Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILLIAM W. Roper needs no introduction to Harvard readers. As coach of the Princeton football team, he has written a book that will make interesting reading for a couple of hours. "Football: Today and Tomorrow" is primarily for the football student and yet it will interest the ordinary spectator who wonders how a football machine is built. Vividly and simply. Roper writes of the most important phases of football life, gives sounder advice to coaches of football teams, and intermingles his advice and diagnosis with many anecdotes which are bound to attract the average reader. The book is evidently written...
...appeal to put "fight talks" and psychologizing on the shelf he is basically sound but one has the feeling that Mr. Roper had his tongue in his cheek in writing this chapter...
...coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard H. Jones (Southern California), T. A, D. Jones (Yale), Capt. L. M. ("Biff") Jones (Army) and Knute Kenneth Rockne (Notre Dame...
Voting on favorite persons and things the class of 1927 selected Roper as their favorite coach and football as the most enjoyable sport to watch, while preferring to play tennis. "Tom Jones" was decided the best novel, and, "The Big Parade" headed the list of favorite movies. Bridge is the choice amusement among the seniors at Princeton, and when not playing it they read "The Saturday Evening Post...
...correct one. The current issue shows that the Lampoon has got religion, a clean collar, a shave, shine and shampoo, and is reverting with god2ly zeal to its old state of grace. It is a good, clean book for the whole family, and you can show it to Bill Roper too, if he comes around after supper for a Ford ride. The little group of graduate Lampooners in New York, who recently apologized to the world for the Lampoon's latest lapse from virtue, can now introduce the paper without hesitation to their clients in the sensitive rural communities...