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Once upon a time, last spring, a Freshman football player was faced with his weekly English A theme, as yet unborn after an evening at the movies. His gridiron experience, however, had given him resource in crises, and this particular resource he found in his desk drawer. It was an "A" theme in English A, submitted by his brother some years before. In its earliest known history it had been handed in by a long graduated cousin and had also received...
Needless to say, a trip across the continent by the Nassau team merely in an attempt to seize an ephemeral sovereignty of the American gridiron could only serve to involve Princeton athletics in the much bandied accusation of "over-emphasis," a charge that has, fortunately, hitherto been given little or no excuse for being launched against the Orange and Black...
This editorial expression is not an attack upon the men who compose the varsity squad. We realize fully what a thrill it is to them to be singled out as gridiron representatives of the East. The men themselves are as clean a group of players and gentlemen as any college can boast about. But it is not a question of personalities so much as it is a question of principle...
Flashing a brand of football that it has shown only very rarely this season, the Varsity eleven administered a trouncing to the Blue outfit on the historic gridiron of the Stadium, and emerged victorious by the largest score since Eddie Mahan's club...
...Yale game, the Varsity went on the gridiron at Springfield with ironclad instructions. The ends were to drive the play in, and the tackles were to break it up before it got under...