LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Hillebrand, Cochran, Edwards]
[My Corner]
[Walter Camp, Yale's Captain '78-'79]
[The Old Fifth Avenue Send-Off]
[Old Yale Heroes—Lee McClung's Team]
[We Beat Andover]
[Lafayette's Great Team]
[House in Disorder]
[Hit Your Man Low]
[Repairs]
[The Old Faithfuls]
[Jim Rodgers' Team]
[Cochran Was Game to the End]
[On to New Haven—All Dressed Up and Ready to Go]
[Hillebrand's Last Charge]
[Al Sharpe's Goal]
[Touching the Match to Victory]
[Alex Moffat and His Team]
[Old Penn Heroes]
[Pa Corbin's Team]
[Breakers Ahead—Phil King in the Old Days]
[Lookout, Princeton!]
[Barrett on One of His Famous Dashes; Exeter-Andover Game, 1915]
[Bill Hollenback Coming at You]
["The Next Day the Picture Was Gone"—Jim Cooney Making a Hole for Dana Kafer]
[Johnny Poe, Football Player and Soldier]
[Northcroft Kicking the Field Goal Anticipated by the Navy and Feared by the Army]
[Cadets and Middies Entering the Field]
[Two Aces—Bill Morley and Harold Weeks]
[Vic Kennard's Kick]
[Sam White's Run]
[King, of Harvard, Making a Run; Mahan Putting Black on His Head]
[Princeton's Team]
["Nothing Got by John DeWitt"]
[John DeWitt About to Pick Up the Ball]
[The Ever Reliable Brickley—A Football Thoroughbred—Tack Hardwick]
[The Poe Family]
[Just Boys]
[Hobey Baker, Walter Camp, Jr., Snake Ames, Jr.]
[The Elect]
[How It Hurts to Lose]
[Cornell's Great Team—1915]
[One Scene Never Photographed in Football]
[Harvard, 1915]
[The Greatest Indian of Them All]
[Learning the Charge]
[Billy Bull Advising with Captain Talbot]
[Michigan's Famous Team]
[Columbia Back in the Game, 1915]
[Close to a Thriller. Erwin of Pennsylvania Scoring Against Cornell]
[Crash of Conflict. When Charge Meets Charge]
[Ainsworth, Yale's Terror in an Uphill Game]
[Two to One He Gets Away—Brickley Being Tackled by Wilson and Avery]
[Snapping the Ball with Lewis. "Two Inseparables"—Frank Hinkey and the Ball]
[Marshall Newell]
[McClung, Referee, Shevlin and Hogan]
CONTENTS
| [I.—PREP. SCHOOL DAYS.] | 1-17 |
| My First Glimpse of a Varsity Team—TheYale Eleven of 1891—Lee McClung—Vance McCormick—Heffelfinger—Sanford—Impressionsmade upon a Boy—St. John's Military School—Lawrenceville—Makingthe Team—Andover and Hill School Games. | |
| [II.—FRESHMAN YEAR.] | 18-29 |
| The Freedom of Freshman Year is Attractive—Catchingthe Spirit of the Place—Searching forFootball Material—The Cannon Rush—EarlyTraining with Jack McMasters—Tie Game withLafayette at Easton—Humiliation of being takenout of a Game—Cornell Game—Joe Beacham'sFair Admirer in the Bleachers—Bill Church'sThreat Carried Out—Garry Cochran's Victoriesagainst Harvard and Yale. | |
| [III.—ELBOW TO ELBOW.] | 30-41 |
| Dressing for Practice—Out upon the Field—Tackling—AfterPractice, Back to the Dressing-room—Howa Player Finds Himself—The TrainingTable—Team Mates—A Surprise for JohnDeWitt's Team. | |
| [IV.—MISTAKES IN THE GAME.] | 42-53 |
| If We could only Correct Mistakes We AllMade—Defeats might be Turned into Victory—TheFellow that let Athletics be the Big Thing inHis College Life—The '97 Defeat—No Recognitionof Old Schoolmates—My Opponent wasCharlie Chadwick—Jim Rodgers the Yale Captain—TheCochran-De Saulles Compact—CochranInjured—His Last Game—Ad Kelly's GreatWork—Mistakes Caused Sadness—Cornell DefeatingPrinceton at Ithaca in 1899—No OutstretchedHands at Princeton for our Homecoming. | |
| [V.—MY LAST GAME.] | 54-67 |
| A Desire to Make the Last Game the Best—Onto New Haven—Optimism—The Start of theGame—Bosey Reiter's Touchdown—Yale Scoreson a Block Kick—Al Sharpe's Goal from theField—Score 10 to 6, Yale Leading—ArthurPoe's Goal from the Field—Princeton Victory—TheJoy of Winning—The Reception at Princeton. | |
| [VI.—HEROES OF THE PAST—EARLY DAYS.] | 68-92 |
| Treasured Memory of Those who have GoneBefore—Where are the Old-time Heroes?—WalterCamp—F. R. Vernon—Camp as a Captain—ChummyEaton—John Harding—Eugene Baker—FredRemington—Theodore McNair—AlexanderMoffat—Wyllys Terry—Memories of JohnC. Bell. | |
| [VII.—GEORGE WOODRUFF'S STORY.] | 93-101 |
| His Entrance to Yale—Making the Team—Recollectionsof the Men he Played With andAgainst—The Lamar Run—Pennsylvania Experiences. | |
| [VIII.—ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.] | 102-124 |
| Old-time Signals—Fun with Bert Hansen—SportDonnelly—Billy Rhodes and Gill—VictoriousDays at Yale—Corbin's 1888 Team—PaCorbin's Speech when his Team was Banqueted—Mr.and Mrs. Walter Camp, HeadCoaches of the Yale Football Team in 1888—Cowanthe Great—Story of His Football Days—Hewas Disqualified by Wyllys Terry—Tributeto Heffelfinger—Going Back with John Cranston. | |
| [IX.—THE NINETIES AND AFTER.] | 125-163 |
| The Day Sanford Made the Yale Team—ParkeDavis—Sanford and Yost Obstructing the Traffic—PhilKing—The Old Flying Wedges—PopGailey—Charlie Young—An Evening with JimRodgers—Vance McCormick and Denny O'Neil—Dartmouthand Some of Her Men—Dave Fultz—ChristyMathewson at Bucknell—Jack MunnTells of Buffalo Bill—Booth Tells of his WesternExperiences—Harry Kersburg—Heff Herringat Merton College—Carl Flanders—BillHorr. | |
| [X.—COLLEGE TRADITIONS AND SPIRIT.] | 164-180 |
| College Life in America is Rich in Traditions—TheValue of College Spirit—Each CollegeHas its Own Traditions—Alumni Parade—SchoolMaster and Boy—Victory must neverOvershadow Honor—Constructive Criticism ofthe Alumni—Mass Meeting Enthusiasm—HorseEdwards, Princeton '89—Job E. Hedges. | |
| [XI.—JOHNNY POE'S OWN STORY.] | 181-193 |
| Private W. Faulkner, a Comrade in the BlackWatch, Tells of Poe's Death—Johnny's LastWords—Paul MacWhelan Gives London Impressionsof Poe's Death—Anecdotes that JohnnyPoe Wrote While in Nevada. | |
| [XII.—ARMY AND NAVY.] | 194-225 |
| Character and Training of West Point and AnnapolisPlayers—Experience of the VisitorWatching the Drill of Battalion—AnnapolisRecollections and Football Traditions at NavalAcademy—Old Players—A Trip de Luxe to WestPoint—West Point Recollections—Harmon Graves—TheWay They Have in the Army—The Armyand Navy Game. | |
| [XIII.—HARD LUCK IN THE GAME.] | 226-246 |
| In Football, as it is in Life, We have no Usefor a Quitter—Football a Game for the Man whoHas Nerve—Many a Small Man has Made a BigMan look Ridiculous—Morris Ely Game ThoughHandicapped—Val Flood's Recollections—AndySmith—Vonabalde Gammon of Georgia. | |
| [XIV.—BRINGING HOME THE BACON.] | 247-285 |
| Billy Bull's Recollections of Yale Games—TheDay Columbia Beat Yale—Dressing Room Scenewhere Doxology Was Sung—Account by RichardHarding Davis—Introducing Vic Kennard ofHarvard Fame—Opportunist Extraordinary—HisExperience with Mr. E. H. Coy—CharlieBarrett, of Cornell—Eddie Hart of Princeton—SamWhite—Joe Duff—Side Line Thoughts ofDoctor W. A. Brooks and Evert Jansen Wendell—NewHaven Wreck—Eddie Mahan talking—HisOpinion of Frank Glick—George Chadwick ofYale—Arthur Poe—Story of his Run and of hisKick—John DeWitt's Story—Tichenor, of Georgia—"BobbingUp and Down" Story—CharlieBrickley. | |
| [XV.—THE BLOODY ANGLE.] | 286-295 |
| Going Back to the Rough Days—Princeton vs.Harvard Fall of '87 at Jarvis Field—LutherPrice's Experiences in the Game—Cowan's Disqualificationby Wyllys Terry—The Umpire—WalterCamp was Referee—Holden Carried Offthe Field—Bob Church's Valor. | |
| [XVI.—THE FAMILY IN FOOTBALL.] | 296-305 |
| Football Men in Two Distinct Classes—Thosewho are Made into Players by the Coaches andThose who are Born with the Football Instinct—ThePoes, Camps, Winters, Ames, Drapers,Riggs, Youngs, Withingtons, etc. | |
| [XVII.—OUR GOOD OLD TRAINERS.] | 306-336 |
| Our Good Old Trainers—Jack McMasters—"DearOld Jim Robinson"—Mike Murphy theDean of Trainers—"The Old Mike"—A Chatwith Pooch Donovan—Keene Fitzpatrick and hisExperiences—Mike Sweeney—Jack Moakley—Thereis much Humor in Johnny Mack—Hugginsof Brown—Harry Tuthill—Doctor W. M.Conant, Harvard '79, First Doctor in Charge ofany team. | |
| [XVIII.—NIGHTMARES.] | 337-348 |
| Frank Morse, of Princeton on the Spirit in Defeat—TomShevlin's Story—Nightmares of W. C.Rhodes—A Yale Nightmare—Sam Morse—JimHogan—The Cornell Game of 1915 is EddieMahan's Nightmare—Jack De Saulles' Nightmare. | |
| [XIX.—MEN WHO COACHED.] | 349-382 |
| No coaches in the Old Days—PersonalityCounts in Coaching—Football is Fickle—Haughtonat Harvard at the Psychological Moment—OldHarvard Coaches—Al Sharpe—Glenn Warner—TheIndians—Billy Bull in the Game—Sanford,the Unique—Making of Chadwick—W. R. Tichenor,Emergency Coach of the South—Auburn Recollections—Listeningto Yost—Reggie Brown—JimmyKnox—Harvard Scouts—DartmouthHolds a Unique Position in College Football—EdHall, the father of Dartmouth Football—MyronE. Witham, Captain of the Dartmouth Team—WalterMcCornack—Eddie Holt's Coaching—HarryKersburg's Harvard Coaching Recollections—MakingTwo Star Players from the FootballDiscards—Vic Kennard and Rex Ver Wiebe—JohnH. Rush—Tad Jones—T. N. Metcalf—TomThorp—Bob Folwell—At Pennsylvania. | |
| [XX.—UMPIRE AND REFEREE.] | 383-406 |
| "Why Did He Give That Penalty?"—Emotionsof an Official—John Bell's Recollections asan Official—In the Old Days One Official Handledthe Entire Game—Dashiell's Reminiscences—MatthewMcClung—Conversation withJohn L. Sullivan—My Own Personal Experiences—EvartsWrenn at Work—Dan Hurley—BillCrowell—Phil Draper's Ideas—Wyllys Terry'sOfficial Recollections—Explanation of the CowanDisqualification—Pa Corbin—Joe Pendleton—Refereeingwith Nate Tufts—Okeson. | |
| [XXI.—CRASH OF CONFLICT.] | 407-433 |
| The First Five Minutes of Play—A Good Startusually means a Good Ending—Bracelet in theGame—Lueder and Blondy Wallace—"I've GotYou Buffaloed"—Tom Shevlin remarked: "Mike,This Isn't Football—It's War"—Bemus Pierce:"Now Keep your Eyes Open and Find outwho it Was"—"If You Won't be Beat, YouCan't be Beat," said Johnny Poe—Rinehart Tellshow he Tried to Get even with Sam Boyle—BarkieDonald and Bemus Pierce—The Yale-HarvardGame at Springfield '94—Result; NoGame for Nine Years—Frank Hinkey andWrightington's Broken Collar-bone—Joe Beacham'sParagon—Sandy Hunt—Bill Hollenback. | |
| [XXII.—LEST WE FORGET.] | 434-460 |
| Marshall Newell—Gordon Brown—James J.Hogan—Thomas J. Shevlin—Francis H. Burr—NeilSnow—Billy Bannard—Harry Hooper—RichardHarding Davis—McClung. | |
| [XXIII.—ALOHA.] | 461-464 |
| Hail and Farewell—The Old Game and theNew Compared—Exclusively Collegiate Sport—IsaacH. Bromley, Yale '53, Sums up the Spiritof College Life and Sport! | |
