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...Indignant Princeton alumni and undergraduates who, after a disastrous Princeton football season, favored a new coaching regime: when Head Coach Albert ("Al") Wittmer Jr. resigned in a letter which said: "I feel that through the press and otherwise there has been built up such an overwhelming body of misinformation about the coaching at Princeton as to place a handicap not only upon me but the players...
...supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more real...
Football practice, at institutions where the game is taken seriously, began as far back as August. Last fortnight a few opening games were decided by scores so onesided that they should have embarrassed both sides. Princeton's new coach, Al Wittmer, recovered from an appendectomy sufficiently to order five men off the squad for beer-drinking in Trenton, N. J. Last week the season really started. There are few rule changes; the only important one concerns penalties for fouls committed during the try-for-point after touchdown. Hitherto, the point was forfeited for a foul by the attacking team...
...mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen which often will resuscitate persons shocked by electricity, may also be helpful to pneumonia patients, announced New York Edison System Electric Light Co. last week. Dr. John Jay Wittmer, the company's medical chief, used the mixture (7% carbon dioxide, 93% oxygen) on 127 pneumonia cases. Of these 42 were definitely beyond recovery. Of the remaining 85, 70 were cured, 15 died. This relative success, thought the company, warranted informing the medical profession, which might experiment more widely...
...Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...