It was from no weakened Pennsylvania Eleven that Barrett snatched the victory in this his crowded moment.  The Quakers had had a disastrous season up to Thanksgiving Day, but their pluck and rallying power, which has become a tradition on Franklin Field, was never more in evidence.  The Quakers played with fire, with power and aggressiveness that none save those who know the Quaker spirit had been led to expect.  There were heroes on the Red and Blue team that day, and without a Barrett at his best against them, they would have won.

[Illustration:  SAM WHITE’S RUN]

It was up to Eddie Hart with his supreme personality and indomitable spirit, which has always characterized him from the day he entered Exeter until he forged his way to the leadership of one of Princeton’s finest elevens to bring home the long deferred championship.  When the final whistle rang down the football curtain for the season of 1911 it found Hart in the ascendancy having fulfilled the wonderful promise of his old Exeter days.  For he had made good indeed.

Yale and Harvard had been beaten through a remarkable combination of team and individual effort in which Sam White’s alertness and DeWitt’s kicking stood out; a combination which was made possible only through Hart’s splendid leadership.

At a banquet for this championship team given by the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, Lou Reichner, the toastmaster, in introducing Sam White, the hero of the evening, quoted from First Samuel III, Chapter ii, 12th and 1st verses—­“And the Lord said unto Samuel, behold I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.  In that day I will perform against Eli, all things which I have spoken concerning his house; when I begin I will also make an end.  And The Child Samuel ministered unto the Lord Eli.”  Mr. Reichner then presented to the Child Samuel the souvenir sleeve links and a silver box containing the genuine soil from Yale Field.

After Sam had been sufficiently honored, Alfred T. Baker, Princeton ’85, a former Varsity football player, and his son Hobey Baker, who played on Eddie Hart’s team, were called before the toastmaster.  There was a triple cheer for Hobey and his father.  Reichner said that he had nothing for Papa Baker, but a souvenir for Hobey, and if the father was man enough to take it away from him he could have it.

In speaking of the Yale-Princeton game at New Haven, some of the things incidental to victory were told that evening by Sam White, who said: 

“In the Yale game of 1911, Joe Duff, the Princeton guard, came over to Hart, Captain of the Princeton team, and said: 

“‘Ed, I can’t play any more.  I can’t stand on my left leg.’

“‘That’s all right,’ answered Hart, ’go back and play on your right one.’

“Joe did and that year he made the All-American guard.