The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-17
YALE HAD ALL
she COULD Do
TO DEFEAT PRINCETON TIGERS
YESTERDAY BY SMALL MAR
GIN or IL TO 10.
HARVARD met DEFEAT
AT Hands of Dartmouth--carIisIe In
dians Won From Minnesota.
Perdue Lost to Wisconsin
University.

New Haven, Conn. Nov. 1G.--Ya'e
won over Princeton this afternoon, II
to TO- Thirtyfour thousand football
enthusiasts saw the hardest fought
same OF the year the result being in
doubt until the referees whistle blew
since 1908 the orange and black cross
Ga the goal line of the blue, and aid
ed by the toe of Harlan. added the
score OF field goal to her touchdown
and goal. 1t was 10 to 0 against
Yale at one stage, but Yales grit
came to her rescue and good general
ship found holes in the weakened
Princeton line In the second half,
Through these her men bcred and
Coy was driven over the line with
force that crumpled up the Princeton
line. Twice this happened and twice
Capt. Biglow kicked the sorely need
ed goals With the margin of two
roints to the good, Quarterback Jcnes
uncovered for Yale many fake kick,
fake formation goal from placement
and deceptive line up for fake for
ward pass, which meant run by eth
er Coy or Jones, or the real article in
the forward pass which brought much
ground gain.
In the first 1t seemed to be all rnce
ton for she had elected to receive the
ball on the kickoff and through the
half horr her energies were directed
to keeping possession of the ball. to |
run her plays swift, with sharp at
tack, plenty of end runs and when
forced TO do so dropping Harlan back |
for kicks. Yale found herself en- the !
defensive and whel she had the ball
her plays were started without much
speed and they did not seem TO work. |
her wing shifts and plays outside OF
tackle being broken up.
Yales formation on the defensive /
was 50 pen that 1t did not seem hard
for Mccormick TO drive through the !
line, assisted by Harlan and Tibbett. !
In this half Princeton made 29l yards /
by rushing. against 113 by Yale.
In the second half Yale rushed the
ball 223 yards as against 1876 by
rinceton-evidence that Yale was
well grounded in the old ideas. The
first touchdown came after Tad Jones
had failed ON an on-side kick, Booth
of Princeton getting it and running 10
yards for a touchdown. Not many
minutes later Princeton got the ball
OH kick by Coy after Yale had triel
two end runs with little success. De
off fhp
back, Mccormick and Harlan going
through the wings so that the ball
reached Yale's 16-yard line in front
of the goal. What happened then
was expected, for Harlan's toe was a
good medium to add four more points.
Yale played real football in the sec
ond half, keeping the ball when she
got it, hampering the Princeton line
at every chance until both tackles
seemed i'm bad shape, and making the
Princeton ends run themselves out
trying to catch Coy. in his run af-
ter dropping back as II to kick. Many
times only little Dillon stood between
him and the goal but he was surely {
tacqled once Dillon bringing him c
down by an ankle hold.
Princeton rushed back kicks to a
total OF 1853 yards as against 1876 yards J
for Yale. Harlan punted nine times |
for an average of IS yards, as against 8
Coy's seven for an average of 80. Yale !
made three successful forward passes I
Ioi 50 yards, while Princeton worked c
,nly one for 10 yards. Princeton lost g
he ball once on an on-side kick and g
gained Is yards on another try, and I
Yale lost IT once on a similar play. =
Three out of our of Harlan's tries for &
. field goal failed and each team lost O
the ball once on fumbles. &