Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Captain Trumbull and the cheer leaders, and the CRIMSON as well, seem not to consider a certain reason which may account for the present undergraduate lack of football enthusiasm. It is not that the student body thinks Princeton will be easily defeated. But may it not be that a whole-hearted interest in the team has subsided because of too many one-sided early-season games...
...Captain, referring to mass meetings crowded when he was a student, does not divulge that in those times Harvard had more than three mettlesome opponents out of nine. In addition to Brown, Princeton and Yale, the University team had real combats with Cornell or Machigan, Dartmouth or Penn State, Washington and Jefferson or Carlisle--there were always no less than five games out of nine that were close games and profitable tests. Naturally, the stu- dents then were inspired to cheer and sing, to swarm to mass meetings...
...speculating on the 1919 Eastern championship, New York sport writers are wondering simply whether it will go to Colgate, Dartmouth, or Pennsylvania. They glance at the unimpressive schedules of Harvard not only, but of Yale, and of Princeton (of eight games the latter has only four difficult to win) and they have recorded their suspicions that the "Big Three," having year by year dropped "dangerous" adversaries from the schedule, are not displaying the best possible sportsmanship...
Much handicapped by the number of men who have been badly injured lately, Coach Withington '09 of the Freshman eleven faces a difficult problem in preparing a team to meet the Princeton yearlings next Saturday. It is still too early to say how long most of these men will be out, but it is doubtful if any of them will be allowed to play against Princeton...
Returns from the Princeton game will be received at the Union by direct wire next Saturday afternoon, and the results as they are received will be posted on a special football score board in the Living Room. Members who so desire may bring their relatives and lady guests to watch these returns. A band will play during the progress of the game...