The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17
DAY OF FOOTBALL SURPRISES
SCORES YESTERDAY VERY DIFF
FERENT FROM WHAT EXPECTED
Carolina Downs ClemsOn-PrincetOn
Wins from Yale-CarliSle Indians
Puts it on PennSy1vania-GeOrSe-
town Has Easy Time With Column
bian.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Chapel Hill, N. c.. November II
the score OF II to 6. Therefore the
most surprised people in the world to-
night are the Clemson boys, who
imagined that their team was the best
in the land and who counted on a VIC
tory and an easy one over the Univer-
Sity eleven But Cardinals players
took a brace today from the game
they have been putting up and from the
first till the asst every man was IL
every play. So the feature was decid
edly Cardinals team work.
Clemson played great baIl-the ECU
lar Heisman article-but they could
not win.
All the scoring was done in the first
half. In the second half each side trieu
to add to Its scOre-but he team
played evenly matched ball and The
score remained as it a
So C1emson's record is broken. Pre-
vious to this game they had scored 136
points to their opponents 0. And Car
DINA has got her nerve again and viii
start in at once to win the Virginia
game.
A very large number of visitors were
on the hill to take in the game. There
was a good deal of bettIng-Clemson
giving the odds and no Clemson money
went begging-every dollar offered
was covered
Tonight the University students are
having a glorious time. They are eel
ebratlng the victory as only they know
how. The Clemson team will return
home in the morning, accompanied BY
a large n gloomy crowd of rooterS.
PRINCETON II, YALE S.
New Haven. Conn, November IA.
Yale went down to defeat before
the men of Princeton today in the
annual football game on the Yale
field. by a score of II to 6.
The contest which was one of the
most spectacular ever witnessed on
Yale's gridiron. was ~stubbOrnly
fought throughout. Until the last
five minutes of play, when Dewitt,
the Princeton captain, kicked a mar
velous goal from placement and
broke the tied score of six to SIX.
the result was in doubt.
Yale made one touchdown. from
which a goal was kicked. Princeton
equalled Yale's record and added a
goal from placement
At the end of the first half. the
score was tied and close observers
looked for a Yale victory, but the
New Haven men were unable to get
NlAC kiS@hIAA w IN lAiN SoA "ihi
DeWitt's kicking ability gave to his
team the victory.
While Princeton deserved TO win,
Yale deserved to lose for Princeton's
scores were practically the direct re-
suits of Yale's fumbling. Yale's
small store, moreover. vas due to
fumbling equally as fatal
Within fourteen minutes from the
time play began, Yale had torn
through ~Princeton's line consistently
and had sent Hogan across the line
for a touchdown. Princeton could
not cope with Yale's defense. and the
play was largely on orange territory
Yale followed up her first advant
age and again pressed toward the
Tigers goal line. A tumble came
here, but a Yale man fell on the ball
Yale again pounded Princeton's
line for short, but consistent gains
and again Yale was in striking dis
tance The Yale quarter back, with
the game we'll in hand. apparently
decided to ave his men and signalleG
for an attempt at a goal from the
field. Mitchell dropped back and
fumbled the ball on Princeton's
twenty yard line. The visitors broke
through, Dewitt snatched h bal