The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-17
PRINCETON TIGERS
AND YALE STRUGGLE
TOHARDFOUGHT TIE
Two Teams Battle to Stand
still, Neither Being Able
to Gain Consistently
PUMPELLY KICKS
A so YARD GOAL
All Points of the Contest Scored on
Field Goals-H. Baker Stars for
Tigers, While Pumpelly and
Flynn Take Blue Honors


Princeton, N. j., November 16.-Prince-
ton and Yale in their annual football bat
tie on University field today played each
other to a to tie. So evenly were the
teams matched that neither had Tho
power to rush the ball to a touchdown.
Each team put up a stonewall defense
and all the scoring was done on goals
from the Geld and a goai from placement
The result of the struggle was unsatis-
factory to both sides and especially to
the thousands of Princeton rooters who
saw the game slip from the hands of the
lighting Tigers in thglast few minutes of
play.
The hero of the game in the eyes OF
Yale was Pumpelly, who, coming into tho
game for the second time when everybody
expected to hear the timekeeper's whistle
blow, giving Princeton a victory, booted
the ball for a field goal from the so yard
line, tielng the score.
1t was one of the most remarkable goals
from the field ever seen on the Princeton
gridiron. No one expected Yale would try
for such score with the ball In midheld.
The time was short and it was a case OF
the chance and won. N
Pumpelly's Great Kick
Giving a signal apparently for a punt.
Pumpelly, who had but a few minutes
before taken Markle's place at right half.
dropped back and received a perfect pass
fromssK etcham Pumpelly dropped the
ball and then booted it on the rebound.
Hardly any one expected to see the ball
soar toward the goal post. But it quickly
began to rise and on @ dead straight line
toward the goal. Stew Baker, the little
Princeton quarter back, ran back and
held his hands UP ready to catch the ball.
but the more he backed the nearer he got
to the goal line and finally he backed
over the whitewash mark just as the
ball sailed between the posts.
AS the ball cleared the bar Referee
Neal Snow OF Michigan threw up his
hands indicating that a score had been
made and the thousands of Yale rooters
realizing that the daring back had tied
the score sent up a tremendous cheer.
The Yale substitutes turned somersaults
on the side lines and Pumpelly was all
most carried to his position by his fell
low players.
For Princeton the hero of the game was
I1obert Baker, who made both of the
Black and Orange field goals. Both were
easy chances, and came in the second
period.
Yale Scores First
Flynn, the tall fullback of the Yale
team, was the first man to make score.
In the first period he kicked a goal from
placement from within the 25-yard line.
Princeton surprised Yale by the ag-
gressiveness of her attack and the
strength of her defense. Yale's line
had been heralded as being almost i'm
possible of penetration. but the Tigers.
nearly every time they smashed into 1t,
made a gain. The trouble was they
could not keep up the terrific pace and
weakened as they neared the Yale goal
line. The Tigers got the ball within
the Blues ten-yard line in the second
period and being unable to carry 1t over
H. Baker tried for the field goal and
made it.
In the first two periods Princeton
slightly outplayed Yale in all depart
ments except kicking, in which Flynn
had a decided advantage over Dewitt.
Yale made but few downs in the first
two periods and resorted to much kick
ing, as she had a strong northwest wind
at her back. In the third and last
periods. however. the Yale men took
decided brace and penetrated the Prince
ton line with greater success.
Outside of the stubbornness of the t,e-
tense on each side, and Pumpelly's field
goal, there was nothing remarkable about
the game. Yale. because of the Harvard
game next Saturday. evidently was not
uncovering all her plays. The forward
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