Princeton beat Yale in a very wet Bowl Saturday, 27 to 21, but it became distressingly obvious to most Crimson fans in the crowd that the better team lost.

Everyone of the 62,000 fans there knew that Yale had a potent passing attack; very few people knew just how good the Eli line and running attack were.

Midway through the second several things were cleared up; Yale's running by Jerry Jones and Pete Shears was good, and the Eli line, on offense and defense was excellent.

The Elis almost completely stopped Tiger fullback Homer Smith, allowing him 44 yards gained on 16 of his 17 Smith, who set a new Princeton rushing record the week before against Harvard, was hit at the line of scrimmage almost every time, generally by either Eli captain Joe Mitinger or linebacker Joe Fortunate.

Princeton opened the Yale line only a few times all afternoon; the first time when Smith went 93 yards for a touchdown after being semi-tackled at the line of scrimmage. The only other time the Tigers moved the ball came in the last minutes of the game when tailback Bob Unger carried on every play, and picked up four first downs.

On offense Yale was equally good, allowing Jo and Shears to gain most of the time. Dick Polich did a particularly fine job trapping the usually untrappable and often obnoxious Princeton tackle Brad Glass.

The Yale passing attack was truly excellent. Eddie Molloy, despite a soaking wet ball, completed 11 out of 18 tosses. Ed Woodsum, six foot two inch end, while not outstandingly ast, is an incredibly clever who didn't drop a pass all afternoon. By the end of the first period Molloy was using Woodsum as a decoy and passing to halfback Frank Smith, who also onto the ball with amazing determination.

Spread Formation

Yale passed out of several spread formations, with Woodsum and the left end, Harry Benninghoff, almost at the side lines, often with a halfback far out on the flank. Because of this, Woodsum's cleverness and are utilized; he is almost as impossible to block at the line of scrimmage as he is to stay with down field.

One was the woefully weak Yale pass defense. Early in the first quarter Princeton end Frank McPhce charged into the Bulldog secondary, sent Blue safety man Brock Martin with a beautiful fake block and caught an Unger pass, to comple an 80-yard scoring play. This

Wet Ball

But just when it

only slightly in total yardage gained; it made four more first downs. But the over anxious Blues made several costly mistakes. didn't.

After the game, a vastly relieved Charles W. Caldwell, Jr. told assembled reporters that: "Harvard doesn't have a defensive line worthy of the name," and "Yale will beat Harvard--by plenty." A slightly disconsolate Oliver added that "next Saturday I'd be coaching Yale than Harvard."

But anything can happen at a Harvard-Yale game; slow men, they say, run fast.

It may even rain.