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1922 Princeton Tigers vs. Chicago Maroons football game
Princeton Tigers Chicago Maroons
(4–0) (3–0)
21 18
Head coach:
Bill Roper		 Head coach:
Amos Alonzo Stagg
1234 Total
Princeton 07014 21
Chicago 6660 18
DateOctober 28, 1922
Season1922
StadiumStagg Field
LocationChicago,Illinois
RefereeVic Schwartz (Brown)
Attendance31,000

The1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game,played October 28, 1922, was acollege footballgame between thePrinceton TigersandUniversity of Chicago Maroons.The "hotly contested"[1][2]match-up was the first game to be broadcast nationwide onradio.[1][3][4]Princeton's team won, 21–18. It was to be thenational championof 1922,[5]and in this game received its nickname, "Team of Destiny", fromGrantland Rice.[6]

First radio broadcast

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It was the first college football game to feature an intersectional audience on radio.[7]The game was broadcast fromKYW,aWestinghouseradio station inChicago,toWEAF,an American Telephone & Telegraph station inNew York City,[4]and from there to the rest of the country.[3]Historian Ronald Smith has called it "probably the most important radio broadcast up to that point."[7]

Game summary

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FullbackJohn Webster Thomasscored Chicago's threetouchdowns,one in each of the first three quarters, but the team failed to score anextra pointfor any of them.[2]Walter Campwrote in picking Thomas first-teamAll-American:"It is safe to say he did far more against the Princetonlinein effective scoring than did anybacksof the East who met the Tigers ".[8]

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.[9]With 12 minutes to play and Chicago nursing an 18–7 lead,Howdy Grayof Princeton picked up a Jimmy Pyott fumble and ran it 40 yards for the touchdown. Gray's father, the president of theUnion Pacific Railroad,reacted by waving hisprogramin the air, striking a woman in the shoulder.[6][10]After an additional Princeton touchdown was scored, Chicago responded with a fiercedriveending in agoal line standwith Thomas falling short of the goal.[1][11][12][13]HalfbackHarry "Maud" Crumscored Princeton's other touchdowns.[14]

Aftermath

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At one point late in the game, Chicago assistantFritz CrislerimploredAmos Staggto send inAlonzo Jr.atquarterbackto call anend run.Ever the sportsman, Stagg flatly refused, citing afterwards "the rules committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information."[15][16]

Both teams finished the contest badly exhausted, especially Princeton,[2]as during the last half of the game the heat was oppressive.[2]ThePrinceton Alumni Weeklynoted: "If this game proved anything at all it proved that a fineforward passinggame can defeat a fine line-plunging game. "[17]

References

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  1. ^abcHistory staff (October 28, 2009)."Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country".History.A+E Networks.RetrievedApril 20,2015.
  2. ^abcd"Tigers Humble Chicago, 21–18, By Long Passes".Chicago Daily Tribune.October 29, 1922. p. 2.RetrievedApril 21,2015– viaNewspapers.Open access icon
  3. ^ab"October 28, 1922: The First National Radio Broadcast of College Football".
  4. ^abChuck Sudo."89 Years Ago Today, College Football Entered the Radio Age".Archived fromthe originalon November 5, 2017.
  5. ^1922 Princeton University football scores and resultsArchivedJuly 29, 2014, at theWayback Machine.College Football Data Warehouse.Retrieved on October 18, 2013.
  6. ^abMark Bernstein (2009).Princeton Football.pp. 50–51.ISBN9780738565842.
  7. ^abRaymond Schmidt (June 18, 2007).Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919–1930.p. 5.ISBN9780815608868.
  8. ^"Camp's All America Stars Show Why They Are Winners; Have Brains, Power, Spirit".Harrisburg Telegraph.December 26, 1922. p. 15.RetrievedMarch 8,2015– viaNewspapers.Open access icon
  9. ^Stephen Wood (August 1, 2014)."'Team of destiny': History of Princeton Football ".The Daily Princetonian.Archived fromthe originalon May 18, 2015.
  10. ^Jon Blackwell."1922:The Team of Destiny".The Trentonian.
  11. ^Ashley Wolf (October 24, 2007)."Destiny's first stand".princeton.edu.
  12. ^"Princeton's Rally, Defeats Maroons".Daily Illini.October 29, 1922.
  13. ^Mark Bernstein (September 19, 2001).Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession.p. 120.ISBN0812236270.
  14. ^cf."24".Princeton Alumni Weekly.73:83.
  15. ^Edwin Pope.Football's Greatest Coaches.p. 233.
  16. ^Jim Campbell (November 1994)."Like Father, Like Son"(PDF).College Football Historical Society.8(1). Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 20, 2015.
  17. ^Schmidt, Raymond (June 18, 2007).Shaping College Football.ISBN9780815608868.
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