Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the brilliant and speedy offense of the Tigers, Coach Bill Roper was not at all satisfied with the result of last Saturday's game. His opinion was summed up in the terse comment as the team went out of the Stadium after the whistle had blown: "Today's game was a repetition of those that have been played this season, in that the scores came as the results of individual brilliancy, not of teamwork. Individual brilliancy will not win the Yale and Harvard games...
...Roper Picks Flaws...
Practice started with a talk under the goalposts by Roper, in which he criticized the weak points in the play against the Virginians, laying particular stress on the poor passing of Thomas and Opie, the ragged interference and the slow starting of the backs...
...center of the line. Towers, Speers and Halsey are putting up a slashing game flanking Captain Callahan, and when Rutan gets over injuries, there seems no reason why last year's tackles, McGray and Bigler, will be as sorely missed as was expected. Al in all, Coach Roper seems to have done mighty well with his late start: and when the rough edges of the Roper forward-pass attack are polished off, it is hard to see just where Princeton is going to be weaker than last year, Lourie is filling in more than acceptably at quarterback; German and Gilroy...
During the session Tuesday the coaching staff emphasized the correction of the loose team-play evidenced in the Swarthmore game. Coaches Roper and Glick gave the backs and ends a long practice at making and breaking up interference; and the linemen were sent through a protracted work-out at locking and breaking through. Later backs and ends worked on the defense against the forward pass, in order to remedy the defects brought to light in the defense against Swarthmore's attack at the clos of last Saturday's game...