Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late last night Coach Roper of the Nassau combination was still uncertain as to whether he would start Williams or Dinsmore in the quarterback berth. The odds point to the former starting. Against Swarthmore last Saturday, he was the outstanding player. His open field running was dazzling...
...Princeton were pioneers in establishing intercollegiate football. They also should be leaders in its chivalry. Harvard against Princeton is a football classic. No event could be more wholesome for the sport than the resumption of relations by these two pioneers upon the gridiron." Within the hour William W. Roper and the late Captain Howard H. Henry, of Princeton, were engaged with Mr. Haughton on the details of a schedule and the Harvard-Princeton series again was a fixture.WOODROW WILSON, PRINCETON...
Princeton, N. J., November 6.--"You have played only ten minutes of real football all fall. The outcome is up to you. If you do not win, you can walk home from Cambridge," were the words with which Coach Roper raked the Tiger eleven over the coals at the mass meeting here tonight. Coach Poe of the second team and Captain Stout also spoke...
...last minute rehearsal of signal play. As a result of the cessation of scrimmages with the scrubs, every man on the squad is in good condition. Single, Gilligan, and Dinsmore, three of the best backfield men, did not even play in last Saturday's game with Swathmore. Coach Roper worked his two teams today for 45 minutes on forward passes, and a straight running attack, with a scrub line giving opposition in dummy defense...
...course, too early in the week to make an attempt at spotting the lineup which will start at Soldiers Field on Saturday. Coach Roper was giving every member of the squad a chance to show any latent possibilities he may possess this afternoon. He kept Samuel Ewing, the Sophomore who was responsible for the winning dropkick in the Navy contest hero last month, busy for more than an hour practicing sending the ball between the goal posts. Slagle and Dignan were doing the punting...