“Shortly after this in the second half I punted down into Yale’s territory.  Mitchell fumbled and Ralph Davis fell on the ball on the 30-yard line.  We tried to gain, but could not.  Bowman fell on the ball after the ensuing kick, which was blocked.  It had rolled to the 5-yard line.  Yale tried to gain once; then Bowman went back to kick.  I can never pay enough tribute to Vetterlein, to the rare judgment that he displayed at this point in the game.  When he caught that punt and heeled it, he used fine judgment; but for his good head work we never would have won that game.  I kicked my goal from the field from the 43-yard line.

[Illustration:  JOHN DeWITT ABOUT TO PICK UP THE BALL]

“As Ralph Davis was holding the ball before I kicked it, the Yale players, who were standing ten yards away were not trying to make it any the easier for us.  I remember in particular Tom Shevlin was kidding Ralph Davis, who replied:  ’Well, Tom, you might as well give it to us now—­the score is going to be 11-6,’ and just then what Davis had said came through.

“If any one thinks that my entire football experience was a bed of roses, I want to assure him that it was not.  I experienced the sadness of injury and of not making the team.  The first day I lined up I broke three bones in one hand.  Three weeks later, after they had healed I broke the bones in my other hand and so patiently waited until the following year to make the team.

“The next year I went through the bitter experience of defeat, and we were beaten good and plenty by Yale.  Defeat came again in 1902.  It was in that year that I met, as my opponent, the hardest man I ever played against, Eddie Glass.  The Yale team came at me pretty hard the first fifteen minutes.  Glass especially crashed into me.  He was warned three times by Dashiell in the opening part of the game for strenuous work.  Glass was a rough, hard player, but he was not an unfair player at that.  I always liked good, rough football.  He played the game for all it was worth and was a Gibraltar to the Yale team.

“Now that my playing days are over, I think there is one thing that young fellows never realize until they are through playing; that they might have helped more; that they might have given a few extra minutes to perfect a play.  The thing that has always appealed to me most in football is to think of what might have been done by a little extra effort.  It is very seldom you see a man come off the field absolutely used up.  I have never seen but one or two cases where a man had to be helped to the dressing room.  I have always thought such a man did not give as much as he should,—­we’re all guilty of this offense.  A little extra punch might have made a touchdown.”

Tichenor, of the University of Georgia, tells the following: 

“In a Tech-Georgia game a peculiar thing happened.  One of the goal lines was about seven yards from the fence which was twelve feet high and perfectly smooth.  Tech had worked the ball down to within about three yards of Georgia’s goal near the fence.  Here the defense of the Red and Black stiffened and, taking the ball on downs, Ted Sullivan immediately dropped back for a kick.  The pass was none too good and he swung his foot into the ball, which struck the cross bar, bounded high up in the air, over the fence, behind the goal post.