Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-11-11
BULLDOG AND
TIGER PR|MED
Princeton Battles Yale in New
Haven Bowl Tomorrow
Afternoon

The second of the eastern football
classics 70 rthe season Of 1921 VIII
be played in the Yale Bowl here
| tomorrow afternoon when n elev-
ems of Princeton and Yale meet In
their annual struggle. Dating
| back to 1873 the annual gridiron
| battlp between the two famous uni
| versities is so surrounded and en-
twined with varsity and football
tradition that, with h possible ex-
ception of the Harvard-Ya contest
it exceeds in interest from an east
ern standpoint any other game OF
the year.
| Year in and year out regardless of
whether the two teams are of ex
ceptional power or merely mediocre
in comparison with ether college
teams of the same section, the bat
tie of the Bulldog and the Tiger
famed in song and story, attracts
record attendance. Each fall the
Palmer Memorial Stadium at
| Princeton, or the Yale Bowl here.
as the case may be is taxed to ca
pacity and thousands OF apphca-
tons for tickets are returned for
lack of seats. Tomorrow'S game
is no exception for the huge foot
ball amphitheatre of the Blue has
been sold out for weeks and tickets
would command many a hundred
per cent premium were they avail
able to the spectators.
Interest among the undergrad
yates, alumni and general follow
ers of the football chances of the
two elevens is particularly keen
this year for some unusual circum-
stances surround the coming COR
test and there is a possibility that
traditions of the game may be
shattered. After several eason of
rather Indifferent playing form aud
power, Yale appears to ave de-
veloped a combination more In
keeping with the football history
of the Blue. Under the coaching
of Tad Jones. a former Eli star OF
magnitude, Yale appears to pos
sess a fast, angy, alert eleven,
each player possessing that keen
football instinct which is a gift
and seldom acquired by the dull,
practice routine. Team after team
has gone down before the attack of
the Ellis without scoring and even
the strong Army eleven was de-
feated IA to q.
Against this rejuvenated Bulldog.
the New Jersey University will hurl
what several months ago was ex-
pected to be the best team of the
season in the East. Injuries and
the loss of several star players due
in ineligibility, scholastic or other
wise, has sapped some of its grid
iron strength and n~otwithstand'
ing the splendid showing of the
Tigers a week ago in the game with
Harvard the eleven is not the in
vincible combination which the
supporters of the Orange and Black
hoped for at the beginning OF the
season.
Defeats by both the Navy and
the University of Chicago in mid
season checked Princeton progress
These setbacks while SOLDERING the
conauering prospects of the Tigers
have increased their desire 10
complete the season with a victory
over their traditional rival. The
entire squad from varsity star to
third string substitutes will con-
slider the Princeton football season
of 1921 a complete success If Yale
can be defeated on its home grid
iron.
Entirely aside from the present
strength and ability of the two
teams the history of the series ap-
pears to be against such a feat.
Until 1919, when the play was re-
sumed between the varsity teams
after a W year lull due to war
activities Princeton had won
twice in succession from Yale. In
that year the Nassau players de-
feated Yale 13 TO 6 and last fall
repeated by score 20 10 =. This
was the largest score with the ex-
ception of 1896 game, that Prince
ton had ever rolled up against the
Blue.
Three victories in a row for the
Tigers would shatter all Princeton
precedents and even the most ar
dent Orange and Black adherent is
influenced by the mysterious which
has allotted strings of victories at
a time to Yale and only scant tri-
umphs for the Tiger. The prepon-
derance OF Yale victories is shown
by a study of the series record.
Since the first game played in
1873 and won by Princeton, the two
university elevens have met A
times. In this long period of COM
bat the New Haven ~collegians have
won 2S games: Princeton IL and
nine have resulted in tie contests.
In total points scored Yale also
leads by a wide margin for the
Blue has piled UP s61 points since
1883. when the present system
of football scoring was first adopted
to Princetin's 1855.