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Last Saturday Princeton topped Swarthmore without great difficulty, thus winning the third of the victories Roper predicted before the season started. With Gates back in splendid form the Princeton line is improved, and the backfield strong although Weekes is probably out of the Harvard game with injuries sustained last Saturday. Princeton and Harvard both will be after their fourth victory of the season next Saturday
Princeton, N. J., November 3, 1925.--Crags replaced Blake at guard in signal practice this afternoon, this being the only change from Monday's lineup. Roper's change is a reversion to the line which started the Swarthmore game, apparently an effort to put more weight in the line from tackle to tackle...
Relay races between two divisions of the squad featured the drill. Roper stressed especially the importance of starting together and getting away as the ball is passed. McMillan, Baldwin, and Gates gained most ground in the race, accounting for the way in which the centers and guards have been covering punts during the last three games...
...little more than a month ago, Coach W. W. Roper of the Princeton eleven stated, in the Princeton way mentors have, that the Tigers would win only three games this season. If he was right; then both Harvard and Yale are due to triumph over the Orange and Black on the next two Saturdays. So far this season Princeton has won three of its five games...
...Coach Roper kept a number of players out of the game, Slagle, Ewing, and Bridges, regular backs, remaining out of action...