The New York herald., 1921-11-05
CRIMSON TRAILS IN
SERIES WITH TIGER
Princeton Has Won IL Games
and Harvard 8, With
Three Ties.

IT was on April 2s. 1877. that Harvard
and Princeton met for the first time in
football. and the Crimson was the win
ner Since that day they have played
twenty-five other games.
In the last decade Harvard has en-
joyed unusual success against Prince
ton. The Crimson has not been defeated
since Sam Whites great run brought
victory for Princeton In 1911. The
Tigers have come along rapidly since the
war. though. and have earned two
draws with the Cambridge eleven.
In spite of the five successive vic
tories and three ties Harvard has
achieved, the Crimson still has a long
way to 80 before it gains even terms in
tie series with the sons of Old Nassau.
Princeton has won twelve games since
the meetings were instituted in Cam
bridge ON Jarvis Field on April %, 1877.
Jarvis Field is now dotted with build
ings in the Harvard Yard. Harvard has
won eight games while three have re-
suited In draws.
Harvard won that pioneer contest In
1877 by two touchdowns and goal
against one touchdown. But the second
contest 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 safety. The
game OF 1882 developed near-tie which
was decided Justly in flvor of Harvard.
Brought Modern Scoring.
The Crimson scored one touchdown
and a field goal. while the Tigers made
a touchdown and kicked the goal there
from. Princeton claimed tie, but Rob-
ert w. Watson of Yale, who refereed,
decided in favor of Harvard. That con-
troversy had one result that worked
wonders for the growth of interest in
football--it brought a system of nu-
merical values for the various factors in
scoring.
In 1885 there was break in the series
because of the abolition of football at
Harvard. When Cambridge sanctioned
the game again in 1885 the Tigers tri-
umphed through the prowess of Snake
Ames. senior Young Snake has played
his own part in Princeton football in
recent years.
The Harvard tandem was sprung, to
the discontinue OF the Tigers in 1887.
and Princeton was whipped. From 1883
through 1894 there was another break IN
football relations between the two insti-
tutions. With Cambridge authorities at
lopeerheads with Yale relations with the
Ellis were suspended. Harvard re-
viyed the Tiger series by travelling TO
Princeton for a game in 1895. Princeton
won that contest by IL to 4, and repeated
by IL TO in Cambridge a year later.
Out of the 1896 contest there grew much
rancor. and the two institutions again
severed relations, this time for fourteen
years.
The series was revived once more in
1911, when the Haughton system was
just getting under way at Cambridge.
The Crimson came to Princeton with
formidable team, but Princeton's cham
pion eleven won by to 6. Since that
contest the Tigers have been unable to
win from Harvard, but the Crimson has
been forced to the limit to earn draws
In the last two battles.
The era of Brickley dawned at Har-
ward In 1912 and the Haughton system
simultaneously reached it's greatest de-
velopment Brickley won the 1913 game
at Princeton by kicking twenty yard
field goal from an annoying angle with
mudloSged Shoe.
Harvard by 90 to o.
The triumph of 1914 was more gen.
erous-the most generous. in fact, that
John Harvard ever has been able to en-
joy at the expense of the Tiger-20 to O..
The score represented two touchdowns
and their goals and two goals from the
field. In no one game has Harvard ever
been able to cross the Orange and Black
goal line more than twice.
The year 1915 saw the Tigers fight
harder. but Harvard won by 10 to G. A
field goal by Ralph Horween again was
the margin in 1916, when Harvard won
by to 0. In 1917 and 1918 varsity foot
ball was abandoned at the Big Three on
account of the war.
Princeton all but tasted victory when
the series was resumed In 1919 and
again last year, but on each occasion
the Harvard eleven rallied In the closing
moments and scored n late touchdown
to tic. Open play Of the most desperate
sort was resorted to by Harvard I'm both
OF these games.