Sport: Rooting Season

October brought the rooting season. On college football fields, great numbers of burly U. S. males flung their weight about, uprooted one another in scrimmages, ran, shouted, grunted, "rooted" punts. In grandstands, throngs of less burly males and galaxies of highly agitated females "rooted" vocally.

Of the so-called Big Three (Eastern), Princeton set about her work most impressively. When Coach Roper's men had done, Amherst's line was little more than a ragged fabric of perforations and the score was 40 to 6. Coach Roper employed straight plays and three complete teams. Amherst's score was the work of...

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