Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-03
G0-GATE CRUsHEs
 ELI YALE'S HOPES
Defeats Blue Eleven by Score of 16-6
 Famous Defense Broken.

New Haven, Conn, Nov. 2.-F'or the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant Yales football team was beaten by an eleven which has never been rated, even on a par with the smaller fry, such as Brown and Dart mouth. The two latter teams of course, have had their triumphs over the members of the big four and it is not always unexpected when they manage to score a victory. The idea of little college like Colgate with it's roster of 450 students, being able to wipe up the ground with the high and mighty team of Eli was never dreamed of before Saturday. The score was 16-6, which just about represents the merits of the rivals.
 Yale showed just one flash of life, and in that brief moment looked like an eleven which might make trouble in the next fortnight for Harvard and Princeton. Just when it seemed as if the blue team had found itself and would make short work of the. men from New York state a cog slipped in the blue machine, and it was scat tered from one end of the turf to the other. Nearly all the play was in Yales territory except for the brief period when Colgate was swept down the field in the second quarter.
 Although Colgate clearly outplayed Yale in the matter of gaining ground only one of the tallies made by the visitors came as a result of clean cut play. The two touchdowns made by the minor leaguers' were helped along by poor handling of the ball by the Eli players. It is not the first time that the blue has gone down to defeat because some alert player on the other side was keen enough to swoop down and pick up a careening ball The les son of other disasters, however had not been learned. Once it was Talbot who dropped the ball and later it was Knowles The first time the Colgate men were twenty yards from the goal and the second time the ball was drop ped behind the line.
 When an agile and alert Colgate man hugged the leather to his breast in that first instance so that his team was put within striking distance of the goal posts it was the blue that looked like the minor eleven and the maroon that seemed to be the major one. There was an immense show of power in the plunging of the Colgate backs and the line men simply rip ped the defense of the blue to tatters It was bang. bang bang at the line or the blue. First to the right and then 10 the left it made no difference All looked alike to the smaller col leSe once they felt the scent of victory in their nostrils
 Colgate simply played horse with 6- membered that chat was one of the attributes of\the Yale eleven this year. on which must hope had been banked
 Those VITO are loyal to the blue did not think a great deal of the attack ing power so far, but had lived in hone that this would be taken care of be- fore the championship game had been reached. So good had the Yale de- fense been all year that up to Satur- day no eleven had been able to cross her goal line. But that defensive power crumbled up under the savage thrusts or sterling hackfield and a mighty dne line. There is little hope for the fortunes of the blue In the games that are to come. The last asset seems to be gone. They had trusted to keen the Tiger and the Crimson at bay just as they had done with the small er teams during the season, but all are wondering now just what is going to happen when team erpn a little col-