Yale at Princeton

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  The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], December 1, 1893, page 1

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  rough their veins. The men lined up as Princeton. Position. Blanchard. Right end Lea: CdchIS Taylor. guard balllet w neeler gu5Iu GlcAie emu = Alng quarter pack nan half back Princeton won the toss. and the wind not being a sufficient momentum to effectually aid the players. chose the ball. The I’ll gers” started off with a flying wedge, Ward going through Yale’s center for twenty yards. On the next lineup Morse, the other half back, took the ball through Yale’s right end for three yards, but lost II on a tumble. Butterworth then kicked for goal, thirty yards, Princeton securing it Ward was sent through Taylor for three yards, but Morse, on two tries, and Ward, on one, failed to gain the necessary five yards, and Yale took the ball. Then it was that Yale, full Of confidence in their old center wedge, tried to force S3utterfirm did they find the line that Butterworth only made one yard. Then they tried the same thing with Lea, and he made three yards, but on the next lineup Hlckok stepped over the line and Princeton took the ball on an offside play. Blake punted down to Yale’s fve-yard line, and t@e2 of excitement by spreading around Aale’S right, between Greenway and Beard, and, dodglng Armstrong, making seventeen yards. HINKEY KNOCKED, SENSELESs. Yale was getting desperate now and, after a little consultation. decided to try the flying wedge used by Harvard. They sue ceeded in putting Hinkey through for five yards. Morse and Ward gained six yards. Princeton lost the ball ON an ofside play. Yale then tried the flying wedge, but played a trick nv xhrouipn tho halI 70 Pnttcrworth, instead of rushing it, the full back then punting forty yards. Blake caught the ball and started to bring it back. He was running head down when he struck Hinkey with terrible force, throwing the Yale captain senSeless on his back. He was patched up in the required five minutes, however, and play was resumed. For Princeton, King lost two yards trying to go around Yale’s end and Blake was forced to punt. Butterworth caught the ball on Yale’s thirty-five yard line and made a magnificent dash to return ii. He was tackled four times and each time shook off the Princeton men, amid great applause, finally landing the ball thirty-five yards back. On the next play he went through Prfnceton’s right end for ten yards more, then Princeton settled down. On four downs Yale failed to gain five yards and lost the ball. Blake then punted and Thorne captured the ball. but was downed before wedge but failed. B~utterworth was COM PEELED to punt. BY a poor punt by Blake on an offside play Yale gained two yards. Yale was now getting more desperate. The men knew that they had found their match, If not their superior in the Tigers. Four times they bucked Princeton’s center in desperate shape, and four times failed 10 gain an inch, the ball going To Princeton. Now it was Princeton’s turn. Ward was put through for six yards. Morse went through the center for ten yards more. YaIe’s center was rapidly weakening and the men on the line seemed TO be unable to withstand the rushes of the Princeton backs aided by the fine interference. The | adherents of the Tigers were wild with exelement, and King, the plucky little quarter back of the Princetons. added fuel to the excitement while plunging through | Yale’s center for ten yards. Morse gained three yards, Ward two, and finally, with a great rush. Ward has plsnged over the goal line for a touchdown. King kicked and Blake caught the bail on Yale’s fifteen yard line. King kicked a goal and the score was: Princeton, 6; Yale 0. For the remainder of the first half there was desperate playing. Princeton repeat edly smashed through Yale’s center, while Yale. on the contrary. failed to make any run made by Armstrong through Prince | toms left. Yale seemed to have lost all ing in games heretofore, and Hinkey and Butterworth seemed TO be the only men playing anything like the game which it was supposed individual players would put up. OF course Hinkey had been badly hurt and Thorne was also in pretty hard shape. Time on the first half was called at 1886. 4 OIt Il Z U IdACs “ THE SECOND HALF. In the opening of the second half Yale started again to use her old trick of buck ing the center, but with the exception Of the first gain made by Butterworth, the play was unsuccessful. Princeton’s center seemed like a stone wall. Seven success sive times Yale tried TO push either But terworth. Thorne or Armstrong through, but each time they were downed without making any considerable gain. Then Princeton tried it, but Yale Seemed to be waking up and resisted the attack. Blake was then forced to punt. After Butter worth had tried unsuccessfully to come through Princeton’s center, Ballet broke through Princeton’s left and took the ball out of B~utterwOrth’s hands, Ward was then pushed through for ten yards; Gray was sent around for ten more; Princeton got five more for Yale’s interference. Ward was again showed through for Two yards and Morse for three more before Yale got the ball. Three times Yale tried Princeton’s center but with no effect and ButterwOrth was forced to punt. King caught it and tried to bring it back, but lost four yards. Ward | punted for twenty-five yards, and in the next play Butterworth returned the punt. 1t was Princetcn’s ball then and Ward was put through the center for five yards Blake punted and Buterworth caught It. but was dosvned Immediately by Brown Butterworth punted for twenty-five yards and King fumbled but for Yale’s interference Princeton got the ball. King now made one Of the cleveresr maneuvers of the day. Ballet had put the ball in play a few seconds before they We’re ready. King, taking the bali, found nobody to receive it, and. hugging it close to his bosom. started around Yale’s lef end. He succeeded in making twenty-five yards. escaping all the tacklera. until n, reached Butterworth. who dOyned him With a flying interference Princeton car ried the ball up to Yale’S fVe-yard line They lost the ball to Yale and Butter worth punted. The ball went fully fort yards, one of the longest punts of the day Princeton secured il and. with n sole wedge, in one play forced il back lfteeI yards. King. Morse and Ward then mad a very clever play. King passed the bal to Ward, who crisS-crossed TO Morse. TIL Yale players had started for the rigSt an Morse in the meantime was coming like cyclone. Then there was hardly anybOd, in his way and, with the aid of Eing’ feint interference, he succeeded in making thirty-ive yards. AT this j~uncture OF tn game Thorne was forced 70 retire and Har took his place. Yale seemed to be thor oughly surprised at the plays of their op ponents and weakened considerable. Fou or five times Princeton bucked the cente and three successive plays carried the bal up to Yales Vineyard line. The crowd 81 the stands yelled themselves hoaTse. Whe time was called the ball was on Yale hfteen-yard line. downs-Ward. for Princeton. !. Goals King. for Princeton, l. Referee-AiI Brooks, of Harvard. Umpire-Mr. Dash iell. Of Lehign. Time OF game-Two hour and twenty-five minutes. 1t is interesting 10 note In this perticula that since 1888 Yale mas won eleve championship games; Princeton. four, an Harvard. one. Since 1883, out of a total q 122 games played, Yale has won III. hay ing lost one to Harvard and three I

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  The record-union, California, December 1, 1893, page 1

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  sneclaI to the REcoRp.uN1oN. great football day of the year. The game at the Manhattan field this afternoon between Princeton and Yale was as phenomenal in intensity and brilliancy Of struggle as it was surprising in result. Yale was defeated to 0. Many moons will shed their iuster before the Yale men will recover their composure after this supplying shock, their complete lack of preparation for which made this bolt from heretofore almost unclouded skies seem like some wrathful visitation for which they are at q loss to account. From the very start of the game it was palpabic that Yale was outclassed and out played by the modest young giants, who went into the battle with victory in their eyes. The teams met in the presence of $4,000 spectators inside the fence and 10000 looking down from the high grounds in the neighborhood and other points of vantage to witness the contest for Amer cas- football supremacy. The day opened with a temperature like April, but with wet, soggy clouds overhanging the sky. AS the hours passed, however, the sun broke through the retreating hosts Of Jupiter Pluvius and the promise was for good weather when the teams should get together. The belated ticket purchasers had to pay dearly Tor their dilatoriness in securing the first requisite to an entrance to the grounds; SO was readily paid and $50 and even $50 was given up for one OF these pieces of pasteboard. The betting was very decidedly in Yales favor. Sporting men freely offered two TO one and five TO three on the blue against the black and yellow. Bets of / 200 TO 500 on Yale were numerous, with any quantity of smaller ones at % to ID. Experts say there is no such odds between the teams. Princeton has been practicing a number OF tricks, and rather expected they would spring some sur prises. 1t was noticeable that Princeton men seemed fresher and livelier than Yale’s, two of whose men, Butterworth and Thorne, wore the marks of last weeks contest with Harvard, and were lame beside. At p. NJ. both teams bundled up and left for the grounds. Before the time for the game to COM mence the weather became perfect, the sun shining in a cloudless sky. The air was crisp and invigorating, and the col lege men, out IN force, made the welkin ring with college yells and the mournful footing Of tin horns. The crowd cheered Princeton won the toss and took the ball. Rooney, with flying wedge, gained twenty yards. Yale got the bail on a fumb BILE, but was dOwned without a gain. Butterworth punted thirty yards. Then it was Princeton’s ball, on which there was gain of five yards. 1t was then Yale’s ball, and she gained five yards three times i’ll succession. The ball was then on Yale’s tifteen-yard line. Yale | went through the center for five yards. Butterworth punted thirty yards. Hin key, Captain OF Yale, was hurt and left the field but returned. Then Princeton gained five yards, and Blake punted thirty yards more. ButterWorth punted thirty yards. The ball was then on Princeton’s twenty-yard line. Blake punted twenty yards. Yale was given i’ve yards for oh-side play, and gained tive yards more. Princeton then had the ball and began to make short gains. Nale’s ball was in the center, and she forced it down to Princeton’s 20-yard line. Several players had already been hurt. After see-sawing back and forth, Princeton got the ball and punted twenty yards, but Yale forced 1t back fifteen. With the ball near the center time was called tor the first half. The score was Princeton 6, Yale 0. The second half opened with Yale’s ball near the center. Yale gained twenty yards on a flying wedge. Princeton made five yards and Blake punted thirty. 1t was Yale’s ball in the center and gained and lost five yards. Blake punted twenty into touch” Yale was given five for of side play. Princeton gained ten. When time was called the bail was on Yale’s l5-yard line. Score: Princeton g. Yale o.. HARVARD DEFEATS THE PENNsYLvA- MANS. CAMBRIDGE Mass, Nov. 30.-The crimson is popular color in this city tonight. In fact, any shade of red goes. ALI Harvard is wildly hilarious, and growing more so as The evening ages Harvard Drawn Jriumphed to-day, dragged down from it’s lofty pedestal the pride of Pennsylvania mopped it about in Cambridge clay and then sat upon it, Harvard’s boys defeated the team of the University OF Pennsylvania by score of 70 to 4. A pleasanter fall day never shone over New England. Fifteen thou sand people lined the amphitheater upon Jarvis field and enjoyed it to the utmost. Pennsylvania had the ball at the OPEN ing and made ten yards with the running V. Harvard rallied, and by rushes and mass plays forced the bail down to Penn sylvania’s eight-yard line; then to five yards, then to two yards. The Pennsylvanians. playing desperately, managed to force Harvard back by series OF brilliant individual plays. Then the tide turned and the bali was forced back to Pennsylvania’s ten-yard line. Then the struggle was desperate, but Harvard gained yard by yard inch by inch, with three downs on Pennsylvania yard line. The ball was finally pushed over for a touchdown and goal kicked. The score was 6 to 0 in favor OF Harvard. Harvard WOE the game, rs to 4. SIX TO SIX. SAN Francisco. Nov. 30.-Stanford s, of a desperately fought football game this all day, but ten thousand people sat in the stands and on the bleachers and bawled for their favorites. The grounds had been soaked by five days rain, and patches of mud and puddles OF water were numerous. ScIentIhc play was out of the question, and the players slipped and fell and fumbled IN their efforts TO get over the ground. Although the game was not called until 2 O’Clock the crowd started out to the field before II o’clock, and when the game started nearly every seat was filled. stanford was the 1avorlte III the betting at 10 l. but the conditions were against them, and, as predicted, the berkeley men proved to be the better mud larks.” Neither side attempted any tricks, and the game was simply struggle and push with an occasional attempt at run around the ends. During the first half the Stanfords played in hard luck. A brisk wind was

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  The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., December 1, 1893, page 1

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  TIGERS DOWNED THE BLUE Yale Boys Beaten by Prineeton’s Eley- en- 6 to 0. CRIMSON WAS TRIUMPHANT ON JARVIS FIELD. The University of Pennsylvania Defeated rs to A. The Foot Ball Fever Is Now at Its Height and the New York Brokers Play the Game on Change – The Dangerous Nature of the Sport Shown by Another Death. New York, November 80. = Thirty thousand people visited Manhattan field today, and saw Princeton beat Yale at football. Some 10000 people saw the game from points outside the grounds. The Princetons began the game with a flying wedge, and gained Is yards. Yale ! then got the ball. but soon lost it. Yale regained the ball, and Butterworth kicked it to Princeton’s 42-yard line. After gaining and losing the ball several times, Morse, of Princeton, took it, and before he was downed had covered 35 yards. The first down was on Yale’s 10 yard line. The wearers of the blue then took brace and gained five yards on a terworth punted 25 yards. Morse was given the ball and covered II yards before he was downed. Then Yale tried a trick which would allow her to get the ball on side play. and have clear field for touchdown. The punt though only covered 25 yards, and Keeping, of Prince ton, made beautiful catch. The bail was now Princeton’s on the 45-yard line. King took it, and after a long transverse run, was downed with only four yards gained, and it was Yale’s ball on fum- BILE. Here Butterworth made the longest run Yale made in the game. He covered 80 yards, and went down. Yale had to kick, and so Princeton got the ball. Five yards were given the tigers for interference. The ball was at Princeton’s 90 yard line, nearest to her goal, but Prince ton, by a fine series of rushes, carried the ball half the length of the field with out losing it. Princeton Intellectually tried the flying wedge. In Yale’s haste to break il, before her guards got off the side. Princeton, by the rule, was entltled to five yards. This would have taken the ball over the line. A compromise was made, and Princeton held the ball with grant of two yards, leaving her one-half a yard to gain. This Ward gained on the next play through the cen tire, and a touchdown crowned the most brilliant series OF plays the Princeton team ever exhibited. King, of Prince ton, kicked off and then dropped nice goal from the 2O-yard line. Score, Prince ton, 6; Yale, O; time, 55 minutes. The remaining ten minutes of the first half were spent in short gains by both teams, Yale somewhat in the lead. The second half was opened with a vim by Yale. She gained Is yards on the first play, and the flying wedge was add ing small but steady gains, when she lost the ball on a tumble. The Princeton backs cleared five yards and fumbled the ball. A series of rushing plays followed, King got the ball and ran 40 yards before he was pushed out of bounds by a Yale man. Another Princeton man got the ball on Yale’s 15-yard line, but the defence prevented a touchdown. Yale got the ball on downs, and Butterworfh kicked from the Yale goal to Princeton’s 50-yard line, where it was captured by Princeton, who brought it to Yale’s Is yard line. A drop kick failed, and the ball rolled over Yale’s goal line Is yards to one side, and Yale took it on her 20 yard line. Yale had made but little adyantare when the time closed.

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], December 1, 1893, page 5

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  The game was called. Score-Princeton /. Yale @ TwENTY-sIx TO FOUR. Harvard Wins, and Almost at Can. 4 Cambridge, Nov. 3O.-Crimson is a popular color in the city tonight; in fact, any shade of red goes. All Harvard is wildly hilarious and is growing more so as the evening ages | Harvard’s crown triumphed today and dragged down from its lofty pedestal the pride of Pennsylvania, mopped it about in Cambridge clay and then sat upon it. The Harvard boys defeated the team of the University of Pennsylvania by | 26 to 4. A pleasanter fall day never shone over New England. Fifteen thousand people lined the amphitheatre upon the field and enjoyed it to the utmost. Pennsylvania had the ball at the opening and made ten yards with run ming. Harvard rallies, and by rushes and mass plays forces the ball down to the Pennsylvania eight-yard line then to Vineyards, then to the two yards. The Pennsylvania’s playing desperately, managed to force Harvard back by a series of brilliant individual plays Then the tide turned and the ball was forced back to the PennsyIvania’s ten-yard line. Then the struggle was desperate, but Harvard gained three downs on the Pennsylvania yard line, the ball was finally pushed over for touch down and the goal kicked. Score-6 to 0 in favor of Harvard. Pennsylvania then took the ball. forced it down the field, and finally made touchdown, but failed to kick the goal. Score-6 to 4 in favor of Harward Harvards started with a running, and Brewer made run for touch down and the goal was kicked. Score II to in favor of Harvard Harvard secures another touchdown and goal. Score-Harvard, 20; Penn sylvania, f. Harvard scored two touchdowns and did not kick the goal from them. The first half ended on Harvard’s ten-yard line. Score-Harvard, 20; Pennsylvania, 4. Harvard won the game-26 to 4.

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 107 since this game.