Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tigers the season is over. Starting in colorless fashion, Roper brought his team into whirlwind finish by tying the University and running up the second biggest score against Yale that a Princeton eleven has ever made. Princeton stands in rather an enviable position; for two years it has had a clean slate in the big three contests with two ties with the University and two decisive victories over Yale. It is, of course, impossible to name the sectional champion until all of the returns are in, but in any case Princeton will merit consideration for premier honors...
...basketball player, was not counted first string guard material; McManmon was starting his game, battered as he was in last we game. Maury Trimble, All-American Princeton halfback last year, commented after the game that their work under was the most gratifying surprise of afternoon to the coaches: apparently Roper's "center of the line problem solved...
...spectacular Buell Macomber score has been all but set to poetry in the last twenty-four hours. The neatness and dispatch that has always characterized Buell's play and the speed exhibited by Fitts seemed to galvanize a dispirited attack into action. It was the Irony of fate that Roper saw his charges robbed of victory by a forward pass that outwitted his secondary defense. The Princeton back over whose head the pass was slung was Cleaves, recently substituted on account of his excellent breaking up of forwards against the Navy and West Virginia, a department at which Murrey...
PRINCETON, N. J., November 4.--A veil of absolute secrecy was drawn about the long practice at Princeton yesterday as Coach Roper drilled his eleven in new plays which will be used against the Crimson tomorrow. The scrubs, employing Harvard plays, were unable to penetrate Team A's stone wall defense...
...Coach Roper, highly pleased with the way his men performed, issued the following statement: "We are not overconfident, but I know that the team will give Harvard a good fight. It has improved this week considerably...