DeWitt has always contended that Chadwick’s team was the best Yale team he ever saw.  He says:  “It was a better team than Gordon Brown’s for the reason that they had a kicker and Gordon Brown’s team did not have a kicker.  But this is only my opinion.”

Yale and Princeton men will not forget in a hurry the two wonderful runs for touchdowns, one from about the center of the field, that Chadwick made in 1902.

“I note,” writes Chadwick, “that there is a general impression that the opening in the line through which I went was large enough to accommodate an express train.  As a matter of fact, the opening was hardly large enough for me to squeeze through.  The play was not to make a large opening, and I certainly remember the sensation of being squeezed when going through the line.

“There were some amusing incidents in connection with that particular game that come back to me now.  I remember that when going down on the train from New York to Princeton, I was very much amused at Mike Murphy’s efforts to get Tom Shevlin worked up so he would play an extra good game.  Mike kept telling Tom what a good man Davis was and how the latter was going to put it all over him.  Tom clenched his fists, put on a silly grin and almost wept.  It really did me a lot of good, as it helped to keep my mind off the game.  When it did come to the game, his first big game, Shevlin certainly played wonderful football.

“I had been ill for about a week and a half before this game and really had not played in practice for two or three weeks.  Mike was rather afraid of my condition, so he told me to be the last man always to get up before the ball was put in play.  I carefully followed his advice and as a result a lot of my friends in the stand kept thinking that I had been hurt.

“Toward the end of the game we were down about on Princeton’s 40-yard line.  It was the third down and the probabilities were that we would not gain the distance, so I decided to have Bowman try for a drop-kick.  I happened to glance over at the side line and there was old Mike Murphy making strenuous motions with his foot.  The umpire, Dashiell, saw him too, and put him off the side lines for signalling.  I remember being extremely angry at the time because I was not looking at the side lines for any signals and had decided on a drop kick anyhow.

“In my day it was still the policy to work the men to death, to drill them to endure long hours of practice scrimmage.  About two weeks before the Princeton game in my senior year, we were in a slump.  We had a long, miserable Monday’s practice.  A lot of the old coaches insisted that football must be knocked into the men by hard work, but it seemed to me that the men knew a lot of football.  They were fundamentally good and what they really needed was condition to enable them to show their football knowledge.  It is needless to say that I was influenced greatly in this by Mike Murphy and his knowledge of