New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

! ways shown, but did little brilliant work
PUNTING BELOW THE AVERAGE.
Probably no game IN recent years has shown
such a dearth of good punters. Mccormick.
for Princeton, and Roome and Veeder for Yale
were intrusted with the job of booting the
leather, and It cannot be said that either OF
| them has much to be proud of. Seldom was a
punt made that went more than thirty-five
yards.
The figures, carefully computed, show that
/ Yale rushed the ball 220 yards to Princeton's s
/ 1S0. and made $50 yards by running punts back
1 TO Princetons 10 yards, most of which were Sc
cured by Dillon at quarterback. Each side suf-
| fered severely from penalties for interference
Yale being the heavier loser in this manner
seventy yards. Princeton's penalties amounted
/ to thirty yards.
After all that has lately been said and written
about the brutality of the game of football, it is
| pleasant to record the fact that the game was
entirely devoid of any unnecessary roughness,
! that there appeared to be the best Of feeling
/ between the members of the two teams and that
no player was severely injured. The large num-
Der OF substitutes Princeton employed was due
merely TO the fact that the first string men gave
every ounce Of power they had to the glory of
Old Nassau and when they had no more to give
they had to give way to those who had. The
officials Of the match Referee J. c. McCracken.
of Pennsylvania, and Umpire Eyerts Wrenn, Of
Harvard, deserve great credit for the business
like and watchful manner IN which they ran the
game. McCracken, in particular, was every
where and nothing escaped his eagle eye
There was nothing but football thought OF in
NeW-HaNen from daybreak on. The thousands
who tumbled off the trains into the dingy old
station had plenty of ways in which to get out
to the field. Walking was the cheapest and the
most comfortable, if one had plenty of time
Automobiiing came at the other end of the list
Of methods of Iocomotion Hundreds of private
autos rolled into town. and not one Of them
but few the blue or the orange and black
Scarcely one. too but bore one or two pretty
girls to swell the total OF beauty that is seen
nowhere else in this country as at a football
game There were plenty of automobiles to
hire and they charged all the way from So to
SO for ride to Yale Field All of them were
busy.
The "automnibus." coiner of words called
a seeing New-Raven'' auto. was also doing
business for the first time at a New-Haven foot
ball match. while, of course. the far-famed and
often berated New-Haven hackman was again
at his black arts in all his glory
The streets Of the town We're packed from SIDE
m side nv noon ard everybody was going one
way while the annual strife between the modest
violet and the Haunting yellow chrysanth hemum
in full swing. Every shop window was a
bulged with humanity Football was in the air
so thick that everybody had to breathe It. Yet
no one complained. Football was the business of
the hour, and, for the undergraduate, its
mighty serious business. too. AS he walked
along the street this noon he smiled. If he
smiled at all, in a far away. absent manner
You could see that the fortunes of his team
were heavy on MS mind.
PLAYERS PREPARE FOR STRUGGLE.
The Princeton team did not arrive here until
noon They came in a special car from New
York, lunched on the way. and dressed in their
gr1diron uniforms before they left the car, be-
ing then driven out to Yale Field pursued by
whooping mob of Princetonians.
The Yale varsity players came down to the
New-Haven House for breakfast, walking from
the infirnary, where they went to have a good
nights sleep. After breakfast they were driven
out to the New-Haven Country Club in Whit
NEVILLE where the coaches told them to take
il, easy and fool around with golf clubs and
SIGH for hour SO. AT noon they were
taken back to the New-Haven House. where
they slowed away a luncheon Of cold roast beef,
baked potatoes and toast Next they went to
the gymnasium, donned their uniforms and
lined up for the final exhortatton of Owsley, the
1t is said to have been most instructive. II
contained fine assortment Of little used adjec-
tives. There are also said to have been a few
remarks from Brother Einkey, who has been
stopping al the old home during the football sea-
son for the benefit Of other peoples health. The
testimony meeting over the team was bun
died into special trolley car and then started
on tuulultpous journey 10 the field, where they
hid themselves away in the dressing rooms till
the hour to do die. or both, should arrive.
Every body who has been TO a big football
game knows Just what kind of crowd it was,
He has seen just such crowd and he VIII
never forget 1t, If he lives to be as old as Joe
Mfller's Jokeb6ok." They were all there. of ali
ages and sizes and degrees-clergymen cap
:ains of finance. writer's, clerks, scholars pro-
fessors, doctors;- lawyers, and probably even a
few Indian chiefs. And every last one Of them,
no matter how grave and reverend at other
times ready 20 90 his utmost to assist the
leather lungs of the undergraduate in making
Rome howl. II ought to be said that Rome
ho77led a good deal too In fact who
have been 20 every football game on Yale field
for the last ten years declared that they never
heard such tremendous cheering and singing
AS usual Princeton had that old west stand
whence she has SO often looked down on deeds
of daring below-often on defeat and occasion
ally If not often. on victory. Two years ago
she saw the giant De Witt snatch tie game
from the fire with of his marvellous goals
from the held-ffty-fve yards that time, If the
writer's memory serves him well At any rate,
It was a long. long kick. and long. long to be
remembered. It means nothing to say that the
Princeton rooters packed their stand They
always do. The Yale rooters packed theirs,
100 They always do They each had q band.
enough TO sort of set things going, but when
your undergraduate gets warmed up to his work
he needs no foolish aid to help him Few per
sons heard those conscientious tooterS yesterday
after the undergraduate got into full swing.
The cheer leaders worked as never before on
both sides of the field. 1t is to be hoped some
body will start an agitation to get Y or a
p for every last one of them. Ihey all oe-
serve them. They worked like slaves of the
galley all afternoon and saw almost noth1ng
Of the game They were busy dragging out
cheers for the victors or the Vahqusheo- II
seemed TO make no difference which to theIn-
IDEAL FOOTBALL WEATHER.
There wasn't a seat left at 2 o'clock, and the
SPECTATORS coined small fortunes, getting all
the way from So to So for what tickets they had
TO SELL though fewer than usual got into their pos
session. All hands had every reason to anticipate
exhiarating afternoon and they hao II. Inc Inc
sun was clear and sweet, the air just r1gnt Tor
bcSh players and iookerS-on and a fresh breeze
blew out of the northwest that made II eV1dehI
that whoever won the loss Would choose ttIo ~
feId was as level as billiard table and as clean
a. the Rooseveltian hounds tooth, that the goal
rosts had for the first time been sWatheo IN
white bandages to protect the cutcle or the
opd that's about all there was time Tor,