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Himself--The Training Table--Team Mates--A Surprise for John DeWitt's Team.
IV.--MISTAKES IN THE GAME. 42-53
If We could only Correct Mistakes We All Made--Defeats might be Turned into Victory--The Fellow that let Athletics be the Big Thing in His College Life--The '97 Defeat--No Recognition of Old Schoolmates--My Opponent was Charlie Chadwick--Jim Rodgers the Yale Captain--The Cochran-De Saulles Compact--Cochran Injured--His Last Game--Ad Kelly's Great Work--Mistakes Caused Sadness--Cornell Defeating Princeton at Ithaca in 1899--No Outstretched Hands at Princeton for our Homecoming.
V.--MY LAST GAME 54-67
A Desire to Make the Last Game the Best--On to New Haven--Optimism--The Start of the Game--Bosey Reiter's Touchdown--Yale Scores on a Block Kick--Al Sharpe's Goal from the Field--Score 10 to 6, Yale Leading--Arthur Poe's Goal from the Field--Princeton Victory--The Joy of Winning--The Reception at Princeton.
VI.--HEROES OF THE PAST--EARLY DAYS 68-92
Treasured Memory of Those who have Gone Before--Where are the Old-time Heroes?--Walter Camp--F. R. Vernon--Camp as a Captain--Chummy Eaton--John Harding--Eugene Baker--Fred Remington--Theodore McNair--Alexander Moffat--Wyllys Terry--Memories of John C. Bell.
VII.--GEORGE WOODRUFF'S STORY 93-101
His Entrance to Yale--Making the Team--Recollections of the Men he Played With and Against--The Lamar Run--Pennsylvania Experiences.
VIII.--ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS 102-124
Old-time Signals--Fun with Bert Hansen--Sport Donnelly--Billy Rhodes and Gill--Victorious Days at Yale--Corbin's 1888 Team--Pa Corbin's Speech when his Team was Banqueted--Mr. and Mrs. Walter Camp, Head Coaches of the Yale Football Team in 1888--Cowan the Great--Story of His Football Days--He was Disqualified by Wyllys Terry--Tribute to Heffelfinger--Going Back with John Cranston.
IX.--THE NINETIES AND AFTER 125-163
The Day Sanford Made the Yale Team--Parke Davis--Sanford and Yost Obstructing the Traffic--Phil King--The Old Flying Wedges--Pop Gailey--Charlie Young--An Evening with Jim Rodgers--Vance McCormick and Denny O'Neil--Dartmouth and Some of Her Men--Dave Fultz--Christy Mathewson at Bucknell--Jack Munn Tells of Buffalo Bill--Booth Tells of his Western Experiences--Harry Kersburg--Heff Herring at Merton College--Carl Flanders--Bill Horr.
X.--COLLEGE TRADITIONS AND SPIRIT 164-180
College Life in America is Rich in Traditions--The Value of College Spirit--Each College Has its Own Traditions--Alumni Parade--School Master and Boy--Victory must never Overshadow Honor--Constructive Criticism of the Alumni--Mass Meeting Enthusiasm--Horse Edwards, Princeton '89--Job E. Hedges.
XI.--JOHNNY POE'S OWN STORY 181-193
Private W. Faulkner, a Comrade in the Black Watch, Tells of Poe's Death--Johnny's Last Words--Paul MacWhelan Gives London Impressions of Poe's Death--Anecdotes that Johnny Poe Wrote While in Nevada.
XII.--ARMY AND NAVY 194-225
Character and Training of West Point and Annapolis Players--Experience of the Visitor Watching the Drill of Battalion--Annapolis Recollections and Football Traditions at Naval Academy--Old Players--A Trip de Luxe to West Point--West Point Recollections--Harmon Graves--The Way They Have in the Army--The Army and Navy Game.
XIII.--HARD LUCK IN THE GAME 226-246
In Football, as it is in Life, We have no Use for a Quitter--Football a Game for the Man who Has Nerve--Many a Small Man has Made a Big Man look Ridiculous--Morris Ely Game Though Handicapped--Val Flood's Recollections--Andy Smith--Vonabalde Gammon of Georgia.
XIV.--BRINGING HOME THE BACON 247-285
Billy Bull's Recollections of Yale Games--The Day Columbia Beat Yale--Dressing Room Scene where Doxology Was Sung--Account by Richard Harding Davis--Introducing Vic Kennard of Harvard Fame--Opportunist Extraordinary--His Experience with Mr. E. H. Coy--Charlie Barrett, of Cornell--Eddie Hart of Princeton--Sam White--Joe Duff--Side Line Thoughts of Doctor W. A. Brooks and Evert Jansen Wendell--New Haven Wreck--Eddie Mahan talking--His Opinion of Frank Glick--George Chadwick of Yale--Arthur Poe--Story of his Run and of his Kick--John DeWitt's Story--Tichenor, of Georgia--"Bobbing Up and Down" Story--Charlie Brickley.
XV.--THE BLOODY ANGLE 286-295
Going Back to the Rough Days--Princeton vs. Harvard Fall of '87 at Jarvis Field--Luther Price's Experiences in the Game--Cowan's Disqualification by Wyllys Terry--The Umpire--Walter Camp was Referee--Holden Carried Off the Field--Bob Church's Valor.
XVI.--THE FAMILY IN FOOTBALL 296-305
Football Men in Two Distinct Classes--Those who are Made into Players by the Coaches and Those who are Born with the Football Instinct--The Poes, Camps, Winters, Ames, Drapers, Riggs, Youngs, Withingtons, etc.
XVII.--OUR GOOD OLD TRAINERS 306-336
Our Good Old Trainers--Jack McMasters--"Dear Old Jim Robinson"--Mike Murphy the Dean of Trainers--"The Old Mike"--A Chat with Pooch Donovan--Keene Fitzpatrick and his Experiences--Mike Sweeney--Jack Moakley--There is much Humor in Johnny Mack--Huggins of Brown--Harry Tuthill--Doctor W. M. Conant, Harvard '79, First Doctor in Charge of any team.
XVIII.--NIGHTMARES 337-348
Frank Morse, of Princeton on the Spirit in Defeat--Tom Shevlin's Story--Nightmares of W. C. Rhodes--A Yale Nightmare--Sam Morse--Jim Hogan--The Cornell Game of 1915 is Eddie Mahan's Nightmare--Jack De Saulles' Nightmare.
XIX.--MEN WHO COACHED 349-382
No coaches in the Old Days--Personality Counts in Coaching--Football is Fickle--Haughton at Harvard at the Psychological Moment--Old Harvard Coaches--Al Sharpe--Glenn Warner--The Indians--Billy Bull in the Game--Sanford, the Unique--Making of Chadwick--W. R. Tichenor, Emergency Coach of the South--Auburn Recollections--Listening to Yost--Reggie Brown--Jimmy Knox--Harvard Scouts--Dartmouth Holds a Unique Position in College Football--Ed Hall, the father of Dartmouth Football--Myron E. Witham, Captain of the Dartmouth Team--Walter McCornack--Eddie Holt's Coaching--Harry Kersburg's Harvard Coaching Recollections--Making Two Star Players from the Football Discards--Vic Kennard and Rex Ver Wiebe--John H. Rush--Tad Jones--T. N. Metcalf--Tom Thorp--Bob Folwell--At Pennsylvania.
XX.--UMPIRE AND REFEREE 383-406
"Why Did He Give That Penalty?"--Emotions of an Official--John Bell's Recollections as an Official--In the Old Days One Official Handled the Entire Game--Dashiell's Reminiscences--Matthew McClung--Conversation with John L.