Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-14
FORTIETH 7IGER-ELI GAME
Forty Thousand Spectators Expected
at Big GridirOn Struggle Today.
WILL DEDICATE BIG STADIUM
New Palmer Memorial at Princeton
20 BE Formally Opened by Foot
Bail Battle between Wen
Matched Teams.

PRINCETON, n. j., Nov. 13-The for
tieth foot ball game between the teams
OF Princeton and Yale will be played
here tomorrow afternoon before the larg-
est gathering that has ever witnessed a
contest between two institutions. Judg-
ing from the advance sale OF seats fully
5000 spectators will file into the new
Palmer Memorial stadium. which will be
formally dedicated by the gridiron strug
sic between the Ellis and the Tigers.
Dating back to 1878, this series OF foot
ball games is one Of the classics of the
sport. having continued unnterruptedly
since 1876, when foot ball was adopted as
an American college sport.
The elevens arc expected TO enter the
game well matched. for both squads con-
tam number of veterans and brilliant
recruits, who have been drilled by strong
coaching stats until they have reached
the end OF the season stage. developing
INTO powerful and aggressive nggrega-
. lions Although defeated or held to n tie
SCORE game at least once by early season
opponents. the two teams are now for
rnidaole combinations. well verscd in all
the offensive and defensive tactics OF
modern foot ball.
Hlnkey Machine Won.
Under the coaching OF Frank Hlnkey
former captain and star end at Yale dur
Ing the carly nineties, the Ellis have
rounded into one Of the most versatile
scoring machines Of recent years The
Tigers, with Herring, Snake" Ames and
other equally famous Princeton players
Of past years, acting as coaches, have
shown some brilliant open methods OF at
IS as strong as that disclosed by Yale ON
several occasions is considered doubtful
by the experts. In the seven games
played by Yale this season the Blue was
never IN danger except in the Washing
ton and jefferson contest, when the Ellis
met team entirely too powerful and we'll
drilled 70 be held in check during the
October training period Princeton's best
playing was done against Dartmouth and
Harvard. and in both these games the
Orange and Black brigade demonstrated
that the Princeton eleven OF 1914 wa
considerably above the average. Thu
Tigers have faced a trying schedule al
season and enter their final game pre-
pared for the hard struggle that the Ellis
always offer
During the last few years Princeton ha.
proved Iar more IoftnldaDles from n al
standpoint, than was the case earlier 4
the series. The Els last victory owe
the Tigers was in 1910. when the fina
score was to g. Princeton won to
in 1911, this being the first defeat admin
istered TO a Yale team in eight years
and followed this success by holding tn
Blue to tie-score games in 1912 and 1915
or the thirty-nine games played sine
1873 Yale has won twenty and Princeton
ten and nine have been tied.
Records of Two Teams.
The records OF the two teams and sta
tistics OF varsity and first substitute
follow:
PRINCETON'S 1914 RECORD.
September 26-Princeton, ~; Rutgers,
October 3-Princeton, 10; Bucknell, 0.
october l7-Prlnceton, is; Lafayette, 0.
october 2t--Princeton. is; Dartmouth, L
October d-Princeton, q; Williams: 4
November princeton, 0; Harvard, 20.
YALE'S 1914 RECORD.
September 26-Yale, 20; Maine, Q.
October 3-Yale, q; Virginia, o.
october O--Yele, 20; Iehigh,
October 17-Yale, 2S; Notre Dame, Q.
October 24-YRle, Z; Washington and Jel
October s1-Yale -; Colgate, T.
November 7-Yale, IA; Brown, ..