The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-10-26
A TERRIFIC BATTLE
Cambridge Sandburs Cling Tenaciously
to Billy Doane's Terriers and
Down Them on Gridiron.
Terriers, However, Unterrified and
Will Again Try Issues With
Sandburs on Nov. 4th.

The Princeton highs met a Tartar
when they tackled the blue and white
players of Cambridge on the latter's
grounds last Saturday and, in a
hard-played game in which every foot
of ground was bitterly and stubborn
ly contested, went down to defeat with
their flag nailed to the mast and dis
playing a gameness in the face of
hopeless defeat that is seldom shown
in a high school game. Princeton
was outweighed in the line by their
heavier opponents, and besides
handling these heavy forwards they
had to stop the plunging assault of
the veteran Cambridge back6eld,
headed by the feetfooted, 200-pound
fullback, Starkey. Chouinard,
another veteran of three or four
years playing, was at the quarter
back position, and besides handling
his team in good shape this speedy,
scrappy Frenchman reeled off some
runs that we're sensational and re-
turned the Princeton punts 80 or 40
yards at times. Cambridge has an
other speedy backfeld man in Larson
who played the left halfback position
and, aided by the good interference
of Starkey, Chouinard and the right
half, Larson made some substantial
gains off tackle and around the ends.
Pohl won the toss and chose to de-
fend the north goal. Princeton
kicked off to the Cambridge 5-yard
line and Starkey returned the ball 20
yards. After some fierce playing in
Cambridge territory Chouinard broke
around Princeton's left end and
lodged and squirmed down the side
line through the orange and black
players and finally crossed the
Princeton goal line. In his desperate
efforts to score he got over the side
line and the play was brought back
to the place where some of the Cam
bridge players themselves admitted
that the side line had been crossed in
the run. But Cambridge was de-
termined to score, and with Starkey,
Larson and Chouinard blowing
through their lighter opponents line
for substantial gains, the ball was
steadily worked down toward the
Princeton goal line. Within their 20.
yard line the Princeton defense
frightened up and the gains of the
Cambridge men we're materially cut
down. At this place Chouinard dis.
played good generalship by calling
the signal for crisscross, and on a
fake line buck one Of the Cambridge
backfeld carried the ball around
Princeton's left wing on wide swing
ing end run for a touchdown
Starkey missed an easy goal. Score
at end of first quarter, S to 0.
Cambridge played desperately ir
the second period and added two more
touchdowns and goal from touch
down before the referees whistle blew
for the end of the first half. Th'
second score came on long end rul
around Princeton's right end, and tn
third touchdown was made on straigh
football with Starkey carrying tn
ball almost continually and fnall.
tearing through Princeton's lef
flank for the third touchdown of tn
game. Score at end of first half, 1
to 0.
In the third and fourth quarters
with the game hopelessly lost an
playing against a heavier, older an
more experienced team that wa
playing on it's home grounds, an
cheered on by the most enthusiast
bunch of high school rooters VIII
ever attended ball game, the orang
and black players displayed some {
the gamiest defensive work that
rabid football fan could ask fol
They fought gamely and stubborn
and, instead of being demoralized b
the heavy score already rolled u
against them, they played better an
harder football in the second ha
than they did in the first two quarter
of play. The score of the last ha
showed about what the relative pla
of the two teams was during thes
periods, as the best Cambridge coul
do was to score field goal in tt
third quarter and we're held to
blank in the fourth period of pla!
This result was not caused by any Il
up in the desperate Cambridge offens'
as they played just as hard in the la
half of the game as they did in tt
first, for they were out to avenge tt
% to defeat that they were oblige
to swallow on their grounds last yea
at the hands Of the Princeton team
They fought desperately and bitter]
to equal the score of last year, b,
this consolation was deniod thonn IN