Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Huddle Perfected by Roper...
...huddle" came from the West but was put on by Roper with greater speed and perfection than had ever been shown before in the game against Harvard in 1924. The year before this in Harvard's 5 to 0 victory the Harvard scouts had expected Princeton to use a Notre Dame offence against us but they missed their guess and although the team was prepared to meet it this year, a green team the next year could not get both defenses and the Harvard coaches decided to use only the defense that would stop the offensive smashes that Princeton...
...Tiger eleven which Coach Roper will send on the field for the opening whistle tomorrow is still very much of an unknown quantity. According to the usual progress of things in Princeton the team did not show much in its early games. Against Swarthmore last Saturday, however, the Orange and Black gave a hint of its real power. And with Slagle and Williams available tomorrow the Tigers will be a still diaerent proposition to stop...
...Coach Roper declined definitely to fame his starting, eleven, and considerable doubt still exists as to just how much time the various Tiger cripples will be able to spend in active combat...
Indications today pointed to Slagel's being on the bench at the opening whistle. Roper has declared that he will play Slagle, but he would not be pinned down to picking him as a starter. The feeling in Princeton is that he will be reserved for a time when his presence will do most good, and that roper will save his star all he can for the Vale came a week...