New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
NASSAU CRUMBLES
AS ELI STRIKES
Iudomitable Attack by lie
Gore and Black Wins
Struggle
nr w. 0. MCCLELLAN

:. Stadium. Princeton, to-day, when the
.-.;.lv fashioned machine in blue jer-
49,, battered The heart and soul out OF
=. Princeton team. The final score OF
.no gives 10 indication Of how com
.,..,,v demoralized, whipped and
.-,tsa the battering Of the Yale CO.
49,, nropelled by the Bulldog fighting
crit left that Princeton team.
-, Nassau eleven was as thoroughly
,.,,., IS though the score had been 90
"a Psvchologically they were beaten
h.,or., the game started. On their
,,,xi,c before the game Princeton
..,,a fne chance OF a elean-cut VIC
,,-v but they did not feel 1t. Their
,,.ksrs did not feel it, consequently
n,v plsved a losing game from the
cav. They made every error thSt
could be made.
r,-4v thousand people saw the exhi-
rsop. IN .he first half they saw
-,ns that was exciting because OF its
soo,bau erudities. All Of the thrills
,-ospeed we're due 20 glaring errors
,-oeouslv bad football. IN the sec
md half the forty thousand saw Prince
4sn wilt and cover under the crude
~; confident rushing Of the Yale
eleven.
Fighting Spirit Did II
Y va. heartrending sight for the
Princeton half Of that forty thousand
Tsey saw Captain Black Of Yale with
Ms huge head bent forward and his
vida shoulders lowered-the very IN
esrnation Of the Bulldog spirit, hauling
.ha. bruised and battered team OF his
forward. That huge head, bound with &
white bandage, bobbed up everywhere
and sometimes those broad shoulders
bore up FIVE or six men.
7, was the fighting confidence tha'
Bl,ek psrsonifed that did it. Princeton
va,sd and shrank. The blue jerseys
seemed 10 swarm over them.
Braden, the pile-drive back. scored
As first points for Yale, but It was
.hs generalization Of the Princeton
team e1emplided by briggs. that led
70 The scoring. 1t came only rev
minutes af.er the whistle had blown
Tor plav in the second half
Commerford kicked off TO the
Prireeton 2O-yard line. The ball came
to within O. few feet Of briggs who
seemed n be dszed The Princeton
bsct evidently figured in some hazy
fashion that he could let the ball roll.
He was so dazed that he forgot the
football rules. and as he stood puz-
King In q blind fashion Mosely, the
Yale end, alert and clesr-headed, came
swooping up and snatched the ball,
starting for the Princeton goal line.
Then briggs recovered, and three
Princeton men, who stood close at
hAno tackled Mosely at once, but the
damage had been done. The four
Princeton players who watched that
ball drop 10 be picked up by Yale
man typifed the spirit Of the Prince
ton team. They were demoralized'
positively stupehed st times, by the
fear Of the Yale confidence which has
20 many times beaten them in the
face Of all reason.
Score Was Certain
With Yale holding the ball on
Prneeton's 2O-yard line and the
Psychological effect of the blunder
batting the Princeton eleven still fur
ther II was certain that there would
be score Only the manner OF scor-
ing remained TO be shown.
lie Gore made one plunge for three
yards and Braden. the drop kicker,
wt' called in. This brought the
shaken Princeton eleven 70 face the
q menace Of drop kick, with the pos
ability Of plunge at the line. La
Roche drove the ball two more yards.
Then Braden fell back TO the 25-
yarl line for the kick. The ball went
sigh but il was safely between two
goa. posts for three points. The whole
hing was achieved with such be-
Eildering speed that il was some time
before the Yale cheer leaders could
get anything like organized or CO.
herent rejoicing out Of their vocal
is,s.
The slertness, the confidence and the
oSt-and-out courage of their convie-
lions triumphed then and there for the
i@le eleven against theoretically
superior organization with an utter
isek Of confidence, daze OF forebod-
ING and no convictions. To put II
aoologicslly. the Tiger went IN for the
second half with It's tail between It's
,iegs and the Bulldog trotted IN with
nis tail up and licking his chops.
Black Typifes Eli Spirit
Il was Captain Black. the broad,
hesyy jowled Whelp OF the Bulldog, the
incarnation Of the lighting spirit Of Eli,
s',ho paved the way 20 the touchdown IN
We fourth period. IL was poor
ncraie or rather the utter absence of