Rutgers at Princeton

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 30, 1956, page 1

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  PrincetonWhips 28–⁠6 PRINCETON, N. j., Sept. 90 R.-Princeton charged into its 1856 football season with a play throttling line and a varied as sortment Of backs to give Rutgers University 1856 lacing. Rutgers got nowhere until Princeton gave its third-stringers a chance to paly in the fourth quarter. Rutgers then got Bill Whatacre. its passer, into positon to move his team down. field for the first time in the game. Princeton scored once in the first quarter on 15-yard pass play. Tom Morris to Charles Disbrow: twice in the second quarter on 25-yard pass, Jim Motley to Disbrow, and q 2-yard plunge by Fullback Fred Tiley; and once in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard plunge by HewesI IAgneW. The lone Rutgers score came on a five-yard pass, Bill GatyasI to Jay Hunton. The kick for the extra point was blocked. Rutgers could do nothing with the first and second Princeton lines. Rutgers could not get beyond its own 30-yard line in the first three periods. The Rutgers backs were so bot tied up, they sustained almost as much yardage lost as gained on the few times they had the ball.

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Princeton leads 53–⁠17–⁠1 in 71 meetings, counting the 24 since this game.