Amherst at Princeton

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., October 5, 1924, page 1

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  PRINCETON EASILY DEFEATS AMHERST PRINCETON, n. j., Oct. “A powerful sustained attack BY the Tigers won Princeton’s opening football game with Amherst today, piling up 4O-to- O score. Against their weaker opponents the Tigers met little difficult ty in gaining ground, scoring ID first downs and six touchdowns. Pratt, Amherst right guard, won honors in intercepting a pass by Slagle in the third period and carrying It ~ yards for touchdown. Captain Stout recovered tho Amherst fumbles and led his team by playing all over the field.

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  New Britain herald, October 7, 1924, page 8 (results column)

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  SECTIONAL GAMES SLATED THIS WEEK Brown Vs. Chicago and Yale Ys, Georgia Are Events New York. Oct. Flour intersec- tional battles will feature next Sat urday’s eastern football card. The two most important of these strug- gles will be those between Brown and Chicago at Chicago and Yale and Georgia at New Haven. The Brown eleven will go to Chi cago flushed with confidence inspir- ed by its 45 to victory over Colby and Yale will await Georgia’s inva- sion with the sef-assurance born of her easy triumph over another southern team, North Carolina, by a 27 to 0 score Saturday. The Army will meet the University of Detroit at West Point and Syracuse will face William and Mary at Syracuse in the other two interregional contests. Of the sectional battles, those in which Pittsburgh clashes with West Virginia at Pittsburgh, and Prince ton takes on Lehigh at Princeton promise to furnish the most excite ment for gridiron enthusiasts. In spite of 10 to 0 defeat at the hands of Lafayette while West ‘Vir- ginia was riding rough-shod over AL legheny by 36 to margin satur- day, Pittsburgh will engage the southern institute Saturday with more than an even chance of vic tory. The Partners were at a dis advantage in having to meet. SC strong a team as Lafayette thus ear ly in the season. Princeton will face Lehigh a strong favorite, as the Tigers buried Amherst under 40 to 6 score while Lehigh was hard pressed to defeat Gettysburg by 12 to 0. Other matches of interest on Sat urday’s slate are: Harvard and Mid dlebury at Cambridge, Columbia and Wesleyan at New York, Penn State and Gettysburg. at State College Pa, Cornell and Williams at Ithaca Carnegie Tech and Toledo at Pitts burgh. Dartmouth and Vermont al Hanover, Pennsylvania and swarth- more at Philadelphia. and Holy Cross and Boston University at Wor- cester.

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Princeton leads 11–⁠0 in 11 meetings, counting the nine since this game.