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League leaders are Art Boland of Cornell for team offense; Claude Benham of Columbia for forward passing; Yale's Al Ward for rushing; Bob Rex of Dartmouth for punting, and Princeton's Hewes Agnew for scoring. Yale and Dartmouth ranked first in team offense and defense respectively, with Harvard ranking fourth and seven in these two categories. The Crimson ranked second in league punting...
...Fullback Agnew tried the wedge play three times, bringing the ball to the one, and tailback Tom Morris cut off tackle to score. Paul Nystrom's conversion was good...
Against Penn the week before, the Crimson forward wall just crumbled, but Saturday it did a surprisingly strong job. The Tigers, without the services of fullback Hewes Agnew after the first period, found it difficult to gain much rushing, but once again the Harvard pass defense made a hero out of a comparative unknown--this time, substitute Jim Mottley. Mottley completed nine out of ten passes, including two for touchdowns. He also scored one himself, on a 20-yard...
Princeton again quickly regained possesion of the ball after its kickoff, but this time the Tigers' offensive cost them the services of Agnew, who was forced to retire with a knee injury...
Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell had evidently realized that with Agnew gone for the game, the Tigers could not expect to gain much from the charging Crimson line. And so he decided to stick to his strong first-period aerial attack. The idea resulted in Princeton's second first-half touchdown, just five minutes later. Two long passes, one for 60 yards and another for 20, from substitute tail-back Jim Mottley to end Bob Kent and quarterback John Sapoch made the score 14 to 0 at seven minutes of the second period...