Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-20

The quarters were 12-10 minutes and 12-10 minutes.
 YALE'S ALERTNESs
 DEFEATED TIGERS Blue Eleven Took Advantage of Prince toms Errors-Seore 10 to O. Yale won, 10 to 0, from Princeton, Saturday, and for this Yale deserves all the credit that belongs to a fight ing, crippled team that gave the best it had to offer. But Princeton's col lapse was so amazing that even her plunged into despair as deep as the well of doom.
 It was beyond all, understanding that a veteran machine. out to revenge a past reeking and dripping with dis aster, should once more blow so wide apart, with fragments scattered up and down the field. The first quar- ter supplied the weirdest exhibition of football ever witnessed in a big November game. Both eleyens flop ped and 7foundered up and down the hard plain in a Punch and Judy exhi- bftion that was all to the Judy and nothing to the Punch.
 But after this initial furry Yale settled down to the main business in hand, while Princeton snntinued pop ping III VulneraDIe. spots like the pack fire of a racing car. After the first quarter and a portion of the second Yale went to the Punch, while Prince ton gave Judy a spicy play clean across the so-called boards.
 Princeton, in her strategy at vital spots, made every mistake that foot ball knows, and then, with the true spirit of the adventurer, went forth and dug up new bones, unknown to the science and research of the game,
 And this was only a part of it. In addition to these mistakes of strategy Princeton went to battle with a slug gish, rickety stride that had no phan- toms part of a chance against the Yale drive led by the indomiable Cu- pid Black, a Bersek and a Bulldog rolled into one massive frame that fre- quently expanded with such violence that complete nudeness was threat ened in the presence of S2,000 startled eyes.
 Cupe's white-banded brow, popping in and out and up and down all Varrean orifiamme. the emblem of no surrender and war to the death. It was Black who fell upon Prince tons tumble in the final quarter on the Tigers 20-yard line and gave the brilliant Ie Gore his chance to carry down zone as a preliminary 70 the smash off-tackle that plotted Prince tons waning dream from sight under a smear of Blue.
 It was also Black who led the charge of -Yale's forwards in an assault that soon battered back =Princeton's vet eran line. Few Yale captains, bat ting from the line, even knew a greater day than the husky, deep chested leader of the winning team
 The story of Princeton's weird stra- tegy-the story of Princeton's many ] mfstakes-the story of Princeton's bit ter defeat--is only partly told in the vital statistics unfold a peculiar yarn. her star quarter, Travers Smith, sick in New York hospital, stricken the day before the game. Yale went in then banking heavily on Le Gore, and yet Le Gore in the entire span of the game rushed the ball but thirty yards, tweaty-six of which came on one lone dash. In Le Cores eleven additional attempts he netted the Bulldog cause but four yards all told, or something under two feet to the rush.
 This only begins the upset. There are three main ways of gaining ground-by rushing the ball. by for ward passing and by returning punts. In these three departments Princeton picked up PA yards to 172 for Yale. penalties to Princetons twenty-five, we find that in the net total Prince ton put away 210 yards to ' ale's 102 Princeton. therefore, gained more than two yards to Yale's one, despite the fact that Yale had slight margin in the rushing game. a margin that was wiped away by the Tigers for ward passing prowess.
 When these two elevens meet, ground gained and such other details have nothing to do with the score. Princeton lost no chance to make her mistakes at critical moments And Yale, after a bad start, made no mis- takes that counted.
 A mere glance at the elements and incidents leading up to both Yale scores is quite enough. Through the first quarter and part of the second, both teams wore the game slick by handing it back and forth in a vain effort to blow. Drop kicks were thumped into the line one after an other. Fumbles resulted, and freak tactics ruled the day. But after the first two quarters Yale decided to play some football. while Princeton per sisted in her first and only system of playing ballyel.
 lows: Opening the third quarter Yale kicked off. On a kickoff the only people not onside are the coaches, the substitutes and the spectators. It was anybody's ball upon the field, yet Princeton permitted the kick to bound
 
 forward, covered the ball for Yale on the Tigers 20-yard line.
 That play was the beginning of 8 sombre end for Princeton, the begin ming Of the end of most imperfect day. It was another evidence of Princeton's mental and physical slug gfshness that doesn't show in the full box score. That play put Braden in the way for. his field goal. which fol- lowed tidily about two minutes later on.
 It was Princeton's wandering afar into the poppy fields of dreamland, plus Yale's alertness, that brought in the first score. The kickoff was a poor one and but for Princeton's dumbness the Tiger could easily have forced Yale. with a kick. deep into her own territory upon defensive play.
 That one slip was more than enough to offset over 200 yards of Prfnceton's attack. It more than overshadowed all the long forward passes, the line plunges and the end runs that the Tiger made all day. For that one slip brought three points more than Princeton's complete and combined offence.
 The next big Tiger detonation came