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Partly off-setting the lopsided score on the gridiron, the Band scored a kind of moral victory over the Princetons. Filling silently into the main quadrangle at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, the Band members stopped in front of Blair Hall and began to play "Harvardiana...
Only 30,000 fans will gather for the 1:30 p.m. kick-off to a game which in its palmer days would be one of the country's major gridiron attractions...
Although this is Jordan's freshman year with the Crimson, he is an old gridiron rival of Caldwell. Prior to the war the tow coaches opposed each other in the Little Three when Jordan was at Amherst and Caldwell at Williams. When his competition ended in 1942 Jordan had a six to five edge over his rival. In the final contest, his undefeated eleven smeared Caldwell's clean slate, which included a win over Princeton...
Caldwell returned to his alma mater in 1944, when he set the stages for a football organization designed to bring Princeton to the heights of its gridiron power. While Harvard spent the postwar years seeking coaches and a football policy. Princeton, with the help of Caldwell and one of the nation's most vigorous alumni bodies, accepted the challenges of "big time" football simply by fielding a big-time team...
Both lines were helplessly mired on the rain-soaked gridiron for most of the contest. The edge lay in the backfield, where the Maroon and White had two very fast halfbacks in Bob Emerson and Mickey Howe, as well as fleet and long-passing quarterback Ernie Degutis...