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...first team he has modestly put seven Princeton men. Feeling that the Tiger backfield is the strongest in the country, he has installed all four regulars as a unit on his first selection. Three Harvard men are represented, and one Yale man has been awarded a place...
...only in the second half that the Elis succeeded in reversing the Tigers, but their exhibition was brilliant throughout. The Nassau eleven had managed, by a lot of hard work, to keep their opponents from scoring in the first half. But just after the second period opened. O'Hearn caught a punt standing on his 20-yard line and wormed his way 80 yards through the entire Princeton combination. Neidlinger and Wight, halfbacks, were very effective, and the coaches demonstrated they had two excellent substitutes for them in Warner and Ped. The latter kicked an emergency goal in perfect style...
...Freshmen's bolt was shot for the moment; the Tigers, aided by a five-yard penalty, completed a 30-yard pass, Smith to Tyson, after the next kickoff. Four plunges sufficed to tie the score just before the period ended. After the kick-off. Princeton recovered a fumbled punt on the Freshmen's 20-yard line. Carrying on with the same drive which netted the previous goal, Captain Smith carried the ball over in four plunges. At this point the Tiger rush stopped up, and a period was spent in useless passes and exchanges of kicks, accompanied by many fumbles...
Smith Most of Tiger Team...
...rush by running back the kick-off 35 yards. A lucky fumble gave the Yearlings the ball, though they failed to advance it. Gehrke's punt was the center of the next big break: though blocked it rebounded from a crimson-jerseyed back and rolled 20 yards towards the Tiger's goal, where a Yearling fell on it. Encouraged by this turn in fortune, the Freshmen pushed down the field to the 20-yard mark. Jenkins, though withdrawn with an injury, returned to the game and dropped a pretty goal within seven seconds of the end of the game...