Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19
TIGERS HUMBLED
BY YALE ELEVEN
Princeton 0utpIays the Blue,
But Fails to Take Advantage
of Its Opportunities.
CROWD OF $4,000 is OUT

Princeton in the annual game here
today by score of 10 to o.
The result of the contest. which,
attracted the largest gathering of
spectators that ever thronged
into the Palmer stadium, was a
bitter disappointment to Tiger
Errors of play and
the generalship OF the Orange and
Black team virtually presented
for Eli scoring
and the New Haven combination
was quick TO take advantage of
the openings. with the result that
the Blue won her third straight
victory from the Orange and
Black since 1914.
The contest fell far short of
many OF its predecessors in this.
the most ancient of all American
foot ball classic series. The play
was slow and uncertain for the
part of the game, and
both combinations repeatedly
failed to advance or retain posses
sion of the ball at critical mo-
ments. Princeton showed the
same defensive strength which
has marked her play against
elevens all fall, but little or no
effective offense. Yale, with
more erratic but better balanced
combination, swung loose a fair
attack when scoring appeared
possible and with field goal and
routed the Tigers for
the second time in the new
Princeton foot ball arena.
5000 Witness the Game.
More than $4,000 spectators filled
every seat and available foot of stand
ing room in the huge concrete horse-
shoe and the Yale. cohorts went wiid
with joy when the Eli team. LED by
Cant Black. emerged victorious from a
contest in which 1t was thought iaio
had but an outside chance OF winning
Undergraduates and gray-haired alufu-
nj poured down upon the Princeton
turf and celebrated with cheers ana
snake dances the triumph. while over
head two aeroplanes spiraled and vol
blamed as If to add color to the victory.
The contest throughout the first two
periods showed little advantage or
strength either way. Both elerens mad
after periods OF rushing
and punting to kick field goals from
mparatively short distances out IN
of quarterbacks in selecting pre-
liminary plays and the positions FOR
the attempts prevented scoring IN lnlS
manner Yale's initial chance followed
after the kick-oH at the
opening of the third period. LIE Gore
drove the ball high to Princeton's 20
ward mark, where the Princeton play
ers permitted il to strike the ground
aud bound back into the arms OF LETT
end Moseley VINO came Gown the held
,lmost directly under the kick. Nose
ley grabbed the sphere and started for
the Orange and Black goal line. and IT,
was not until Capt. Iicgs threw him
with a vicious tackle that the major
to realize that the ball belonged to
Yale Several protested TO Referee
Tufts, but he waved them away. After
two line plunges. which proved that
Yale could not penetrate Princetons
defense at this period OF the game.
Braden dropped back and kicked an
easy field goal from the 26-yard line.
Clinch Game in Fourth.
In the fourth and final period the
Blue clinched the game b. adding a
and goal from touchdown,
and again Princeton made the score
possible by Il misplay. Following Il
punt across the Tiger goal line for =
touchbacll the Tigers put the ball into
play on their 20-yard line. In the sec
ond plunge against the Yale scriIH-
images Brown dropped the ball ana
Capt Black fell upon it for Yale. WITH
a touchdown just 80 yards away the
Eli eleven gathered itself for q desper-
ate charge. Twice the bulldog flung
itself against the Tiger line with little
or no gain, and then Quarterback La
Roche, q second string player subsi-
tuting for Smith, whose illness pre-
vented him from taking part in the
game, changed his tactics.
He called for a forward pass, Neville
to lie Gore. over the right side OF the
Princeton line.
me ply peiAcSbiS Gnu
when the Tiger tacklers finally CRAP
oled the runner and threw him to the
ground he was within three yards OF q
Two plunges. the second
with LIE Gore carrying the ball. scored
the final point OF the game.
With the score 10 to . against Prince
on, the Tigers uncovered sensation
Il forward passing game which for
short time threatened to make the
orange and Black factors in the final
minutes of the contest. Throw after
brow was successfully made and
aught. and quick marches for more
han half the length of the field re-
ulted. But in every case Yale's sec
ndary defense knocked down or in
excepted the thrown ball when
ouchdown seemed imminent and
licked out of danger.
This overhead attack was the best
eature OF Princeton's play today. but
anne too late to Offset defeat. In rush
ne and first downs Princeton made
nore ground than Yale, but could not
AIRY the attack through with the de-
isiye punch that the Eli showed when
he opportunity presented. OF the
eyenteen passes flung by the Tigers
even were completed for gain OF
nore than 100 yards. or the length Of
he field and had they been consecu-
Iyely manipulated might have changed
he result.
Princeton's Playing Better.
In individual play as well as team
FORK Princeton earned the greater
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