Lehigh at Princeton

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  The Jersey City news, Jersey City [N.J.], October 20, 1892, page 1

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  FOOTBALL BATTLES. Princeton With q Weak Team Defeats Lehigh. Princeton With . Weak Team Defeats Lehigh. Princeton’s football team scored an easy victory yesterday. They met the Lehigh College eleven at Princeton. The weather was too warm for fast play. The opinion of experts who closely studied the playing was that in the last h alf Eat of Princeton was slow and ragged. PxEeton. however, had five substitu te< IFhe team was composed of McCar~ left end; Taylor, right end; Whl~ left guard; Ballet, centre; Fil right guard; Lea, right tackle; Tre< Frd, right end; Poe, quarter back; FIJI I’d Barnet. left backs. and Anderson back. The score was:-Princeten. ~ high, Q. The Princeton footha@ In will make their first appearance gew York tomorrow afternoon ag The New York Athletic Club ~eleven5 he Polo grounds. This will be the oDll lie the Tigers play gan with With Yale na Is claimed elaine that they as possible. New Yorks will jersey colleg ~. Captain William @. WurtenberR ssfll play his men as folinws:-Left end, Cushman; left tackle. Scudder; left guard, Slazinger; centre. tackle, Tomlinson; right end, Pope; left half bacK, O’Connor; right half back, Schwegler; full back, Wurtenberg; quarter back, Brett. The game will be called at three O’Clock. The Rutgers College team will play in New York on Saturday against the New York Athletic Clubs team. Yale and Princeton will play their big match at Manhattan Field. Yale defeated Amherst yesterday by a score of 20 TO 0.

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Princeton leads 40–⁠10–⁠2 in 52 meetings, counting the 43 since this game.