New-York tribune., 1905-12-03
DRAWN FOOTBALL. BATTLE.
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been adeQuste In years past for the princeton
Yale game. but there was no help for that. since
Princeton is at Princeton.
Thousands were miles from the field yester-
day at O'Clock, when the game should have
begun, because it took nearly three hours to ger
TO Princeton from New-York Luckily for them
the players were not ready to start on time ana
almost every one got there before the whistle
sounded for the first time.
TOO WARM FOR FOOTBALL
It was not by any means an ideal day for the
match 1t was too warm for the best Of foot
ball and the sky was overcast and sullen. while
al times especially in the half hour just before
the game began. it rair.ed gently. The field was
not in good condition, having been soaked by the
rain and the result that it was soon torn
up badly by the shoes Of the players, whlie
many an end run failed TO come off because the
runner could not keep his footing. 1t was what
the racegoer calls a holding track.
II is said that all the tickets were sold for the
game If so. a good many persons must have
been kept away by the weather. or else the
spectators, who are supposed not to do much
business IN tickets for this game. got badly left
At any rate there were at least 5000 seats that
were not occupied. All Of them. strange to say
were in the northern stand.
It was nearly 2:f5 o'clock before the President
arrived. In the mean time those who had been
lucky enough to get In on the early trains. had
been making renewing acquaintance with
Princeton. Many OF the townspeople had been
giving luncheon parties for their friends, while
the undergraduates. such OF them were in
town did their share Of the entertaining. Scores
of automobiles roared and footed through the
muddy Jersey roads on their way to Princeton.
and their owners. after having lined their ma
chimes up the streets allotted for their recep-
tion about the ground, settled down to luncheon
Of fheir ECT1 n machines. Others
sought out eheltered hooks to eat Iuncheons that
they had brought. But by 2 O'Clock luncheon
was long
Probably eighteen thousand persons were
within the grounds when the President arrived,
having been driven from President wilson's
house. in company with Mrs Roosevelt Theo-
Siore Roosevelt, jr.. Kermit Roosevelt and Miss
Ethel Roosevelt Miss Alice Roosevelt having
decided not to attend the game With the Presi-
dent and his family were Secretaries Root and
Taft. while Mrs. Grover Cleveland later arrived
and sat with Mrs. Roosevelt
The President took his seat the Navy side
Of the field TO start things going, 1t being under
stood that he would later square it up by going
over to see the West Pointers, Secretary Taft
on the contrary, once having seen the President
seated, crossed at once to see Superintendent
Afills's young men
The West Pointers had previously marched
9n I'm true military fashion. headed by band,
the midshipmen having been obliged TO do with
out one, for the reason that theirs got lost
somewhere on the way from Annapolis. 1t
found itself however. before the match had been
long in progress. and did really horrifying ex-
often had radically different ideas about tempo
AS retired rear admiral put it:
THAT band seems to forget that the speed of
a squadron must be regulated by the speed OF
its slowest member
dent arrived but it didn't seem like noise in
comparison with what happened then. MT
Roosevelt cheered by the West Pointers
and the Annapolis cadets all together and then
by each separately. and then. by way of good
measure by both sides together again. After
which the general public got a chance.
Mr.. Roosevelt was in the same amiable humor
in which he had first set foot in Princeton and
found his way to mis- seat with many doffings Of
his hat and many bowings right and left Il
had begun to drizzfe again by this time and
looked if it were going to be nasty
afternoon. but that didn't keep Mr. Roosevelt s
hat on his head or induce him to carry an UNI
brella
The Presidents interest in the game appeared
10 he what one would expect in view of the con-
ferences he has engineered on the subject. He
followed all the plays with interest, and often
clapped his hands delightedly when something
good done.
OF course in order to be strictly impartial as
between his two commands the Army and the
Navy. II was necessary for him TO applaud when
each made its touchdown. Those close to Mr.
Roosevelt declare that he did with pains
taking care worthy the dipomatist that he is.
The President did not stay until the finish
Of the game. though few persons in the throng
knew it. Under cover of the noise and excite
nent that followed the Nayy's success in max
ing its touchdown he slipped out, attended by
his Secret Service guardians, hurried 10 his spe-
cal train and got aboard. The darkness was
of considerable assistance in executing this
rnanoeuvre for at that time the dusk SO
deep that if was impossible to see across the
field. From one side you could see a dim, dark
mass over there that you knew was vastly agi-
tated about something because you could hear
its cries of joy or groans Of anguish.
GAME DESPERATELY FOUGHT.
AS fer the game itself. 1t must be said that it
was quite the most desperately fought match In
which these rivals have ever participated
aTt-s tough luck" said one cadet who 1t is
certain would not like to have his name men
toned. ITS tough luck TO have a bully game
like this showed under Just because the Presi-
dents here. Everybody is so much interested
in him they don't care about the game"
That wasn't true; at least it was exaggera-
tion of the truth. It was certainly untrue re-
CARDS the two cadet corps They spared a
thought for the President between plays, Of
course but when there anything doing on
the field all eyes were directed there. And there
was a good deal doing.
II was nip and tuck from the start. There is
little difference between the strength of the two
teams The Army had a bit the better Of the
argument in the first half of the match while
the Navy turned the tables in the second half.
What might have happened in those four min
utes that the darkness cut off from the tail end
of the second half, man can say.
But in the first half the play was three
quarters of the time in the Navy's territory,
while the Army was on the defensive most of
the time in the second half.
There was a strong south wind blowing all the
afternoon that had quite as much to do with the
fortunes of the game as the breeze that blew
over the Sea of Japan had to do with the battle
between Togo and RojestVensky
In the first half the Army got the weather
teen yards or so to the length of every Army
punt In the second half. Howard had the breeze
at his back. and II was just as good to him as
81 had been TO the opposition kicker before IT
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