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  Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], November 17, 1912, page 7

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  PRINCETON GETS A TIE WITH YALE WONDERFUL GAME BETWEEN “FLI” AND TIGERS” WON. DERTUL PLAYING. OKLAHOMA U. VICTORIOUS Oklahoma state Championship DE- Cidcd: Harvard Wins Close; Carlisle Defeated. PRINCETON, n. j., Nov l6-. Princeton and Yale In their annual football battle on University Field today played each other to 6-G tie. So evenly were the teams matched that neither had the power to rush the ball to a touchdown. Each team pat mp stonawall defense, and al the scoring was done in goals from the field and goal from placement. The result of the struggle was unsatisfactory to both sides, and espectally to the thousands Of Princeton rooters who saw the game slip from the hands Of the fighting Tigers In tho last fcw minutes of play. The hero of the game in the eyes of Yale was Pumpelly, who, coming into the game for the second time when everybody expected to near tho ,mekoper’s whistle blow, giving Princeton a victory, booted the bail for a field goal from the tifty-yard line ticing the score. 1t was one Of the most rcmarkablo Eoas from the field ever seen on the Princeton gridiron. No one expected Yale would try for such a score with the bail in midfleld The time was short and II was case of doing something heroic or lose. Yale tooN the chance and won. Giving signal apparently for n punt Pumpely, who had but a few t,,iput.S hcfora taken k1AIkal\‘s Mace dropped back and received a perfect pass from Kctcham. Pumpelly drcpped tho bah and then booted it on the rebound, Hardly anyone expected 10 soc the BAH soar to the goal post But it quickly began to rise and on a dead straight line toward the goal “Stew’ Baker, the little Princeton

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Officially, Oklahoma leads 91–⁠20–⁠7; as played, 85–⁠20–⁠7 in the 112 games on file; the official count covers all 118 meetings, counting the 111 since this game.