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...Take arms against a sea of troubles," Princeton Coach Dick Colman might say to his football players Saturday, "and by opposing, end them...
...opposition Colman has in mind is undefeated Harvard, rolling into New Jersey atop a wave of polite hysteria over the prospect of an underfeated season. But what the Crimson has to worry about is that Princeton has finally recovered from an epidemic of injuries that turned it into an ambulatory patient for the first part of the year...
...Tigers certainly look healthy now. They squashed Penn 30-13 two weeks ago, and then came back last week to beat Brown 24-7. Colman regarded the Brown game with so little sweat that he put in his defensive backs on offense during the last quarter. Princeton, still very much in the Ivy League race with a 3-1 Ivy record (4-2 overall), wants badly to continue its surge by knocking off Harvard...
...Colman will finally be able to play a backfield Saturday that isn't put together from bits and pieces. Both tailback Bob Weber and fullback Dave Martin have recovered from injuries and will be ready to play. Colman had been using a sophomore, Dick Bracken, at tailback, and his fullback has been Bill Berkley, who is much happier as a punter...
...large part of Princeton's perennial success in the Ivy League is due to the anachronistic single wing offense which Coach Dick Colman employs. In the single wing, the ball is snapped to one of two backs who are stationed about four yards behind the line of scrimmage. The attack depends more on sheer power than on finesse and deception. Its great advantage for Princeton, though, lies not in any inherent advantage of the single wing over the T-formation, Since nobody uses the single wing any more, rival coaches find it difficult to prepare the teams in one week...