Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-01
Coach Roper, While Respecting
West Virginia, Is Saving
All for Harvard
TRIMBlE WON'T START GAME
By SPICK HALL

Princeton, \. j., Nov. Primes
ton s game with the University of West
Virginia this afternoon did not attract
a great throng of followers such as
appeared for the Colgate fray week
ago. In spite of the fact that the
mountaineers arrived this morning with
big reputation and big team. the
interest manifest in the game was rather
slight, and slight out of all proportion
TO the chances of the visitors winning.
The Tigers in this afternoons affray
were not destined to play the game they
played against Colgate. for the reason
that the best team was not in the open
ing line up. Coach Roper stated today
that he did not intend to take any
Nchances on using up his best material
for. the sake of trouncing West Vir
ginia.
This game means nothing to u.s."
said Roper. 'Of course we are not
going to deliberately lose any game, but
what is there in it if we do win? We
are, playing for our big games, and l
do not intend to take chances with the
men upon whom | am going TO depend
in the Harvard and Yale games.
For instance. Trimble was badly
bruised in the Colgate game and he is
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foolish to put him in game of the
caliber of today's with West Virginia.
He is a rather small player and he is
easily banged up. so l am going to
save him and a number of others that
went in against Colgate.
1.-The team that ! picked out to play
West Virginia is the heaviest that |
have yet put on the field. but there are
a number of players on it whom | would
t,,f fn1 q unn
anything. ,...
','Strubbling is in good condition and
] am going to use him at quarterback
today. Wilmer. probably will do most
of the punting.'
Roper Reticent
Coach Roper was rcticent on the
probable outcome of the game. Il
don't like to make predictions he
said "besdes | have not given this
game as much thought as the ones that
are to follow. We do not regard tins
game as one of Importance. consequent
" ! have been looking ahead toward
Yale and Harvard.
II think that the team has been
improving steadily. although possibly
somewhat slowly. | believe that | have
hard tussle and l think that they will
continue to improve up to the time OF
the big games.
The Princeton team averages 40,
eight pounds lighter than the West
Virginia eleven This will be of some
advantage to the mountaineers, par
ticularly as the rain last night neces
sarily will slow up the field in spite OF
the turf that covers every foot of the
playing surface in Palmer Stadium.
McGraw Shifted
Coach Roper shifted McGraw back
to tackle for the game this afternoon
and put Dickinson in at left guard.
This should be strong combination,
although not as powerful as the keck-
McGraw combination on the left side
of the line.
That pair played remarkably well on
the defense against Colgate and doubt
less will be equally as good when the
time comes for them to go up against
the Yale and Harvard teams.
Ii is unfortunate from the specta-
tors viewpoint that Trimble will not
he in today's game, because in the event
that he, were, the contest might resolve
itself into a personal duel between him
and Rodgers, the 1873 pound fullback
of the West Virginia eleven. Like
Trimble. Rodgers does a lot of run
ming from kick formations. He also
makes passes from the same formations,
lust as Trimble does for Princeton.
Princeton will find in King one of
the best puntcrs that she has met this
season, and while he is not fast man
in the back6cld, he is good at the in
terfering game, corking hard man TO
get out of the way on the defense and
is general power in the backheld.
Will Watch Rodgers
However, if the Princeton forwards
play on the defense as they did against
Colgate, they need have little TO fear
of the West Virginia offense, with the
exception of Rodgers end running.
All the West Virginia men are m
good condition, except Center Bailey
and Quarterback Hite, but Coach Nc
Intyre expects them to play through
the entire game and keep up their So
cial standing.
The West Virginians arrived in
Philadelphia from Morgantown at noon,
yesterday. They had light work out on
Franklin Field in the afternoon and
spent the night at the Bellevue STRAIT
ford after having INDUCED in a show.
They arrived here, twenty strong,
shortly before noon with full retinue
of coaches, rubbers and adherents.