The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-14
CRAFTY TIGER
ELEVEN DOWNS
YALE 20 TO 0
Princeton Scores It's Finest
Triumph Since
1895.
ELI PUNCH Is MISSING
Thr0ng of $4,000 Sees Losers
.0utwitted - LOurie's
Brilliant Run.

PRINCETON. n. j., Nov. 13.-Prince-
ton. willy, watchful and fast, beat Yale
at football to-day with thoroughness
and opportune skill which heaped up
twenty points on the completely over
played sons of Eli. Twenty points for
Princeton, none for Yale, that was the
result of the most decisive victory
Princeton has won from Yale since
1895, when organized power tore the
Blue to bits as distinguished from the
wary, deity applied skill OF to-day's
epochal victory.
Princeton's finest triumph since the
dawn of the new game to-day's was,
and the climactic capsheaf of Prince
toms most successful season. In the
very top ranks of football is Nassau.
1t was witnessed by the greatest crowd
Princeton ever had for a football
game-4S, 900 or more-but not the
most demonstrative or enthusiastic of
crowds, for the excitement Of close and
uncertain combat was missing.
Inc eIIl )lloIldl sway VI u cOHleSb winch
might go either way, and with both
teams always having a chance. never
entered into the feelings of the en-
banked thousands, who had to get their
thrills out of seeing Yale doing ito best
in a hopeless cause and the proving.
eager and voracious Tigers playing foot
ball which for variety, proficiency arr
the knack of doing the right thing well
had reached the top rung of the grid
laIa
than the usual number that the mishaps
Of football entail, also dimmed the game
as a Kaleidoscope spectacle.
Second Half More Thrilling.
The first half, as at Cambridge the
week before. was far the least interest
ing of the two, though it was in this
half that Yale appeared to have a
chance to win. Princeton, just as the
half was ending, nared up with positive
achievement, but greater part OF the
first half bordered on the tedious. The
second half afforded a great deal more
enjoyment in positive and well defined
reward OF effort.
OF these $4,000 who were looking on
before the game was over hundreds were
not there for the start. The game was
well under way while they were still
winding across the corn fields plodding
the last few miles which the railroad
trains were not able TO bring them. A
delay somewhere and trains not able to
get up to the terminals, so cross coun-
try they trudged. like an army afoot.
Similar things have happened before at
Princeton-huge crowds poodly handled.
However, IL was fine day for walking
and superb weather for football-Prince-
ton football.
A blue, shmmering and smiling sky
for Princeton, but with Yale, hapless
Yale, so hemmed in and hedged about
by the splenddly schooled Tigers that
there was little bright or beaming in
the surroundings for them. So inefli-
cient and poorly equipped with punch
was Yale, an inetiiciency that sunk at
times to inepttude, that the crowd Won
dered
Yale, supposed to have kick or
punch. undoubted Indications of which
had been given in previous games, had
no offence which seriously endangered
the Nassau players. Yale had her OPP
portunities, had she had the punch.
With fast and penetrating drives and
slashes, she was at Princeton's 20
yard line on several occasions. but there
was not enough of other plays. or skill
in executing them. to supplement the
compact efforts NJ line jabbing. and fur
ther than the 20 yard line Yale could
not go.
Tigers Are Well Handled.
The Princeton team was handled with
rplendid genefalship. The Jerseymen
inade the most OF what they had. Yale
ineptitude took the form of lackwit ~
.rasping Princeton Intentions, a weak
ess which enabled the Tigers to make
. touchdown from a fake placement
.ick. Another reason Yale was beaten
-as muffed punt by Thorne Murphy,
on which Capt. Callahan of Princeton
seized the ball from "A weller Of strug-
cling players and ran over the goal line.
What Tad Jones, Yale coach, thought
at this moment only he could tell. for
This very same play was worked by
Jones and Ted Coy to beat Princeton on
,arsity field a short distance up the
nil. back in 1908. Which added to the
Bitterness Of Il.
Another Yale fault was poor tackling.
ia ckllng no team should be guilty Of in
november, and another was poor inter-
ference. The Yale backs were all right.
aot quite as speedy as Princeton's. but
hey deployed behind no helpful bust
uesslike screen as did Princeton's.
Princeton was better versed in the arts
OF football, much better was of nimber
mentality was better drilled and bet
Ter in execution Neither went far IN
repertory, and the Princeton forward
pass and the Princeton wide open at
tack-knots Of flankers far out and a
larger knot at the centre-possessed no
;errors of consequence for Yale.
IL was not with anything In continu-
Gus power that Princeton won but there
IS so much besides that in present sday
football that II IS almost secondary in
Importance. Princeton outwltted and
yutmanmvred Yale, and did Il TO what
Is popularity known as a fare-you well.
The Tigers played a better overhead
game than Yale, but. even So not a good
overhead game The Nassau Kicking
vame excelled after Scheerer. the ex-
optional punter, took Murrey's place
Before that Yale. with Murphy punting
lid better than Princeton. But Prince
toms kicking game included two goals
FROM the field. a drop Kick by Murrey
rom n hard angle and long place
kssS by Keck.
pSyp Kick ,vr 4 surth EsDvp.
che drop kick was made on n fourth
0wn at the beginning OF the first sec
3nd quarter The next points came from
a touchdown The stage was cleverly
gety for kick play and the moment
propitious. The Blue had held Prince
'on az midheld. and. as there was some
ing like second to play what was