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...President Hoover's annual attendance at the dinner of the Gridiron Club of Washington newspaper correspondents (preventing his appearance at the Army-Navy Game...
...many years Mr. Roper sent Princeton elevens on the road to gridiron fame and to not a few victories over the Crimson and over the Blue. His retirement at the close of the late football season leaves him with a reputation of having won, in addition to a great many games, the respect of those universities which at one time or another met his teams on the athletic field. In the chronicle of Princeton football one can expect to find Bill Roper's name in much the same high place that Percy Haughton's occupies at Harvard...
...black and well nigh impenetrable, has settled over the ancient halls and stained glass windows of Elihu Yale. They say it reaches almost to Camden. Feline yawps, augmented by the throaty bellows of the Theological Students, rend the quivering air. For on the eve of one of the classic gridiron spectacles of the East, news of a most alarming nature has trickled through to New Haven. (The above use of "trickled" is with deepest intent, as will appear shortly...
Harvard has frankly admitted that the Crimson offensive will be largely a passing attack with Wood and Huguley in the lead roles. The University team may be hoping to repeat the Michigan game of last year when the Crimson displayed the most brilliant aerial attack seen on any college gridiron since the days of Oberlander, Tully, and Lane at Dartmouth...
...rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game, as he did Saturday, the Yale attack is swift and powerful, moving behind a better than average line. Booth has inherent football sense combined with a running ability rarely seen on any gridiron. It is practically impossible for one tackler to bring him down, and it is not until he has been boxed in successfully by several men that he is effectively stopped. It is not because of any desire to injure him that opposing teams assign two or three to go after...