Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 21. In a final secret practice before the Chicago game tomorrow. Princeton held a long dummy serimmage and signal drill. The Chicago team arrived this morning and after practicing in the Stadium this afternoon returned to Trenton where it will spend the night. Coach Roper announced that Garrity will be held in reserve, but that Lourie and Snively positively would not play. Smith will take Newby's place at right half...
Princeton will play Swarthmore in its opening game today. The Tigers trounced the same team 17 to 6 last year in the initial contest of the season and are expected to repeat the 1920 win. Coach, Roper's line-up will include seven veteran letter men. They are Lourie, quarterback; Wittmer and Gilroy, halfbacks; Garrity, fullback; Captain Keck and Hooper, guards; and Stinson, end. It is also probable that Dickinson, a veteran at guard, will have a chance to play in the first encounter of the season...
...Tigers are counting on developing an eleven which will repeat last year's victory over Yale and break the deadlock, now of two seasons' standing, with the University. Coach Roper has for material practically every man on last year's eleven, besides the large squad of 1924 players who have become available. Of the men who played against the University in the Stadium in 1920 eight have returned to Princeton this year...
...game against Swarthmore Coach Roper will as a result pay especial attention to the positions which are not already filled with veteran material. In the backfield he will need a man to take Scheerer's place. Alford and Newby are both possibilities, while Smith, Emery, and Van Gerbig are three former 1924 players who are also available for the backfield...
Princeton has already begun to make preparations for next year's football season. At a recent meeting which fifty candidates attended, Coach Roper said that Princeton this year was represented by one of the greatest teams in the history of the university, and that the Orange and Black expects to have a wonderful team in 1921 because of the return of this year's stars...