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Show 4 4. Tigers' Comeback Recalls Battle of 1912 I , -t- Princeton's sensational come-back in the Chicago game recalls tho famous fa-mous uphill fight of Pennsylvania with Michigan, back In 1912 In that battle the Maize and Blue was leading the Quaker platoon, 21 to 7 at the end of the first half And as the score Indicates, tho Yost warriors had completely outplayed the Red and Blue. Obviously, there-fore. there-fore. It looked all over but the shout-lnr. Penn, though, was not through. In fact, hadn't got started. But with the opening of the third period a different tale was unfolded Tho Quakers, fighting desperately, put on a great offensive carrying the battle to the foe Hit hlgan'a eleven was played prae-tlcally prae-tlcally to a standstill, and slowly but surely Penn oerhauled the big Ann Arbor advantage. Two tOUChdOWna were scored during those last twj quarters, but one goal was missed. Thus the count stood 21 to 20 Michigan, Michi-gan, with but a few minutes left to play. And then with but 30 seconds remaining re-maining It happened, anil Michigan saw apparent victory snatched from it. The fast-tiring Wolverines were forced to punt. The boot was a good one. But Dick Marshall, standing on hu own 45-yard stripe, grabbed the spinning spin-ning pigskin as it sailed through the air and dashed through the entire Yost machine, f5 precious yards, for the winning tall. Then the final whistle chirped. Thus. Michigan, 14 points ahead at half-time, and with the ernbroglio j apparently 1 In," was beaten out by a fighting Pennsylvania unit" plus that scintillating canter of little Dick Marshall's In the ebbing moments of tho struggle. |