Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-30
ON THE GRIDIRoN
Fast Game Played Last Night By !
 Former Stars.


 Fast Game Played Last Night By
 Former Stars
 New York, Dec 30.--Red hot football by professionals, all of whom were for merly members of leading university eleyens, drew crowd of $500 enthusi- asts to the Madison Square Garden last night. There were two games, the best being between the New York and Syracuse teams, the latter winning by score of to 0, after two twenty-min- ute halves. The Syracuse eleven con- tained such well known football stars as the Warner brothers of Cornell, the Pierce brothers of the Carlisle Indian school, Jack Wright of Columbia, Dra- per of Williams and Bottger of Prince ton, while on the New York team were Davidson, Stehle, Kennedy, Wallace, Teas, Roller and Gelbert. all of whom have worn the red and blue, of Penn sylvania; 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, were soon obliterated. The distance be- tween the two goal lines was only sev- enty yards while the ''gridiron'' was about thirty-fiye yards wide. yet there was plenty of the real article of foot ball, some genuine slugging and nu- marous punts which did not break a light in the. roof of the building. The New York and Syracuse players were giants in stature and, the way they went at one another made the crowd wild with delight. H,.. ..--..
 The teams who received a guarantee Of 5000 each, lined up at 9:45 o'clock. It was Syracuse's kickoff and Glen Warner drove the ball to Roller, who caught it behind the, boxes Ilp against the Fourth avenue wall. He ran it back fifteen yards, when O'Neil got him. Roller punted and in few mo- ments Glen Warnerstried an unsuccess- ful goal from placement in the middle of the field. After New York had punted Glen Warner made another at- tempt to. kick a goalwith the same re- suit. Both sides tried fruitlessly to ad. vance the ball and then Glen Warmers third attempt at goal was beautifully blocked by Kidgen. Davidson and Roller made short gains for New York. but Syracuse got the ball on downs. which was followed by a series of short runs, carrying the oval to New 9ork's fifteen-yard line as the first half ended .s~er
 The only change when the second half began was Teas for IXindgen. Da- vidson kicked off for New York. and the syracuse team proceeded to plunge into the guards, and tackles with so much yfgor that the ball was driven straight down to within two feet of New Iork's goal line. Mason. Draper, Bill Warmer and Bennie Pierce doing great work. Then as Syracuse lined up for a final plunge across the line several New York players put them- selves offside. The ball was snapped back and Umpire Wenoh cried "Off- side. New York;" Y .t
 Bottger carried the ball over the goal line for touchdown. Captain Kenne- dy of the New York team instantly protested the touchdown on the ground that as one of his men had been de- clared offside, the ball should go back to be played over. and Syracuse should receive penalty of one-half the dis tance to the goal line, or one yard. Umpire Wenck then reversed his de- cision and there was a long Hrangle, which was ended when Referee Smith of Union declared that the touchdown counted. Glen Warner missed an easy goal and the score was to O.
 On Davidson's kickoff Bottger and Bemis Pierce made twelve yards be- tween them. which paved the way for the most sensational play of the game. Draper got through the left wing on the jump and dashed away for New York's goal with a clear field before him. except Kennedy. The latter made fine low tackle and laid Dra- per low on the 10-yard line. Heavy line plunges followed to a point which enabled, Glen Warner to try another field goal. This time his aim was good, but he did not give sufficient inn petus to the ball. for it shot several inches under the crossbar.
 Punts were exchanged and Barrett made couple of good runs around the ends. Tn each instance lie was thrown by Bemis Pierce, who was slugged by Stehle. The big Indian turned furiously on the Quaker and aimed a blow at his head It looked as if there would be free fight and the crowd yelled in approval. But the men were separated and the struggle went on.
 It was not long after that Carver and Stehle indulged in fisticuffs, with an- other row imminent which was cut short by the cooler heads. The teams were fighting desperately, with five to play, when somebody said
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