was a
model Of it's kind