Princeton at Yale

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, November 19, 1911, page 1

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  Princeton Triun1phS Over Yale: by 6 to 3 Sam White Picks Up Ball on Tumble and Sprints for Touchdown-Tigers Are Outplayed By Big Margin New Haven. Conn, Nov. 1S.-Wallowing in puddles of water on every play and smeared with mud from toe Cleats TO head guards. after the first down. the Tigers and the Bulldog this afternoon splashed through the most sensational game of football that has been fought on historic old Yale Field in many year-a game that was really ended when Sam White OF Princeton, the j. Franklin Baker of football, snapped up a fumbled Yale pass and raced 50 yards to a touchdown. The final score was TO 3. Howe, of Yale. kicking a field goal for the three points credited to the Blue There is 4 district in New Haven that is designated as a zone OF quiet, which has no particular relation to the tOrrid, temperate. or arctic zone, or even the zone of safety, but which is section hedged off from public mani festations for reasons of common veal. You encounter the signs on the trees enroute to the football field. Tonight the territorial lines of the zone have been extended to include the uttermost limits of the city. and it is a dense and definite silence which prevails in this part of Connecticut. Princeton has gone. taking all the noise of football-whose other name is also WhIte-with it, New Haven does not like to be defeated, and most especially has she a prejudice against being defeated by Princeton. Hence the manifest calm hereabouts. AS for Princeton. it departed in a series of snake dances and vocal dis order, above which could be distinctly heard the name of s White, OF Old Nassau. So passed the big e-Princeton game OF 1911. with a new chapter of football history and a new football hero. Lucky Princeton. Three straight victories-Harvard. Dart mouth. and to-day Yale-victories due TO football luck. That is the story OF Eddie Harris Tigers of 1911. a team which will go down in history as one of the luckiest teams that ever played football, and not a word in all this Is meant to detract from Princeton s pluck. II was team whose offense was a joke. Not a single first down to-day was made against Yale. Indeed, Nassau running backs played a game that suggested as much as anything else the IA NOUS block game Of 1851. 1t simply served to kill time. The teams defense was elementary. but stubborn at critical moments; its punting game was faultlesS, and. all things considered. was a stand off for Yale’s. With this curious cOmbination, added to a watery, uncertain, miscradle field. was a cold wind that veered and boxed the compass in eddies. Princeton picked up a loose ball in the middle of the field and scored a Prince ton touchdown. The particular Poe who performed this feat was one Sam White. left end, who duplicated his run Of So yards against Harvard by one to-day OF ~. the distance in each case depending upon the number of yards that lay between the ball and a goal line. That. in a nutshell, IS the story OF the first game won by Princeton against Yale since De Wits run of eight years ago. And Yale’s offense. a varied. complex, dangerous ma chine, that sent Camp and his fellow backs for gains of to 20 yards or more into and through the line; that finessed the situation so that often a runner was jogging through tackle with a clear field to the secondary orfense, Yale’s offense. Clogged with mud, was unable to get over the goal line. Princeton’s handling Of the ball in the back field, too. was marked by scarcely a tumble. and the fast work of the ends on both teams was noticeable feature on a day when 1t was something of an accomplishment to run at all without falling down. Whites remarkable run came in the first quarter. and it came after Yale had steadily outplayed Princeton and kept the play practically In Princeton terri tory. The game began with Yales kick off. The Princeton catcher was nailed before he could get under way. and the Princeton offense, starting from the first scrimmage. proceeded to lose a couple OF yards. punting duel followed. About eight times the ball swung back and forth between Princeton’s goal

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 19, 1911, page 13

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  THE HALL OF FAME FOR SAMMY WHITE Like Napoleon, His Opportunity Came and he Won for Princeton the Game With Yale. FINAL SCORE WAS 6 TO 81 Nearly Forty Thousand People Wit messed Battle and Much Money Was Lost by the Ell Followers. UNITED Press Lease Wire Service YALE. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov Sammy White, the greatest OPP portunist since Napoleon saw and seized the whole of Europe, saw loose football bouncing about the Yale field today and grabbed it. That was the end, and Princeton’s football squad, for the first time since 1908 defeated the Yale eleven. Score 6 to 8. BY her victory today the Orange and BLACK becomes the undisputed champ ion of the big three the major league of college football The Tiger team has not been defeated this year and she has victories over Yale and Harvard to her credit And it is to White and his ability to grasp a gold en- opportunity that Princeton owes her championship, for it was White who seized an opportunity and beat Harvard, and who duplicated the per- Torrance today and beat Yale. Field in Poor Condition. Weather conditions for the champ | ionship game of the year could not / have been less favorable. Twelve hours of pouring rain had turned Yale field into quagmire, while stiff {v,d hof M hn Grid prevented accurate punting or drop kicking. / Despite the inclemency of the wealth er, fully $4,000 people damned their way into the great wooden stands that surround Yale field Women were there. wrapped in oilskins, SOU west. ers, sable coats and steamer rugs. Yale was outplayed in every depart ment of the game, and the score of 6 to 3-twice as much for Princeton as for Yale-showed about the rela. tive merits of the two teams. The locomotive yell doomed across the Princeton stands, and Yale responded with three times three” but Yale couldn’t win that game with cheers. Game Kicking Duel. j. After that the game resolved itself into kicking one. with few attempts . at rushing the line. Twice Yale vain ly attempted forward pass. Ii /: kicking, Dewitt more than held his own with Walter Camp, Jr, though q neither could shine as punter witt field. What White was to the Princeton ; team, Camp was for Yale. He trul, was his fathers son. The whole Yal’ y attack seemed to have been bull about the rangy youngster who few weeks ago wasn’t regarded as goo’ T. enough to make the first team. H was the most consistent ground gain e er on the Yale team. Man for man, the Princeton’s rus = line outplayed Yale. Captain Har was tower on both offense and de ), tense, and often the great tackle wa down the field with his ends, tacklin /; runners in the open. 1t was his las appearance in moleskins, and whe s. the head of the Princeton rooters too him and bore him away in trump !; at the end of the game, he was vii ing to admit he was the happiest ma :; In the world. Duff, the Tiger rigf guard, was another star that figure r in the open field play. Fast, in spit of his weight, he was all over til 0. field all the time. e, Bluthenthal’s work, which has mac him the likeliest candidate for the a. J; American team the game has develo ed this year, stood out all the mol e. prominently in face of Keteham failure to deliver the goods” 10 Wagers Were Big. O. Yale fans claim, as did the Harval fans that it was fiuke that won fl IL the sons of Old Nassau But Jungl town undergrads say the “fluke” w; e. White. Thousands of dollars changed han, D; on the contest, Yale men Offering 6 freely up to the moment the team ); went onto the field. Princeton M, played the Dewitt “hunch” strong, f u 1t was in 1903, on the occasion Princeton’s last victory. that CAPITA n Geo. Dewitt’s drop kicking from Il field beat Eli And today it was a 0. ether Dewitt-W. H. this time-who long kicking toe saved Princeton more than one occasion. IL Captain Howe. of Yale who was c 9 pected to beat the Tiger with his u or erring drop kicking, failed in the re X. of “fhe man of the hour Si.. TIN,

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  The evening times, Grand Forks, N.D., November 20, 1911, page 1

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  PRINCETON TIGERS DEFEATED YALE Old Ell Bowed to Greater Ability of the Orange and Black New Haven, Conn.,. Nov. 20.-Yale went down to defeat before a Prince ton eleven Saturday at Yale field. for the first time in eight years. and out of the ooze and muddy water rose the orange and black warriors to set up | claim to the football supremacy OF the east. They had won from Yale 6 to 3. This was as decisive IN figures as the score owe Harvard. 1t was a treat victory for the men of Princeton who came here 10000 strong. The game. played partly in brilliant sunshine. which dispelled memories Of the mornings rain. and closing under gray skies. was n OF the most remarkable in recent years. Princeton won, although outplayed in nearly everything that is laid down in football instruction books. The tigers had no offensive plays. strong. On the other hand. with mud %underfoot. Yale could neither rush for lack of foothold. speed up her end plays. nor send her backs through holes torn in the orange and black line. 1t seemed that everything Yale ! attempted was spoiled by mud or a puddle Of water through which a man the plays and the football knowledge. But her plays went wrong. The singularity of Princeton’s positon as victor is shown in the fact that. except for the scoring play | which followed an error. the orange and black but once had the ball in its possession in Yale territory and this was in the last period when she stood on the fifty-one yard line. Luck played a part in the victory. as it did in the Princeton games against Harvard a fortnight ago and against Dartmouth”last Saturday. Once again Samuel B. White. the sturdy. speedy left end, wrote his name on the list of athletic heroes of old Nassau. He had made Princeton’s only touch similar run in the Harvard game contributed to hat victory. The Princeton score came early in the first period through a misplay. Yale had the ball on Princcton’s forty five yard line when Capt. Howe sig nailed the backs to the right. The ball was sent back with no one to receive it. Dunn tried to fall on it, but failed, and White. pickin, it up, start ed for the Yale goal sixty-five yards away. Ten yards from the line Howe got White on a tackle about the ankles. Both went down and slid five yards through the mud. and White managed to wriggle over the line. Baker had little trouble In kicking goal. period. On an off-side play Yale received the ball on Princeton’s twenty. five yard line. Howe kicked the field goal, the fourth he had attempted. The heavy ball and q brisk wind did much to make his efforts Ineffective.

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  Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Ill., November 18, 1911, page 1

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  PRINCETON WINS FROM YALE TEAM New Haven, Conn, Nov. 18.-A fierce storm swept the football field early today and considerable dam age was done by the high winds The field was a mudhole, but about noon had dried some. Yale was given the kickoff. Princeton defended the north goal. The same luck which stood by Princeton in the preliminary season held fast in the first two periods in the game with Yale today The play took place toward the close of the first period, when Princeton was being steadily pushed back to its own goal line Ketcham made wretched pass and the ball went clear of every Yale back White picked up the loose ball or his own 45-yard line and went over the goal line for G5 yards. Through out the two periods Yale was much superior to Princeton. but could not get beyond the Tigers 13-yard line. To = ard the close of the second period, after four other attempts, Captain Howe finally dropped a goal from the field and from the Princeton 25-yard lHG- score at LuS Gnu u the LdlA- Princeton, 6: Yale, 3. The score at the end Of the second period: Princeton, 6; Yale, 3. Final: Princeton, 6; Yale. 3. Madison, Wis, Nov. 1s.-The city is thronged with football fans today eager for the Minnesota–Wisconsin game this afternoon Charges of professiCnaIism made by both side intensifed the usual bitter rivalry between the teams. Added TO this was a prevail ent opinion that this would the last athletic contest between the two uni yersitfes for some time. Both teams are confident Of victory. The Wisconsin men expect their team to Offset Minnesota’s heavier line. Camp Randall, Madison, Wis, Nov. 18.-Minnesota scored a touch down. Gillette kicked OF for Wisconsin. Capron caught the ball on the 20-yard line and ran through the end OF the Wisconsin team for a touch down. MorrelI minnesota kicked goal. Both sides played cautiously

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 89 since this game.