Amherst at Princeton

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1929, page 95

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  PRINCETON BARELY DEFEATS AMHERST Tiger Eleven Hard Pressed to Exc Out 10 Victory in Opening Game. BY the Associated Press. BY the Associated Press. ~ RINCETON, N. j., October S. - Princeton’s varsity foot ball team was hard pressed to exc i out TO victory over a fight ing Amherst eleven in the open ing game of the Tigers season today. Held scoreless for three periods the Tigers finally broke through in the last quarter, Vogt going over for the touch down that saved Princeton from a tie. The strong defensive and aggressive offensive exhibition put up by Amherst had the Tigers bewildered for greater part of the game. Princeton had the ball in Amherst territory during a good part of the first period, but the New Englanders outplayed the Tigers badly in the second and third quarters. The outstanding feature of the game was the punting of Wilson and eros kloss Of Amherst. It was their booting that kept the Tigers of for so long. Line.uDS and SUMMARY.

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