Princeton at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 17, 1929, page 1

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  BOOTHLESS YALE DOWNS TIGER, $50 Bulldogs Great Back. on SideIines, Watches Mates Whip Princeton. Associated HreSS Sports WrlbeE’ NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, November 16.- Yale’s foot ball team today stood up in It’s famous bowl, with $4,000 persons looking on, to deny that 1t is one man team, using the hapless Princeton Tiger as q victim and illustrating the tale with 13-to-0 victory over the men from Old Nassau. Little Albie Booth, who has been the n1ainstay of the Blue backheld all year. could not play today on account Of a Charley horse” and his mates went out to show their supporters and the Princeton Tigers they could win without Booth. There was no great indication In the scoreIess, first half that the Boothless Yale team would be able to success fully work out the novel experiment. The first two periods were scoreleSs and Princeton outgained and outkicked the ELS. Booths Proxy Shines. In the second half the story was diff ferent. Booth was represented by a proxy who was as elusive and tricky as the little fellow himself. Don McLennan, a junior, whose home is in Lake Forest, Ill, showed more offensive pow er. than the Princeton defense could meet. He scored the first Yale touch down and played a vital part in the second. He gained more than 400 yards in 30 ball-carrying efforts. Another sub, Al Beane, was a fine running mate for McLennan. Booth almost got in the game. Late in the fourth period Yale drove to the very shadow of Princeton’s goal posts and little Albie leaped from the bench and began tearing of his sweater. The crowd roared as he talked to Yale coach. In the meantime a play was run and Yale was still a yard from the goal line. Booth then sat down and Yale on the fourth try gave the ball to Princeton on downs. Yale came out for the second half with a drive that woulc not be denied. McLennan caught tho kickoff and legged it back 25 yards to his 30-yard line. Princeton Fights Back. On the next play, he clipped of 13 yards and in cooperation with Ellis, McLennan added two more first downs and then contributed fourth on his own account with a 14-yard smash to the 20-yard line. His next sprint OF s yards brought him within easy striking distance. The fighting Prince ton team stopped him once and slowed him on another play. but finally with the Princeton goal line, yards away, he was not to be halted and over he plunged for the first touchdown of the game. McLennan caught the Tigers fiatfooted when he tossed a pass to Tay- | lor for the extra point. Princeton came right back as though 1t would level the affair at once. Witt mer took the kickoff and ran so yards to midf1eld, but there was no sustained drive and the Tiger had to wait for the fourth period to threaten again. Then a pass to Wittmer was good for 80 yards and Princeton advanced to Yale’s Is | yard line. Passes would not click and Yale got the ball. Yale took the ball on its own 20-yard | line when the last Tiger pass was | grounded behind the goal line. McLennan at once ran II yards and then with Beane made a first down in the center ! of the field. Beane rested McLennar for two plays and his relief work wa, so good that he was able, with the ale Of penalty, to place the ball or (Continued on Page Q, Column 81

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 18, 1929, page 22 (results column)

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  the play. In brief, the better team won. There wasn’t any doubt that this was so in Pitts case. Tech, in fact, did very well to score. TenneSSee’s 1900 decision ewes van derbilt was equally impres- Sive. McEver and Hackman dominated this one from the first to last and Vandy had to go all the way to the fourth period before it got q first down. Purdue had to get the benefit Of two major calamities before the Big Ten title was hers, these being Northwestern’s defeat by Indiana, 10. to IA, and Michigan’s victory over Minnesota, I to 6. Both were last-period vic tories and both were earned. But, in this, they had nothing on Purdue’S win from Iowa. Twice the latter was held for downs inside the 10-yard line, while the Purdue touchdown was as legitimate as a marriage license. It was quite a day for substitute heroiSm, one McLennon, OF Yale, beating Princeton, 13 to 0. while it was Ross, of Indiana, who ran for the winning touchdowI1S, with Northwestern leading, IA to 6, and only 10 minutes to play. Wilson, another substitute, was the lad who carried Michigan’S attack through a laSt-period drive to beat the Gophers, too. These latter were two of the days great upsets. The third was Stanford’S 13-to-7 defeat by Santa Clara, which repeated its victory of two Years ago, even to the score. This one was. earned. too, Santa Clara coming back with a successful march to the goal after the Cardinals had tied the score. This affair seems to send Cali. fornia in as the probable confer ence champion, although the Bears looked as though they were saving up a lot of trouble for the Stanford game. They only beat Washington, Z to 0, on two passes by Lom, aggregating 81 yards. However, the Huskies are getting rapidly no worse as the season progresses.

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.