After starting the season 3-0 with victories over Lombard and Wabash and then an exciting triumph over Army in New York, Knute Rockne's seventh Notre Dame team came east again to play at Prince­ton. The year before, the Ramblers had beaten the Tigers in New Jersey 25-2, Notre Dame's first vic­tory against the so-called "Big Three" (Yale, Harvard, and Princeton).

After the 1924 Army game, sportswriter Grantland Rice dubbed the Notre Dame all-senior backfield "the Four Horsemen."

Notre Dame's injured captain, C Adam Walsh, would have to content himself with exhorting his mates from the sideline.

Rockne continued his habit of starting the entire second team, which he called his "shock troops." They were more physically imposing than the first unit. Their main goal was to wear down the opponent for the second quarter when the regular starters came in.

As in the Army game, the first period ended 0-0. The first unit entered for the second quarter. As the Princeton yearbook put it, "The Notre Dame backfield ..., the greatest collection of backs in the coun­try, rightly called the 'Four Horsemen,' gave us one of the finest exhibitions of fast, elusive, and well-knit backfield play that has ever been seen. Against this team Princeton played a courageous and well-fought game, but it was not enough."

After a punt to the Notre Dame 40, QB Harry Stuhldreher passed 20y to HB Don Miller. FB Elmer Layden and Miller gained 15 on three plays before Crowley ("the drowsy one" as the Notre Dame yearbook tagged him) tore through the line for 12y and a touchdown. Crowley's place kick for the PAT was blocked. Notre Dame 6 Princeton 0

Grantland Rice wrote that Stuhdreher was "a young fellow my wife could never believe was a football player. When he sat in a chair, Harry's feet couldn't reach the floor. He looked like a kid high school play­er. He weighed 155 pounds, but he could block like a tornado."

After a scoreless third quarter, the Horsemen rode the Mules (the offensive line) 63y to paydirt in the fouth quarter. Crowley made 13 on the same "split play" on which he had scored the first touchdown. Layden ran three times to the Tiger 25. On fourth down, Stuhldreher passed to Crowley on the 10, and he bulled into the end zone with two defenders clinging to his waist. Again the extra point kick was blocked. Notre Dame 12 Princeton 0

Only a valiant effort by the Tiger defense, led by aptly named end Edmond Stout and tackle Bob Beattie, kept the score from being much more lopsided. In between the scoring marches, Crowley fum­bled on the Princeton 10 in the second quarter. In the third period, two 15y penalties for holding, the first negating a Miller touchdown, gutted another Notre Dame drive. And in the last quarter, Princeton held on downs on its own 5.

Early in the third period, Princeton's C. F. Gates recovered a fumbled punt by Stuhldreher on Notre Dame's 35. However, an attack through the line netted only 3y and forced the Tigers to punt.

FINAL SCORE: NOTRE DAME 12 PRINCETON 0

The final score was not nearly indicative of how Notre Dame dominated the action. The visitors made 23 first downs to only four for Princeton and gained 360y rushing, 250 by Crowley, compared to 101 for the Tigers. Notre Dame completed only four of their ten passes, but two were vital factors in touch­down marches. Princeton tried only two passes, completing one. The furthest the Princeton offense reached was the Notre Dame 30 on two occasions.