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Coach Horween will speak, and will be followed to the rostrum by J. L. Brader, Wisconsin 1923, former all-American tackle, who is coaching the University linemen, and C. R. Carney, Illinois 1923, all-American end, who is tutoring the Crimson wingmen...
...once more the ineligibles were given the ball on their own 20-yard line. Two line plunges failed to dent the Crimson torward wall, and on the following play the Princeton backfield mixed its signals and the ball sailed over the goal-line, where Crawford overwhelmed by four Crimson linemen, managed to recover the pigskin. Two points were, however, added to the University total through the medium of a safety...
While the backfield was practicing kicking and passing, the linemen under Coaches Brader and Carney were put through an intensive session on the charging machines, and ended up with half an hour dummy practice. The Harvard tackling has not been up to standard in the opinion of several of the Crimson coaches and there will be a good deal of work this week on polishing up the defense for the expected attack by the flashy Tiger backs...
...game. Miller's 72-yard run for a touchdown on the second play of the contest was the key note of the whole afternoon. After that, with the exception of the few moments which produced its lone score. Tufts was completely bowled off its feet. Crimson backs and linemen hit a terrific gaining stride and the game outfit from the Oval never recovered sufficiently from the first few blows to offer any effective resistance...
...gridiron history, the renovated eleven Coach Horween sent on the field completely outplayed its opponents and emerged at half time with a 14 point lead. Powerful line bucks by Miller alternated with shifty running by Putnam and French accounted for most of the advances. On the defense the University linemen led by a fast, fighting pivot in the person of Gamache were equally effective. Holy Cross succeeded in penetrating this alert, smashing defense for few gains and were never in a position to threaten the Harvard goal line...