Dartmouth at Princeton

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  Evening public ledger, Philadelphia [Pa.], October 25, 1915, page 10

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  DARTMOUTH MAY SPRING SURPRISE ON THE QUAKERS Princeton’s Easy Victory No Index TO Mems Real Strength TIGERS oFFENsE WEAK The announcement was received with /. vociforous applause, although not as evil dence Of any discourtesy toward Harvard. . rrincetonians were simply happy to realize that Harvard was human ana vui nerable after all, What Cornell could do 1 Princeton can also do, thought the Tiger ( undergraduates. And IL there is any team In the country that Princeton yearns TO defeat It is Harvard. As for Yale, Prince ! ton men are sure that they have more ; than an even chance to triumph over the Els twice-defeated and badly wrecked 3 machine. Princeton undoubtedly will improve within the next two weeks, when Harvard !. iF met. SO will Harvard. Indeed, the ! Crimson Is quite certain to come faster than the Orange and Black. 1t is no belittlement of Princetons victory to say that Harvard is not likely to make the mistakes that Dartmouth did. Much Of Y Princetons superiority over Dartmouth 3 was due to Drlggs’ splendid kicking . coupled with Dartmouths wretched judg- 4 ment and handling of kicks in the back field. Too much praise cannot be given to briggs for his kiclSns. Not only did he !. get wonderful distance, but he was good whether he kicked with or against the { wind. Better than the distance he gained was his splendid judgment in placing kicks Time after time he kicked to one side or the other of the field, so that the ball either rolled for long distances or went out of bounds making it impossibic for Dartmouth backs to return the kicks Some of his effectiveness was doubtless due to the poor manner in which Dartmouth covered his kicks, but briggs is right now one Of the best in the business. Without question Prince ton gave a marvellous exhibition of the ( worth Of the kicking game as a means of attack. TIBBOTT’S GREAT WORK. another element in Princeton’s strength q was Tibbott, a contribution from Ger Z, mantown Academy Tibbott tried three = drop-kicks, two of which succeeded from } the A and 45 yard lines. The third was failure, made against the wind and from the 40-yard mark. But Tibbctt dem g onstrated, as he has done all season, that he is dangerous anywhere within the As yard mark In addition to Tibbott, Princeton has Law substitute fullback, who is sure with kicks at any point beyond midfield Princeton is prepared to play the kicking game in all its variations. A word more about Tibbott He is about the best open + field runner in the East, whether in return ( kicks or on end runs. When he made his N-yard run for a touchdown in the third period he lodged and sdestepped so eleverly that although Dartmouth men were all around him not one could lay hands on him. In Highley and Brown Princeton has two splendid ends. They handle forward passes well, they are fast under kicks, they are not easily fooled and their taekling is well-nigh perfect That Is q all acIr ~ fr 4 Of ends. But Princeton has weaknesses which & even Dartmouth disclosed, and unless they Z are corrected they may be fatal In the q Harvard game. The Tigers have not de- 4. pendable rushing attack. The only sustanned rushing during the game was done by Dartmouth. Princetons usual method Of advancing the ball on line play was for Quarterback Click to whirl through centre from his position, There can be no momentum to such a play as this and it rarely gained more than two or three Yards. briggs and Shea were frequently shot OFF tackle; but in spite of Dart mouths poor end play they could not gain consistently. OFFENSE LACKED PUNCH. The strength of Princeton’s attack was the big gains on exchanges of kicks, FREE q quently from 10 to 20 yards; their clever ( forward passing and Tibbott’s ability to e nrop-kick The attack always was versa Z llle and cleveriy concealed, but doubt IL I. u Will gain like this against a team as b carefully coached as Harvard viii be. Against a team with good kicker. and men who can handle kicks well, Prince Ion VIII need an offense with a punch 3 70 II. Probably Coach Rush realizes Z tnls better than any one else. And 1t B must be said that any man who can accomplish the miracle that this man has already worked can be depended upon 10 Z aeVelop line plunger II the squad contains a man capable of 1t. & Pennsylvania. whose team meets Dart 3 mouth at Boston on November 6, will do wei not to underestimate the possibilities or the Green. In spite of Princeton’s & overwhelming victory Dartmouth has tnree better backs i’m Gerrish, Duhammel and Theilscher than the Quakers possess. e N the last period those three men were s responsible for three splendid marches nown the field, the only sustained rushing tne game saw. They gave flashes of their power at other times. but poor quarter pack play and inferior ends made II all 90 for naught. Had Dartmouth pos sessed quarterback like Ghee OF last years team II would have made tre- mendous difference, WoRTHINGTON LOOKED BEST. Dartmouth tried three quarters. Me- Donough, Holbrook and Worthington hobrook did perhaps the best work OF me three, but Worthlngton gave the greatest promise II was while Worth mgton was at the helm that Dartmouth made her only touchdown. This 10 s Horthington’s first attempt at college iootball and he came out for the team 4 less than three weeks ago. He is an all .fonnd track athlete. being the intercol- iesiate broad Jump champion, and was second 70 Howard Berry IN the penta- thon contest at Pennsylvania Relay carnival last spring. .Northngton gets under way like nash when he takes the ban and he is marc man 10 bring down. He was a bit uncertain In handling the punts OF briggs and Law, but he viii overcome that ana q Y bic coach keeps him at quarterback ne ought TO be a star before the season enos’ Then, n he can play HIS part as ven as the other three Dartmouth backs played theirs. the Green’s quartette viii improve wonderfully. 70 one who has seen Dartmouth op- IRte the forward pass under Lewellyn. ‘.hee and Whitney ANA with a good pair ot ends, the exhibition against Princeton VAS sickening. There was no science IN any OF the passes Only once was pass caught fairly All the others were \ tossed indiscriminetely down the field,

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 24, 1915, page 1

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  How Tigers Overwhelmed PLucky Dartmouth Eleven briggs kicked to the s-yard line out side cunningly placed KICK. tmeIscher Va trown for 81 loss By brown on the Dartmouth LIZARD line. and he hunted. TihbOtt made a twisting run hack Of % yards, while six men hit him. After two forward passes grounded and penalty was imposed on Princeton for offside play, Shet made a forward pass from the 3O-yaEd line TO Highley, VINO ran across the line for touchdowp. Tibbott kicked the goal. The score stood: Princeton, 49, Dartmouth. 0. Late IN the period It’d bolt missed try at goal from the 30 ward line, and the half ended without further scoring. Dartmouth also tree a field goal, with Barrowes kicking, but the effort was blocked. Fewer than six minutes were played in the second half before Princeton scored again. A damaging penalty Tor holding placed the ball on Dartmouth : LIZARD line. and Thielscher. standing behind his own goal line, kicked TO Tibbott on the 38-yard line Grabbing the ball at full speed, the Princeton back went tearing along. while man after man dove AZ him and missed. no will o. the wisp was ever more elusive, and he finally shook clear OF all pursuit and crossed the goal line. Like wise. ne kicked the goal. The score; Princeton, 20; Dartmouth, o. Thielscher again kicked of. this time 10 Click, and the teams settled back to little punting duel. Back and forth the leather sailed, with briggs having all the better OF L. He placed his punts away from the Dart mouth men. and aimed for the side lines. preventing a run back. After a series Of PLAYS. with penal’ es and grounded forward passes adding exelement. briggs Dunted TO Holbrook’ Who PLAYED the ball badly. and finally allowed il 20 bounce OF his legs. over the goal line. where Hogg fall on 70 FOR touchdown. Tibbott kicked the goal Tire score: Princeton, y; Dart mouth, o. shea caught Thielscher’s customary kickoff and ran q the 30yard line. briggs again shot the ball down the field over near tho side line Gerrish got six yards after juggling the ball for a moment, and Holbrook hit the line for four yards and a FIRST down. This was the beginning Of Dartmouth = offensive. IL vas crunch, crun en-, crunch. and a run around the emo iof several first downs. until az last, IN the shadow Of the goal line. Princeton held. Dartmouth tried a forward pass, ard after nearly evsry man on both teams had had al leas. enc hand on the ball Gle. the Dartmouth substitute centre, grabbed II out Of the air and ran over for a touchdown. Gerrish kicked the goal. The score was Princeton, ~; Dartmouth. 7. Buzz Law caught Dartmou,h’s kick of and ran il back 70 the Seward line and briggs kicked the bali 70 Worthington. who let il rel TO the l-yart line, where il stopped Thielscher punted on the next play. and Blake heeled the ball for fair catch on Dartmouths 40 yard line. Blake held the ball while Law tried a goal from placement tie drove the ball nigh and true into the teeth Of the sweeping wind, and IL whirled over the centre OF the bar be. tween the posts for TIE hna score OF the game. The teore was: Princeton, 30: Dartmouth. I. A few minutes later the game ended.

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  Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], October 24, 1915, page 7

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  LOSES TO PRINCETON 30–⁠7 PRINCETON. y. j., oct 23. Dart mouth did not show her expected football strength and was over whorucd by Princeton i’m their aunual game today 80 to Z. 1t was the second time the Tigers were scored on this season. her line being crossed today near the end Of the game 0H a forward pass. Tibbott Docs Starring HaIfback Tibbott of the Princeton team was the star Of the game, contributing half of PrincetOu’s total points In the first period he scored two goals from the fisld, In the third he broke through the Dartmouth men for a touchdown and also kicked all Princcton’s goals, following her three tOuchdOwns. Besides this he was in nearly all the plays Of Importance and made the punt i’m the third quarter that resulted in HOgg scoring a touchdown. Tibbott, for Princeton, kicked two field goals in the first quarter of todays game against Dartmouth. Both came after Princeton had worked the ball to Dartmouth’s 45-yard line. in the second period Princeton, with the ball on Dartmouth’s 30-yard line, tried a forward pass. but IL grounded. Another forward pass was caught by Highley on the five-yard line He scored seven more points for Princeton. TibbOtt Makes Touchdown Five minutes after play started in

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Dartmouth leads 42–⁠38–⁠3 in 83 meetings, counting the 71 since this game.