Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-28
AMONG FOOTBALLS
 GREATEST GAMES.
Yale Princeton Battle of 1895 Ranks
 High in List of NotabIes.

An interesting contribution to the football chronicles of the season is
 made by D. L. Reeves of Philadelphia, and its tenor Is that the last Penn
 Michigan battle was the greatest football game ever played" It wasn't contended that the teams that played 1t were great teams, but that the con- test itself was great, and no doubt it was, says Billy Hanna in the New York Sun. It contained all the ele- ments of greatness, using the word in certain sporting sense, and surely 1t l was one of the most eventful or | games. It was great in It's excitement, | it's fine rallies. the spirit shown by the l Quakers, its action and it's stirring fin 1 ish Moreover, in the fact that Penn won after being 21 points behind is | just about unparalleled in football.
 There are no doubt many opinions of what is the greatest game ever played, and 1t Is a difficult matter to
 pin that description to any one game. | The writer never has seen 8 game
 which was as great. If constant action,
 exciting ebb and flow of battle. uncer-
 tainty to the finish and big things by | teams and individuals make greatness, 1 as the Yale-Princeton game of 1895 at Manhattan field. It was a vortex of strenuous strife from beginning to end, with both teams doing lot, and with long runs, blocked kicks and touch downs crowding hard on the heels of one another, although the teams in the
 historic game weren't the highest class
 ones either Yale or Princeton have
 turned out.
 The score of that epic conflict was 20 to 10 in favor of Yale, and any
 time there's & game with both sides scoring it's more interesting than when
 both sides don't. Yale made four
 touchdowns and Princeton two. and
 in passing 1t may be said that this
 years rules favor that sort of game.
 Among other things which happened
 were: Bass, a Yale end, got the ball
 on a tumble on Yale's 50 yard line and
 ran SO yards for the first touchdown.
 Yale was busy blocking kicks that au-
 tumn afternoon and blocked kicks all
 ways make the red blood leap. Charles Chadwick blocked three, on one of
 which Yale recovered the ball on , Princeton's 15 yard line and Thorne- 1 tine incomparable Thorne, who was a Coy, a Brickley and a Thorpe in the
 battle-went over on the next play for
 a touchdown.
 |, The score was 12 to 0 at the end of the first half. and it looked rosy for , Yale, but in the second half the Tigers 2 made a mighty brace and threw g , scare into the blue ranks before tht f struggle ended in the dark. Witt
 Barnard and Kelly bucking the line = and Princeton never has had a better
 back than Kelly-Princeton rushed th'
 ball from the center of the field tt 7 Yale's 10 yard line. Here Yale braced | took the leather on downs and Thorn f ran a punt from Yale's 50 yard line tt Q Princeton's 15. From there touch 2 down was made. No goal was liicket = and Yale had Is points to Princeton Il none.
 n Then the Tiger awoke. Barnard an, I Kelly ripped into the blue line am = Princeton went 50 yards for a touch if down. A few minutes later a punt b, . Jerrems was blocked by Tyler, tn n Princeton tackle. The ball carome if back to Yale's line and in the will Q scramble for it Thompson of Princeto
 nailed 1t for a touchdown. Yale nov if was only-6 points ahead and 1t wa r anybody's game until just before tn d finish Thorne, with as thrilling a ru
 as ever was seen, went 45 yards for l. touchdown on ca fake kick We ca e see him now streaking and lodging i . the dusk through the Tiger team an ,I swerving away from oJhnny Baird, tn V last man in the Princeton defense.