Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger JV's, who won by a 12-7 margin, took the lead at the end of the first quarter when Frank Remley reached the end zone on a three yard buck over center. Minutes later, tailback Remley broke loose again, this time on a reverse, for 25 yards and the second Princeton touchdown...
After that the Crimson seemed to move the ball at will, except when they came close to the Tiger goal line. The loss was the first suffered by the JV team this year...
Princeton had never had a Percy Haughton or a Walter Camp, as did Harvard and Yale, but it found a memorable pair of coaches in "Fritz" Crisler and Charlie Caldwell in the 30's and 40's. And during this period, Tiger teams improved while Harvard slowly declined and fell into the Great Depression of 1949 and 1950, when it lost all but two of 17 games...
Against Princeton, for example, in a cliffhanging 9-3 loss that was Penn's finest game this year, Stiegman bet all his marbles on Gray after the Quakers had driven on the ground from their own 20 up to the Tiger 17 in the closing minutes of play. The trick didn't work, but Stiegman will probably try it again...
Princeton was heavily favored that afternoon, and the only thing that kept Penn in the game was an incredibly adept pass defense ah Quaker defenders twice picked off Tiger aerials within the Penn 10-yard line. This sort of thing happens al lthe time with Penn, however, the Quakers lead the country in pass defense, having allowed only 23 completions out of 73 enemy attempts, with 10 interceptions...