New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
C0LUM BIA BEATS CORNELL
WINS IN SECOND Half,
Fighting for EUery Inch of Ground
Teams Battle Manfally.
rBy Telegraph TO The tribunal


tor over Cornell In a stubborn gridiron battlt
fought out on Percy Field this afternoon be-
fore a large crowd of spectators The ana
score was u to g.
It was a hard and fierce battle from the be-
ginning both teams fighting for every inch o'
ground they gained At the end Of the first haf
the score stood to in favor of Cornell. ane
the Red and White bleachers were wild WIRE
enthusiasm over the splendid showing that thei
team had made The eleven had gained more
than hundred yards, while the total gain msds
by Columbia had been less than forty yards
The Cornell backs had gone through the Colurn'
bia line for good gains again and again, whit
the Columbia offence seemed pcwerless 10 gam
with anything like consistency.
When the Blue and White warriors took the
field in the second half they seemed suddenly te
spring into life and fairly swept the ltnaeana
off their feet.
1t Ithaca's big football day, and the idea'
football weather brought large crowd OF Corr
nell supporters to the field. All the trains CONS
ing into the city on Friday brought large nurn+
bers of strangers and last night the hotels were
well filed, while nearly all the fraternity houses
entertained guests from Columbia All day yes
! terday the buildings the Cornell campus
were crowded with visitors. half of them alumni
who had back to their alma mater to see
what is considered the one big game played IN
! Ithaca this year
| UNDERGRADUATES MARCH TO FIELD.
/ The students had made big preparations for
i the day. About o'clock two brass bands MADE
/ their appearance at the Ithaca House. where
| they waited, playing Cornell songs, until two
| thousand students had collected. every one OF
! whom had a stentorian voice and irrepressibie
! enthusiasm. At 1:3O D m the students started
| for Percy Field. headed by the bands. The
! seniors took the front ranks while the rear was
| brought I'D by five hundred freshmen, every one
wearing the regulation freshman cap, gray, with
J q black button.
| After reaching the field they paraded once
| around. singing the Cornell football song Ihs
] Big Red Team" when they filed into the stanoss
! which were filed up before the game oesan-
! Even the seats on deadhead bluff cin out
| g,dA the fence overlooking the field, were all
! taken by the time the 'big red team took the
| aeId Three stands were filed with Cornell men,
! while in the fourth the hundred or so CoIuInDla
/ students who had come up from New-fo ORR oi1
! what they could to encourage the olue ana "ii.o
| eleven The masculine element predonilna'eu ~
/ the crowd. but there vas a plentiful spEliiAAs
! of red flags in the hands OF pretty Ilalueils'
| either had big brothers or big some one el'eS
whom they were interested In the ithaca JIM
| versity. -, -
! The field was in bad condition Ihe ran =.
49,, ,i.b+ before had made It soft and soggy ana
hf1o.+ba stiff wind had partly dried 1t on II was
.+,I .,,nnerv enough to make it difficult Tor thS
men carrying the ball to get up speed.
CORNELL, SCORES FIRST
,,or made her first touchdown after carry
| -, +t,a han down the field nearly seventy ysFos
bv stiff line plunging. In the early part oi fio
! Arst half Columbia had kept the pan N tN
/ Ttbacans' territory nearly all OF the ulie
/ Fina1lv Cornell obtained the ball on ner o@-S1'"
! line after punt. Then. using Hailloay' esiee1.
! O,Rourke and Martin. she pusned the ,-i tI'ii
steadily down the field to Columbia > t'-sf1U
/ line Here the Blue and White held for two
| .5o,,,rs Po11ak tried a quarterback kick The
bou vent behind the Columbia goal line, ana
,, q flash Gibson was down and dropFeo
on It
halliday kicked a remarkable goal afser
wa1der had punted out to Pollak- The Dan
! vouId not have gone between the posts haq NOT
a Columbia man trying to block hit the low KICK
ard sent 1t flying upward ORourke did espe-
cially good work for Cornell in advancing tI'7
hall When all other attempts to gain had
failed he would drop back behind the line. anu
he seldom failed to make his distance Halliday
and waIder ably seconded his efforts in ad-
1,ancfns, the ball and hit the line with a speed.
that insured few yards at almost every try
The other men in the back field could not be de-
pended upon so consistently, although Martin
showed ability at times
When the crowd saw the work Of Newman,
who replaced Pollak at quarter late IN the
second half many of them wondered why war
ner did not send him in at the beginning or the
game He did not look as heavy as PoIiak, cut
he ran back punts with more speed ana showed
good Judgment IN the few minutes that he
nlayed He put life enough into the weakening
Cornell team so that IT forced Columbia 10 kick
after the Blue and White nad hdd Things her
own way for most of the ha1
Columbia played kicking game throughout
the first half Little attempt was made 10 gam
by carrying the ball, and these atIeHpts WSrS
NOT in most cases successful Collins succeeded
in working a quarterback run for thirty yards
He did this after tumble by Halliday n3d
given the ball 70 Columbia IN the centre OI tLe
field 1t looked as though Columbia would score.
From the thirty-yard line Collins tried a goal
from the field. but the ball went about a foot
to the eft of the goa posts Cofhell puIteu out &
from her twenty-ive-yard line, and after a fy
at the line Columbia punted- rms gave tle Dt4i
to Cornell. who almost Immediately Iost II on
downs Collins tried another drop KICK frsln
the thirty-Seven-y yard line, but TINS Went oily
halfway TO the goal posts. Cornell then got the
TaII on the ive-yard line From then until the
end of the half she clearly oUtplayed the Blue
and White.
NcCIaye who umpfred the game. had his
eyes open for rough play and holding and aS a
result many penalties were inflicted. CorneA
lost sixty yards for holding and five Tor on
side NAV Columbia lost fifteen yards because
Collins failed to go five yards 10 the SIDE on a
quarterback run. and ten yards for off-side play
Davis of Columbia was ruled from the game IN
the second half for sluggtng-
In the second half Columbia was strengthened
by the substitution of Van Saltza for Lindo at
fullback Cornell made several changes in her
line during the half. The biggest loss was that
of O'Rourke who was replaced by Furman-
Oderkirk went in for Sheldon al right tackle. and
SchildmiIler replaced Cook. Columbia started
her gains as soon the second half began
on her thirty-seven yard line, after fifty yard
punt by Waldo. Then Duden. Armstrong. Won