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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...
...Bill Roper's cunning brain Forged a team that could not gain...
...Roper's bucks, both line and cross, Mean a fumble or a loss...
...Profuse apologies, upon request, to Blake, the poet, and Roper, the coach...
...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...