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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 28, 1890, page 1

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  A GRAND-STAND FALLS. TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE IN DANGER. SEVERAL INJURED 1T THE YALE-PRINCEToN FOOTBALL GAME-LUCKILY no ONE is KILLED-IT WAS A TEMPORARY FOOTBALL GAME-LUCKILY no ONE is KILLED-IT WAS A TEMPORARY STRUCTURE. The serious part of yesterdays football game between the Yale and Princeton elevens, at Fast ern Park, Brooklyn, occurred when one Of the temporary stands tumbled down. Fortunately nobody was killed, but nearly 1000 people were badly shaken up, and nearly fifty of that number were painfully injured. II was a miracle that nobody was killed The stand was temporary affair, erected early In the week. but it was rather finsy structure when the number Of peopie it was expected to accommodate is taken into consideration. A permit for the erection of the stand was granted by Buildings Commissioner Platt on Tuesday. The stand was movable one, and was taken TO Brooklyn from Philadelphia to supply the additional need for seats at the great match. 1t was constructed Of iron supports and planks for seats. JUMPING on THE STRUCTURE. 1t is supposed that the jumping up and down Of the few hundreds upon one end caused raclSing motion. which broke the seats from the fas;enings. Persons who saw the broken timbers say that they were not sound. Buildings Com inquire into the failure of Inspector Vaudeville to report upon the condition of the structure. The gates had hardly been opened when the crowd began TO rush into the grounds, and by noon most of the available free seats were Occupied The temporary structure was just south OF the left field blcacherics” and offered adj vantageOus position from which to the game At l2:1O the rev stand was we’ll crowded with men women and young girls and boys. Sud IDENTIFY the whole north end gave way with terrible crash and roar, carrying most Of the renaming seats with it. Only the southern part of the structure remained upright. The shouts Of the men and screams of the women were not wholly drowned by the crash. IMPRISONED IN THE wRECKAGE. Women aud children were imprisoned under the wreckage, while the more fortunate crawled out of the ruins with fear and horror on their faces. The crowd in the other parts of the grounds dashed 10 the rescne, and willing hands were soon working hard to extricate the unfortinnate sufferers. 1t required nearly half an hour to lift the Imprisoned out and carry them away. A score of women and yOunG girls were carried out fainting. The scene coming amid the cheers and songs and the din of trumpets of the students made striking contrast 1t effectively silenced the crowd and it was nearly an hour before the noise was resumed The stand belonged to the Wagner brothers, the owners of the Philadelphia Brotherhood base ball club. II is portable affair, and was moved TO this city last week. Employees of the Wagner brothers put the stand in position. saying that It was thoroughly safe. and that it had held large crowds at the baseball games at Philadelphia last summer. The manager Of Eastern Park, however, deemed it advisable TO add few braces here and there and did 50. When examined after the crash yesterday some of the timbers seemed decayed and in anything but good condition. The iron work seemed rather fragile for such struct. ure. SOME OF THE INJURED. The injured according to Ambulance Surgeon Parker of St. Marys Hospital, were: f. b. Pennington. twenty years old, OF NO. 3oS Clnton-st., Brooklyn; fracture of the leg. lie was taken home. d. S. Dunning twenty-tliTee years old, OF Prince ton confusion of the leg sent away in cab. John Aquillar, eighteen years old. of Peekskill, sprained leg Taken to st. Mary’s Hospital. Perrine Barney, fifteen years old. of PeeksEill. spraincd lanee. Taken to St. Mary’s Hospital H. w. Fuller twenty y-three years DID, of Bayonne, n. J student in Rutgers College, scalp wound; George 4. Johnson twenty-five years old, Hotel NOrnandia \. Y, conclusion Of the spine. taken to st. Marys Hospital: o James McGlove, thirteen years DID, 40. loo Stone-ave. confusion Of the leg Taken home. d. Turner, twenty-five years old, student In Troy Polytechnic Institute, fracture OF the arm. Put in cab and went to his home on Staten Island. ,,, Others who were injured were: Charles Wilson, twenty three years old, of No. 06 Bowery, New York, bruise of the leg; A. Wiel, twenty-three wears old, No. 326 East One-hundred and, ,thirteenth-st., New-YorlS, fracture of the colarbone, East Thirty -eighth-st., New-iork, sprained leg. Young Aquilar and Barney, who were taken to ST. Marys Hospital We’re met by Major Watkins. the head Of the seke aH tary We’re oa no a carriage and taken to the Grand Central Station and then to Pcekslill. Neither of them was much hurt. Barney is a son OF the proprietor of the Barney Car Works. in Virginia Mr. johnson is the most seriously injured No one was allowed to see him last night. lie Is IN no immediate danger, however ..,. Others who were injured went away without assistance from any of the ambulance surgeons. BOUND TO SEE THE GAME. After the crash well-dressed man, probably fifty years old, crawled out of the wreck In rather battered condition. His silk hat was smashed down over his ears. his face was bruised and bleeding, his clothing torn, while he grasped the remnants of an ebony cane in his hands. His friends advised him to 90 home, but he shook his head as he said No. my boy is going TO play. and | must see him. Ny cane is broken. my hat smashed and my backbone twisted, but L am The crowd respectfully made way for the man as he hobbled painfully into position III the front row CHANCE AVERTS Il BIG DISASTER.

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  Fort Worth daily gazette, Fort Worth, Tex., November 28, 1890, page 5

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  GREAT SPORT. Yale’s Giants Defeat The Princeton Foot ball Team by a’scOre o. 80 %. One Of the Most Exciting Contests on Record. Witnessed BY $1,000 Peops, Every One an Enthusiast. ] been fought The blue banner file: | proudly in the breeze, while the orange trains in defeat. Princeton IS defeat WA. | complete. Her score was nothing, “ hill, YaIe’s was thirty-two. The game va: witnessed by III least so eco SPECTATORS, among whom the partisans of Princeton were more numerous. but what the ! Yales’ friends lucked in numbers they | made up in enthusiasm. | The gutes of the park were opened at ! IL O’Clock and there were then hundreds outside awaiting aimittauce. One hour J later every seat on the ‘bleachers | were occupied and there was already 4 thickly packed mass of men pressing | against the uoMrd fence that surrounded the field on which the game was to be | played. | About 1926 O’Clock the crowds that | were seated on the free stands on the | eastern eide made frantic endeavors to get to places of advantage. In the sIrumb bic that followed IL vast throug of | men who were standing i’ll front | thought they could see way whereby they could get seats. In a rush they crowded on the seats, which | were riinary portable baseball seats ! made of east iron with plauks across for ! seats. minute later the rush began | AMI an Omiuous crash was plainly heard. . | Ii was followed by II crash, the roar of which was soou drowned by the voices | OF men and women. | CRYING OUT IN DISTRESS. | The North end of the eastern ‘‘bleach- ! eTS’ had fallen with results before decrihed. The accident east gloom over | the entire assemhlnge, and the cheers | and horns were hushed. | IT was half an hour before the crowd recovered its wanted gnyety. They could not hold off | longer, and Us time for the beginning OF the game was near the shock of the ac- | ciieut was soon forgotten IN the expectation of seeing the greatest game ever witnessed on American soil. gathered TO witness a football any kind of game on one side of the arena, when twenty-five able men were TO con est tor honOrs. The people ! all had II uit of blue as a distinguishing mark. The amount of blue ribbon | sported by the spectators ranged from u small bow up 10 flag, hat bands, handkerc hisfs, and one fellow had an ENTIRE SUIT OF BLUE. Their cry was Il short, rafting tRah, rab, rah, y-a-l-I.’ AS soon as it died away there vera echoed by the lusty “hurruh, hurrHh, hurrah, sis, boom. h-P-r-i-n-c-e-t-o-n. From the Orange aud black on the OPP posite side OF the arena. the crowd yelled and hooted until their throu,s were sore, ami by the time the twenty-five stalwnrt athletics marched on the field the cries nearly died away. The appearance, however, of the giants was greeted with verocions and resouuding echoes. Every body got up aud yelled tor fifteen minutes. TIE sun was shining brightly upon the field, ana thu ground was good AMI firm, when at 1850 O’Clock Jim Robinson, Princeton trainer. rushed into the field closely followed by the Prince on Eleven and substitutes. There we’re exactly twenty-five III all. II was evident that Capt. Poe intended 10 have enough emergency men OF hand. The yell THAI greeted their appearance was taken up before it had died away by the YALE ENTHUSIASTS. AS the Yale team with Capt. Rhodes in the lead, marched steadily on the grassy field. This is the way they lined up: YALE. POSITION. PRINCETON. Hattwell......... e. end ............. Warren walli,............leIt tackle ........ ..Speer felinger let Euard.... -.......Thomas Lewis .......... center ...Svmms ). Mo-rison.... ri sht guard .... Riggs Rhoues... Captain rIght tackle L avis Grosley ........r ri M end ......;:.. Furness Ba bou.... ........quarter back. Poe, captain McCung. hall back King harvey.-...- :. hait oack-. :. Spicer MorrIson full bi K ....... Hemans Rrieree-BroOks OF Harvard. Umpire-Coifin of Wesleyan. IT WAS 80 CLOCK when Princeton won the Toss and reserved bali. Yale having choice of the field. The old V trick was attempted by the PrincstOnS, but was no go. Yale’s rushers held K.ug down. Capt. Rhodes got the ball and, guarded by three stall wart Yale men he got to within three yards of the goal, aud by u great effort showed the ball to within yard of the goal. This was sure thing for Yale, but they had TO try three times before they got the ball over. Princeton did great work here, and was vigorously appiauded. McClung got the ball and showed himself through the hole in the Princeton line and secured the first point-a touch down. He kicked the goal soou after. After several in efIertual passes McCluug made u daring run of fifteen yards, going by Poe and Fairness. LIKE 4 WHIRLWIND. Riggs tackied low and nailed his man. McCIung, after four downs got the ball aud forced his way ten yards. Big HefTeiinger moved half Il dozen Prince ton men down and gained another ten yards. Princeton’s rush line seemed to be mere stripplings as compared with Ygle’s heavy lines. Princeton used bad judgment. This was when the SUPERIOR ity of Yale first began to make it, self manifest. In their rushes hey guarded their runners we’ll and this was an important point. Princeton got the ball on the off side. Plays aud Homans kicked thirty yards. McCluug caught the bail and made his pheuomlnul run, gaining, by lodging and bunting, twenty-five yards. Il was a case of see-snw, for neither side gained much. First one side would advance and be forced back By the other. When Yale got the bail again Back Morrison passed it. McCiung, who made one Of his

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  St. Paul daily globe, Saint Paul, Minn., November 28, 1890, page 1

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  CRUSHED AND MANNED Scene Of Horror at the Yale Princeton Football Game. Fifty People Mangled by the Fall Of a Grand Stand. One Of Chicago’s Five Story Brick Buildings Top plies Over. Steamer j. P. Leathers Burned at Fort Adams, Mis- sissippi. dent occurred on the grounds at East ern park. Brooklyn, before the Yale Princeton foot ball game was played. The big free stand OH the eastern side OF the grounds, furtherest from the grand stand, suddenly collapsed, carry ing down with it its entire load of human beings. The crash came without any warning whatever, and at the time the long rows of bleachers were closely packed with spectators. 1t is estimated that there were more than 1000 people In the structure at the time. a scene of indescribable confusion and panic followed the crash, which was heard in all parts of the grounds. The occupants were mostly men, majority OF them students from Yale ard Princeton. There were also many women in the crowd. They all lay in confused and struggling mass upon the ground. Many of them were completely buried under the wreckage Of plankS and joists, of which The R1ckety Structure was built. The screams and shrieks and groans which came from the un- .l Many tainted away from the injuries viii ch they received. In an instant there was general rush for that part of the field, and score OF more of blue-coated policemen were seen engagged in pulling the manned and wounded from the wreck. Others lent their assistance, and within ten min utes the whole place had been cleared. At first 1t was feared that some might have been killed. but this fear proved TO be unfonnded. a great many persons, however, were very severely hurt, and broken limbs and bruised heads aid bodies were numerous. Many OF the friends of the wounded people had them carried atonce out of the grounds and placed in hacks, which took them away before their names could be learned. In this way great many cases were not reported to the police. The big dressing room under the grand stand was rgged up as hos pital, and the surgeons from three ambulanceS from the Brooklyn hospital, which had been summoned as soon as the accident occurred, had their hands full with patients. Among those who were treated on the grounds and after wards taken away were Charles Wilson, ankle disloeated; Cadets john Aquillar and Perrin Darney, of the Military Institute at Peekskill: two young lads. backs badly sprained and bruised; Emery B. Remington. Princeton ’93, leg broken; Yale man, name not learned, suffer ing from conclusion of the spine; TWO Rutgers college students, heads bruised and cut; John Monroe. Princeton. contuslon of the legs; S. &. Dunning, Princeton ’9l, broken ankle: George A. Wylie, thigh broken; james McGlOne, internal injuries; F. S. Keeler, Column bia ’9l. broken wrist: John Weed,a Yale student. injured internally and taken out unconscious. Stephen 2. Speare. a Yale student. arm broken; John Car ruthers, a Wesleyan university student, badly cut about the head; Eldridge. a Princeton ’94, both legs badly jammed about the ankle; - Curley. another ’91 Princeton student, knocked uncouscious by blow on the head. His case Is deemed very serious: - Leonard, a resident on Fifth avenue, New Iork. a middle-aged man. had his right leg broken; Edward Morgan.a Yale student, leg broken; - McKean, Princeton theological student, compound fraction of the left leg; - Bradley. ’92 Princeton, both legs badly hurt: A. We’ll, fractured collar-bone; G, Turner, leg hurt; II. w. Failer. scalp wound: George a. john SON, confusion OF spine. A lot of boys, a doZen or more. names not learned, I’m IA I’m nj Al bleacherS, were Badly Bruised and cut. The only ladies who were hurt were two Brooklyn women. one of whom had her feet crushed and the other her leg bruised. They were first taken to the managers Office, near the main entrance, and were afterwards taken from the ground by their friends. Some OF those who were buried beneath the wreckage and were taken out unconscious afterwards recovered and declined to be treated. They went on the field again and found other places to view the game. The lowest estimate puts The number of people injured at fifty, while others place ii as high as sixty or more. The stand was evidently in most unsafe condition, for the bro ken timbers showed that many of them were nearly rotted in two, while the structure was the most flimSy affair inn aginable. When it began to fill up with spectators the joistS were heard to crack and strain, and many who started to find seats gave it up as dangerous job. Several persons stationed themselves near the entrance of the stand and warned people not to go up, as it was was unsafe. Every one claimed that very superficial examination of the structure would have shown that it was totally insufficient TO support the crowd

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  Sacramento daily record-union, Sacramento [Calif.], November 28, 1890, page 1

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  YALE VS.. PRINCETON. The Latter Easily Defeated by the For. mer in a Game of Football, The Latter Easily Defeated by the For mer in Game of Football. New York. November 27th.-The cham pionship football game between Princeton and Yale, which was contested on the Eastern Park grounds at Brooklyn to-day, was won by Yale-32 to 0. The game was witnessed by 25,000 persons, who had recovered from the depression caused by the accident of couple of hours before, and manifested their enthusiasm in every conceivable manner. Nearly all the different colleges in the East were represented among the coachers. Their sympathies were evenly divided. The game was great one, but the Princeton eleven was over matched. Their rush line seemed mere striplings compared with Yale, and frequently used bad judgment. When the first half was ended Yale had scored sixteen and Princeton nothing. When the second half began no one was in doubt about the result and gloom had fallen over the Princeton contingent Their eleven seemed incapable of stop. ping the irresistible rush of Yale. In thirteen minutes Yale had increased their score to twenty eight, and thereafter only exerted themselves to shut out the Prince tons, succeeding well, as the score tells SERIOUS ENDING. INDIANAPOLIS, November 9th. The Butler Eleven defeated the Peru University in game of football to-day, winning the State championship. The victorious team, to celebrate tonight made the rounds of the city in a tally-ho coach. The king bolt of the vehicle broke, and the oecupants were precipitated to the ground. One was fatally and five painfully injured.

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 110 since this game.