Evening star., 1925-11-15
Biggest Upset of Season at
New Haven BoWI-Score,
rs to IL.
PRINCETONITES IN WILD
CELEBRATION ON FIELD
Halfback Slagle's Meteorlike Run.
ming Is Flash of Bril-
liant Game.
Ey the Associated Press.


NEW HAVEN. Conn. November
li.-Princeton has gained its grid
iron pinnacle with another miracle
team" On the gale-swept gridiron in
Yale bowl this afternoon. IL clawing,
inspired Tigers swept Yales powerful
team off its feet with a furious attack
that rolled up a sensa tional triumph
by a score of 25 TO u.
A throng OF $4,000 saw the men OF
Old Nassau spring possibly the great
est upset of a season OF reVersals and
capture the Big Three" champion
ship for the first time since 1922.
Coming on top of the Sma shing $50
victory over Harvard a week ago. to
days astonishing performance brings
Princeton even greater glory than its
team of destiny of three years ago.
Stage Wild Celebration.
Four times the Tigers flung their
way across the last white line Of Yale.
The Blue scored twice but had no
punch 10 match that of the Tiger.
Twenty thousand Princetonians
poured down onto the field the final
whistle blew, TO stage a wild celebra-
tion. tearing down Yale's goal posts
with A mighty swoop. The hero OF
the Tiger was Jake Slagle. 6Spound
meteor, who shot from scrimmage in
the second period TO elude the entire
Yale team and race 81 yards for the
first touchdown. Thereafter he was
the dominating factor in the Prince
ton attack. But sharing the Iaurels
With him were Joe Prendergast, who
plunged and swirled his way across
for touchdowns- on each Of the two
occasions he was put In TO apply the
finishing punch. and also Tom Dig
nan, scorer of the fourth Tiger
touchdown, whose mighty toe also
was a. big factor In the game.
Yale had no satellites to offset the
thrusts OF this trio. but in Kline and
Allen the Ellis had two men who
stood out in the desperate fight TO
stem the whirlwind tide OF Princeton
men. 1t was Kline who took over
Yale's first touchdown. and who. with
a pass. paved the way for Allen to
take rhe last one over in the final
period after two PLAYS that covered
s5 yards. But except for these two
Spurts. the Yale team which had
been heralded as one of her michtiest,
front rank contender for Fla ern
title honors. went down before the
fiery play OF its opponents.
Tiger Line Wonderful.
Princeton's linemen. urged on by
their indomita BILE captain. Ed McMil-
Ian. outplayed those of Yale through.
out the encounter. AT every stage
the mighty warriors of the first de-
fense cut large swaths to receive the
plunges of Prendergast. Rignan and
Slasle. Only the Blues secondary
defense could stop the Princeton ball
carriers.
There was no comparison between
the backfields in advancing the ball,
the Princetonians coming out of their
''huddle" to register sustained prog
ress of 20 yards on one occa sion. 65
on another and As yards twice The
"huddle" bothered Yale and after the
first two plays the Blue linemen sta.
toned themselves fully two yards
from the ball before plunging into the
defense.
The power of the Princeton attack
is shown In the statistics. II first
downs for the Tiger, . for Yale. And
the statistics also show that Yale
gradually lost strength in the Cruel
ling encounter where Princeton was
supposed to be the weaker team.
Three first downs were gained by the
Blue the first period, four in the sec
ond and only one in each of the las
two quarters.
Eight times the overanxiety of
Yale linemen found them offside for
pena lies, one of these setbacks com
ing after Allen had sprinted 2S wards
to midfield fin the third period. A
tumble followed and although Yale
recovered, shortage punt opened the
way TO Prince;on's touchdown.