Princeton at Yale

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  Evening star, December 1, 1935, page 35

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  %7 GAME STIFF FOR ONE QUARTER Mob Pulls Up Goal Posts Before Contest Is Over. Score Sets Record. N YEW HAVEN, COnn., november N 30.-Yale’s foot ball team fell VI a victim Of Princeton’s hit 4 and-run gridiron machine today as the Tigers wound up their second unbeaten and united season in three years. The score was 38 to 7. Virtually stalled in the opening period, the big Tiger machine started picking up momentum in the second and operated with crushing force in the final chapter. In that period ii ground out four touchdowns to register the biggest score Princeton ever has plastered on Yale in the 81 years OF the series. The crowd was estimated at close to 10000. Larry Kelley, the elusive and loquacious Yale end, who caught the touch down pass last year that resulted in Princeton;s only defeat of the 1884 season, spared the Eli whitewaShing First Period Is Even. EARLY in the fourth period Kelley 49, took position in the corner Of the end zone and caught a long looping 30-yard pass thrown by Jerry Roscoe. The first period was stand-off. with both lines putting up such a Stalwart defense that it was virtually impossible for either side to penetrate. Midway through the second period Ken Sand. bach kicked l5-yard field goal from placement and then several minute: later skittery Jack White, reserve Tiger back, scored the first touchdown In the fourth period White talliec again; Capt. Pepper Constable scorec twice and Sandbach contributed 6 touchdown. Sandbach kicked all five points after touchdowns. Except for the touchdown in tht second period, which resulted from & 40-yard drive, the honors almost werl even in the first half, each team scoring four first downs and Princeton gaining IS yards rushing to 81 fol Yale. In the second half Princeton com pletely dominated the play, rolling | up nine first downs to Yale’s four ane outgaining the Blues 154 yards to 81 Wild Scenes at Finish. CCENES reminiscent Of the CLOSING minutes of the Dartmouth game here a few weeks ago were reenacted when the goal posts were up rooted before the contest was over. With about two minutes to play to day a mob of spectators pulled dow the Princeton uprights and theI i another crowd at the opposite end o | the field threatened to level Yale crcssbar before Sandbach had chancu to try for the point after touchdown. officials used force in fighting tn mob back. but after Sandbach mad, the kick the posts were leveled anc the game was finished without posts. | Levan Starts Tigers. 7 AIRY LEvAN, the feet running – back who played his last game 70 Princeton, paved the way for Sand bach’s field goal when he caught Yale punt and returned it 20 yard | to Yale’S 20. Chick Kaufman, a reserve back and Constable plowed through to tn 4. and then Kaufman slipped ant (See PRINCETON. Page 49,

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.