again, Chamberlin fell back for a short
kick, and Baird had the ball at Prince-
ton’s 35-yard line. Four or five men
had him at the same time, after the
fashion of Yale all through the game.
Before the play had hardly opened,
Princeton was on the defensive and it
was better to kick, and Baird kicked,
but not as well then as at other times.
The next line-up was at the center of
the field. Here and at other points
it was hard to catch, with gusts carry-
ing the squirming ball in unexpected
directions. However, if a back missed
it, some other back or end was around
to pick it up. |
About this time came an exchange
of punts and Baird did better, in fact,
did very well, but McBride didn’t do as
he could generally, and Princeton won
fifteen or twenty yards. And then
Cochran’s men gained again by an ex-
change, and after about fifteen minutes
play, they were within twenty-five yards
of Yale’s goal. What they had
expected to do at sucu a point as this
was to try the ends back formation
about four times and then kick a goal;
but they had now felt the Yale line.
Inasmuch as there was a drop kicker
of repute among them, they decided
to use him. Here was a bad break.
Booth passed from center to full-back,
and sent the ball clean over Baird’s
head. He never could have kicked the
goal, had the pass been straight. The
Yale men fairly swarmed about him,
Benjamin leading. As the ball bound-
ed before him, it seemed as if Benja-
min’s great opportunity was before
him. An open field was certainly ahead
of him, and there wasn’t a man on
Princeton’s eleven could have caught
that fleet-footed back if he could u.ave
gotten a start. For some reason or
other he couldn’t quite get his hands
on that bit of leather, but other Yale
men got their hands on it and Yale
recovered.
And so Yale had shown herself equal
to emergencies, and already the Prince-
ton men were suffering from the fierce-
ness of that Yale attacn and defense.
Twice had Cochran, the ~reat end, been
ministered unto. His weak shoulder
could not stand the strain of his own
hard tackles, against those bounding,
plunging Yale men.
And other Princeton men were show-
ing the result of the strain. There did
not seem to be any severe injury out-
side of the recurrence of Cochran’s old
trouble. It seemed to be a used-upness.
Before the thirty-five minutes were over
Princeton players frequently lay upon
the ground after a scrimmage.
Before the game was over five of
them had left the play and the amount
of time taken out for these disabilities
on their part amounted to nearly half
an hour. Yale consumed three minutes
for a similar purpose. As this situation
began to develop it became all the
clearer that Princeton’s chance of scor-
ing was reduced to a very small frac-
tion. To score against the Yale team,
barring an accident, meant a tremen-
dous drive, uninterrupted and swift as
the Yale play itself. By the end of the
first half it was clear as day that phy-
sically the men from New Jersey were
not equal to such a task. And at the
same time a feeling grew upon the Yale
audience that their own players were
catching more and more the spirit of
the triumphal march.
But it was very hard football, and no
victory was sure at any time during
that first half. The superior punting
of the visitors kept the ball well in the
Yale territory and it was not long be-
fore Princeton felt herself justified in
trying again for a goal from the field.
It was no bad pass this time. The
lively Yale forwards fairly streamed
through the Princeton line and the ball
didn’t go very far beyond Baird’s toe.
It was Chadwick who had broken
through and Benjamin who had re-
covered. Mr. Dashiell said Yale had
held and that the ball should. be in
play again at the same place. After
some discussion with the referee he
took five yards from Yale, and Rod-
gers’ men had the ball in the center
of the field. There Yale made another
attack on the Princeton line with small
hard-fought gains, but was at last
obliged to resort to kicking.
A WONDERFUL RUN.
It was the return from McBride’s
punt that gave deSaulles the oppor-
tunity for the best individual play of the
two great games. He caught Baird’s
punt at about Yale’s forty-five yard line.
It was on the right side of the field al-
most on the side-lines, and in territory
particularly under the charge of Cap-
YALE ALUMNI
tain Cochran. Those who were on the
side-lines right opposite Yale’s quarter
when he took that punt and began a
run that ended forty-five yards down
the field, will never forget it and will be
slow to admit that they ever witnessed a
more brilliant individual performance.
There was Cochran first. Seldom hada
man gained five yards when he was on
guard and the ball was hardly in de-
Saulles’ arms when he was lunging
towards him. It was a cat-like leap to
the right and a gathering up of those
small legs under the Yale quarter that
left Cochran grabbing at the grass.
But it was out of the frying pan into
the fire for any ordinary runner. Three
more Princeton forwards were crowd-
ing on him just in front and he with
characteristic audacity was aiming
directly at them. Holt was _ one,
Crowdis another, Hillebrand another.
It is not possible to tell how he went
through them. It was a wriggling leap
from one and a sharp bird-like turn
from anotuer.
It was not until after he had got his
full speed that the Yale forwards were
able to get into the interference. It
was almost impossible to do much for
him then. He was flying too fast, dart-
ing too quickly. One at a time and
two at a time he ran by and through
the Orange men. With every step the
roars of Yale grew louder. Quicker
than it takes to tell it he was through
all the Princeton men—all but Baird.
And he came so very near passing him
that it seemed almost a pity that a per-
formance so phenomenal should be
checked. Baird threw his arms about
the runner’s legs. deSaulles puled one
of them out and almost the other. Al-
most was not enough and he was at last
downed on Princeton’s 25-yard line.
There was little time left, but such a
beautiful start made Yale hope for a
touchdown in that half. But the Yale
machine got a little out of order, the
ball was fumbled, Princeton recovered
it and Baird kicked out of danger.
FIRST HALF OVER.
The half was over. A complete
change of feeling had come over that
field. Princeton saw that, at her best,
her straits were desperate. Yale began
to feel that those-eleven boys. would,go
through everything in the next thirty-
five minutes.
that nothing would go through them.
Such uniformly excellent defense by a
Yale eleven has not been seen in years.
Every tackle threw the runner back
toward his own goal. Benjamin, Dud-
ley and McBride took up the defense
where the line left it. The writer can
never forget a tackle by Dudley as a
Princeton back reached Yale’s left-
tackle. A big fellow came surging up
into the line with one of his own inter-
ferers with him. Dudley lunged at
him and took him just below the hip
with such force as to throw both the
Princeton men back from the Yale line.
The shock was so sharp that the ball
left the arms of the runner for Rodgers
to fall upon. At another time I re-
member a mass play striking Yale’s
right with terrific force. Chamberlin
crouched for it and it fairly rebounded
from him. At center Cadwalader had
not only stood his place, but had
made one conspicuous tackle far back
of the line, a remarkable performance.
Brown was not to be interfered with,
and Chadwick again was Heffelfinger.
Chamberlin was such a whirlwind as
in the Harvard game, and Rodgers was
tackling back of the line.
The ends—well, they were old Yale
ends. It wasn’t always a Hinkey or a
Wallace following a kick and spring-
ing so surely on the man. There were
slips in getting down the field. But it
is hard to criticize. If one end missed,
the other was there. When it came to
runs with interference against Yale’s
wings, it was possible for Princeton to
move across the field, but not more
than a yard or two towards Yale’s goal.
Hall was everywhere. Hazen was a
glorious diver. The Messrs. Hinkey
must have taken a quiet satisfaction in
the work of those boys.
Cochran’s wrenched shoulder had
begun to hurt him badly and he left the
game at the close of the half, being
replaced by Lathrop.
It is hard to say what may happen
after a Yale or Princeton team have
been to their quarters at intermission.
It is a receptive time for the men, and
captain and coaches always enforce it to
the utmost. It is not possible to put in
print what passed at the Yale quarters
last Saturday afternoon. Ninety-nine
‘retired. from the game,
It was reasonable to feel
W HEKLY
out of a hundred of all the team sup-
porters, had they been allowed in the
room, would have congratulated the
men on their great game. But that
wasnt the talk they listened to. There
was at least one player of great renown
of former times who felt that for such
a team not to score was discreditable.
He is a quiet, strong, manly and at times
severe man. He had communion at just
this time with the Yale players. Cap-
tain Rodgers led on the field ten
minutes later a company of players who
realized that they had left undone a
great many things which they ought to
have done, and that only thirty-five
minutes were left in the year of 1897 to
save them from great reproach.
YALE’S ONCOMING.
_ With-that feeling and in the glory of
a physical strength that was simply
spoiling for more good hard football,
they opened their last chapter. They
came on like a whirlwind. Every
motion and every play showed the
flerce earnestness of their spirit.
McBride began an altogether dif-
ferent style of kicking and sent some
tremendously long punts towards
Princeton’s goal. deSaulles made two
short dashes after handling Baird’s re-
turns. A long kick by McBride was
received by Wheeler at his ten yard line.
With the Yale forwards closing in on
him, Wheeler passed the ball to Baird,
but that didn’t do any good. Benjamin
and Hall were both there. ‘Just as he
received the ball they met him so hard
as to throw him back over his own
goal line. Yale was wild. It looked
like a safety touchdown. But the offi-
cials said that Baird was really downed
before the Yale tacklers had carried him
over the line. And so Baird had a
chance to punt out, which he did very
well, from behind his own goal line.
Yale’s rushing, which included a nine
yard gain by Dudley, did not seem to be
yet ready for continued effort and again
there was’ punting. In taking one of
McBride’s kicks on his own goal line,
Baird was tackled hard by Hall, and
Burke being
substituted. When Wheeler tried to
kick, the ball went out of bounds at the
30-yard line. aha satan :
Again Yale drove at Princeton’s line
with that ferocity which was steadily
wearing away her opponents. Nothing
harder or more terrific than the smash-
ing of McBride, Dudley: and Benja-
min has been seen on the Yale field.
McBride was .-in every one of. these
plays, and his propelling force was re-
‘markable. This time he opened the
advance for a two yard smash in the
Center |
deSaulles, who had been the embodi-
ment of life and snap, at this point
seemed a perfect bundle of electricity.
He sent the men into the line as fast
as they could get on their feet. All
the game Rodgers could be seen stir-
ring this man and that to an effort a
little better than his best, with now and
then a quick signal to deSaulles when a
particular opportunity was in sight.
And all this fire and encouragement
now seemed centralized, till the whole
eleven bristled and snapped with it.
And so McBride was hardly up when
deSaulles called Dudley’s signal for a
move on Hillebrand. The knotty little
Freshman fairly shot between Prince-
ton’s tackle and end for a clear nine
yards. That brought the play fairly in
front of the goal posts and only eleven
yards fromthem. Princeton grew more
desperate, Yale more furious. The
Princeton coaches clenched their fists,
while their line bent low to meet the
fearful attack. Dudley went again to
the right for a yard. Then the light-
haired Yale Captain came _ rolling
against Holt for four yards more, and
there was the Princeton goal only seven
yards away.
Then ‘came a bad mistake by Prince-
ton. Over-nervous in the desperate
defense, the line was clean off-side in
the next scrimmage, and one of the
rare penalties of the game had to be
imposed at this most critical moment.
It semed a strange compensation of
justice. A few years ago this same
umpire administered this same penalty
to Yale, fighting as Princeton was now
fighting, in her last ditch. In that
game Yale swallowed the bitter medi-
cine without a murmur. Princeton,
with the same sportsmanship, took it
in the same manly way.
There the two lines faced each other.
There was five feet between Yale and
an issue of the football season which
every expert had declared was impossi-
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and the status of institutions, but
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strongly intrenched in a few years,
and there is generally a very good
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a good custom, by meeting him on
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Last Week’s Football Games.
Football games last week resulted as
follows:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
At Philadelphia—Pennsylvania, 15;
Harvard, 6
At West. Point—West Point, 42;
Brown, 0.
At Annapolis—Naval Cadets, 28;
Lehigh, o. :
At Chicago—Carlisle, 23;) University
of Illinois, 6.
At Williamstown—Dartmouth, 52;
Williams, o.
At Cambridge—Harvard,
Yale, 1901, 0.
1901, 34;
Full-grown Men
wie Be
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THAT COVERS THE CASE.