Evening star., 1931-11-29
|DEFEAT IS WORST
EVER GIVEN TIGER
Pounce on HapIess Old Foe
as Spectators Shiver in
HaIf-FiIIed Bowl.
BY EDWARD ]. NEIL.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW HAVEN, Conn, Novem-
M Der 28.-Into the forehead
/ of Princeton's battered
Tiger, Yale rammed a
defeat more biting, more humil-
iating than anything in the his
tory of one of the most ancient
of all foot ball rivalries.
While $4,000 blanketed, fur
encased spectators shivered in the
cold and bleaknesS of a half-filled
Yale Bowl, the Eli capped a late
season surge of triumph by
slaughtering the hapleSs Tiger, 81
to IA, in a savage, gleeful touch
down pogrom that was awesome
in it's entirety.
Never before in the history of Prince
ton and Yale competition, now one of
| the two triangles left to the historic
big three" rivalry that built the back
bone of modern foot ball, has Tiger
team been subjugated as this hapless
eleven, victorious only once this season,
was today. Way back in 1890 Yale
beat a Princeton eleven, 80 to 0. And
until this afternoon that was the most
severe defeat in all the Tiger gridiron
annals.
But today, with Winter in the air and
snow all around, the Yale team that
conquered Harvard last Saturday rose
on a mighty wave that engulfed the
courageous but woefully weak Tigers,
shattered them with eight touchdowns,
scored by three full elevens, and left
! Princeton the sole consolation of two
/ desperate touchdoTns il the In@l
quarter
Lassiter Star of Game.
In the absence of Capt. Albie Booth
Yale's Little Boy Blue, who is still in
| the college infirmary with heavy cold
it was Bob Lassiter, wing-footed sopho-
more from Charlotte, N. c., who formed
| the spear head of the terrific Yale
offensive.
while every man on the Yale eleven
| today was an all-America by compar1-
son with the opposition, 1t was LaSs1ter
| behind a marvelously executed wedge
formation of interference, who raced
95 yards with a Princeton kick-oh IN
the fourth quarter to provide the most
spectacular play of the ridiculously
one-sided contest. In addition to tnat
bit. he scored two other touchdowns,
zone behind Walter Levering'S perfect
| blocking on a 35-yard sweep around his
own right end early in the second quar-
! ter and again on 7-yard burst around
the same end in the fourth period, after
bringing the ball deep into Tiger terri
! 4rI rim a
earlier.
Lassiter, with Yale future ahead as
bright as any star of recent years, did
not wind up his personal contributions
there. 1t seemed as if he were en- route
from one far point to another almost
half the afternoon, turning in one
| dazzling dash after another, and after
big Joe Crowley opened the scoring
parade with a 3-yard plunge to the
first counter in the opening period
Lassiter whipped short pass to Bob
Parker from the Tiger 28yard line to
start the quarterback on his way to the
second touchdown.
Not the Whole Show.
When Yale was finding itself in the
first quarter, and there was still some
stubbornness in the Princeton line
! from tackle to tackle, LaSsiter in three
successive end runs dashed %, % and
81 yards He kept that up in between
his scoring jauntS, but he let the other
| fellows do some point making, too.
Parker, rivaling Lassiter's brilliant
dash with a 6O-yard run back of one
of Stan Purnell's punts for a touch
down in the last period, was brilliant
figure in the Eli conquest, but the sur
prise of the day was timber -hipped
pair of brothers, Clem and Mack Will
hanson, both juniors from Glencove,
N. Y.
Today's game was the fifty-f1fth in
the ancient rivalry that began back in
1876 and gave Yale it's thirty-first vic
tory of the series. Princeton has won
16 and were tied.