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...reaching results of the attempts of certain professional football managers to capitalize the gridiron fame of intercollegiate stars is so great that legislation of a most drastic nature is needed immediately to close the matter now and for all time in favor of the college game...
...There is hardly a college or university in the land that cannot proudly point to names on its roster of gridiron heroes of those who made good in the greater game. Among the first to seek and find the Great Adventure was Johnnie Poe; Johnnie Poe, of Princeton, and the Black Watch; Johnnie Poe who once sent the message to an eleven, 'If you won't be beat, you can't be beat.' Not a bad slogan for an army, that...
...most gratifying things about picking an All-Service team has been the letters from coaches, many of them in the service themselves. To the query, 'Which of your football players were in the service?' man after man replied, 'all of our players were in the service.' The gridiron game proved its worth. The mimic battles were productice of the spirit that won a world...
Prospects for major sports are very promising. In football there will be a wealth of material from which to build a strong Tiger gridiron squad. A large number of this year's squad will be back, including Baker, Bibler, Callahan, Davis, Garrity, Keck, Lourie, Murrey, Parisette, Scheerer, and Wittmer, all of whom are letter men. The ranks of next year's eleven will be further strengthend by the addition of the undefeated...
...Princeton gridiron schedule includes four new teams. Colgate has been dropped because of conflicting dates, and the Navy will come to Princeton in its place. The others of the new teams are from the South: Washington and Lee, Maryland State, and West Virginia. The placing of the Navy on the schedule marks a new departure in Princeton football, as the arrangement calls for alternate games at Princeton and Annapolis. Thus in 1921, Princeton will play two games away from home, one at New Haven and one at Annapolis. As in 1919, there will be a total of seven games...