Word: princeton
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...yard run to the Harvard 14 set Princeton up for their successful field goal attempt early in the fourth period. After the Tigers kicked off, Harvard found themselves faced with fourth down and three yards to go on their own 47. They elected to go for the first down and were stopped. The Tigers scored on the next series of downs...
...defense the varsity did quite a capable job of containing the exceptionally fine runners in the Princeton backfield, despite the unfamiliarity of the Tigers' single-wing attack. Its tackling was unusually sharp, and its guarding against passes was better than in some previous games...
Harvard played a good Princeton football team on even terms last Saturday and lost by the margin of one after-touchdown conversion...
...Crimson defenders did a lot of last-minute shifting around along the line of scrimmage, and this seemed to confuse their opponents considerably. One way or another, they completely stopped the Tigers on all line-plunge attempts; and they rendered conspicuously ineffective Princeton's "fullback-spin" series, which had proved so devastating in last year's game...
...Crimson ends were playing wide against these runs, and often managed to turn them inside. But the Princeton tailbacks, Hugh "the Great" Scott and John "Silky" Sullivan, usually managed to get six to ten yards into the Crimson secondary before being brought down. They were both fast and tricky runners; and they were greatly assisted by the blocking of Capt. Fred Tiley and quarterback Mike Ippolito...