The Washington times., 1911-10-30

Yales football elevens. judging from
their great string of victories running
back to the early days of football in the
'7O's, is fairly entitled to the champion
ship OF the gridiron. Yale's winning per-
centage reaches the noble figures of .945.
Up to this season. which is not in
cluded in this summary. eighteen VIC
tories have been scored over the Ellis
by all opponents since football was
started at New Haven.
Aside from Harvard and Princeton
but three teams have managed to- de-
feat the Blue gridiron warriors. Thus
it can be imagined with what real feel
ing those high in football at New Haven
last year presented the Brown eleven
with the ball used in that that awful sr dGWno n"no
of it. Yale held that ball disgracetui
thing for It's trophy room, even as
Brown wall cherish 1t forever.
West Point has taken three victories
away from Yale, this years being the
third. Jim Hogan's lamentable outht.
by many considered the worst that ever
wore the blue, went down to deleat py
the Army in 1904. Not since 1875, when
goal, had the sons of Ell lost but to
any but Harvard or Princeton. A groan
went up from New Haven, coaches
fiocked to Yale Field and the two cham.
rionship games were won by scores OF
II to 0.
End of the World.
Last year the Army again defeated
Yale. and, to make matters worse.
Brown whitewashed the Ellis by a large
score of q to o. That was the end OF
the world for Yale. Every football en-
thusiast remembers how Princeton was
defeated by the close score or TO 8,
and how the powerful Harvard eleven
was held to a no-score tic at New
Haven a week later. That was direct
result Of the defeat by Brown. Yale
bulldog spirit is TOO evldent-the grim
ferocity which will not admit defeat.
Yale has met all the strongest elevens
on the gridiron, too. Weak teams are are
Eli mentors. They have an elaborate
system of training. which, like that of
old Sparta, demands bitter medicine.
Princeton is the best-likekd of all visit
Orange and Black has proved a worth
Ter opponent OF the Blue than mas Har-
ward.
Has Nine Victories.
Nine victories have been scored over
Yale by Princeton since they began
their annual battles. Yale broke with
Harvard several times since they com
menced playing football, but Princeton
! record goes back in an unbroken line tc
1876, when Yale registered its first vic
tory over the Tigers. Yale has wor
twenty games from Princeton. ant
| seven were ties.
Princeton's winning figures of .ssS en-
titles 1t to second position behind Yal'
| for football supremacy. Aside from
Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania, the
| Tigers biggest contenders, six team,
have humbled the Orange and Black
Little Rutgers. which used to have
some football teams in the early days
| did 1t in 1869. by a score of to 4. IL
| 1899 Cornell managed to win from thu
Tigers In 1900 both Columbia and Cor
| nell defeated Princeton.
| Dartmouth sprang into the forefront
of football consideration in 1905, wheI
the Green defeated the Orange ant
| Black in the rain at Princeton. by
| touchdown and goal from touchdown
Three years later this was repeated a
the Polo Grounds. New York. tn,
Tigers going down to 10 TO defeat.
Navy Beat Princeton.
This year the Navy team hell
Princeton to a no-score tie and filled IT.