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CONTENTS
Chap. Page
I.--PREP. SCHOOL DAYS. 1-17
My First Glimpse of a Varsity Team--The Yale Eleven of 1891--Lee
McClung--Vance McCormick--Heffelfinger--Sanford--Impressions
made upon a Boy--St. John's Military School--Lawrenceville--Making
the Team--Andover and Hill School Games.
II.--FRESHMAN YEAR. 18-29
The Freedom of Freshman Year is Attractive--Catching the Spirit of the
Place--Searching for Football Material--The Cannon Rush--Early
Training with Jack McMasters--Tie Game with Lafayette at
Easton--Humiliation of being taken out of a Game--Cornell Game--Joe
Beacham's Fair Admirer in the Bleachers--Bill Church's Threat Carried
Out--Garry Cochran's Victories against Harvard and Yale.
III.--ELBOW TO ELBOW 30-41
Dressing for Practice--Out upon the Field--Tackling--After Practice,
Back to the Dressing-room--How a Player Finds 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