Princeton at Harvard

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  Wichita eagle, Wichita, Kan., November 19, 1889, page 6

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  Daily eagle AS TO FOOTBALL. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Union of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan. WHO’LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF pennsylvania, wesleyan. WHO’LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP The Leadin: Clubs Have Lost Good Men by Graduation – Re-enforcements from the Freshman Classes-Points About the Players and Their Positions. The annual season Of the college football mans” greatness Is upon u.s. Once more that worthy is a power in the land. While his groveling fellows who prefer mathematics to athletics are plotting inn aginary curves and angles and calculating theoretical velocities, on paper, he is describing actual curves and angles and becoming acquainted with extremely matter-of-fact velocities, on the field His bookish companions are Flooding along In the hope of achieving fame at some distant Gay. The football man may make national though, perhaps, ephemersl-name for him self In the next two months. Shakespeare says ‘‘some men have greatness thrust upon them” The modern college football player is sure to have greatness thrust upon him, IL 3 svoirdupois greatness Of the opposing ‘‘rush line” La the language of the familiar phrase he may awake from the state of coma caused by the sudden descent Of his opponents bodies upon hiIn-to find himself famous Now that the ten months Of chrysalis exktence OF the football man” in the bookish atmosphere is over and the dull bookworm IS ready to bud into the athletic butterfly, the football players and would-be football players in all the great institutions Of learn ing are bestirring themselves. The devotees OF the game at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania s.re the chief objects of interest TO lovers Of the sport, inasmuch these col leagues compose the intercollegiate Football association. And, although the season is not yet fairly under way, the all absorbing queston, ‘‘Who will win the championship” Is already moOted question in the eastern col lege world. 1t Is too early yet to draw accurate conclusions, but on the basis of precedent Yale should carry OF the championship flags. Since the introduction Of the Rugby game in 1875 her representative hckers have scored something like 500 goals to all their opponents’ combined total Of less than half a dozen goals. and but once in these thirteen years has the pennant wandered away from her keeping. Hence precedent would seem 70 name her as the champion of SO, but her wonderful record is sure to be broken sooner or later, and very likely this may be the ‘‘off year” Whether or no the championship remains at New Haven, it may be pretty safely as sumed that the actual struggle for the PEN nant viii be confined to Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Wesleyan and the University Of pennsylvania oftentimes put very fair teams into the field, and their opponents play foot ball as hard as they know how. They have never come within cannon shot of the championship, however, and crack football players naturally ally themselves with college in whose service their proves may be rewarded by victory. So it is that Yale, Harvard and Princeton always have and have had better football material than either OF their rivals. That being the case, their successive teams have more expert advisers IN the persons of former members of the varsity elevens Then again, at the three leading colleges, football has been reduced to science, the traditions le:t by previous football stars are more carefully studied or improved upon, and far more in terest in the game, and, hence, encourage ment for the players, are manifested by the college at large. Thanks to all these advantages, Yale Harvard and Princeton have forged ahead of their rivals in the game. This year Yale is more unfortunate than any of her rivals in the loss of members OF her last years team by graduation. That team was made up in this way: finger, 81 s. Woodruff, 80, Gill, SO; Cor bin, so, and Stage, P. G. half backs-Graves, ~, and McClung, 90, quarter back-Wursemberg, ’69 s. full back-Bull, P G. As appears from this showing, five Of the sleven graduated last June and Bull, who was taking post graduate course, has COM pleted his studies. One of the Ave graduates glib has returned this fall for post graduate study so that the team loses but five old men; but the five men lost were the mainstays of the team, all being old and experienced players. OF the old team there remain as a nucleus FOR this years eleven Gill, Stage, Heffiefinger, Rhodes, McClung and Graves All of these men will doubtless play this year, SO that but 1--we new men will have to be broken in Nc Bride, 20 s.. who was a substitute on last years team, will probably make the team this year. Hartwell, Harvey and Newell, also substitutes last year, are still in college, and may get on the team, though it is scarce iy probable that more than one Of them will attain that honor 1t is too early TO tell what football talent may be hidden In the OBSCURE ty of the freshman class, but Capt. Gillaheady has his men at active practice and the coming men of might will soon be discov cred. Judging from the practice games far played at New Haven. the team for 1889 will be fully as heavy that of last year. Some of the new corners at Yale who have so far showed up well in the practice play are Barbour, who captained the Exeter team last year; Bliss, who hais from Andover, and Fallows, who was formerly an instructor in the Exeter gymnasium As yet no one who has got drop kicking down to the fine art to which Bull Of last years team had reduced it has been found, though Mcbride may possibly I’ll the bill Football lovers will remember that but for Bulls magnificent work in the field at last years Yale-Prlncston game the wearers OF the plue would probably have bit the dust Another unpleaSantly big hole to

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  Pittsburg dispatch, Pittsburg [Pa.], November 17, 1889, page 5

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  PRINCETON WON. They Easily Defeated the Harvard Boys at Football, Football. BosToN. November 16-Never in the history Of college athletics has such vast assemblage attended contest in Cambridge as that Of today to witness the game between the Harvard and Princeton football elevens on Jarvis Field. Every seat was taken long before play was called, and mass Of struggling humanity Is to ~ feet deep entirely encircled the field outside Of the ropes. The respective teams were greeted with deafening cheers as they came on the grounds for preliminary practice. 1t was perfect football day. The ground was hard and firm, and justa faint northwest wind was blowing diagonaIly across the field. Fully Il, 900 people were sitting or standing about the field when the two ele7ens appeared for their preliminary practice. The Princeton men looked confident and the supporters of the crimson had an earliest feeling that whatever the outcome their eleven would make hardy, gamey fight. The teams lined up as follows: Harvard–COmneock, left end, weight 100: Upton. left tackle, 160; Cranston. left guard, l60; Tilton, center, 100; Traford. right guard, IT’S; Stickney. right tackle 16S; Crosby right end. AS; Dean. quarter back, 145; Lee, left half back, l7O; SAKE, right half back, 100; Trafford, full back, $50; average weight Of the team, 165 pounds: average weight Of rush line, 1853 pounds. Princeton-Warren. right end, weight 148; Cash, right tackle. l64; Riggs, left guard, 2O4; Cowan. left tackle, $50; Don nelly, left end Isl: Poe, quarter back, l3z; Black, right half back, 16S; Charming, left half back. IA; Ames, full back, l55; average weight Of team. 164 pounds; average weight Of rush line. I72 pounds. The match was well played and Princeton won by 81 to Is. The following dispatch shows how the news was received at Princeton: The news Of Princeton’s victory in the foot ball game with Harvard to-day reached here about o’clock tonight. Fully 500 students were at the telegraph office to catch the latest arrival of news. When the final score was an nounced pandemonium reigned supreme, and the old town tonight is undergoing one of the many years Amid the play of fireworks, the din of horns, drums, etc.. a great pile of com bustible material was heaped around the old cannon on the campus and burned. After the celebration around the fire the students proceeded in line to the presidents house, where addresses were made.

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Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.