Princeton at Yale

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  The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], December 1, 1931, page 10

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  Yale. and Princeton Grid Mentors May Lose Jobs successful season in his first year as Crimson head coach, losing only to Yale Yale’s anxiety for a coaching change appears to be founded entirely upon the fact that Adam Walsh and Benny Friedman are not Yale alumni. Stevens is a former Yale football star, but is blamed for bringing the outsiders” into Eli football and appears slated to pay the penalty by losing his berth as mead coach. Reggie Root, former Yale player and present end coach, is said to be the new choice Al Wittmer, Princeton’S head coach still has three years to serve under his five-year contract, having served the first year of his contract as assistant to William Roper former Tiger head coach.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 30, 1931, page 5

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  YALE BRUSHES PRINCETON IN GREAT BATTLE Elis Defeat Tigers Before Crown of 38,000 by Al to IA Score NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. 30.- Into the forehead of Princeton’s battered Tiger, Yale last Satur- day rammed defeat, more biting, more humiliating than anything before in the history of one of the most ancient of all football rival ries Thirty eight thousand spectators saw the Ellis slaughter the Tigers by a score of fl to IA. Princeton’s touchdowns came as last minute drive in the final quarter.

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  The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], December 1, 1931, page 28 (results column)

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  GRID SEASON ENDS AMID UPSETS BOSTON, Dec. lone OF footballs greatest seasons is ended save for a few scattered games. Southern California still must play Washington and Georgia, Navy and Penn and Army and Navy have engagements ahead Of them. Tulane, with a perfect record, looks ahead to washington State, and Tennessee will play New York University. There will be other games. too, for the benefit of the unemployed, such as the round robin among Dart mouth, Yale, Brown and Holy Cross Saturday, and a similar round robin on December 9 among Princeton, Cornell, Penn sylvania and Columbia at New York. But so far as the season proper is concerned it ended Saturday when Stanford, Army and Yale wrote brilliant pages into the history of the 1881 grid iron campaign. Expected Army’s feat in defeating Notre Dame was a tremendous achieve ment for a fine Army team and was not entirely unexpected, though on paper it was an upset. Army was due to have such a day. Army potentially has been a great team all season. I always will consider that the Army team which played Harvard at West Point in october was one of the best Cadet elevens I ever have seen. If this season has shown moth ing else, it has proved that no football team can expect to go through a season Saturday after Saturday functioning in high speed manner. No team illustrates the fact that greatness often is obscured by failure to click or appreciate power, so much as Stanford. Glenn Warner brought his team to the Harvard Stadium on Saturday with defeats of 40 by Southern California and Go by California tagged on it’s record. And yet Stanford, beating Dart mouth 32–⁠6, had all the char acteristics of a wonder team. Not Own Opinion I am not basing observations of Stanford alone on my own opinions, but on the opinions also of leading coaches of the East. Stanford, from the time Ernie Caddell on a simple reverse ran 70 yards for a touchdown on the second play of the game, had everything. Probably it was that first touchdown that started the Pacific Coast team rolling. IN Dartmouth was not so mentally alert as it has been in other games. But the fact is that Stanford, not because of the score it rolled up, but because of the general finish of its play, looked like a team that was abSolutely unbeatable. When Caddell started to run wild, Fasteners wondered where he had been all season. There was boy who looked the part of an all.America back, a beautifull carrier, with the speed of a comet. And what a pickup! He ran for three touchdowns against Dartmouth and he was threaten ing to break loose all day. There was Bill Corbus. a great guard, and only a sophomore, and Don Colvin, an outstanding end. backs from Moffat down were great running mates Of Caddell, and Boston is still talking about the marvellous way in which Harry Hillman cap tanned the Stanford team. Yale Shows Power There was Yale against Prince. ton. Now, Princeton had a most unfortunate season, but it took a Yale team that could feel its ire mendouS power all afternoon to bury the Tigers under any such score as 51–⁠14. Yale realized that it could gain ground, and proceeded to do it. This Yale team Is good football team, one that was slow developing but which in another year should be one of the outstanding teams of the country. 1t would be folly for me to try to rate the teams of the country in this concluding article. On GER tain days Of this season certain teams stood out. Harvard has its day against Army, Dartmouth against Yale, Yale against Princeton, Army against Notre Dame, California against Stanford, Pitt against Army, Georgia against Yale, Tulane against Georgia, and so we could go right down the list of teams that at some point or other during the season were good teams. UpSets were frequent, showing, Of course, what sound coaching, more even distribution of ma terial and adherence to stricter Ill. =

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Yale leads 71–⁠45–⁠10 in 126 meetings, counting the 71 since this game.