Syracuse at Princeton

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 20, 1912, page 12

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  TIGERS BURY SYRACUSE Score Nine TouChdoWns h Game at Princeton. NO TEST OF NASSAU TEAM In Spite of Victory Coaches Are Dissatisfed-0range De. fence Glaringly Weak. princeton, N. j., Oct. B.-The Ttgers overwhelmed Syracuse In football hs,. to-day by the score Of 81 10 0. II was contest characterized by loose. erratc play from start to inish with the v,r,. ors helping Princeton along by a gla,. ingly weak defence. AS a test for Ma. sau’s eleven the game was a complete failure, for the speedy Tiger backfi.n rolled up nine touchdowns with Compare. tive ease. Earl Waller starred at fun. back, ripping great holes In the Syracuse line for plunges which developed into fifty-yard runs. The weakness of Syracuse’s secondary defence, rather than the strength OF the Tiger attack. was largely responsible for the enormous score. Pendleton, HOBBY, Baker and Waller swept backheld tack. lers off like chalk, tallying almost at will Princeton’s goal was menaced only once when Castle executed a clever forward pass to Darby and Syracuse held tina ball on the Tigers 7-yard line. The defence stiffened, holding for downs, and Waller kicked out Of danger. In the opening period Princeton’s play was seen at its worst. The Minnesota shift” was working badly. and the backs were all slow in starting. On the defence the Tigers made even a worse showing. The line charged high and lacked life and dash. Logan, at right guard was not doing his work properly and was little help to his side partners, Bluethenthal % Penfeld, while Andrews and Trenkmaa were boxed repeatedly on the ends. Stew” Baker, at quarterback, looks Ike a find, for he held the team together in fine shape and showed good head work In his choice Of plays Shenk, who went in for w. Swart at guard, was opening UP big holes on the left side Of the line. and Waller was shot through one OF these for a forty-five yard ~ Darby downed MIN within foot OF q Syracuse goal line. but S. Baker carried the ball over on the next play. Toward the close of the quarter Syracuse fooled the Princeton backs on fake lorna ton and worked neat forward pass, which almost resulted In a score. The Tigers braced up In the second quarter and played faster football. wal Ter got loose for a 6o-yard dash, which brought the stands to their feet. The big back was downed so roughly at t. end Of his run that ne was forced “ cave the game temporarily. De Witt taking his place. The next play went straight through centre, netting Princeton’s second score. Baker showed UP Princetons strong ~, ~, i’ll, dax “a ,fIa ar back dash through centre and the deiayed crossback with consistent success. The forward pass was tried by the Tigers but three times to Syracuse’s twelve. The visitors tailed only three successes. while Princeton completed two out OF the three passes. Pendleton caught An drews’s throw five yards behind the SYRIA cuse goal line, scoring easily. The second half was a mere talying contest between the Tiger backs. The Syracuse defence came back 50 per cent weaker. and Waller, S. Baker, Pendleton. De Witt, Emmons and II. Waller all scored touchdowns. The exact nature OF Princeton’s attack could be well analysed at this stage Of the contest. Every play. with the exception OF the kick formatons, started from the Minnesota shift” four men jumping to the left or right OF centre just before the ball was passed Cross bucks and the quarterback plunge through centre were the chief plays through the line. while both the wide run, with Baker and Pendleton car rying the ball, and the dash just outsi ie Of tackle were successful ground gamers. Syracuse executed a second forward pass at the end OF the third quarter, placing the ball on Princetons $-ysrd line, but Seymour’s place kick went vide OF tho posts and with It vert the visitors last chance TO score. Captain Pendleton left the game with the opening Of the last period, ana ‘Hobey” Baker was shifted over TO left halfbaok. Baker, who has a style OF play like Tibbott, the clever broken field run ner OF Eddie Dillon’s team. was in rare form to-day. The speedy back crcled the ends with ease, Keeling off forty YARDS TO Syracuse’s S-yard line. De Witt wss sent over for the seventh tally. With a team composed almost entirely Of substitutes the Tigers continued TO score, and Emmons and H Waller regis tered two more touchdowns before the game closed The coaches expressed themselves as little satisfied with tho ragged, erratic work OF the eleven.

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  The Washington times, October 20, 1912, page 17

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  Syracuse Is Humbled By Princeton, 62-O PRINCETON, n. j., Oct. 2o.-Princetoms wonderful backfield ran all over Syracuse yesterday and the Tigers were victorious. 50 to 0, In a game filled with long runs. Nine touchdowns for the IT, gers TO no score for the Salt City team shows the relative power Of the two elevens. At the start of the game Syracuse looked dangerous, carrying the ball by forward passes and a couple Of clever runs by Seymore to the Tigers 5-yard line. Then the Princeton line dug Its toes into the sod and stopped the az tack. For the rest Of the game. though, 1t was a steady march of the Orange and Black down the field. Waller. Pen; dleton, 8. Baker and Dewitt starred for the winners.

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, October 20, 1912, page 6

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  TIGERS SCORE ON SYRACUSE AT WILL Game Proves to be Merely Practice scrlmmase for Princeton and They Win Easily. United Press Leased Wire Service / PRINCETON, N j., Oct. 10 Princeton’s game here this afternoon with Syracuse proved to be even less strenuous than scrimmage with the freshmen, Princeton winning, 62 to O.. Syracuse offered practically no resist ance after the first period, and the shifty Princeton backs ran the ends almost at will Pendleton, Dewitt and Fl. Baker, made two touch-downs each, and II. Walter s. Walter and Emmers scored once each. The Tiger defense had one test, when it held Syracuse on the five-yard line.

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  Grant County herald, Lancaster, Wis., October 23, 1912, page 1 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS. West. Chicago, “a; Iowa, IA. Wisconsin, Al; Purdue, O. Illinois, 10; Indiana, Z. Minnesota, Is; Nebraska, 0. Michigan, IA; Ohio State, O.. Drake, 6; Kansas, O. Ames, 20; Missouri, O.. st. Louis, 10; Rolla, 0. Creighton, 20; Marquette, O. Vanderbilt, As; Georgia.. Knox, SO; Illinois Wesleyan, 8. Beloit, 0; Lawrence, 0. Notre Dame, 80; Morris Harvey, 0. East. Yale, 6; West Point, O.. Harvard, 46; Amherst, 0. Princeton, 62; Syracuse, 0. Penn State, 20; Cornell, 6. Brown, 80; Penn, Z. Swarthmore, 81; Navy, G. Dartmouth, FL; Williams, O.

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Princeton leads 5–⁠0–⁠1 in six meetings, counting the three since this game.