Colgate at Princeton

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  The New York herald, New York, October 15, 1922, page 53

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  CLEAVES DASHES 70 YARDS TO GOAL mtercepts Colgate Pass Across Own Line and Averts Tiger Disaster. NASSAU is FRIGHTENED But Smith Kicks Goal From Field, After Fullback Grabs Second Forward Hurl. Dy DANIEL. Dy DANIEL. PRINCETON. Oct 14-Throwng off tackler after tackler, he streaked seventy-nne yards for touchdown after intercepting n forward pass. Jack Cleaves recordede that startling feat for a much harried and harassed Princeton football team against lethal Colgate eleven this afternoon. Not content with that achievement, which came in the second quarter. Cleaves, the irrepressible. caught a twenty-eight yard forward pass from Snively in the final period and placed the Tigers in position to get three more points through a drop kick by Ken Smith from the Is yard mark. Princeton won by a score Of 10 to 0. but 1t was as scared a Princeton team as Old Nassau has seen at this stage of the season since Colgate whipped the Tigers in 1919 by Z to 0. 1t was a frightened Princeton eleven-and a lucky one, too. But Then Came CIeaves. Outplayed and outrushed; = fooled repeatedly by the highly deceptive quality of the Colgate attack, which was modelled after tnat made famous by Penn State; hurled back time after time | by a stalwart line the Princeton COM bipation appeared to be headed for GER ! tain defeat. But then came Cleaves. Colgate had gone smashing through tackle for one first down after another. Colgate, standing only twenty-one yards from the Tigers goal line. with its rushing game working like a charm, ! suddenly turned to the aerial attack. But then came Cleaves. AS Sanford. the Maroon quarterback. hurled a forward pass over the Prince ton line while Childs broke around to take the ball, Cleaves darted into the thick of a fighting. snarling mass, clutched the ball as it seemed destined to reach Colgate hands, and, In thrice, was off on his long dash for glory. Glory it was-and Colgate again had erred. On Goes CIeaves. Cleaves cut over to his left. For the | first time in the battle-one of the very | few occasions during the entire game | Princeton threw out a defensive line which resembled the Tigers interference of last season and the year before. Ten yards, and a Colgate man, ready to throw himself on the flying Tiger, was flung aside. Twenty yards. Maroon clad human cast himself in the path of the DASH ing Cleaves. only to see the Princeton | ian leap over him and continue on his way. | Fifty yards and another Colgate man threw himself at Cleaves Cleaves cast him from him. 10000 voices echoed through the Palmer Stadium-20. 900 in termingled applause for another Prince ton hero and beseechment for a Colgate Titan to rise to the occasion. But Cleaves was not to be downed. Twenty yards from the line. still an other Colgate man broke through the ! Tiger interference to make the usual | futile attempt. Cleaves. hugging the left side of the field. at last crossed | the goal line and, as he swung around. fell in heap exhausted. Clutching the ball he lay there gasping for breath while Princeton. with the scare gone, cheered n mighty cheer of relief. Princeton elected TO try for the additional point by a drop kick and. with Ken Smith doing the booting, got the seventh point. Soon afterward the half ended with the Tigers holding the ball at midfield. In that half Princeton had been outrushed by ninety-two yards / to fifteen, but Colgate erred in general ship and lacked the punch to put over “A score against set OF Tigers who were making up for their glaring deficen- | cies, particularly In the line, by their clean aggressiveness and never-say-dic spirit | Cleavess second brilliant contribution ! TO Princeton’s success came on the fourth down. with the Tigers stopped in | their attempt TO rush the ball and Col gate surging madly always threaten ing. always fighting. 1t was toward the close Of the game when the remarkable sniyely. Nhe Easts greatest thrower of a football. went back while the Tiger line spread. IL was formation used very often by the Colgate teams OF other years, par ticularly- during the days OF Anderson as quarterback. II was desperate play, but the Tigers had to take n gamble. Colgate was trailing by seven points. but II still was very much in the hght-still on the alert and mighty dangerous SO Snively fell back and threw that ball az only Snively can throw IT, Princeton was in its own territory and a miscue would have been costly. As Snively hurled the leather Cleaves dashed out TO receive Il. Three Col gate players swooped on him like hawks. but Cleaves was too quick. He pulled the ball out Of the air, completed forward pass for a gain of twenty eight yards and placed Princeton only eight yards from the Maroons fnai chalk mark. Princetonians. not content with these seven points. shrieked for additional toll because of those anxious minutes they had been put through by the fighting Colgate eleven. Another touchdown” they howled down TO their standard bearers. But that second touchdown was not to be. Colgate made one of its two great stands OF the game--the lone

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  Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], October 16, 1922, page 17

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  PRINCETON STOPS COLGATE ATTACK Ste am-RoIlered at Start, Tiger FootbaIlers Fight Hard and Finally Win A NICE GAME TO WATCH y Z – started like n whirlwind Saturday and appeared to be intent on marching from the spot to which il carried back the kick off straight across Princcton’s goal line. OF tackle plays, inb. through center and faxed or actua Criss were netting from 3 to yards at clip. Finally. however, the Tigers stiff. fened, and Colgate was forced to punt On the next play. Princeton puntcd back. Colgate fumbled. Princeton re. covered beyond midfcld. and from ther on it was anybody’s game until well into the last period. 1t was n nice game to watch. Harlows team was drilled like an army and executed the plays with clocklike precision. There was. however, a limited area TO these plays. TO wit. between the ends. The Mnroon’s faith seemed pinned on heavy line, followed by husky. hard running quartet Of haCks-steam- roller effect, in other words. ! And steam roller It did. more than once rolling the home team bnrk for gain after gain. But, like most stcnm. roller attacks. there wns limit to its reach. and Princeton was always able to stand at bay and fight EN- off when ! ‘h’hbS sot NuHScious. What Colgate Lacked What Colgate seemed to lack was a knowledge Of the fundamentals. 1t couldn’t punt. and its punts were poorly covered. The Princeton receiver always had n long start after he had caught the ball. Colgate also was poor catching punts. and this proved dis astrous more than once. ! Tho MarOon’s passing game was built on the W. and J. style Of screened baseball pass letting the line sift | through and chucking the pass over the ! heads Of the incoming forwards. The ! Tiger line. however, was too fast for them and smothered the passer before ! he had Il chance to get rid of the ball. The play of the Princeton team was ! encouraging. True, there were some ! little defects found that caused no lit ! tie trouble. but on the whole the men showed up we’ll. Outrushcd and rolled back at the start Of play the Tigers showed an ability to rise 70 the occasion and stage II comeback. But what pleased most was the ability displayed to follow the ball and keep in the play. On Jack Cleaves long rur some OF the Interference was beautiful and when he finally crossed the line there were still some Tigers running with him. Couldn’t Open Holes One of the worries Saturday was the ! inability of the Princeton line TO open holes. This is probably more the faulr of the style Of play used than Of the mon themselves. The shift which Princeton used consisted, in addition TO the regular backfe]d shift. of a n i,,n center TO the other. This. of course neCcsSitatcd the entire line moving lateraiiy and then charging forward nj. | most an instant after the men had distributed themselves to their new positions. This obviated two things, n chance to get set and q chance 70 pick assign ments. The result was that the line had 10 land and charge almost bllndly without getting set. All of which does not help when it comes TO opening holes. The chances are that the guard shift will be discarded or more time will be allowed the line in which TO complete rs movements. Pr!nceton’s tackl!ng was improved but still has room 10 grow better, IN stead OF hitting the man with their shoulders and wrapping their arms around his legs at the same time the Princeton men seemed now and then IN try 70 grab ut legs with their aims and pull the rurner to them. This Is just pie for strong runner, The squad probably will indulge in some more live tackling this week. Backs Improve Running Of the backs was much improved, They ran hard and thoy I never said die” until there was no | doubt about their being dead. They seemed. however, unable to clean ur on their various assignments. whether because OF the ends and tackles ability or because of Princeton’s lack Of ability j. hard TO say. The Colgate ends we’re good men in scrimmage. Pr!nceton’s helmsman showed rather slow thought in the first half when he tried time and again to make distance through the line after he had found it coud not be dcne. Another time he should have drop kicked on n fourth down, but passed instead. The passer was tackled. Civ ing the ball to Colgate on it’s 35-yard lin” instead Of the 20 If the drop kick vas unsuccessful. Another time on the third down near the goal line he rushed the ball awav from the goal posts and left himself in a hole on his fourth down, IN n position which made the score e-kick impossible, In the second half after having been pumped full of advice he opened UP a little more and produced results. Altogether the outlook Frightened up considerably and with lots Of hard work rhis crowd Of comparatively green men should develop into good wide awake football team.

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Tied 21–⁠21–⁠1 in 43 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.