New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-14
Observation-Disclosures
Old-time Spirit and
Power of Eleven.
COSTLY FUMBLES
BEAT PRINCETON
Crazed Throng of $1,000
Sees Thrilling Battle
in Great Bowl.
By HERBERT.

Yale defeated princeton IN pUElper
bowl here to-day by a score Of 13
70 7. and no words of tongue or pen,
be they glad or sad, are needed to
smbellish this trite announcement in
introducing the story of a football
game which held sixty-fve thousand
ran and women in thrall for the bet
part Of two nerve-tingling hours.
&c rose from the depths Of four
as. took unto itself new vigor
and fairly bubbling over with fight
and spirit, beat what Percy D.
Hauchton said one week ago was
tho best eleven Harvard had faced
since he picked UP the coaching reins
= Cambridge in 1908.
Lightning does strike twice in the
s.-,e place when attracted by the
Genius. the indomitable will and the
,,sp'ring fo,.e Of Tom Shevlin. He
,sr'e out Of the West ten days ago,
.rrt rs he did five years ago, and
oyed critical situation by giving
.se Yale eleven enough new weapons
-e-.ore confidence and to rouse
,arging spirits. This game to-day
g ecacthire more than q battle OF
brawn and skill and wits. 1t was
study in psychology.
And set, with all credit TO Yale Tor
he arht it made, for the game II
rlayed. it must be said that the Tigers
g.ers:.v fumble5 away their chances
As was the case enc week ago against
Harvard. damaging errors opened the
doors wide for Yale victory.
Il seems necessary for the moment
% pass over the first period, witn all
IL thrills. to the early part NJ the
second. when Otis Guernsey lent the
irst spectacular touch by making one
4 the longest drop kicks in the history
os football. Standing beyond the
centre of the field, on the 52-yard line,
20 be exact, he drove the ball with
amazing power and unerring accuracy
clean between the posts. II did not
rise high and float, but sailed straight
and true as an arrow from bow, hit
the crossbar and bounded over.
This wonderful kick electrified the
crowd and put all Yale men closer to
the madhouse than they ever hope to
get again. IL seems necessary for an
other moment 70 pass over Guernseys
second drop kick from the 35-yard
line touchdown by Driggs from
Princeton, after a defensive stand by
Yale, which will live long in memory,
which put the Tigers in the lead by a
score Of 20 G, in order to reach
play that made all the difference be-
tween winning and losing.
Touchdown Follows Tumble.
The second half had hardly opened
when Tibbott, hercely tackled by Cap
tain Alec Wilson, fumbled long boom
ing punt from the foot Of Guernsey.
PIE" Way, the baseball pitcher, was
the lucky one Of three Yale men who
we're on the ball like a fash. He
snapped 1t up and, racing twenty yards,
unmolested, landed the ball squarely
behind the Princeton goal posts for a
touchdown. Guernsey kicked the goal
and Yale, as it turned out, had won.
The story might end here and he a
story Of one Of the most spectacular
and wracking games ever played on a
chalk marked field. but the dramatic
touch was yet 20 come. and no drama
q, football ever written climbed TO a
more vivid and blood tingling climax.
The game was drawing TO close; the
fourth period had hardly more than two
minutes 10 run. The thousands on the
Tale side were inwsrdly celebrating in
sltieipstion; the thousands in the
Frineeton camp were hoping against
hope, and then suddenly the gods OF
OTIS Guernsey, whose punting had
been such an asset for Yale, got of a
11or drive, which carried a scant TWEEN
Y yards against the wind. The ball hit
ne ground, bounded Of 20 one side,
vas snapped up by Law, who had been
l1otntuted for briggs, and was car
hso Ten yards % Yale's 32-yard line.
ihen Princeton opened wide it's bat
krss and cut loose an offensive drive
sheh bore Yale back by the sheer
'site Of ~ power and cunning. Twenty
sght yards the Tigers went in eight
p.syh, aimed az the centre, OF tackle
y around The ends. az Captain Clicks
Ken brain dictated.
Isie fought back and contested every
'heh oi ground 70 hold game that
,sntd safely won moment before.
We Tigers were now reused 20 fury,
es WIN new lust for victory seemed
ssisnbie. The huge bowl seethed In
~eeefning frenzy. Faces were tense
~ minute and looEc the next. Organ
- ehstring gave way 20 rumbling
rith The followers Of both teams
sl''rng or shouting words Of encour-
ne ball finally rested on Ysle's
pfa line, and then for n moment .
Asr and omiDOgs silence settled
,aa ,hs vast thrOng. 70 be broken the
80 ~ mighty roar from The Yale
"hsn Dickerman. VINO had been