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Just why this is so can be readily understood if you will consider the type of game played by a Princeton team. They are perhaps the greatest gamblers on the gridiron. Against Chicago they took chances in the hardest possible situations and won when their team was ahead. Against Yale in 1921 they gambled again and won, by doing the least expected thing...
Three large eastern teams remain undefeated as the 1922 gridiron season draws to a close: Harvard and Princeton, which meet in the Stadium today, and Cornell, which faces Dartmouth today, Albright College next week, and Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day, Of these, Harvard and Cornell have had only 13 points scored against them. Cornell has amassed the greatest number of points, having totalled 238. Of the western and southern teams which have invaded the East, Iowa alone stands undefeated. The Hawkeyes have scored 131 points to their opponents' seven...
...slippery condition of the field in the Stadium yesterday prevented Coach Fisher from holding a regular scrimmage as had been planned, and unless the gridiron dries off before this afternoon no more scrimmaging will be held until after the Princeton game for fear of serious injuries which have been in the main avoided this season...
When Coach Cannell's heavy Green eleven runs into the Stadium tomorrow afternoon, the University will face Dartmouth on the gridiron for the thirty-first time. Of the past games, the University has won 25, the Hanover teams two, while three times the elevens have fought to a tie. The last game, played ten years ago, resulted in a 3 to 0 victory for the Crimson...
...certainly the football capital of these United States is a wandering one. It is no longer nailed down east of the Alleghenies, as it used to be in the comfortable olden time, 'when a half-dozen big Eastern teams held the spotlight year after year and ruled the Gridiron Empire unchallenged. However, it still is the ambition of every good team in the country to beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore, "I-o-way", is happy. It is something, after...