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Rocks to the Viaduct, that didn’t hold
people then. Nearly forty thousand
people watched the game.
Best of all, the play was clean and
the friction, even the verbal part
of it, reduced to a minimum. There
was no instance of rough play that
called for an umpire’s penalty, and
interference was promptly punished.
Both Mr. McClung and Mr. Dashiel
were as good in their line as the
Prineeion team was in its line. This
table will show how the elevens faced
each other and where the substitutes
went in:
YALE (6) PRINCETON (24)
Bass, |. e. r. e. Cochran.
Rodgers, l. t. r. t. Hillebrand.
Murray, l. g. r. g. Armstrong.
Chamberlin, c. c. Gailey.
me ca Yr. @ ]. g. Crowdis.
urphy,
Ouran. tr. t. 1, t. Church.
Conner, r. e. ], e. Brokaw.
Anoka: q. b. q. b. Smith.
ine, .
Van Woseyt ih. be vB: Sah 4
enjamin, annard,
Mie “trbb. Lh. be Wcclor:
Hinkey, f. b. f. b. Baird.
The referee was Mr. McClung of Lehigh and
the empire Mr. Dashiel of Lehigh. ‘he lines-
men were Mr. Gartield and Mr. Wyckoff. ‘The
touchdowns were made by Bass of Yale, and
Baird, Kelly, Bannard, Hillebrand and Wheeler
of Princeton. Goals from touchdowns were
kicked by Hine of Yale, 1, and by Baird of
Princeton, 2.
THE GAME.
To be exact, it was 12 minutes after
2 when the trouble began. The much-
feared Baird made the kick-off for
Princeton, and Hinkey, late of the In-
firmary, responded for Yale, landing
the ball exactly in the center of the
field again. The Princeton recipient
did not move out of his tracks, owing
to the proximity of Bass. Then what
was hoped for and prayed for, was
accomplished. Princeton’s protection
for Baird, whose signal had been giv-
en by Smith, was insufficient and Rod-
gers stopped the ball with his arm.
The Orange and Black rushers were
quick enough to recover it on their
45-yard line. A 20-yard run by Crowdis
at this point, aided by the interference
which afterwards proved so invincible,
would have done much _ to relieve
Princeton’s anxiety, if it had been al-
lowed. But fortune at this point con-
tinued to smile on Yale, through a
referee’s decision, which left her on
the aggressive on her antagonists’s 40-
yard line.
FEELING THE PRINCETON STONE WALL.
Even then Yale showed that her line
could do little against Princeton’s vet-
erans, who took the ball away from
her on four downs. But Cochran’s men
were still far from their form. Yale
had come on with such a dash, that
it seemed to have made her stronger
rivals nervous, and two fumbles, back
of the line, added 10 more yards to
the Blue’s advance. Here Baird was
tried again and better protected, but
Hinkey met Princeton’s champion
with at least equally good work.
It was an even thing on kicking and
Yale called on Benjamin. The rush
line for one of the few times in the
game did their work, and the light
half slipped prettily through, even
dodging the backs and leaving an open
field before him. It looked like a
brilliant opening touchdown for Yale,
but the unexpected happened and the
speedy Benjamin was tackled from
the rear by Brokaw, who was able to
overhaul him in the time the Yale
half consumed in dodging Baird on a
slippery field.
Still it was Yale’s ball at Prince-
ton’s 35-yard line, for Benjamin had
not fallen before he had crossed six
of the chalk lines. Again Princeton’s
unsteadiness supplemented Yale’s dash
and speed, and twice the lines were
moved towards Princeton’s goal for
five yards by the umpire’s punishment
for interference. Then Murphy made
a short gain, but Yale’s advance was
Sian and Princeton recovered the
all.
gerously near the Orange goal and
Smith again asked Baird to relieve
the situation. To make sure that he
would do it, Cochran ordered the new
form of protection which had been
heralded as impregnablu.,
The fight, however, was dan-
YALE DID THE TRICK,
It was a style of play that proved
much more to Yale’s liking than any-
thing else which her oppunents were
willing to offer that day. It didn’t
seem to take Rodgers any time to find
his way to where he most wanted to
be, and before Baird could have re-
alized what the trouble was, the ball,
rebounding from the big Yale tackle’s
chest, was over Princeton’s line and
Bass was lying on it.
There had been only nine minutes
of play,
Yale had been fulfilled, and when
Hine kicked an easy goal the people
who wore blue gave themselves up to
a feeling proper for such an occasion.
If what was to have come, could
only have been more. clearly foreseen
at this moment, the demonstration
from these people would either have
been a great deal more emphatic or
Yale football spirit had again pre-
vailed against odds.
But the game really had not begun.
else it wouldn’t have been. Hven very
skeptical persons thought that the
That must be the confession of even
the most ardent Yale sympathizer.
It was not a fluke which gave Yale
those six points. It was good foot-
ball, and yet the real strength of the
two elevens had not been fairly test-
ed.
A GREAT KICK-OFF.
The first kick-off by Baird made the
uninitiated tremble, for it went clean
through Yale’s goal-posts and over
the bar. It was a very exquisite piece
of kicking, but it was principally use-
ful from an aesthetic standpoint, for
the rule gives the ball to the oppo-
nents on such a play, at their 25-yard
line. From here Hinkey returned with
a long punt, which was answered in
time by Baird. It looked like another
kick by Hinkey, but Yale instead tried
Benjamin, who could only make two
yards again Princeton’s heavy for-
wards.
The next time came a real kick by
Hinkey, and also again a good one,
and following that was some quick
and pretty football by the two pairs
of opposing players who were on hand
When the ball came down. One was
Smith, who received it, who tin turn
was received promptly by Bass. But
while the Yale man was putting him
“where he belonged,’ as Mr. Corbin
used to express it, the ball slipped
back to Baird. But the ball and Yale’s
watchful and resourceful captain
reached the Princeton back at the
Same time. It is unnecessary to say
that the next scrimmage was at this
point.
Then Princeton tried Baird again.
This somewhat important member of
the Princeton eleven had not been so
altogether annihilated by his experi-
ence with the Yale rush line, as it was
confidently hoped that he would be
after two such disappointments as
those furnished by Rodgers. He had
not forgotten at all how to kick. The
ball went to Fincke. It is always to
be implied, whenever this last sen-
tence is used, that it didn’t go any
further.
In Wimeke’s Jefzave the matches of
the last two years, nine-tenths of the
punts from Princeton have been hand-
led by this very cool and quick mem-
ber of the Yale eleven and he has not
made a single error in either contests.
This time he not only caught the ball,
but jumped over’ two low-diving
Princeton tacklers and gained eight
yards. ;
It is pleasant to dwell upon the con-
test up to this point. It is of a kind
with many another struggle between
these two institutions and it showed
Yale at her best. Her eleven had put
up a very snappy game of football,
had taken advantage of every oppor-
tunity and not only was the score
in Yale’s favor, but the whole record
of the game. Hinkey, to whom too
much credit cannot be given, had
proved himself fully capable of balan-
cing Baird’s work. If sometimes the
Princeton man’s punts were a bit
longer, the Yale back must be
admitted to have shown himself as a
kicker a surer reliance for his eleven,
He was at least three times as quick
in sending the ball away and was able
to nearly offset the length of Baird’s
punts by kicking from immediately
back of the line. It is not to be for-
the highest expectations of
gotten that the Yale man is what is
known as a made-kicker, and had
schooled himself in the art, because
there seemed to be no one naturally
equipped for the place. Add to this
his quinsy record and the commenda-
tion which is universally accorded him
seems most reasonable.
COCHRAN ORDERS A CHANGE.
But Princeton had not yet used her
strength and Mr. Cochran, unfortu-
nately for Yale, appreciated this. It
was shortly after this point, that he
began to put in motion that cohesive
and swiftly moving mass of muscle in-
to which the Princeton eleven formed
itself, just as often and just as easily,
apparently as Mr. Smith put the prop-
er numerals together. Shortly after
the last play of Fincke, already men-
tioned, the ball fell into Princeton’s
hands at about the center of the field.
‘hen Cochran’s men settled down to
business. With a pardonable prefer-
ence for a disabled rusher, the cata-
pult was considerately aimed at Mur-
phy, and Crowdis behind as near.y
perfect interference as was ever given
a football player, moved on Yale’s
goal for five yards. Mr. Smith’s nu-
merals were again about the same,
but a little variety was given to the
play by trying Yale’s left and by giv-
ing the ball to Kelly, who added still
further variety by gaining ten yards
instead of five. Then the trouble was
in the other direction again and
Princeton moved on, Bannard taking
the ball.
it is easy to see now that Yale’s
fate was already sealed, but it must
not be inferred from what has been
already said that at this point Yale’s
supporters had given up hope or that
Princeton had become very confident.
Yale was still leading on the score
and no one would have ventured to
predict the indefinite continuation of
the style of advance inaugurated by
Princeton. But enough had been done
to make Yale’s keener minds anxious.
Yale was not up to that interference.
One peculiar feature of her defensive
work was her tendency to tackle too
low. Again and again Rodgers, alone
of the Yale line, broke through the
interference but fell so low on the
runner as only to cause him to stum-
ble. It was naturally to be expected
that someone else would be on hand
to finish him, but the someone else
was always somewhere else, general-
ly on the other side of the Orange
wall.
But it is time to follow the proces- |
sion. It was at Yale’s 20-yard line and
in a quickeu. time than one
likes to say, it was three-
quarters of that distance _ to-
wards Yale’s goal. The process has
been sufficiently described. The prin-
cipal offenders were Kelly, Crowdis
and Bannard, and the latter added to
his iniquities at his next chance by
bringing the ball within three feet of
the goal line.
PRINCETON’S FIRST TOUCHDOWN,
Then there was one of those center
formation, on which it is not neces-
sary to dwell long. But even as Baird
was rushed over the line the Yale au-
dience was still hoping for the last
ditch style of defense, characteristic
of their eleven. It was hard, plucky
defense, but there was not enough
muscle in it, and at 2:40 Baird had
followed up his touchdown with a
goal, and tied the score.
And still it was pretty football, and
wonderfully exciting. The invincibil-
ity of the Princeton formation had not
yet been appreciated. It seemed like
anybody’s game ior some time after
this. The kick-off by Benjamin went
to Smith, who politely handed it back
to Baird who sent it to Fincke at the
center of the field. More kicking
brought the play to Princeton’s 20-
yard line. Yale wanted another touch-
down very much and Fincke was
heard urging Chadwick to _ treat
Baird’s next kick in the proper man-
“ner. He didn’t succeed in doing it and
the ball went to Fincke in the center
of the field and on the south side.
Princeton’s ends were always round
this player as he took the ball, which
made his invariably sure handling of
it all the more commendable.
This time it was Hine, instead of
Hinkey, who was asked to kick and
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he operated from directly behind the
line and sent the ball at an acute an-
gle towards the south side of the
field. On a fake kick formation
Church carried the ball 12 yards and
Bannard quickly added eight more in
two more rushes.
YALE’S CAPTAIN OUT.
Princeton’s vicious attack on Yale’s
sy had at last put Murphy’s should-
er in such a condition that his right
arm was useless and was unfit for
either offensive or defensive work.
Two or three time he had been helped
to his feet and at last Dr. Hartwell
prevailed upon him to leave the field.
Then the sky really seemed to dark-
en for Yale. With everything most
favorable the line had shown itself all
too weak for Princeton’s attack. With
such a loss in actual defense and the
still greater and irreparable loss of
the captain’s presence and spirit, the
Situation was indeed serious. Mur-
phy was cheered to the echo by both
the Yale and Princeton sympathizers
as he left the field.
Durston, the Freshman, went into
right tackle and the play was resum-
ed by the now all too common ad-
vances of Kelly and Bannard whose
gains varied from 5 to 10 yards, until
Yale was again fighting desperately
within thirty-five feet of her goal line.
Here an injury to Hine brought Mills
into the game. Baird and Church
brought the ball ten feet nearer, when
Princeton’s over zealous play removed
the danger, Yale recovering the ball
on a fumble and gaining five yards for
interference at center.
One of the next plays revived the.
hopes of Yale for more scoring on
brilliant and dashing football. Prince-
ton’s rugged line was ecpened so clean
that Mills found a clear path and
carried the ball 25 yards. One won-
ders, as he thinks of that play, how
Yale’s light players were able to tear
such a hole, and then grieves that
Mills was not able to make his play
memorable by bowling over solitary
Baird and sprinting to the Princeton
goal. One of the Yale interferers had
come through with Mills to the point
Where only two inen faced him. One
of these, a Princeton half, was put
out of the play by Mills’ running
mate. With Baird alone left, Mills al-
most did it. If he could have pulled
his ankles out of the way, he would
have quite accomplished it.
From Yale’s 30-yard line Hinkey
now made one of his longest punts to
the same point in the Princeton ter-
ritory, and to a point about evenly
distant from the side lines. Baird re-
ceived it but Bass was on him, as he
Should have been, before he could
move. —
The unfortunate part of it was that
both Conner and Durston also alighted
on the frame of Baird. The latter
Should have been where Murphy (for
whom he was substituted) was a few
minutes before, on a corresponding
occasion. That is, Durston should
have been on Smith, who was behing
Baird and a few yards to the left of
him, ready to receive the ball. Ye
it is hardly a case for serious criti-
cism. It takes a lot of football expe-
rience to foresee everything.
