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ADVISORY BOARD.
H. C, Roprnson, 53, J. R. SHEFFIELD, ’87.
W. W. Skippy, ’65S. J. A. HARTWELL, ’89 S.
C. P. LINDsSLEY, 75 8. L.S. WELCH, ’89.
W. Camp, ’80. E. Van INGEN, 915.
W. G. DaGGETT, ’80. P. Jay, 792.
EDITOR.
Lewis 8S. WELo#, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
E. J. THompson, Sp.
NEWS EDITOR.
FRED. M. DAVIES, ’99.
PRESTON KuUMLER, 1900, Athletic Department.
Davip D. Tenney, 1900, Special.
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TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PRINTERS.
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, 1897.
TO THE BOYS IN BLUE,
To Captain Jim Rodgers and his
team! To Mr. Butterworth and his
plucky boys in blue! To that Yale
spirit that stopped Harvard and showed
Princeton the way to wipe out defeat!
Ten days ago, untried and out of the
reckoning, they lined up at Cambridge,
_ and, while learning some lessons, they
taught a greater one;
twenty thousand people what Yale
pluck was. Several of their coming
contestants saw them play and possibly
appreciated part of the lesson. But
the boys were not polished; they did
some fumbling, and had some kicks
blocked, and Princeton underestimated
the value of their dash and spirit, and
overestimated the worth of the finish
a veteran team can show. Then the
boys in blue spent a week in patching
up the difficulties that had at times
shaken them up in the Harvard game,
and went out on to the Yale Field to
face the team that had run away with
Yale last year, and had never this
season met anything like their match.
The story of it has been told and
retold. How at first they kept our
hearts thumping; how those long
drives of Baird carried the ball an
awful distance down the field, and the
always present Cochran seemed en-
dowed with impossible speed as he
skimmed the ground under its flight!
But, somehow, in spite of the wind,
and in spite of those punts, with fum-
bles speedily retrieved, the play did
not seem to get much nearer to Yale’s
goal, and the accidents did not seem
to bother the boys in blue a bit. The
line grew stiffer and sturdier, sifted
through upon Princeton’s backs more
and more, and, finally, litle deSaulles
came like a demon down between the
desperate tackles of the Princeton team
until we thought he would literally
run through the entire eleven and land
a touchdown!
But, if he had, it would not have
given the rest of the eleven the chance
to show all that there was in them, as
the second half did. Fresh as when
they started, the Yale team threw them-
selves into their work, and within ten
minutes of the second kick-off had
accomplished what no other team had
succeeded in doing this year. They
had carried the ball down the field and
placed it behind the Princeton goal
they taught |
are.
VAI AIO ear
line! And further, in spite of Prince-
ton’s desperate attempt,—and a plucky
one it was!—to regain the lost ground,
Yale crowded them down into their
last ditch and there left the ball at the
call of time!
Who would have believed it, when,
at the end of the summer, Captain
Rodgers lay ill with typhoid fever, and
Benjamin and a little devoted band ©
were struggling under the broiling
heat with Mr. Butterworth to imbibe
some of that man’s wondrous spirit
and skill! So a toast, and stand up,
every one, to the plucky boys in blue!
WALTER CAMP.
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YALE AND NEWSPAPER MEN.
The readiness and enthusiasm with
which the press of the country have
given full credit to Yale for the victory
on Saturday and what it shows of the
Yale way of doing things, is a fact to
be carefully taken into the mind of
Yale leaders. It shows what we have
always maintained, that the real quali-
ties of Yale’s make-up were admired
and held dear by the people generally,
and that those who make up the news-
papers are very willine and glad to
give expression to that feeling.
Whatever trouble has come to Yale
in the way of newspaper attack and
unjust criticism, and even bitter perse-
cution, has generally been brought
down on the head of Yale by Yale men
themselves. We do not mean by this
to excuse the malice and meanness
which have characterized some of the
personal attacks on Yale leaders—
attacks which have had their origin in
prejudice and disappointment and envy.
But we do say, without fear of contra-
diction, that newspaper men are, in
general, men who love fair play and
who like to give credit for manly quali-
ties, and who do not consciously or
willingly join in misrepresentation of
an institution which embodies them.
They are, however, all human. They
are governed by the same considera-
tions which govern all men in their
relations to each other. They do not
like to be rebuffed, ignored, snubbed,
or deceived. They have the firm and
natural conviction that their profession,
or business, is aS necessary a one and
as much worthy of respect and fair
treatment as the business or profession
of any other set of men. They also have
no little sensitiveness to this profession,
or business, as stich, and when affront-
ed, or maltreated, are much more in-
clined to consider the attack from the
standpoint of their comrades and their
profession generally, than from a per-
sonal standpoint. |
On the other hand, these men are
very quick to respond to trust that is
placed in them, and appreciate the men
and the institutions who are willing to
take them in a reasonable measure into
their confidence. (Of cotrse, now we
are not considering exceptions. There
are some newspapers and some news-
paper men to whom these things do
not apply.) It has been a very general
experience on the part of Yale men
who have had the right attitude
toward the press that they have been
able to talk very freely with repre-
sentatives ‘of responsible papers, and to
have their wishes as to what should
be made public and what should be
withheld very carefully observed.
It is not to be denied that Yale and
Vale-affairs must necessarily be a sub-
ject of public interest and be treated of
in the papers. Where the trouble
comes is, that men who represent Yale
and who must speak for her and give
out the news of Yale matters, are men
who have for the first time been placed
in relations to the newspapers and who
do not understand what those relations
They know it is not the way of
WHEKLY
Yale to do much talking, and they often
know no way of carrying out this
tradition without being, to put it mild-
ly, most decidedly disobliging.
As we have said before, we hope to
see Yale’s traditional policy of reserve
and of speaking through acts rather
‘than through words maintained, but
we do hope to see Yale men learn that
it 18 not a good thing to deliberately
invite the ill will towards their Uni-
versity of the newspapers and the pub-
lic which they control... From any
standpoint Yale has not a good repu-
tation in its treatment. of the press.
We very sincerely hope that the new
era in Yale’s affairs, which seems to
have begun, will see a change in this
matter, in the direction of frankness
and invariable courtesy.
YALE TOGETHER.
Yale is together again. That is far
and away the most joyous fact about
last Saturday’s incident at the Yale
Field. It was the cause of it, and it is
equally true that the victory in turn
has made more patent and more sure
the reason of the victory.
Don’t forget this fact, whatever else
you forget about Saturday’s game. It
is the essential for every performance,
on field, water or platform, worthy of
this place; it is the glory of Yale athlet-
ics. As long as Yale is together, she
will preserve for her children her choic-
est gilts.
Saturday’s football game was played
on a well nigh perfect field and before
fifteen thousand people, who sat on the
best arranged stands that it has ever
been our good fortune to see. Mr.
Henry Sargent, Mr. Fisher and those
- who- worked with them on the Field
Corporation, and Mr. Twichell and Mr.
Brown of the Football Association
have piled up for themselves a very
large credit on the books of Yale.
With the WEEKLY going to press a
day earlier than usual, .and with an un-
usual rush of matter, it has-been im-
possible to make use of the many ex-
cellent contributions on the result of
Saturday which have reached us. They
all add to the evidence that Yale is
pleased through and through; that fears
are allayed; that “old Yale” reappears
before the eyes of all. May she never
disappear! May the men of Yale cher-
ish her more tenderly than they have
done, and, in the hour of victory, not
forget the bitter lessons of defeat!
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HOW PRINCETON TAKES IT.
Stands up to it in Princeton’s Way,
and Thanks the Team.
[Monday’s Princetonian.]
The result of Saturday's game with
Yale was very different from what
Princeton men hoped and expected.
That our team of veteran players, with
the prestige gained by last year’s vic-
tory, should be outplayed at almost
every point by a team of comparatively
inexperienced men, is a source of much
surprise and disappointment. Our op-
ponents deserve all the rewards of a
well-earned victory. The statement that
the Princeton team was very much
over-estimated: by footbal)- experts; and
the general public, while the Yale team
‘was very much under-estimated, tells -
the story of Saturday’s game.
There are a number of reasons given
for our defeat which are more or less
valid. We believe that the. team was
so seriously handicapped by the loss of
Captain Cochran and Baird that a
victory was impossible and that the re-
maining players deserve great credit for
keeping the score as low as it was.
The men also appeared to be over-
trained or at least much inferior to their
opponents in physical condition. ‘The
delays in the game were largely due to
the injuries received by Princeton
players, while Yale escaped without an
injury of any kind. Again our team
had no real test of its strength. Since
the game with the Elizabeth Athletic
Club, more than three weeks ago, there
was no game which disclosed the weak
points in team play. 3
Though Princeton was defeated on
Saturday, we are proud of our Captain
and our team. We are sure that they
suffered from over-training rather than
over-confidence. Even in defeat, we do
nto forget what Captain Cochran and
his men have done. In behalf of. all
the friends of Princeton, we thank the
team, the faithful scrub and the coaches
for their efforts to win the champion-
ship for Princeton this year.
Never in our recollection have the
undergraduates so loyally and faithfully
supported the team at the game, as
they did on Saturday. The cheering
was strong and united, and the cheers
given after the game was over, for
every member of the team and for suc-
cess next year, were a strong proof
that the Princeton spirit cannot be con-
quered by defeat. This is perhaps after
all the greatest victory.
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