Word: roper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team now faces a week of vigorous preparation for the Princeton battle next Saturday. The Tigers have been coming slowly this year but have excellent material which under the direction of the experienced and long successful Roper ought to be in shape to do considerable, damage by the end of the week. Princeton beat Swarthmore Saturday by four touchdowns, playing well within itself. Slagle and Williams, two of the hardest backs to stop in the east, have not yet made their appearance in the Tiger lineup and Caulkins, a stellar quarterback, played his first game Saturday after a prolonged...
...Roper of Princeton has a letter from a loyal alumnus of '98 suggesting that the game of football would be improved vastly if the captain were to have the entire responsibility for the management of his team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal...
...Crimson glow over the Green turf of the Great Allston Horseshoe (not bad, that, for an unliterary person), football fandom will be surprised, yea, shocked, for--but I'm not supposed to tell how Harvard games are to come out. That is part of the scouting agreement that Bill Roper, Tad Jones, and I made; and all good scouts keep their agreements just as regularly as they do their daily good turns. So I won't tell. I will only say that the Forecast shekels are being staked on said outcome in breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard...
There is a Princeton legend to the effect that Coach Roper can make a good team out of anything-excepting good material. Rarely have Princeton prospects looked brighter than this year. Rarely has a seasoned team played sloppier football than, two weeks ago, Princeton played against Amherst, and last week against Washington and Lee. The Virginians, superior in every department except kicking, held Roper's lettermen...
...duelling sword bouts, Pennsylvania took the lead with five victories out of the 12 matches. The Nassau squad captured second place with four wins and the University trio finished third with three triumphs. The Princeton squad, coached by William Roper, Tiger football mentor, gave a creditable exhibition in the initial major tournament of its first season of intercollegiate competition...