Show y yI I Outstanding feats of o c Vale Princeton Series o ol 1 a l fl y P q d rr 1 f I STOPPED I LAMAR MeR WAS SToPPED S M M WHITE WHilE V A SCORED A r y RuN ROM WITH A 60 0 00 YD o I IDAs DAs SH Or H l d I I ii r 1 I Il i 1 I 74 PoES S to 00 RD Yf RD LN lags 1898 wON NON HE HEG G- G GA GME ME 1 oR HE 1 t I S 0 o rt R LoNGES S J- J b RuN A A t 70 yD CO DASH SH lid l SOW MOR I I lal Grid Encounters Between Old Eli and Sons of Nassau Second Oldest in Athletic World By DANIEL M. M DANIEL V NEN HAVEN Conn Nov 12 12 Yale and Princeton meet meelin in the bowl Saturday in the second oldest sport classic in this country The The- football football football foot foot- ball clash between ti the trie e Bulldog and the Tiger goes all the way back to November 15 1873 and it antedates the Yale Harvard-Yale game by two years This makes the serI series s be between between be- be tween Yale and PrInceton the te daddy addy of or them all in football and ana second in American sport only to the HarI Har liar vard- vard Yale yard Yale rowing r regatta gatta which goes back to the SOs I The battle in id the bowl tomorrow will be the ninth forty-ninth between the Ells and the sons of ot Old Nassau Yal Yale has has- had all the better of ot the thelong thelong thelong long out drawn-out argument for it has doubled Princeton In victories Yale Iras has won twenty-six twenty games and Princeton thirteen with nine ties Two of the deadlocks were called no contest on account of ot having to tobe tobe tobe be called because of darkness In the good old days days' the Yale- Yale Princeton game was the climax of ot the season But after the 1 1897 97 con contest on test it t fell feU to the secondary place place on the Ell Eli schedule and the Har Har- Yale vard-Yale game became the the the-climac- climactic climactic climac climac- tic classic Most l of ot Yale Prince ton games of the pre automobIle era were played in New York either at the old Polo Gro Grounds or Manhattan Manhattan Man Ian hattan field and they were gala oc occasIons occasions oc- oc occasions indeed One of ot the games in 1890 was played in Brooklyn The series series has had more than its share of thrilling sensations sensations long long I I j dashes for winning scores eleventh i l hour rallies and startling kicks fo for r conquering goals But the most remarkable re remarkable reo re- I of them all was the stunt which led to Arthur Poes Poe's yard dash for the winning touchdown inthe jn in n I the tho game of 1898 which went to Princeton by 6 to 0 0 O. It was at the close of ot the scrap that Poe turned the trick The records records rec- rec class the the- therun run as one made madeI I from the recovery of or a fumble but it was was was-no no fumble tumble at atan atall all Poe adroitly adroit adroit- ly w wr wrenched the ball out of ot the arms I of ot a Yale Tale man and scooted down the field with all the Ells Elis in hot pur pur- suit Th-ey Th never caught him and that minute last trick broke a scoreless tie in favor of the Tigers Another geat Beat run in the series was Lamars Lamar's yard ninety ard dash in the 1883 game Yale won that by 6 to 0 O. O Lamar was tackled just as he was about to hurl himself over the Eli Ell goal line and there old Yale held and and won Lamar had better luck two years later Again he broke away for along a long lorg run run but this time no Yale man man stopped him He caught a punt and darted eighty yards for a touchdown touchdown touch touch- down that won for Princeton by 6 to 5 There was a whale of a fight On the Yale side the longest run ever made against the Tigers was the yard seventy-yard dash from scrim mage by Morrison in 1890 at old Eastern park in Brooklyn Morrisons Morrison's Morrisons Morrison's Morrison's Morrisons Morri Morri- sons son's score didn't stand out with any too great prominence for tor the Ells swamped Princeton that after after- noon by 32 to 0 O. O Booth of ot Princeton I pulled a great play in the 1907 game in n which Yale nosed out Princeton by bv 12 to 10 Booth the st star r of the Tigers that afternoon picked up the ball from a blocked kick and ran ranse se seventy yards for tor a touchdown touchdown and and made the game as tight as a drum Lee McClung l of ot Yale who who later was vas to become the United States treasurer scored on a yard 65 run from scrimmage in the 1891 game Which Yale won by 19 to 0 O. O Standing out only second to Poes Poe's great stunt was the great feat of Sam W ite in in 1911 the 1911 the year his hie n nose nose for se-for for a loose baW ball wo won b both the Harvard and Yale games and won the Big Three title for the Tigers Princeton took the game that year yearby yearby yearby by 6 to 3 3 and arid White scored the touchdown with a yard sixty-yard run after atter he had picked up one of the Bulldogs Bulldog's fumbles Only the week before White beat Harvard with a yard 95 run after the Tigers had blocked d a Harvard kick Whites White's expertness in to n picking up loose balls bans was no accident He had worked hard at that specialty ev every ry afternoon with a wet balland balland ball balland and a 3 dry one picking up a loose ball on the dead run And the Big Three classics found him perfect |