Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game hard fought from start to finish, the Princeton Freshmen on Saturday clearly outplayed the Crimson yearlings by a score of 13-0. With a series of fast end runs, smashes at tackle, and a clever assortment of well-executed passes, the Tiger cubs dazzled the hitherto unbeaten Freshmen...
...however, showed two brilliant bits of defense. Twice they held the Orange and Black for four downs within their five-yard line. Gilroy, the big Princeton half-back, was the individual star of the game, and time after time crashed through tackle for long gains. The work of the Tiger ends, Jones and Sniveley, was also remarkable, and their interference was the best that has been seen in any Freshman game this year. The longest single run was made by Bergen, who plowed through the line for 80 yards for the final touchdown...
...Crimson Freshmen, with four of their best players on the sidelines, were outweighed by more than 10 pounds to a man, but put up a good defensive flight, and in the last quarter twice threatened the Tiger goal. W.H.Churchill, C.C. Buell, G. Owen and H. W. Clark were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
...University football team which will start against Princeton this afternoon will have an advantage in weight of nine pounds per man over its opponents, according to a comparison of the statistics of the probable line-up. The Tiger eleven averages 174 pounds to the University's 178, and is lower in all the divisions of the team. The Crimson line outweighs the Tigers by 191 pounds to 181, and from tackle to tackle by 193 pounds...
Moreover, Princeton invariably plays her best game on her own ground; and invariably makes tremendous advances in the week prior to the Harvard game. There is no question but the the University eleven knows as much football as the Tiger team, and physically is approximately her equal. A few breaks for or against either team may decide the issue. Consequently the close student of football is looking for a very close game, while the uninitiated are making wild predictions as to the result...