The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-19
THE HALL OF FAME
FOR SAMMY WHITE
Like Napoleon, His Opportunity Came
and he Won for Princeton
the Game With
Yale.
FINAL SCORE WAS 6 TO 81
Nearly Forty Thousand People Wit
messed Battle and Much Money
Was Lost by the Ell
Followers.

UNITED Press Lease Wire Service
YALE. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov
Sammy White, the greatest OPP
portunist since Napoleon saw and
seized the whole of Europe, saw
loose football bouncing about the Yale
field today and grabbed it. That was
the end, and Princeton's football
squad, for the first time since 1908
defeated the Yale eleven. Score 6
to 8.
BY her victory today the Orange and
BLACK becomes the undisputed champ
ion of the big three the major
league of college football The Tiger
team has not been defeated this year
and she has victories over Yale and
Harvard to her credit And it is to
White and his ability to grasp a gold
en- opportunity that Princeton owes
her championship, for it was White
who seized an opportunity and beat
Harvard, and who duplicated the per-
Torrance today and beat Yale.
Field in Poor Condition.
Weather conditions for the champ
| ionship game of the year could not
/ have been less favorable. Twelve
hours of pouring rain had turned Yale
field into quagmire, while stiff
{v,d hof M hn Grid
prevented accurate punting or drop
kicking.
/ Despite the inclemency of the wealth
er, fully $4,000 people damned their
way into the great wooden stands that
surround Yale field Women were
there. wrapped in oilskins, SOU west.
ers, sable coats and steamer rugs.
Yale was outplayed in every depart
ment of the game, and the score of
6 to 3-twice as much for Princeton
as for Yale-showed about the rela.
tive merits of the two teams.
The locomotive yell doomed
across the Princeton stands, and
Yale responded with three times
three" but Yale couldn't win that
game with cheers.
Game Kicking Duel.
j. After that the game resolved itself
into kicking one. with few attempts
. at rushing the line. Twice Yale vain
ly attempted forward pass. Ii
/: kicking, Dewitt more than held his
own with Walter Camp, Jr, though
q neither could shine as punter witt
field.
What White was to the Princeton
; team, Camp was for Yale. He trul,
was his fathers son. The whole Yal'
y attack seemed to have been bull
about the rangy youngster who few
weeks ago wasn't regarded as goo'
T. enough to make the first team. H
was the most consistent ground gain
e er on the Yale team.
Man for man, the Princeton's rus
= line outplayed Yale. Captain Har
was tower on both offense and de
), tense, and often the great tackle wa
down the field with his ends, tacklin
/; runners in the open. 1t was his las
appearance in moleskins, and whe
s. the head of the Princeton rooters too
him and bore him away in trump
!; at the end of the game, he was vii
ing to admit he was the happiest ma
:; In the world. Duff, the Tiger rigf
guard, was another star that figure
r in the open field play. Fast, in spit
of his weight, he was all over til
0. field all the time.
e, Bluthenthal's work, which has mac
him the likeliest candidate for the a.
J; American team the game has develo
ed this year, stood out all the mol
e. prominently in face of Keteham
failure to deliver the goods"
10
Wagers Were Big.
O. Yale fans claim, as did the Harval
fans that it was fiuke that won fl
IL the sons of Old Nassau But Jungl
town undergrads say the "fluke" w;
e. White.
Thousands of dollars changed han,
D; on the contest, Yale men Offering 6
freely up to the moment the team
); went onto the field. Princeton M,
played the Dewitt "hunch" strong, f
u 1t was in 1903, on the occasion
Princeton's last victory. that CAPITA
n Geo. Dewitt's drop kicking from Il
field beat Eli And today it was a
0. ether Dewitt-W. H. this time-who
long kicking toe saved Princeton
more than one occasion.
IL Captain Howe. of Yale who was c
9 pected to beat the Tiger with his u
or erring drop kicking, failed in the re
X. of "fhe man of the hour Si.. TIN,