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Simple, rudimentary tactics gave Princeton the most impressive first-game victory in recent years. Confining his plays almost entirely to straight line plunges, the Tigers made six touchdowns, two of which quarterback Slagle scored. The entire Tiger backfield did much as it pleased with the light Amherst line. One of the features of the game to the spectators was the efficacy of Princeton's new system of silent signals. Captain Stout gave them from his wing position. The chief flaw in them seemed to be that they encouraged offside play...
...most of these on straight football. The air attack was only fairly successful, five out of nine forward passes being completed. Amherst won its mead of glory as the only team to score against one of the Big Three on Saturday, when Pratt, the big right guard, pulled a Tiger forward pass out of the air, and galloped 30 yards to the goal line in the third quarter...
...game of the season on next Saturday against Amherst. Long blackboard talks and several hours drill in signals have occupied the greater part of practice sessions this week, together with short periods of work on the muddy surface of University Field under the eyes of Keene Fitzpatrick, the veteran Tiger trainer, each afternoon...
There is every reason to expect, however, that the veteran guard will be able to face the Tiger and the Bulldog for the third successive year...
...week should disclose who the two ends will be. It seems almost a certainty that Holder, a first-string end of the 1922 Crimson team, which held the Tiger to a tie and defeated Malcolm Aldrich's eleven in the Bowl 10-3, must fill one of the end positions. The other end of the line is not so certain--with Robb, Beals, Dean and Hitch the most promising contenders...