El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-17
Yale and Princeton Meet in
Gridiron Battle at New
Haven.


Football championships viii be won
and lost in Saturdays games. Gridiron
battles for this date viii settle in all
probability the question Of football
honors in both east and the west, and
the other games Of the season viii
count as naught compared with these
games. 1t is the test of the season,
and the games for which the college
teams have been preparing, for the en-
tire season.
Yale and Princeton Meet.
Yale and Princeton meet at New
Haven to decide the eastern champion
ship in the biggest game Of the day.
Both teams have proved themselves the
best IN the east by their games with
the other colleges, and the final decl-
sion as TO the respective ability OF the
two teams viii depend on the result OF
this game.
Princeton, by its victory over Harry
ard, is put in a class with Yale, and
makes this team eligible for a chance
at the eastern championship The
Tigers have not lost a game this year
and the nearest they came to getting
beaten was a tie score with the Navy.
They have conquered Harvard, Dart
mouth, Holy Cross, Colgate, stevens
and Villa Nova. Their game with
Dartmouth was the hardest of the sea
son, and they won by a small margin,
made by a lucky kick. The Tigers
poor showing in the Dartmouth game
can be blamed to over confidence.
Yale Lost but One.
Yale has lost only one game this
season, and that was TO the Army. The
game was played under adverse con-
ditions and the Blues defeat by the
Army on this account cannot count
strongly against them. as the field was
in a sodden condition and a heavy
storm ragged during the game. They
have redeemed themselves in the other
games Of the year and have proved
that they are in the first class of
football teams Of the country. They
have defeated Brown, Dartmouth, Holy
Cross and other big eastern teams by
Have Met Annually.
Yale and Princeton have met an
nualy on the gridirOn since 1876, and
in all Of these years the Tigers have
been the victors only eight times Yale
has won from them successfully since
1903, with one Of the games during the
time a tie score. All of the games
played between the two teams have
been close, and many of them decided
by the slightest score possible. In
1910 the game was decided in Yale's !
favor by to score
This year Yale will undoubtedly go
into the game a slight favorite, al
though Princeton viii be backed /
strong. The chances Of the two teams /
viii be about even. Barring accidents |
to the players between now and the |
time for the game the two teams have /
never. been more evenly matched than /
they are at present
Tigers Punt Best.
The Tigers have a little advantage /
IN the pnting department in the great !
Dewitt, and this will add to their /
chances a great deal, If an open game 4
is played. But to pick a winner in 4
the game is an impossibility as the 4
game will undoubtedly be close, and !
freak plays, which have already had !
such an important part in other big
games Of this season, may decide this j
game.
Western Teams Play.
The Wisconsin, Minnesota game for
the western conference title, and the
of their section, is second.
in Importance to the Yale-P Princeton
game. These teams have met all COM
srs in the west. and have done them
Up, and now they are the only two !
teams in the conference
Their game viii decide which is to be ]
he champion of the west.
Minnesota is a strong team, in fact
me of the strongest the institution has
ever turned out 1t has met some
.ough propositions on the gridiron this
7ear, and has done them up easily, its
star exhibition being when it over
vhelmed the Chicago team by a 80 to
score. All Of the other teams it has [
net have been beaten by even larger /
scores than this.
Wisconsin Is Strong.
Wisconsin, although it has defeated