Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton, N. J., October 31, 1911.--The Princeton football team held a hard 45-minute scrimmage with the scrubs this afternoon in which it scored two touchdowns. Although the line was again weak on the defence, the team as a whole showed improvement over last week's work. The coaches have put Baker back at halfback, using Pendleton and Chrystie at quarter...
...scrimmage lasting 30 minutes between Teams A and B followed the signal work. The first team scored at once and was then given the ball in various parts of the field. Team B was weak on the defence and was unable to make any headway when given the ball. Frothingham, Bradlee, and Hardwick were kept out of the scrimmage on account of minor injuries...
Unlike Yale, Princeton has a weak line. On the offensive they are unable to open holes for the backfield, or even to prevent the opposing linemen from sifting through and breaking up end plays. Unless this weakness can be done away with before the harder games, the fast open plays on which the Princeton offence depends will be unable to get started...
Again numerous substitutions were made in the Freshman team after which Cambridge Latin was able to gain more consistently. The offensive work of the third-string 1915 backs was very weak. The work of the Freshman team was encouraging, for so early in the season. The backfields of the first two teams were strong, Hardwick and Brickley playing particularly well...
...loss of H. Jaques, Jr., and H. W. Kelley '11 will be the most keenly felt, as they scored between them 15 points in the dual meet with Yale and two points in the intercollegiates. The loss of such a number of men will of course cause a weakness in a number of events but fortunately there will be available in 1912 some good competitors who were unable to participate in track sports this last spring because of sickness and eligibility rules. In addition to these, the 1914 Freshman team was strong in some of the events which graduation will...