New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
TIGERS COME TO LIFE
BEAT SEWANEE EASILY.
Read Runs Sirty-tUe Yards for One
Princeton Touchdown.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune

IBy Telegraph to The Tribunel
Princeton. ~. j. Oct. 16.-Favored by ideal foot
ball weather and encouraged by the return of Hart
Read and WEIGH to the game. the Princeton Tigers
awOke this afternoon and had no difficulty in de-
feating Sewanee University, Of the South by a
score of 20 TO 0. The Southern team was expected
10 give Princeton a hard test but although fast
the forwards were much too light to hold their own
against the heavy Princeton line, and Hart and
Read tore through for big gains
Princeton presented a lineup which contained
first string back field. and the result was marked
Improvement in the work of the team While the
game can hardly be taken as a criterion of the
strength of the Princeton team yet the eleven
played with more dash and life than in the earlier
games. and the attack powerful. The
tackling still weak, and when one of the
Sewanee backs did get away il was always for a
long run as the Princeton players seemed incapable
of bringing him down.
Princeton received the kickoff in the first half
and Immediately took advantage of the wind by
playing punting game This proved TO be a wise
move, for the sewanee backs could not gain against
their heavy opponents, and were forced steadily
backward every exchange of punts
After about ten minutes OF play Princeton took the
ball on Sewanees 3O-yard line, from which Read
soon carried it over for touchdown after several
good gains by Hart through the line.
Princeton then kicked off and on the next NAV
Myers. the Sewanee halfback. startled the Prince
ton supporters by a pretty dashing run Of forty
yards around the end. On the next two plays
however, the SoutheTners lost five yards and were
forced TO punt Then the Tigers began the same
tactics employed -before of slowly forcing the Sc
vance team back. After a series of gains by Read
and Hart and several exchanges Of punts the IT.
gers secured the ball more on their opponents
3O-yard line, from where II was carried steadily
forward 10 the 5-yard mark, where the ball was
lost onside kick. Noise then fell back 10
punt, but the ball was passed over his head and
McCrohan broke through and tackled him before
he could get off his punt, thus scoring two more
points for Princeton on a safety
In the second half Read made. the most sensa-
uonal play Of the day by breaking through the
Sewanee line on a fake kick formation and running
siXty-five yards for touchdown After the next
kickoff several substitutes went in for Princeton
but il made little apparent difference in the play
and Dawson pushed over for the third touch
down soon afterward. Waller kicked all three
goals.
In the last few minutes Of play, with the ball on
Sewanees 30-yard line, Cunningham was substi-
tuted for Dawson and tried a drop kick, which he
missed by few inches, the wind swerving the ba II
from its course.
Bergen, who substituted for Christie at quarter
back in the second half, filled this important posi-
tion better than it has been played before this
season and gave promise of much Improvement
last years work
The work of Princeton. while encouraging. still
showed marked weakness. and the interference af-
forded the runner and the tacking were still Door
Sewanee played a fast and pIucky game but it
matter of being hopelessIy outweighed and
II could not stop the PUSHES of the heavy Tiger
backs.