Princeton at Harvard

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 12, 1916, page 17

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  Princeton Tigers Go Down to Defeat by Score of 3 to 0 Princeton by tho narrow margin Of TO 0 on Soldiers Field this afternoon. A drop kick from the 25-yard line, shot just foot inside the goal by Horween, won for the Crimson. The feat was witnessed by something like $4,000 persons. This comes pretty close TO telling the entire story of the first Crucial drive” in Eastern football. Harvard out played Princeton, but not to the extent of its full power. The thrill Of the afternoon was entirely illegitimate. IL came when Eddie Casey, the same Casey who is the hero of that unofficial Harvard chant, Casey carries the ball” fumbled. and fumbled dsastrously. Starting a drive at tackle on Prince tons 2S-ysrd line, and with a touch down in sight, Casey, the mighty Casey, fumbled. Scoops Up Ball It was Brown, the substitute back of Princeton. who recovered the ball, scooping it up with the efficiency OF a well trained shortstop. Brown started on the run TO the Harvard goal line. There was nothing between him and the six points necessary to make the Haughton System look sick for an afternoon but lot of chalk lines. Right here there was chance for the favorite fiction story, the yarn Of the substitute who went in at the crit ical stage and won the game and the girl, coming true. If it had been one of the regular backs, say, Moore, car rying that ball the score at the top would read Princeton. 8; Harvard, 8. But 1t was not Moore, it was Brown not the immortal Brown of Harvard but Brown of Princeton-a substitute. with chance to put over the surprise | and shock of the year. Perhaps Brown felt the weight Of his responsibilities to fiction as he headed for the Harward goal line, for his feet seemed to lag and he appeared oppressed by q burden. BY Browns side ran one of his team mates. For the twenty yards they procrossed toward a victory. The Harvard section was mute from terror. The Orange and Black cohorts were mute with amazement. A miracle was about to be enacted upon the gridiron. But behind the laboring legs in the orange and black stockings a pair OF red legs were tearing into the turf. They carried Harte, the feet Harvard end. The Princeton man running with Brown was looking for trouble ahead. He did not realize that it was coming from behind until too late. The red legs advanced an eager body to within a yard of the two men in the dark jerseys. Just as Browns interference turned to head him off Harte hurled himself forward and with desperate clutch brought Browns knees together. Spilled with Thud The chance of the substitute to vindicate fiction and to make fact liar ended right there. Brown was spilled to the earth with thud that could be heard all through the silent stadium. Harte had saved the game from Prince ton. With that flying, wildcat leap he handed fiction q jolt when it seemed that fiction was surely getting away with something. The romance Of the substitute was ended by matter-of-fact end, who was trained under the Haughton sys- TEN 10 get down on the ball and to watch out for fumbles. He carried out the teachings of the system with spectacular precision. Fiction was tackled and thrown for loss. The substitute came close to carrying out the melodrama, but not close enough. Only in the movies do they do It. After that the game naturally faded into an anti-climax as far as the $4,000 spectators were concerned. The remainder of the proceedings was of in terest only 10 the corps OF experts. Never again did the Orange and Black legs advance to within anything like a threatening distance Of the Redlegs’ goal line. Harte wrenched his knee in that wild dive for the substitute and had TO leave the game Immediately after. But what was wrenched knee when the game of which Harvard had been so confident was at stalker The heroes tonight then are Horween, who kicked the field goal, and Harte, who saved the Crimson colors from being trailed in a considerable amount of dust. And the greater OF these is Harte. The scoring OF the three points which decided the game was not particularly dramatic. One bad punt by briggs, who is normally the greatest punter in the East, started the trouble. A kick that took bad twist as II left the usually unerring foot OF briggs sent the ball offside on Princeton’s AZ var line Then the Haughton machine for the first time in the afternoon began to look like the tank” that crushed Cor nell at Soldiers Field two weeks ago. Horween plunged. Then Casey sauirmed and wriggled through the Orange and Black line. Between them these two carried the ball 70 Prince tons l8-yari line. Casey Gets Yard There the Princeton line seemed 70 dig in. Horween made two plunges without much advantage. The elusive Casey squirmed through for bare yard, with most Of the Princeton line piled upon his back. 1t seemed that the tradition that Princeton’s goal line could not be crossed this year was 70 be upheld. Another Intellectual drive would give the ball 10 Princeton, and briggs would punt it out OF danger. Horween drew back for q try at the field goal. and the Orange and Black line for the moment seemed disconcerted. The ball took a bad bound, and il

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  Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, November 12, 1916, page 6

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  CRIMSON ELEVEN GAINS GLORY IN PRINCETON GAME Tigers Forced to Take the Short End of 3 to 0 Score, After Putting Up Game Fight. UNITED Press Staff Correspondent Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 1.-THE Princeton Tigers dubbed lucky by most of the football critics, fell today. Harvard, the crimson flash that has smeared itself across the gridiron horizon ever since Percy ID. Haughton reappeared at Cambridge, did il, and the Tigers took the short end of a 8 to score. Outlined In BACKGROUND of wildly roofing sons of Old Nassau, with as many waving orange colored chrysanthemums and flashed by a crimson sea in the opposite stands that famed and glowed against gray background of concrete, the Tiger fought and bled. Be 1t said to the credit of Princeton, the defeat was not humiliating. On the other hand. may this be record of grand nerve that can take no credit from the Princeton eleven--an eleven that fought and struggled, an eleven that time after time has flung itself a burning ton of beef and that had wiped out it’s previous opponents with q success that needs no praise to prove it one of the best. The victory of Harvard stands out as a monument to that had bowed<to Tufts opposed to an eleven that had defeated that same SQUAD and that had, in addition. low cred the colors of Dartmouth. an eleven which always is rated high. And the Haughton system triumphed. GREAT CROWD AT GAME. Approximately 10000 persons, in GLIDING the students and alumni of the two colleges, jammed into the big stadium and crowded their way into the temporary stands, which had been erected at the north end of the field to see Plunger Horween and Eddie Casey rip and tear their way through the Tiger line Then they sat enthralled as Brown briggs and Thomas duplicated their feats. They marveled as briggs time after time kicked from 40 to so yards as he punted the oval out of danger. Murray, as n quarter back did not stand out as did Eddy of Princeton, who at best is only mediocre, but the rest of the lineup, with par ticular emphasis on the back field. did itself proud. Horween and Casey, tearing through the tackles or round ing the end at high speed, time after time, reeled off long gains 1t was Horween, who after the ball had been smashed and ripped through the Princeton line to the Princeton Is yard line, dropped back to the 20-yard chalk mark and shot the oval spinning and twisting over the Princeton goal posts for the only points scored in the game. After this feat II seemed that Princeton grew slightly discouraged. briggs, who had been hitting the Harward line with a vim that was a revelation to the Crimson forwards, and Brown. who had been dashing and staggering into a motley, smothered conglomeraton of dirty football uni forms, began to lose their ginger and the PRINCETON interference, one of the big features of the Princeton game, began to lose its strength. Princeton, which had kept the ball in Harvard territory most of the time. began to lose the punch and Harvard ended the game with the ball worked well past the half way line. The lineup; Harvard. Positions. Princeton. Coolidge, Murray Highley. Funk Wheeler Mclean Left Tackle Dadmun, Clark Nourse Left Guard Harris Gennert Center Snow Hogg Right Guard Sweetzer McGraw, Halsey Right Tackle Harte, Brewer Wilson, VIM Right End Murray Eddy, Ames Quarterback Thatcher, Bond Thomas, Brown Left Half Casey Moore Right Half HorWeen, Flowers briggs

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  Arizona republican, November 12, 1916, page 16

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  HARVARD |S WINNER 3–⁠0 OVER TIGERS CARTRIDGE Nov 11-By the nar- row margin of a solitary field goal the Harvard team defeated Princeton this afternoon%in the annual contest. The three points thus gained through the aerial method of scoring were an accurate indication of the difference in the relative attacking strengh of the two elevcns. The contest resolved itself into a question of defense and the ability of the Crimson to strike a decisive blow when the opportunity arose in an otherwise evenly wageG battle. Princeton sent into the stadium the best football machine built in Nassau in many seasons, and it was only the extremely alert de- fense and ability to solve quickly the Tiger attack that saved Harvard from no score tic, if not defeat That the Cambridge combination. which is still in the making. should arise so brilliantly to its task speaks well for the future of the eleven The two teams oattled back and forth within the 25-yard fines through the entire two first periods of the play with little advantage one way or the other Harvard’s opportunity came in the third period. however. and tho Crimson was quick to turn it iEto victory. Horween standing on Princeton’s 26 yard line and directly in front of the “oal posts lifted an end over end drop kick across the bar for the only score of the contest.

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  Rogue River courier, Grants Pass, Or., November 12, 1916, page 8

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  HARVARD WINS FROM PRINCETON The Stadium, Cambridge. Mass, Nov. Harvard’s football eleven, yanked from tho dust by Percy d. Haughton.i defeated Princeton. 3 to 0. here this afternoon. and loomed again as the “all-conqacring” squad OF the casts big three of 1915 II was princeton’s first defeat OF the year and 1t was In no way humiliating. Princeton was not outplaycd, with the exception Of the single instance when Harvard recovered the ball on the Princeton s0-yard line and Horwcen dropped-kicked the ball over the Princeton goal pos, for three points that spelled Victory. Horweon proved as much OF star as the greatly toated Casey. For Princeton. Eddie priggs lived up to his reputation AS u punter, Thirty thousand persons saw the game,

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Princeton leads 51–⁠37–⁠7 in 95 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.