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Show oo Yale Team to j Meet Princeton j In Annual Clash NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov 14 - The Yale and Princeton university football teams resume their annual gridiron .battle here tomorrow sfter a lapse c" I three years With the enry of the United States Into the world war both j collegiate institutions abanloncl fool ball for more serious student activity along material lines i.nd he game in I the Yale bowl Saturday will be the Hrsl clash of the Bulldog and Tig.-. 'since that late November day in 1 9 r G . when Yale emerged ";rtor rver Princeton Prince-ton 10 to 0 after one of the hardest games of the classic series This two years uieak in the annual , meeting of the two univers:ty football I teams is in itself ar- unusual occur rence as with one other exception lh elevens have lined up each autumn since 1S73. Following the Initial game there was a lapse until 1876 afte which each twelve months saw the iw . teams battling until : 917 when the sterner duties of war iorred fotball j into the background. During this period of many .,..i 142 games have been playc l with Ya'e winning 23; Princeton 10. while th'; remaining nine have been ned. Be I ginning with the game of 13 the pre.'-ent pre.'-ent system of scoring vas introduced I an analysis of the figure- from '.ha: season to 1916 shows that i'ale pilej ! up the impressive tola of 355 poinv io Princeton s 152 ale als . has a string of three consecutive victories to her credit in the last trio of games played winning in 1914-15-16 wcile the contests con-tests of 1912 13 resulted in iie. Frincc-ton's Frincc-ton's last victory was by a 6-3 score in 1911 The efforts of h war 13 aftermath I are plainly visible in the football con ditlons that prevail ai bGTfl Princeton and Yale. In the interim between 1916 and 1919 iootball players, coaches, and system all underwent changes with th? result that neither varsity machine i-moving i-moving with the smoothness that, characterized the v crk in previous days Dr. Al Sharpe is head coach at Vale while Bill Koper has replaced Rush at Princeton. Few veterans were available when practice ban in Sep tember and the season has been one of uncertainty and upsets. Including the early season games alone Princeton was defeated by Colgate and Weal Virginia Vir-ginia while Boston college lowered the. colors or i aie. w one inee oeieiiis !give an inkling of tho unsettled situation situa-tion they have in rer.lity no bearing upon the outcome of tomorrow's game. When Yale and Prim eton meet the intensity in-tensity of the rivalry lifts he combat to football's highest plane, lurnishin la gridiron spectacle which will attract jmore than 60,000 spectators to the Yale I bowl tomorrow afternoon. |