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...score against Princeton, in a contest in which she is generally admitted to have completely outplayed her opponents. Against this brilliant showing, Harvard has to offer only a rather doubtful exhibition against the Tigers; and a 37 to 0 victory over Brown, which, though by twice as large a margin as that won by Yale, can hardly be taken as an adequate basis for comparison...
Then came the Princeton contest, in which the line seemed to have lost all the ground that it had won, and in which victory was registered only through the scant margin of one drop-kick. The Princeton attack punctured the forwards so frequently that it was only the wonderful work of the secondary defense, and of Bradlee in particular, that staved off dangerous gains. Not until the team was almost in the shadow of its own goal did the line show determination enough to hold the Tigers to even terms...
...either eleven's possession. Brickley barely missed two tries at goal, one from placement following a fair catch on the 45-yard line, and the other a drop from the 35-yard line. Team B likewise had two fairly easy chances, both of which also failed by a comfortable margin...
Pennsylvania State, secured at the eleventh hour to fill the vacancy caused by the cancellation of the Norwich game, put up a slightly better argument, allowing the University to score only 29 points. This margin does not, however, indicate the true conditions of the contest, for several times the brilliantly spectacular work of Miller, the Penn. quarter, made a score seem imminent...
...touchdown was scored against the seconds, and the Freshmen, meeting the University for the first time this season, were defeated by a margin of one dropkick and one touchdown. The impossibility of gaining a firm footing on the soggy turf was undoubtedly the cause of the small amount of scoring. More over, the practice was not held in the Stadium, and the University team could not use any of its new plays, thereby lessening considerably the efficiency of the attack...