1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game

June 2015 1922 Princeton Tigers vs. Chicago Maroons football game 1922 Princeton v. Chicago football game.jpg 200 1922 Princeton Tigers Princeton University Chicago Maroons 4–0 3–0 Bill Roper Amos Alonzo Stagg 0 7 0 14 6 6 6 0 October 28, 1922 Stagg Field Chicago, Illinois Vic Schwartz (Brown) 31,000 The 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game, played October 28, 1922, was a college football game between the Princeton Tigers and University of Chicago Maroons. The "hotly contested"October 28, 2009 History.com staff A+E Networks History.com http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/princeton-chicago-football-game-is-broadcast-across-the-country Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country April 20, 2015https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2258790/chicago_daily_tribune/ Tigers Humble Chicago, 21–18, By Long Passes 2 October 29, 1922 Newspapers.com Chicago Daily Tribune April 21, 2015 match-up was the first game to be broadcast nationwide on radio.October 28, 1922: The First National Radio Broadcast of College Football https://www.oldradio.org/2012/10/october-28-1922-first-national-radio.html 2025-03-04 Old Radiohttp://chicagoist.com/2011/10/28/89_years_ago_today_college_football.php https://web.archive.org/web/20171105160942/http://chicagoist.com/2011/10/28/89_years_ago_today_college_football.php dead 2017-11-05 89 Years Ago Today, College Football Entered the Radio Age Chuck Sudo Princeton's team won, 21–18. It was to be the national champion of 1922,1922 Princeton University football scores and results https://web.archive.org/web/20140729134840/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/princeton/1920-1924_yearly_results.php July 29, 2014 . College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 18, 2013. and in this game received its nickname, "Team of Destiny", from Grantland Rice.https://books.google.com/books?id=jboJTyrkJagC&pg=PA50 50–51 Princeton Football Mark Bernstein 2009 9780738565842 First radio broadcast It was the first college football game to feature an intersectional audience on radio.https://books.google.com/books?id=_RqQQHqQdAAC&pg=PA5 Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919–1930 Raymond Schmidt June 18, 2007 5 9780815608868 The game was broadcast from KYW, a Westinghouse radio station in Chicago, to WEAF, an American Telephone & Telegraph station in New York City, and from there to the rest of the country. Historian Ronald Smith has called it "probably the most important radio broadcast up to that point." Game summary Fullback John Webster Thomas scored Chicago's three touchdowns, one in each of the first three quarters, but the team failed to score an extra point for any of them. Walter Camp wrote in picking Thomas first-team All-American: "It is safe to say he did far more against the Princeton line in effective scoring than did any backs of the East who met the Tigers".https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1937349/camp_1922_all_america/ Camp's All America Stars Show Why They Are Winners; Have Brains, Power, Spirit Harrisburg Telegraph December 26, 1922 March 8, 2015 Newspapers.com 15 left|thumb|280px|Princeton stuffs Chicago. The Tigers had scored a single touchdown in the second quarter, and also the extra point for a total of seven; they then scored two additional touchdowns for 14 points in the final quarter to win the game, while holding Chicago scoreless.http://dailyprincetonian.com/sports/2014/08/team-of-destiny-the-history-of-princeton-football/ 'Team of destiny': History of Princeton Football Stephen Wood The Daily Princetonian August 1, 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150518084451/http://dailyprincetonian.com/sports/2014/08/team-of-destiny-the-history-of-princeton-football/ May 18, 2015 mdy-all With 12 minutes to play and Chicago nursing an 18–7 lead, Howdy Gray of Princeton picked up a Jimmy Pyott fumble and ran it 40 yards for the touchdown. Gray's father, the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, reacted by waving his program in the air, striking a woman in the shoulder.http://www.capitalcentury.com/1922.html 1922:The Team of Destiny The Trentonian Jon Blackwell After an additional Princeton touchdown was scored, Chicago responded with a fierce drive ending in a goal line stand with Thomas falling short of the goal.https://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW07-08/03-1024/sports.html Ashley Wolf October 24, 2007 princeton.edu Destiny's first standhttp://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19221029.2.88 Princeton's Rally, Defeats Maroons October 29, 1922 Daily Illinihttps://books.google.com/books?id=n3i4KOu7MiEC&pg=PA120 Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession Mark Bernstein September 19, 2001 120 0812236270 Halfback Harry "Maud" Crum scored Princeton's other touchdowns.cf. 24 Princeton Alumni Weekly 73 83 Aftermath At one point late in the game, Chicago assistant Fritz Crisler implored Amos Stagg to send in Alonzo Jr. at quarterback to call an end run. Ever the sportsman, Stagg flatly refused, citing afterwards "the rules committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information."Football's Greatest Coaches Edwin Pope Edwin Pope 233http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv08/CFHSNv08n1c.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150620181405/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv08/CFHSNv08n1c.pdf dead June 20, 2015 Like Father, Like Son Jim Campbell College Football Historical Society 8 1 November 1994 Both teams finished the contest badly exhausted, especially Princeton, as during the last half of the game the heat was oppressive. The Princeton Alumni Weekly noted: "If this game proved anything at all it proved that a fine forward passing game can defeat a fine line-plunging game."https://books.google.com/books?id=_RqQQHqQdAAC&pg=PA98 Shaping College Football 9780815608868 Schmidt Raymond June 18, 2007 References 30em Category:1922 college football season vs. Princeton 1922 vs. Chicago 1922 Category:October 1922 sports events in the United States Category:1922 in sports in Illinois 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game