Word: roper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student in Harvard, I traveled with the football team to Princeton and witnessed a victory. The score was 5-0. Under the stimulation of the victory, and the rather intense rivalry, I composed a paean. It was my intention to send this little effusion to Coach Bill Roper on the occasion of Harvard's next victory over a Roper-coached team. Unfortunately, the next three games were 34-0, 36-0, and 12-0 in favor of Princeton, and there have been no games since. Now, it appears, Mr. Roper is retiring, and Harvard will never beat another...
...brother Howard J., who coaches University of Southern California. "Get rid of Jones- he's a boy scout leader," said Yale's Old Guard when the team was losing, annoyed because Jones regarded as unethical the deceptions practiced in other colleges to produce winning teams. With William Roper, equally idealistic Princeton coach, he agreed that neither would scout the other's teams. In 1925 and 1926 when he had bad teams, Jones refused to quit. He held on till 1927, when his team beat Brown, Army, Dartmouth, Maryland, Princeton, Harvard. Yale football graduates remember with a smile...
This evening the center of attention for Yale men will be in Montclair, New Jersey, where the sons of Eli are to hold their annual "win, lose, or draw" barn party. The meeting this year is of interest to the public as well, because retiring Coach Bill Roper of Princeton will be the guest of honor. By inviting Mr. Roper to attend this hitherto exclusively Yale gathering, the New Haven graduates not only express their own admiration for their guest but also give evidence of the fine sportsmanship that intercollegiate rivalry can create...
...many years Mr. Roper sent Princeton elevens on the road to gridiron fame and to not a few victories over the Crimson and over the Blue. His retirement at the close of the late football season leaves him with a reputation of having won, in addition to a great many games, the respect of those universities which at one time or another met his teams on the athletic field. In the chronicle of Princeton football one can expect to find Bill Roper's name in much the same high place that Percy Haughton's occupies at Harvard...
...Nebr.; Isadore Paisner '33, Brookline; A. W. Patterson '32, Phila., Pa.; L. F. Percival, Jr. '31, Marblehead.; G. J. Pick '32, Highland Pk., Ill.; Albert Pratt '33, Boston; M. A. Rauh '32, Cincinnati, O.; David Riesman, Jr. '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; M. L. Robbins '32, New York City; W. C. Roper. Jr. '31 Closter, N. J.; R. A. Ross '31, Brighton J. H. Rowell '31, Berkeley, Calif.; Arthur Sard '31, New York City; Ezra Schlossberg '31 Lynn; T.W. Sharp '33, Longmeadow; James Sloss '32, Elkins Pk., Pa.; R. C. Smith Jr, '33, Detroit, Mich.; Samuel Spencer '33; Wm. Stix...