Villanova at Princeton

• 

  The Newark star and Newark advertiser, Newark, N.J., October 6, 1909, page 1

  Read the text

  BIG COLLEGE TEAMS PLAY MID WEEK GAMES TODAY Princeton Down to Meet VillanOva-Ei Battles With Holy CrOss-DaiIy Practise Is Now Developing Teams So that There Will Soon Be a Line on Players. through a twenty-five-minute scrim. mage, the varsity scoring three times Philbin made one touchdown possible | with a thirty-yard end run, bringing the ball to the scrubs 5-yard line, and Messenger took ii over. Later Johnson dipped a forward pass to Logan for thirty yards under the shadow of the scrub goal, and Philbin scored on d plunge through the line. The scrub line held after the varsity had again taken the ball to the 10-yard line, but johnson lifted it between the posts for a pretty field goal. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6.-For the first time this season Pennsylvania’s football squad held it’s regular daily practise behind closed gates. Not even the loyal students who Gael after Don journey down to the field were permitted inside the grounds. New plays were tried out by the coaches with a feeling of safety that accomplishes all secret practises. Alex. Thayer continued to run the varsity at quarterback and his work was equally as brilliant as thai of Mon day. Head Field Coach Andy Smith sent the little fellow into quarter during the signal drill and he ran the eleven with amazing swiftness. The same spirit was in evidence in the scrimmage and II he continues to keep up the good work the coaches will shift Captain Miller to end. ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 6.-The attention of the coaches was directed mostly to the backfield yesterday to eliminate the faults in handling the ball, running and interfering which have developed lately. After the preliminary drill on the dummy and tbucking machine the var sity was sent against the scrubs in a scrimmage lasting al hour. There was only one score made, Tydeman catching an on-side kick at midfleld and scoring q touchdown for the varsity. The varsity was chosen from the fol- Ends, Hurlbut, Hurry, frankie and Hastings; tackles. O’Rourke, Monk. Weeks and Zeller; guards Donnan and O’Connor; centre, Seagraves; quarter. Wood and Omer; halfbacks. Tydeman, Lindsey, Virgins, Krutsch and David son. - CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 6.-In the first fifteen minutes of the toughest scrimmage of the year, the Harvard second team scored a goal from field on the varsity and gave the larger men the struggle Of their lives yesterday. The second team had a number of coaches in the line-up, and Kennard, fullback OF last year, kicked the goal. Next the ball was given to the scrubs on the teams S5-yard line. and the second carried it to the 3-yard line on plunges by Burrage. Under the goal posts the varsity players held inc got the ball on downs. They her carried the pigskin right down the field for a touchdown !

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Princeton leads 8–⁠1 in nine meetings, counting the three since this game.