The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-17

Annual Engagement Is To-
day of Half centurY's
Standing .
By DAVIS }. Wal 81.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov.
Fifty golden years Of athletic
amity and competitive bone-bruis-
ing viii be celebrated this after
noon mi the Yale bowl with the
staging of the annual Yale-P Prince
ton gridiron vendetta under skies
20 dark as to be almost yillainous.
Fifty years ago the first game of
this great series was played, and
It is not on record that relations
have been strained. We cannot
say the same for joints and ten
dons-but that is football.
Football viii be played at the
Yale bowl this afternoon and It
WI be. football the like of which
the big three series seldom knows.
Princeton The S1ort-end choice,
the discredited member of the Big
Trinity, has come here determined
TO retrieve defeats by Notre Dame
and Harvard and, according TO our
information. VIII cast caution and
forward passes Ito the four winds.
Yale viii fight to preserve its un.
beaten slate and bury the bugaboo
Of chronic failure in modern big
three tests. 1t was to be large
occasion, as always.
A matter of nearly 10000. limited
only by the capacity of the bowl,
will sit in at the proceedings and
may have occasion to resort to
slickers and umbrellas. The forecast
IS for showers. and in the event OF
rain, Yale. already granted pre-
game advantages in everything ex-
cept Van Gerhig's punting. will fall
heir to additional favor.
A heavy field and bah win aid
Yale's running attack and play
havoc with PrineetOn's proposal
TO seek tho epen. The preva-
lent odds Of 10 to ! on Yale
might go as high as 2 to II the
heavens weep.
Yale, ; however, has been favor
Cd before to tumble the Tiger, but
seldom has made good in recent
years. The Bulldog won in 1916
and In 1921, but was a party to an
/ inglorious flop on other occasions,
Seemingly, the Blue is inclined to
stub a moral tee every time 1t
attempts to daily with Harvard and
Princeton, but this year all New
Haven Is telling itself that it can
not happen again. At that, Yale
leade on the returns from the en-
tire series with twenty-five VIC
tories to Princeton's thirteen, nine
games ending in tie.
Reckoned on the base of compare
tive records and man power Yale
IN an absolute sure thing bet. 1t
has a better forward line, built
around Millstead, Blair and Love.
10Y, than Princeton can muster.
1t has, in our opinion, superior
ends in Luman and Bingham with
HUMAN and Beaver in reserve.
It has what appears 10 be two
great backfields, with the best
ball Punners on the squad, Neid-
nnger and Stevens, waiting on
the sideIines to run wild through
second half. And, finally, It has
the first Yale football has known
since the dark ages.
Altogether. Yale would seem to
be in for a romp IL it wasn't for
the fact that Princeton is Prince
ton. The Tigers haven't a great
football team this season but, as a
rule, they don't need one. Thew
are the greatest opportunists and
can always match loose ball with
q Princeton arm-pit.
They are, perhaps. the most dar-
ing opponents Of the modern game
IN the all too conservative East
ana with Van Gerbig's spirals float.
Ing down the field can be denended
upon to take due advantages nj
every trick. They also can be de.
pended upon to fight like the family
ITSELF. "A Princeton team with IFS
PACK to the wall IL a fearsome