Word: roper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 8.--A parade led by the Princeton band proceeded the undergraduate mass meeting tonight in which over 1000 students jammed into Alexander Hall to cheer for the team on the eve of the Harvard-Princeton football game. Coach Roper, Captain Snively, and President Hibben spoke at the meeting...
...Harvard has not seen a victory over Princeton since the war and they are coming down to win," said Coach Roper. "Princeton faces the hardest fight of the season on Saturday...
During the practices of the past week, Coach Roper especially concentrated on the line. Each forward was forced to break through two backfield men with Coach Roper supervising each man individually...
...University" the days of football are ushered in. Gloom emanates daily from New Haven on account of the ineligible Sophomores and from Princeton for some other well-known reason. But pre-season gloom from the camps of the enemy is a customary phenomenon to the football world. Coach Roper has a bad habit of fooling most of the people until about November first by predicting chaos for his team, and at Yale championship Freshman teams always dwindle to nothingness in the autumn of their sophomore year. Beyond reporting the extraordinary number of candidates few prognostications are being made...
Princeton opened her season on September 30 against Johns Hopkins. The visitors held the Tiger scoreless during the first quarter but then weakened as the Orange and Black backfield crashed through for four touchdowns and a field goal. Coach Roper used many substitutes yet none of the combinations showed much power. Although three different quarterbacks were sent in, all showed poor judgment at times in the selection of plays and none was able to instill a real drive into the eleven...