The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-19
Sam White Picks Ur
Loose Ball and Scores
Touchdown.
TIGER HEROMAKES
RUN OF 55 Y ARDS
Yale's Wondcrful Ohense,
Clogged With Mud, Unable to
Get Over Goal Line-Gane
Played on Miserable Field.
With Conditions Favor-
ing Orange and Black.
BY CHARLES CHADWICK.

BY CHARLES CHADWICK,
New Haven, Conn, November ta.-.
Princeton won to-day from Yale by
the score of to : Three straight
Observation-Disclosures, Dartmouth and to-
day Yale-yictories due to what might
be fairly called Princeton football.
That is the story of Eddie Harris Ttg-
ers of lcli. team which will go
down in history as one OF the luckiest
teams that ever played football, and
not a word in all this is meant to de-
tract from Princeton's pluck
IT was a team whose ofteiise was a.
Joke. Not a single first down to-day
was made against Yale Indeed, Mas
sau's running backs played q.
game that suggested as much an any
thing else the famous block game"
Of 1881. 1t simply served TO kill time.
Tho teams defense was elementary.
but stubborn at critical moments; it's
punting game was faultless. and. all
things considered, was q stand-oH for
fale's. With this curious combination
added to watery, uncertain, rniser-
able field. was a cold wind that veered
boxed tho compass in eddies.
Princeton picked UP loose ball in
the middle of the field and scored a
Princeton touchdown. The particular
Poo who performed this feat was ons
Sam White left end. who duplicated
his run OF eighty-tive yards against
Harvard by one of to-day of ffty-five
the distance in each case depending
upon the number ofiyards that lay be-
tween the ball and a goal line. That In
a nutshell is the story of the first game
won by Princeton against Yale since
Dewitt's run of eight years ago. And
Yale's offense. varied. complex. dan
gerous machine that sent Camp and his
fellow backs for gains of five to TWEEN
~ yards or more into and through the
line, that finesscd the situation so that
often q runner was jogging through
tackle with clear field 10 the second
airy defense--Yale's offense. clogged
with mud, was unable TO get over the
goal line.
Ynle Is Stronger Team.
There Is little excuse for an cid
player who has played the fve-yard
game to cavl at the ten-yard rule of
10 day and that other rule that you
must not shove your own halfback.
All that is in the game to-day-it
stands cat least until the next revis-
ion) but 1t is fair TO say that Yale
was beaten to-day by q wet feld. just
as sun wetter field gave West PoiAt
q victory over the Blue earlier in the
season. And IL is also fair TO say that
Yale had The St.cnEar, team-stronger
on a dry day-by points Inc TACT laas
Yale was. even TO the most uneXpert
observer, easily the better team is
really only another feather in the cap
of Captain Hart. a team which can
puck victory out of mudhole, with
tho odds all against II, is g team that
doubly deserves every point it regis
ters on the scoreboar6.
Whites run was. of course the fea-
ture of the game, but one other thing
which will go down In history WAS the
nf he a. ia
handling of a mud coated ball in tho
backneid was marvellous. and his run
ning back OF kicks probably the best
ever seen III a championship game, up-
der the conditions. Ankle deep in mud.
except when making a fair catch, he
invariably lodged the first two tack
lers who dove for him. and was sell
dom laid low By the third. Once he
ran back the kick-on TO mis- own hfty-
yard line, and once again he lifted
the lead bail out OF the mud off tho
thirtyyard line over the bar for YalSs
only score.
Princeton's handling OF the ball in
the backneld. too. was marked by
scarcely tumble. and the fast work
OF the ends on both teams was 4 no.
ticeable feature on day when IL was
something OF an achievement TO run at
all without falling down.
Whites Great Run.
Whites remarkable run came in tho
first quarter, and II came after Yals
had steadily outplayed Princeton and
kept the play practically in Princeton
territory, The game began with
Yale's kick off The Princeton catch
er was nailed before he could get
under way. and the Princeton oHense,
starting from the first scrimmage. pro-
ceeded to lose couple OF yards. a
puntinE duel followed. About eight
times the bali swung back and forth
between Princeton's goal and centre
OF the field Once poor punt by
Camp was neutralized by a tumble
of Pendleton's. when Mcloevitt recov-
cred tho ball. At another Yale's Of
Tense tore off ten yards. After all
this the net result was that Yale
forced Princeton back until she had
the ball on the thirtyfive-yard line.
having gradually crept over the centre.
Hero Yale's offense tore off I'VE yards.
There was thirty still TO go Tor
touchdown. and the Blue was In
position OF strategic advantage. Then
came the unexpected The ball shot
back from the Yale line and lay alone
upon the leid. The explanation OF
this was partly a mistaken signal
and partly the eagerness OF q Yala
back. who seemed TO oUtrun has sig
nal The pass came back perfectly
from ketchsm, the Yale back caught
1t under his arm, starting 10. Prince.
TONS LETT end and lost II And Yale'J
backheld their faces set for Prince
toms goal excusably perhaps under
the conditions, We're unable to recover
it. Princeton's ends coming across TO
block the play. one scooped up tho
ball the other interfered for his mate
and Just as 1t happened eight yeara
ago. II happened again. But thia