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Although Carnegie and Holy Cross had teams that from reports of early practice, appeared formidable, they were easily whitewashed by Yale and Princeton on Saturday. Legore's phenomenal playing was the feature of the Eli attack, which consisted of straight playing throughout the contest, Driggs, with his exceptional punting and powerful line-plunging, was the star of the Princeton backfield, while the Tiger line gave an exceptional account of itself...
...Yale men tonight feel satisfied with the showing of the team. Nothing but straight football was played. In the attack and defence there is considerable improvement over the work of last year's team...
...days' absence, it is by no means certain that Jones will start them against Carnegie Tech. Waite and Neville, brilliant pony backs, are fast and in perfect physical condition. Jacques has been used ahead of Rex Hutchinson as full-back because of Hutchinson's inability to keep his signals straight and his slowness in getting under way. Once started, however, he is very powerful and should be rounded into condition as one of Yale's most brilliant line forcers before the season closes...
...chased from Soldiers Field by a University victory in an 11 to 8 slugging-bee, an exhibition characterized by loose but exciting ball. Holy Cross was next shut out at Worcester, Mahan registering the 4 to 0 score, and also the last of the University's string of 12 straight victories. Garritt and Harrison were unable to hold Brown in check, and the Providence college had the pleasure of seeing an 8 to 1 atonement for the first game and for its defeat at home in 1915. Pitcher Young, of Williams, had two bad innings at the start...
...Princeton beat Yale 1 to 0 at Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, thus moving up to second place in the Harvard-Yale Princeton league. The University has defeated Princeton twice in the series, so that if it wins the series with Yale, it will win the championship; if it loses two straight games, it will finish second, while if it wins one game and loses two, it will tie with Yale for the premier honors...