Princeton at Army

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 1, 1908, page 1

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  PRINCETON TIED BY WEST POINT ARMY LINE HOLDS IN LAST DITCH. Splendid Stands by Cadets Deprive Tigers Of Tictory When Touch dozens Seemed Surc. Tsy Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ives, Point N Y Oct. S1.-Princeton and the Army plsyed Fifty of grueiling football here today without score. but six times the smashing attack Of che Tigers checked at the eleventh hour by tumble; five times by superb last stand Of cadets. Time after time the Tigers swept down the field in an apparently reestless sweep 10 touchdown only TO be baked ~ the last moment by as splendid and pucky defence IS any team showed. There such game for fake kicks. The Army relied a fake kick formation in nearly every play Sometimes the BAH went 20 Grebe. sometimes 10 Dean or Baehr. short pass. 1t gained lot Of ground at one time and another. hut when the Princeton ends and tackles began TO the play proved disastrous. The Army tried half dozen forward passes. but failed to make enc good Princeton used the long forward pass from kick formation that appeared in Yales rep ertorE last year with startling success on one occason in the second half. making a gain Of thirty yards. But in the main Princeton used straight football, for the numerous fake kicks were really archaic in their simplicity. Eddie Dillon, Princeton’s captain. went in the start Of the game but gave way TO Bergen The Tiger leader is his Old self what he did to-day. An injured knee is botherng him good deal and when he tried for Grebles puzzlng pants. he misjudged them sadly. But if Dillon was still far from his best form there were compensations for Princeton Dowd. who for Bredenlus left end in the middle OF the first half. played game that should 60 far solve the end problem at Princeton. Fast and s5ft in solving the varying fake kick forma ton that the army used for all its gains. he was tower Of strength Tigers. Read held his in the punting duel with Greble and so later did Bishop The wind that swept the grid;ron helped Crebe in the first half hut terribly against him in the sec end. when he had kick from under the shadow Of his goal posts or from behind the goal line three times Princeton showed signs Of power all times, and held the game more than safe Perhaps it due the absence OF Dillon. after he had gone out but there was a failure 10 display the one promising thing that Yale showed here two weeks ago-the power to fuse the attack at a critical moment Yale had tive chances 10 score; Princeton had six to-day A tumble lost one chance, and the other used. But Princeton was held for downs f-e times to-day. with a touchdown in sight. Bad Judgment WAS TO blame than lack of power however. Throughout the game the Princeton backs han dled punts wretcbedly, though Grebles kicks were not easy gauge in the gale. PTincetons line had fair trial The Army scarcely tried ii out al all preferTing END runs from the fake kick Eut ii showed brilliantly at times Booth and Siegling outCassed as sood PAIR OF tackles as ByTne and Besson, and Waller and Nc Fayden were on top Of Greble many times quickly enough to spoil the force OF his kicks, though no punts were blocked either side. The Army offence wholly unable TO make ground against Princeton straight work. The fake plays should have been diagnosed more quick IL than they actually were, and. as matter OF recf began 10 be roughly handed as soon as DONu went into the Tiger lineup But the whole total % the Army gain such plays, and there was no heavy lire smashing Waller kicked off for Princeton in furry Of snow that made The thousands who packed the stands shiver. They had a stirring moment TO warm them I’D as the game got under way how ever for Dean. after mufing the ball saved it for the Army on the 10-yard line Greble fell back for q kick. q natural enough play in that part Of the field but shot like deer around Bredennus Tor dozen wards The cadets crazy with JOY. but the next play. another fake. found stone wall for Raehr at centre, and Greble punted to Tihbott who picked the bali up and ran it back ten yards 10 the Arrny’s 15-yard line Dillon called on McCrohan for the first smash and the big fulIback ploughed through the weak SPOT made by the substitution OF Nix Tor MOSS III The Arrnys line for ten yards But there mad oeeh holding and Princeton lost fifteen yards. Ilboott tore of fifteen yards fake kick and then Reed punted out Of bounds at the Army ‘‘-Saru line xa-, .ook the ball on another fake and shot sro,;nt. Fredeaaus for a first down. Then he tried an ongide kick. but Il was blocked, ana frIhce’O’ ,o+ .ba hall Three srnashes yielded a first down. -r,bbott shot through Byrne for another, and the t1 ,as on the Ar1ny’s I5-yard line. But the Army held them stone wall. and, after tnTee puiis -ool -be hall on downs its 12-yard line Fsootn srneared a fake kick, and GTeble punteu “a Dillon who took the ball back five yards TO the a-rnys 5o-yard line. Tibbott sEot past 6yrhe aSaih hehind beautiful interference for dozen EdfuS Pear e. aids through centre on a fake kick, Dillon made 2 forward pass out OF bounds on the Army Inward line G7eble made a seVenty-fVe YARD punt 49, go+ AWAY from Dillon and was carried by the ,,i,d Tabtott tried 2 fake kick play and lost hVe -,,ss ~, II AEcCrohan plunged through tackle Tor ,7rentv wards on similar formation penalty t,,rrr ,nter7-ened and Read punted to centre field vbere Kern nluffed the punt Princeton got me rau h,It there had been holding ana the ARMY took IL ,,,..- and rova replaced Bredemus for Princeton ana ,.re,re missed an attempt at field goal from ihe I5,7ar5 line That was the Arrny’s only chance 70 lore and wasn’t a very good one read hunted out snd Dean stor1ned baeh se’e .o ,,srds 20 Princetons 57-yard line Do”d thre” -. ,,..a, zen wards on the eternal fake mo- -, Ie,e- Dillon fumbled a kick and let thdei- ,o5 7et rho hall or the Tigers 4O-Faro me- anu >. then gave way 10 Bergen. Dowd sn1eared an ,be~ fake and another forward pass went wrong. Princeton got The bail Oh = fumDe, ana ah”tiel 80 5ov, The field started. But the Army stopped =, -, the ea-vard line holding for downs again An ercbange Of punts followed. and the nan ehdeu v.i,l, the ball the Ai1nys In midheld- fzreble kicked of Tibbott TO start the secoha rclf and after fine plunge by McCrohan’ Read kicked to Greble Dowd shot off his feet for a srlendtd tackle that made Sreble dig hole in the hard ground. t;rehse made twenty yards on A fake kick, but on the next play DoUd threw him for almost big a loss After two exchanges OF punts the Army lost the bali a tumble, and wild s”oop down uie field the Army line ensued- Smashing plays a. tie Army tackle yielded couple Of first downs md Tfbbott took the ball to the 2l5yard line with me interference for his ffteen-yard Coke y.ent IN for Read, and after another first down Dean was hurt and gave way to Brown. The bah -as on the e-yard line. bat three plays yielded no more than a yard apiece. and the Army took the bali on downs.

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  The Cairo bulletin, Cairo, Ill., November 1, 1908, page 1

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  CHICAGO TEAM WAS SUPERIOR DEFEATED MINNIE ESoTAS DREAD ED FOOTBALL AGGREGATION YESTERDAY, 20 TO 0. PRINCETON TIES ARMY While indiana University Defeated Ilinois.-M Middics Trimmed by In dians in Hard Game at Annapolis. Chicago, oct 81 Minnescta’s +, dreaded football aggregation proved helpless today in front of the, light. hing plays Of Stages athletes anl Chicago piled up a score Of 20, while | iMilaesota fought vainly TO crtss the goal of their rivals. The score of 20 to 0 is identical with that of the first victory Of Chi. cage against Minnesota in 1899. It also is the deciding game of tie between the teams as the result OF the games Of 1867 the rivals having failed to clash in the five years preceding 1906. The Yale veterans also decided Il friendly rivalry when Coach Stages machine beat down and overran the formations prepared by Coach VII llams and his assistants, Shevln and Hefflefinger, lal onetime stars of the Yale gridiron, Within ten minutes of the first kick off the shouting hosts OF Chi cago, who filled every foot of space in the stands. realized the ominous warning of surprised and reserved strength which Minnesota would dis. play in its crucial moment, were I’m, warranted. Minnesota’s forward passes were intrequent and usually unsuccessful. The Chicago line withstood the most determined charges Of their op. ~, n V,Ny hx No Interference Chicago has shown In any of its games Steffin and Page tore through Minnesotas field repcatedly for spectacular gains and touchdowns. Only twice did there seem a probability of Minnesotas scoring In the first half desperate series CT rushes brought the ball TO Chicago’s two.yard line. but the Ma rocn. line held aud Steffen, securing the ball punted it out of danger. Steffen proved to be too fast for the Minnesota backs aud time after time he sprinted through the open field, at one time skirting the Minr. nesota line and, with the whole Min nesota team In vain pursuit. dashed ncross their goal after a 75-yard run The failure Of Minnesota TO per feet the forward pass, Chicagos ahil. ity to work the same play on It’s rivals and the superior speed Of the Chicago squad, were responsible for the decisive score Tho Minnesota players displayed exceptional ability. while Steffen, Page Schommer and Crowley played the best games they have shown, and added materially TO the general excellence of Chlcago’s play. The Minnesota team seemed 10 weaken in the last half and Chicago | was PLAYING at top speed with an other goal in sight when time was called.

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1908, page 1

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  TIGERS PLAYED TO A TIE. West Point Boys Hold Princeton to q 0 to O Score. WEST POINT, n. Y, October 81 Princeton met the military academy ca diets at foot ball here this afternoon for the first time in two years. and the resuit was a O-to-O tie. Cold, crisp air made the weather ideal for foot ball. and both teams fought furiously, without either securing decisive advantage. In the first half honors were about even, but in the second the visitors threat ened to score repeatedly almost from the time the whistle blew. Four times they carried the ball to within the cadets 5-yard line only to lose 1t on downs. Once they brought it to the 4-yard line on a first down, but were unable to cross the coveted goal line because of the ca diets determined defense. Greble twice saved the game for the cadets by tackling Tibbott behind the line. while Johnson and Brown also broke up several plays at critical points. West Point was dangerous only once, in the first half. when by yeriesS of rushes and fake kicks the ball was put on Princeton’s 4O-yard line. Dean then tried to drop kick but the ball went wide. In this half Princeton twice carried the leather to their opponents 15-yard line, but then West Points defense stiffened and the visitors lost the ball. Tibbott, Read and McCrohan were Princeton’s most effective ground-gainers, while Greble and Kern alone were able to advance the pigskin for the cadets. A strong wind from the north handicapped West Point In the second half and Princeton in the first. Neither side took much advantage of the wind when at their backs. punting being compare lively infrequent. There were many substitutions and one injury. Dean, the cadets left halfback, severely wrenched his knee and will be out of the game for several weeks. Despite the cold, high wind, the stands were packed with spectators, and the crowd was the most enthusiastic of the season. The line-up.

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], November 1, 1908, page 12

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  PRINCETON, 0; WEST POINT. 0 Defensive Work of Army Is All That Prevents the Tigers Scoring. West Point, Oct. SL-Princeton and the army played to tie in football here this afternoon. In the first half hOnors We’re even, but in the second the visitors had everything their own way. only being prevented from scoring by phenomenal defensive work on the part of the cadets -Four times Princeton took the ball to West Points Vineyard line. and four times West Point held for downs. Each time the army punted out of danger. though twice the ball was caught within its thirty-yard line. Grebie was largely respOnsible for West Points fine defense. twice tackling Tibbett behind the line for a loss. a strong wind favored the cadets in the first half. but in the second this advantage was transferred to the visitors The breeze and the cold made fumbiing fire. uqent- Substitutes We’re also numerous

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Princeton leads 6–⁠4–⁠3 in 13 meetings, counting the five since this game.