Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton will open its schedule today against the Johns Hopkins eleven with a team of unknown quality composed of five veterans with at least two players from last year's Freshman team in the backfield. Coach Roper has built his attack around Cleaves, who was one of the mainstays of last year's team. Nothing is known as to the power of the Johns Hopkins eleven. They will be outweighed, however, by the Tigers, a fact which may bear greatly on the victory...
With the customary pre-season murmurs emanating from New Haven, and Coach Roper at Princeton quoted as gloomily predicting a series of defeats for his team, the University may easily look at its largest football squad in history and be lulled to a false sense of security. But at Soldiers Field there is no underestimating of the season's work. Very little is being said and a great deal being accomplished...
...Coach Roper will start against the Bulldog today the same 11 men who played out the entire contest in the Palmer Stadium a week ago. For the Blue; Coach Jones is still undecided as to one position on his team. O'Hearn is the best Eli man out for quarterback, since he can carry the ball himself as well as direct the team, but he has been out with a bad attack of hay fever and it is possible that Becket will call the signals...
...Crimson score of 79 to 34, does not indicate the true state of affairs, for twice this season have the Tigers bowed to defeat, while only once this fall has an invading team carried off honors at Cambridge. Registering three overwhelming victories against Swarthmore, Colgate, and Virginia, Coach Roper's men were forced to yield to the attacks of the mighty Navy and Chicago elevens...
...Coach Roper was again destined to taste defeat when he sent his charges against the strong Chicago team the following week. The Tiger was again outplayed and out-fought, the Westerners running up nine 'points while the men from New Jersey never even threatened their goal line. It was the first victory of a western team over either Princeton, Yale, or the University. The Maroon attack centered about the line-plunging of her three glant fullbacks, Timme, Thomas and Zorn, who time after time tore through the veteran Tiger line for substantial gains, a thing that football critics had pronounced...