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When the original first team combination had scored twice, a new backfield went in, composed of Strubing, Jones, Bridges, and Willauet, with scarcely any abatement in pace, this combination marched the ball for a score. Norman, Desston. Ewing, and Requardt were later able to repeat the performance...
...occupied the greater part of an hour, Coach Horween elected to keep his first string eleven intact, and once more the ineligibles were given the ball on their own 20-yard line. Two line plunges failed to dent the Crimson torward wall, and on the following play the Princeton backfield mixed its signals and the ball sailed over the goal-line, where Crawford overwhelmed by four Crimson linemen, managed to recover the pigskin. Two points were, however, added to the University total through the medium of a safety...
...powerful team which went under the name of Princeton in the scrimmage yesterday. Crowell was the only man in the ineligible line who had not earned his letter, and the backfield was a strong combination with J. P. Crosby '28, stellar halfback on the University team last year, as its outstanding star. Peter Baldwin. at the other halfback post, is an ineligible sophomore who is expected to make a strong bid for a regular berth next fall...
While the backfield was practicing kicking and passing, the linemen under Coaches Brader and Carney were put through an intensive session on the charging machines, and ended up with half an hour dummy practice. The Harvard tackling has not been up to standard in the opinion of several of the Crimson coaches and there will be a good deal of work this week on polishing up the defense for the expected attack by the flashy Tiger backs...
...Freshman football team will face the Holy Cross Freshman eleven this afternoon at 2 o'clock on Soldiers Field With the exception of Devens, former Groton School star, who will be unable to take his place in the backfield due to an injury, Coach E. L. Casey '19 will have his strongest line-up on the field from the opening whistle...