Word: roper
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Garrity, Trimble, and Lowrie were all back in the scrimmage today for the first time in two weeks. The return of this trio solves the backfield problem which has been facing Coach Roper. The Tigers new have both an excellent first-string backfield and an almost equally good set of substitutes...
Seventy-five candidates have reported for the Princeton eleven, and of these, none have ever played regularly on a Varsity team, although many were members of their freshman elevens. The coaching is in charge of Bill Roper, who returns to this position after an interim of eight years. He will be assisted in his task by Nelson Poe, one of the famous Poe's of Princeton football; Harold Ballin, captain of the 1914 eleven and all-American tackle; Frank Glick, captain and quarterback of the 1915 team; Eddie Shea and A. C. Gennert, halfback and centre of the last team...
...Roper Will Coach Tiger Eleven...
There are several changes in Princeton's football organization for the fall of 1919. W. W. Roper will coach the teams, beginning early next September. Spring practice will be abolished, and pre-season practice will be substituted. Also there will probably be no training table regularly, but only for a short time preceding games. There is one radical change in Princeton's schedule to be noted. Dartmouth, with whom Princeton's has played an annual game from 1907 to 1916. When formal athletics stopped, no longer appears on the schedule. The reason given was that too hard a schedule...
...University series of lectures was discontinued late in the month of February when Colonel Sir Walter Roper Lawrence's inability to fulfill his engagement to speak caused the indefinite postponement of the ninth lecture of the series...