The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-03
OPENING GAME
FOR FOOTBALL
CHAMP iONSH|P
HARVARD AND PRINCETON WILL
CONTEND FOR HcNoRs NEXT
SATURDAY, MEETING FOR THE
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL GRID.
IRON CONTENTION.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

A44SSLOIls N. j., on SATURDAY, When
the elevens of Harvard and Princeton
universities meet in their annual COM
bat. This will be the seventeenth con-
test between the teams of the two in
situations since 1877, when the Tigers
and Crimson first mingled on the foot
ball neld. There have been a number
OF breaks in the series between Prince
ton and Harvard, and at present the
score stands Princeton IS victories, 4
defeats; Harvard, victories, ID de-
feats. Opening with two games in 1877,
the colleges played annual games until
1889. In 1895 the series was renewed
and continued for two years, and was
then abandoned until the autumn of
1911. Slice then the play has been
continuous so the next Saturdays game
may be considered the third of the
present cycle.
Judging from the form displayed by
the two elevens which are to clash in
the most important game of the east
this week, Harvard should be q slight
favorite, but Princeton adherents point
to the peculiar fact that the Crimson
has not defeated the Orange and Black
on the Tigers home field in many
years. AS a result a tradition has
sprung UP in Princeton to the effect
that Harvard cannot win from Prin-
ceton anymore than 1t can defeat Yale
in the Cambridge stadium. The Grim
son cohorts hope to shatter both these
traditions this year, but should the
Tigers win on Saturday, faith in the
ability of Harvard to defeat Yale in
the coming game at Cambridge will
receive a severe setback.
SO far as football pioneer activity
and traditions are concerned, Prince
ton has a decided advantage over
\ e.. h.
gridiron several years ahead Of the
Crimson and have made football his
tory which needs no apology when COM
pared with that Of Harvard, now care
fully guarded in musty tones at Cam
bridge Princeton football dates back
to 1869, when, aided by Rutgers, the
Tigers put American intercollegiate
football in the category of United
State college sports. For more than
forty-four years Princeton has played
football each season and the total
number of games run into surprisins
dgures. Her record to date shows |
BAT games, of which 500 have been
won, So lost and IL tied. Harvard |
inaugurated football at Cambridge in |
1874, and to date has played exactly |
the same number of games as Prince
ton, but not with the same success |
OF the BAT games, 291 have been won;
Al lost and tied.
Discuss ouimet's Play.
Despite the rather erratic play Of
Francis Ouinet since the youthful |
golfer won the United
States open championship by defeating |
both Ray and Vardon in the sensation |
al extra round at Brookline, the fol- |
lowers of the ancient and honorable |
game continue to discuss the remarka-
faof ing tn!
the exciting scenes attendant upon the |
final two days of the tournament many |
sidelights were temporarily |
overlooked. Not the least of these was |
the activity of the America and for |
eign newspaper corps sent to report |
what was without doubt the greatest |
golf tournament ever held in the new |
world. The correspondents working At |
top speed in the mist, rain and mud, I
made some records themselves, al |
though these were not given the same |
of publicity thai followed Quiz
NETS victory.
While the young American golfer
was busy overturning British golfing
traditions, the correspondents were
equally busy in establishing another
news handling record for golf event
in the little press room at the Coun-
try club. More than a quarter of
million words were sent over the wires
and 20 900 by cable to London and Ed
inburgh during the five days Of play.
1t required some lively work on the
part of the golf writer's to cover the
field and some amusing incidents oc-
One visiting English cores
pendent will probably remember the
event for some years.
When Vardon holed his putt on the
I'D green on Friday, tying Ray for
first place, the Englishman strolled into
the press room and confidently sent a
cable announcing that Vardon and Ray
had vanquished the Yankee field and
would have little match Saturday
to see which would carry home the title.
Ouimet at the time was in the slough |
Of despond'' on the 18th hole and ap-
oeared to be impossible as a winner. |
British golfing supremacy lasted near
y three-quarters Of an hour, or until
ouimet holed his long putt for a 8
On the list green.
It is a good 44O-yard run from the
green to the club house and the Eng
fsh correspondent did it close to Ofym-
pic figures, but the first despatch was
already well past London and on its
way to Calcutta, Hong Kong and Mel
bourne. The next day the Englishman
waited until Ouimet had sunk his last
putt on the final green before announc-
ng the new champion. But again he
was beaten for another foreign CORES
1ondent had flashed the winner, when
Varden and Ray drove into the rough
rom the eighteenth tee, while Ouimet
With four strokes in his bag stood alone ;
behind a perfect lie in the center of
he fair green waiting for his already
1eaten opponents to play the odd"
Field Dogs Usefulness.
The admirer of the field dog in act
We competition is at the present mo-