The Princetonian contains the following criticism of the play of the Princeton eleven in the game with the University of Pennsylvania last Saturday:
"The playing of the foot-ball eleven in Philadelphia last Saturday was very disappointing. The students who accompanied the eleven were disappointed and the alumni who visited the field in the hope of seeing the team play as Princeton teams 'used to play" were disappointed. With but two or three exceptions every man seemed to play as poorly as he knew how. The backs fumbled the ball far oftener than they held it, and the rushers were expert at getting the ball near the line only to give it into the hands of an opponent and see it kicked back to the middle of the field. The two halves of the game were in marked contrast with each other. The first was perhaps the best the team has yet played, the second, the most wretched. In the beginning of the second half the half-backs fumbled terribly and seemed to lose head entirely, the quarter-back passed wildly and poorly, and for some moments it looked as if the whole team had gone to pieces. The rush-line as a whole played a good game throughout, though their losing the ball at several critical points in the game, cost us several touchdowns."
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