Princeton at Columbia

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  Evening star, October 3, 1954, page 67

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  William & Mary q Pennsylvania ----- FIippin Runs Wild As Princeton Routs Columbia, $40 NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Royce Flippin, a one-man team on a two-team Tiger squad. led Princeton’s football forces to a crushing 54–⁠20 victory over Co lumbia today. Flippin scored three touch downs, passed for another and made a vital pass intercept ton. Charley Caldwell. Prince ton coach, tried to combat the 80-degree heat by substituting full teams in the middle of the first and third quarters and it was against these reserves that Columbia made two of its three touchdowns. ALI three Coluinbia scores were registered by Alex .Giampietro on passes from Claude Benham, sophomore quarterback. sss.sa Flippin. a 20-year-old Junior tailback from Montclair. N. j, broke the game wide open in the second quarter when he ma neuvered the Tigers 81 yards in four plays, running the last 40 himself, for their second touch down. From there on 1t was just a scoring match with the Tigers getting virtually all the breaks and cashing in on them with a series of long gallops. Princeton scored 26 points in the final quarter to pile up the biggest score since 1899 in this 8O-year-olo series and the big gest made against Columbia since Cornell hit the same score in 1949. The game also marked the second time in Lou Little’s 25 years of Columbia coaching that the Lions have lost their first two games. erinSesGn rrI1,Ss9a q 2s-ssaa Princeton scoring: Touchdowns-Flip- Frye. Conversions-Martn 4. DiRenzo Columbia scoring: Touchdowns-Giampietro g. Convsrsions-Dillingha 2.

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Princeton leads 61–⁠12–⁠1 in 74 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.