The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-14
RECORDS MAY Be SMASHED
IN YALE-PRINCETON CAME
Big University Elevens Meet To-day
For Fourteenth Time-Neither
Goal Line Has Been Crossed For
Touchdown Since 1911

New York, Nov. 14.-The football
teams of Princeton and Yale Universi-
ties play their annual game at Prince
ton this afternoon. Several interesting 9
eolncidents mark this particular meet
iGg of the elevens. To begin with it
Is the f0rtieth game between the uni
Nersitles, the series having been start
Ell III 1878. During this long stretch
OF, years not single dispute of suf-
tlcient Importance to threaten the
athletic relations of the two varsity
rivals has developed. AS if in eelebra-
tion OF this splendid spirit of sports
mluship, Yale will, as the opponent of
Princeton, figure prominently in the
formal opening of the Palmer Memoir
ial stadium the Tigers new football
amphitheatre.
Fhls huge structure, second only in
size to the new ale " Bowl with its
seating capacity for 1000 spectators
will permit the Princeton management
to accommodate a larger gathering OF
football followers than has heretofore
witnessed any one game between these
two university teams. According to the
statements of Treasurer George h.
Murray, the Palmer stadium will be
filled this afternoon every seat having
been sold and as a result the gross gate
receipts will aggregate $4,000. This
sum is considerable in excess of any
previous game receipts and as it is di-
vided equally between the athletic as
sociations of the two universities will
30 far toward meeting the expenses
incurred by various sport teams which
annually lost money, such as the crews
and track teams.
With new records for attendance
and gate receipts assured close follow
ers of football are predicting that the
recent record of no touchdown games
viii also be wiped out. Not since the
1911 game has either university cross
ed her rival 5 line for touchdown. In
that year Sam White picked up a Yale
tumble and ran sixty odd yards, seor-
ing Princeton 5 winning points. In
1872 the game ended in to tie.
each eleven scoring two field goals. the
most sensational being Pumpelly S
forty-niue yard drop kick which tied
the score for Yale in the closing min
Baker dropped a successful field goal
for the Tigers and Guernsey did like
wise for Yale. According to the experts
the swift, open and dashing attack OF
the two teams this autumn warrants
the belief that one or hoth will sue
ceed in carrying the ball across the
opponents line. One enthusiastic
Princeton supporter has gone so far as
to predict that the honor will fall TO
quarterback Ames, the son of the ia
nous Snake Ames now coaching at
Princeton, whose ninety and sixty-fve
yard runs against Harvard in the 1889
game are gridiron classics.
While this is pressing prophecy hard
the fact stands out that Princeton
football is celebrated for developing
family stars from generation TO gen
GRAFTON. The names of the Poes, Riggs
aud Others have Won places in the
orange and black honor roll and hardly
? game is played which does not pro-
duce some sensational player or play.
lt is this feature as we'll as the tradi-
tions which surround the series that
makes the annual Princeton Yale game
one of the football events of the year.
Going back over the records it n seen
that each season the teams have met
in interesting games regardless of the
Almost constant changes in the rules.
When Princeton and Yale lined up
in the initial game of the series in
1873, the contest was played under
the Rules of 1879 which were
moIerfcation of the association code.
Three years later the intercollegiate
ruIes were adopted but an arbitrary
addition was made to the effect that
goals only should count as in previous
seasons. In 1882 the rules were amend
Ell so that two safeties equaled
touchdown and year later the point
scoring system. now in vogue, was