The Washington times., 1914-11-15
Yale's Showing Gives
Ellis Strong Hopes For
Battle With Harvard
Bulldog Bewiders Tiger for Three Quarters With Lateral
Passes and an Offense Which Was Generally Difficult
Coach Hinkey Gives Substitutes Chance.

PRINCETON. y. j.. Nov. l5.-l ale
won, clearly and emphatically on the
merits of the play. breaking three
year football deadlock, defeating the
Tigers for the first time in Palmer
stadium by 19 TO u, and holding out
The hope tpat Harvard will be dealt
with on saturday on fairly even terms
This is the opinion expressed today by
a majority OF football critics.
The bare figures fail 10 eXpresse the
meaSu of Yale's win. For three-quar-
ters Yale bewildered Princeton with
lateral passes and triumphed over a
Gamely fighting bunch. In the fourth
period Coach Einkey elected to rush
many Yale substitutes into the game,
believing the contest safe.
For the final fifteen minutes Prince
. ton awoke with new-found strength.
scored two touchdowns and nearly
caused Yale followers heart failure.
The return of the Yale regulars 10 the
struggle failed 10 stop Princeton, and
Tiger followers are today confident
that il was the officials stop watch
rather than the Yale team that defeat
ed the Orange and Black.
With ten minutes more tC go Prince
ton may have been able to defeat Yale,
but the rally came 100 late. Princeton,
however. has succeeded in saving a
more or less disastrous season from
utter and complete failure, but has
demonstrated to all concerned just
where the fault lies.
AinsWorth scored Yale S first touch
down about the middle of the first
period on skilfully receiving forward
pass and running twenty-five Yards for
a touchdown. Red Brann made the
second, Just before the second period
closed, on receiving 3 forward pass
over the Princeton goal line after the
Tigers had checked a steady march
down the field inside their own 5-yard
line. Scovil. who was substituted for
Knowles as the second half began.
scored the third touchdown in the third
period on a 2-yard plunge that wound
up a fifty-yard advance. lie Gore
kicked only one of the three goals.
Moore scored Princetons first touch
down. in the fourth period. winding up
2 sensational advance with a dash for
sixteen yards. in which he described
complete letter before evading one
what probably was the most spectacu-
lar play of the game. Click scored the
second, with a desperate plunge off
tackle for four yards TO wind up
seventy-five yards. Law kicked both
goals with unerring skill.
The Yale eleven was the stronger
and more finished. except possibly for
a brief period at the end, when the
Tigers were simply tearing things open
in sheer desperation. The lateral pass
ing game, of which SO much has been
told and which has been so carefully
developed by Frank Hinkey, worked
cutie often enough to prove its value,
md this combined with q we'll d.
rected running attack. off tackle or
through tbs center, q clever use OF the
forward pass and the best punting by
lie Gore seen in many day. combined
10 make the offense as varied as il was
pretty to see. Football Of that kind will
make new converts by the thousands
Yale's defence is open to some Ques-
ton. II was quite strong and COM
pact enough for three periods to stop
and burl back anything that Princeton
had to offer. but. as said before. it
broke badly in the fourth period and
Judged on that worth. would be a
paper wall to Harvard's fast charging
backs. II must moi he accepted At
that worth. however. or at least that
is my opinion.
The Tigers had no offensive weapons
worthy Of the name in those much re
ferred 10 three periods, falling to make
2 single first down by rushing. and
gaining not more than ten or fifteen
yards. The Cosc ches kept changing
about the backs and tried three or four
combinations until by chance they land
ed on Click AT quarterback. Law al FUN.
and Moore and Dickerman as halves.
This combination proved itself in no
mean way.
Defensiveiv the Tigers also were a.
FAULT against the game which Yale ran
Gf so smoothly. They never gave up
fighting. while Ballin. Mclean. and
Eddie TrenckmaI did yeoman service
in the first line and Click in the sec
ond line. but on the whole Yale's at
-ack could be checked only at times
hut not stopped. Fundamental weak
resses cropped up. too. and for hig
Eane the tackling was far below the
standard
Yale gained 1S7 yards by straight
rilshing for nine first downs to only
wne yards for Princeton and no first
GOWNS in the opening half. Yale also
1ded q hundred Yards in the third
Teriod for four first downs TO prac-
1lcally nothing for Princeton. hrt the
Tigers, when they did wake up. gained
80 yards in the fourth period for nine
FIRST downs. which saved this particular
situation II not the game.
In punting Yale gained many vslu-