He dodges like a debtor; he jumps now there, now here.
I’ve seen DeSaulles cavorting from this goal unto that;
To “Phil” King I’ve paid homage; to Daly doffed my hat.
“Brown’s” Sprackling was a wonder; Carl Williams was a peach;
To Poe, finesse in foot-ball was very hard to teach.
Out West there was a wonder named Walter Eckersall;
Old Bray, the Easton wonder, was a terror with the ball.
And so, ad infinitum, I might enumerate
The gamut of the heroes who really scintillate
In firmament of foot-ball, the king of out-door sport,