Word: princeton
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...casual observer might except. There is no doubt but that Yale has the stronger team in so far as potential possibilities are concerned, and the records for the season show that the New Haven aggregation has had the greater success by a wide margin. Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins. On paper, as the sporting fraternity is prone to express...
WILLIAM W. Roper needs no introduction to Harvard readers. As coach of the Princeton football team, he has written a book that will make interesting reading for a couple of hours. "Football: Today and Tomorrow" is primarily for the football student and yet it will interest the ordinary spectator who wonders how a football machine is built. Vividly and simply. Roper writes of the most important phases of football life, gives sounder advice to coaches of football teams, and intermingles his advice and diagnosis with many anecdotes which are bound to attract the average reader. The book is evidently written...
...coach who has been identified with professional college coaching since 1906 and it will probably aid in destroying many of the former ideas of quarterback-play, of training, and of psychologizing. For the average "big-team" coach the book merely gives a system that has worked at Princeton and may work somewhere else...
Next to the Yale-Princeton series, the rivalry between the Crimson and the Blue is the oldest in the country. After a mess of preliminary negotiations Harvard faced Yale at New Haven on November 13, 1875. Contemporary accounts state that about 140 students accompanied the team to New Haven, "so that the college was very well represented at the match...
...will stick to my workaday business of prognostication and set you all straight on what the weekend holds in store. I am forced modestly to admit that I was pretty good last week. The amount of money I saved Princeton men (I'm not one to bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...