New-York tribune., 1909-11-04
ON THE GRlDIRON
RISE OF DIRTHOITH.
York Of the Leading Teams in
Hard Scrimmages.

Tho football schedules of four or five
years ago always used 10 contain couple
Of big games In the first Saturday in No
vember. hut last year and the year before
this f1llip was lacking in the sport OF the
day. The season Of 1902 however. seems to
have gone back to the old conditions.
The artmouth-Princston struggle has
developed into 4 big game. The Hano-
vertanS, unheralded and pretty generally re-
garded as a tender tidbt for the ferocious
Tigers In 1905. dropped into Princeton and
fairly toysd with Old Nassau winning by a
tri1ing score of 6 10 o, to he sure. but an
noyinS the Princetopians mighty, just the
same. They beat Harvard for the first time
in the same year, the score being II to 0.
In the first game ever played in the i'm
mense new stadium, something that al
ways has and always will rankle in the
hearts of Harvard men.
The next year, the first of the new foot
ball. Dartmouth was behind the times,
while Princeton was right up to the min
ute and possibly few seconds fast Dart
mouth couldn't see the new game at all
and thought that the cld-fashioned style of
play, as much of it as was possible, would
serve to beat an opponent trusting to new
tangled tricks. a score of 4 to in favor
of Princeton, or something approaching
those figures, served to arouse the Hano-
verians. and enough new football was ac-
quired to allow the team to give Harvard
a hard battle.
Having wiped out the memory of the un-
happy affair in 1905. Princeton found no
place for Dartmouth on her schedule in
1907, and the teams didn't meet. The
Tigers had no Cornell game last year,
didn't want to play Carlisle again, un-
pleasant features having attended the con-
test here the year before. and so arranged
g game for the Polo Grounds. gate re-
ceipts entering as big factor. Dartmouth
won by score of 10 to g. and the Tiger
has been sharpening his teeth ever since.
getting ready for the meeting in his own
lair on Saturday. From all of this it is
easy to predict that excitement will not
be lacking when the Green and the Orange
and Black meet
Harvard and Cornell have no recent his
tory TO eniiven the record of encounters
between them, and Harvard has a team
that looks, on paper, 10 be a good deal bet
ter than Cornell. However, predictions in
the game of football are weird and vain
things, and there may be much TO repay
trip to Cambridge on Saturday.
A special train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road will carry th Dartmouth supporters
to Princeton. II it s necessary two trains
will be in service but such a rush is hardly
locked for, with regular trains also avail
able The train leaves Jersey City at L: :SS
and arrives at Princeton at 1:5o, allowing
ample time for wild dash to University
Field in a Princeton hack, which seldom
takes more than thirty minutes TO make
the trip. If the train is late. however,
those in hurry can'walh to the field in
about eight minutes and save fifteen cents.
There's a queer coincidence, or set Of
condolences. in the names of football play
ers at various colleges this year. Cooney
is Yale's centre and another Cooney plays
the same position for New York Cniver-
sity. Byrd is Georgetown's first choice
for quarterback and a man spelling his
name in the same way is one Of the Navys
quarters. Mckay is n tackle at Harvard
and another Mckay is a guard at New
York University.