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...football team at a meeting tonight. The new leader prepared at Mercersburg Academy, and, when he came to Princeton, played on the 1923 Freshman team. His position till this year, has always been left end, and in this connection he figured in the famous triple pass to Gilroy which defeated Harvard in 1921. This year, however, Snively played guard, also forming the pivot of Princeton's effective passing game...
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 28.--At a meeting of the football team today, Ralph Charles Gilroy '23 of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was elected captain of next year's football team. He played left halfback on the 1923 championship Freshman eleven, and has had two year's experience on the University team. Before coming to Princeton, Gilroy starred for two years at Exeter Academy...
...Tiger. With the score standing 0-0 and with eight minutes left to play in the last quarter the University suddenly surged into a field goal lead, held it for a few minutes and then succumbed by the score 10-3 to a terrific. Princeton come-back as Gilroy tore 64 yards for a touchdown and Keck sent over a placement kick. But although all the scoring and most of the thrilling plays occurred in these last few minutes of the game, the story of the fourth quarter is by no means the history of the whole struggle. For three...
Outrushing the Tiger players and outmanouvering them at every point there can be no doubt that Coach Fisher's men were superior at first. Repeatedly the University passes threw the defence into confusion and during the first three quarters of the game it was generally the reliable Gilroy, the bulwark of the secondary defence who was needed to stop the Crimson rushers who again and again pierced the Tiger line. On the other hand except for one brief spurt which ended in failure, the Princeton attack seemed unable to gain ground, the passes going amiss and even the elusive Lourie...
...critics join to praise Princeton's remarkable comeback in the last few minutes of play. Grantiand Rice in the New York Tribune writes that "Princeton won because at the finish the Tiger had more stuff in reserve than Harvard had and was better fixed for a whirlwind rally. Gilroy's long run would come off without perfect interference...