The sun., 1916-11-11
CRIMSON TO TEST
PRINCETON ELEVEN
Tigers Will Try to Break Spell
Of Four Successive Years
Of Defeat.
YALE TACKLES BROWN


BY DANIEL.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Nov. 10.-For the
twenty-frst time since 1877 Harvard
and Princeton will meet on the football
field tomorrow afternoon I'm the Har-
ward Stadium. BY far the biggest fea-
ture OF the day In football. the game will
inauEurate the annual series OF Har-
vard-Yaie-Princeton contests, which
have earned a most distinctive place
among American sport classics.
While It's rivals for Eastern suprem-
acy are having It out here. Yale will
wind up it's preliminary work with a test
against Brown at New Haven. That con-
lest presents to the Ellis a task as Sc
we're az that which confronts either the
Crimson or the Orange and Black.
Fresh from It's success over Syracuse.
Dartmouth will seek new laurels at the
expense Of Pennsylvania. at Philadel-
phia. while Cornell and Michigan will
meet In one of the long established in
tersectlonal fixtures. at Ithaca. Pitts
burg and Washington and Jefferson will
meet In F%ittsburg in n game hat once
was largely Of local interest but through
the development of the contestants has
taken on a wider significance.
Harvard has In recent years enjoyed
unusual success In It's games with
Princeton. for the Tigers have not beaten
the Crimson since Sam Whites year. in
1911. Yet. despite the four successive
victories. Harvard has Sill to go quite
a way before it ever approaches even
terms In the series Will the sons Of Old
Nassau. Princeton has won twelve
games since the meetings were insti-
tuted here on April IS. 1877. on Jarvis
Field. now dotted with buildings In the
Harvard Yard. Harvard has % seven
games and one battle resulted In a draw.
Crimson Won First Game.
Harvard won that pioneer contest In
1877 by two t~ouchdowns and Il goal
gains one touchdown. but the second
game. in November Of the same year,
saw Princeton begin a string Of sue
cesses that was ended only by the tie
In 1881. at the old Polo Grounds In New
York. Each side scored a slfety. The
game Of 1882 developed a near draw
which was decided in favor Of Harvard.
The Crimson scored one touchdown
and a Held goal. while the Tigers got one
touchdown and a goal. Princeton claimed
a lie, but Robert W. Watson OF Yale.
who refereed. declded justly in favor Of
Harvard. That controversy had one
result that worked wonders for The
growth OF interest in :oothall-it brought
"A system OF numerical values for the
various factors In scoring.
In 1885 there was a break in the
series because OF the abolition OF foot
bali at Harvard. but the game again was
sanctioned IN 1856. when Princeton
triumphcd trough the proves OF Snake
Aines. The ~latter's son. Young Snake.
WI undoubtedly play quarterback for
Princeton for AT least part OF the game
Tomorrow. The Harvard tandem was
sprung to TIE discomntu re OF the Tigers
IN 1887 and Princeton was whipped.
TIGER should woke Up.
From 1859 to 1895 there was another
break in football relations. The game
% 1896 ended Harvard-Princeton compe-
tition for fourteen years. Then came
the revival of the series In 1911 and
PrincetOn's victory by S to s.
Since then the Tiger has Jared rather
III. but there are indications that he
again will come into his own tomor-
row afternoon. While the odds tonight
"a W Harvard at > 10 I there really is
n" basis for making the Crimson the
iist choice.
Princeton has a veteran team-an
eleven tina made tine best combination
which ever represented Harvard play to
the limit to win by 10 TO s last year,
There isn't another rush line. from tackle
to tackle. like that OF the Tigers. In Gen
merit. Sourse and Capt. Hogg they have
the greatest centre trio In the country.
Along the line Harvard excels only at
the ends. Highley and Wilson OF Prince
ton are first class men. but they are a
bit light for the work at hand and may
give way to Funk and VIM, who scale
near The $50 mark.
Casey May Make Trouble.
In the backfcld Harvard may excel.
hut that remains to be seen. Casey I'M
doubtedly will make trouble for the
Tigers and Thacher. Horween. Bond.
Flower. Wilcox and Mlnot. n Murray
and Robinson. the quarterhacks, make a
great galaxy to lend assistance. How
ever. Billy Moore Is a faster man than
even Wilcox. the speediest OF tho Grim
son combination. and the New Yorker
may outshine even Casey.
, briggs. Tibbott. Brown and Ge6rgi are
not to be passed over lightly ever In
COLUMBIA VS.. SWARTHM0RE.