Evening star., 1955-11-11
WIN, LOSE OR
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MerriweH Of Princeton

q PRINCETON N j., Nov. 1.-THE time has come, per-
hap to brush on Oklahoma Maryland Michigan State and
other powers the and look to the League for
the weeks big thriller Especially here, where Yale
cnch the Ivy title tomorrow and Princeton can confuse the
Issue so thoroughly that probably no championship claim
win be authentic.
There won't be popular frst-strng second-string
maybe third-strng A-Amerca in Palmer Stadium. but to
most In selout crowd of $4,000 this viii be the Big One
The win as good If oncebeaten Yale wins
and good just starting if Princeton twotime loser
can have FNppn whippin'
To listen to the Ivy set not only here in the Tigers lair
but at New Haven we the outcome well depend on
young named Royce Fppin r captain Of the Prince
ton When he hale and hearty Fppn comes close
being the best singewng back in college ball and GER
tainy stands established nemesis as far the Bull
dogs concerned But to expect wonders probably asking
much the gimpy kneed senior from Moncla who
has participated In just three plays all season and those
three against Columbia.
IF ONES MEMORY is unclouded the name Of Royce
Fiippin ought ring bell couple Of bells in fact
one dates back to 1920s footba-wise Royce Fppn
viii be remembered as of the Naval Academys altime
greats backheld star In four games with Army from 1922
through 1925
as sophomore In the first year Of sngleplatoon football
came within so yards of matching the phenomenal li55
yards gained by Dick Kamaier who set his Nassau record
while also soph. This no mean feat because, you VIII
remember Kaz was an offensive specialist the days Of two
platoon ball and played little defense Flppn Is as
good defensivey extensively When he's healthy that Is
Those who praise Junior not Nobodies For In
stance Charlie Caldwell the Princeton coach who
makes fetish Of avoiding controversy Yet he says:
with Flip In there we would be going into this game
undefeated He that good great defensive player nne
runner and adequate passer. Without him, we lack the
backed speed to Yale viii have to come close TO
matching its eight fubes Of year to give chance
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CALDWELL. WHO PERHAPS can do more things with
the sngleWng than any other disciple Of that ostensiDy
dying formation holds out great public hope that his ace
win be ready to belabor the Yales in the past Flip says
be wants to play Caldwell relates but am not figuring
him think Or two plays viii convince him ne can't 90 ~
quite properly Yale IS regarding this and sundry other
pessistc speeches war For two straight years the Bull
dogs haven't able to get that young man out OF their
hair What Frank Merrwe was to Yale in the old Burt
standish dime novels. Fnppin has been 70 Princeton
(against Yalel Ia real life. He murders EN-.
He started picking on the Blue IN IS by passing for one
touchdown and running 20 and 81 yards for two al
though Princeton finally lost 1924 when Yale put two long
passes to in the final 2 seconds You can hardly
pin ddlast year junior In stunning 2I-i4 upset BY
the Tigers he all three touchdowns against the Bull
dogs 7lyard and the cncher only 10 seconds
before the final whistle
STILL VIVID IN THE MINDS Of the Blues are Coach
CaldwePs words on the OF that performance, to w.t.
Hes been out too long and has had preparatory work
This Is tantamount to what Caldwell Is saying today.
II the Yales don't know what to believe neither do the
Princetons on the face Of It, Flippin to be brittle
player Last year he broke his wrist and missed oned Of
the Tigers nine games yet he still creamed Yale almost sins
gehandedy and led the Ivy League with 10 touch
downs one more than Kazmaier in any This
year the knee, which hurt in preseason scrmage
against Syracuse reinured against Columbia in the
second game Of the season.
There must be merit TO the Princetons oherwiseand
suspected here that It's light line has been downrated
because without Fppin the Tigers have lost only twice. first
to Colgate 1916 and last week to Harvard To- on an after
when most scouts felt the whole thing uke In
the final analysis however FIppn is the key and what
Princetonians want know is how and why Junior gets
hurt and takes SO long to recover.
IT DEVELOPS THAT it took the better part Of two
for develop into fact and thence to final adj
mission by Fppn himself that he Christian Scientist
But
Its not touchy subject" Princetons Merriwen
said As matter Of fact I've taken all the treatment
commended by physician, Dr. Harry McPhee I've also
been going regularly to Christian Science practitioner
both here and at Montcai did last year when broke
my wrist I'm the healer helped my wrist to mend"
This was before Flippins 1854 herocs against Yale
According TO the book Yale ought to win by two touch
downs tomorrow This Is assuming that Fippin won't be
whppn' n. But the gamblers sold true Blues are
nothing not cautious TOO well do they remember the
Fnppin Of SO and '54
In their book, when he's rght-well he's awfuly right