Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weeks of the hardest kind of work and effort were rewarded Saturday when Harvard's football eleven rose to inspired heights to claw the Princeton Tiger into submission and earn...
Harlow's team did something no team has been able to do against Princeton for over two years, when Mal McTernen shot around the Tiger flank to score standing up. The great majority of touchdowns, few and far between, that have been chalked up against the New Jersey eleven since Fritz Crisler took command, have all been made through the air, or as a result of running back punts...
...even more pleasing to the coaches than the greatly improved offensive work, was the defensive power of the team. Although aided by Princeton fumbling at one point and a penalty at another, the line stiffened whenever the Tiger got within hailing distance of the goal, and held for downs. It was a far cry from last year, when, at the end of a march that had carried them to the Crimson three yard line, Princeton chose to try a place kick on a last down, rather than attempt another buck through the line...
...Crimson has come behind of tie the score on Dick Lewis' third period gole. Improved all round play, and especially by the inside forwards, was giving the home team a slight advantage coming down the stretch until Bud Morgan's winning Tiger tally came on a shot that bounded off the cross bar into the cage...
...this 32nd meeting of the two teams, Princeton must be conceded the rile of favorite over Harvard. If the Crimson is to win, it must rely on those upsets which have made big three football games so unpredictable in the past. For the Tiger gridders feel that tomorrow is the day to prove that Princeton's strength is based on playing form as well as on paper...