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Roper's Men Show Snap and Punch in Making Their Plays.
From a Special Correspondent of THE SUN.

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 31. - In administering a 31-0 defeat of Virginia last Saturday the Tigers gave every indication that Princeton will meet Harvard next Saturday with an attack and defence that will be somewhat of a surprise to those who witnessed the Orange and Black's two defeats at the hands of Chicago and the Navy. During the first half, when the tiger's first string men were in the game, Princeton's offence looked better than at any time this season. Playing without Lourie, and Garrity calling signals in his absence, the Tigers launched an attack that was not to be denied.

Of all the improvements noted in Tiger play of last Saturday, one stood out, above all others. The Tigers in the Navy and Chicago games displayed what seemed to be an amazing ignorance of their signals as delay and time lost between plays marred their football. However, In Saturday's contest real snap and punch were injected into their work by Garrity and Euwer, so that Princeton looked like a real football team for the first time since the Colgate game. The Tiger line with substitute guards, Lipscomb and Von Schilling playing their position in good style, had plenty of drive and power on offence and a load of strength on the defence. Princeton scoring four [[?]] the first half seemed to be on [[?]] to a field day. The Princeton substitutes sent in by Roper to finish the game failed to add another touchdown to the Orange and Black total and Ken Smith saved the Tigers from the disgrace of a shut out by booting two beautiful field goals. This fact seems to show that Roper's substitutes are not much to boast about, at least as a team. The Tigers have several good substitute backs who are giving promise in practice scrimmages, but against Virginia they lacked sufficient drive to put the ball over.

The great running of Cleaves and the dropkicking by Smith served as the bright spots of the day's encounter. Cleaves, always one of, if not the hardest running back in Princeton, looked so good in there Saturday that it seems reasonable to say that he may start against Harvard next Saturday. Cleaves has one great fault that he must remedy if he is to play against the Crimson. The Tiger back fumbled two kick-offs that were easy catches, but which he was lucky enough to recover.

When Frank Murrey was declared ineligible to play football this fall it was felt that the Tigers would have to look far and wide before they could uncover a toe artist of Murrey's standard. However, in the game against Virginia Ken Smith loomed up as a possible successor to Murrey's glory. Smith, kicking two field goals as calmly as a veteran from the 42 and 30 yard marks, established himself as a field goal artist well worth watching. While  Smith is not certain to start against either Harvard or Yale yet his performance against Virginia make it a pretty save bet that he will be called upon in at least one of the big games for a try at a goal from the field. Smith's drop kicking ability is something that Roper is sure to use to advantage.

Harvard Team
Failed to Show Anything in [[?]]
To Justify Confidence for [[?]]
By Frank F. O'N[[?]]

The real power of Harvard, cast in doubt as a result of the Penn State game is shrouded in mystery after the breath taken by the Crimson from Centre College. Harvard men to-day may say that most of the regulars were on the bench during the game, and that had they been in there the result would have been different. Perhaps no effective argument may be framed against this, and possibly with George Owen and Fitts and one or two others in the fight the result might have been different. But the final score is the answer to everything, and the team that Harvard men believed powerful enough to beat Centre fell down on the job dismally.

As the game in the historic Cambridge stadium was played on Saturday there can be no dispute a to the better team. Perhaps if some Harvard forward had not been offside in the last flitting moments of the game Harvard might have torn through the line for the last four yards that would have been necessary for a touchdown. The Crimson might have won then, and indeed it probably would have won. Off side play in football is like an error in baseball. It is lamentable, often like every other error must be penalized.

To Harvard men who flocked to Cambridge to see the Crimson in its final test game for the Princeton Tiger on next Saturday, the game was positively depressing. If it be true that no varsity combination is stronger than its substitutes, then Harvard is not over powerful. In one period, the second, Harvard clearly and decisively outplayed the Colonels, but with the goal line only twenty-two yards distant, the Crimson could not summon up power to score a touchdown. Then, when a fumble gave Harvard the ball on the twenty-eight yard line it failed to rush. Two passes

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