“Vic Harding made a profound and lasting impression on me both with his hands and feet.  In fact, Harding played in few games of importance in which he was not disqualified.  He was not a bad fellow at all in social relations, but on a football field he was the limit of ‘frightfulness.’  I don’t know of any player that I took so much pleasure in punching as Harding.  Ames and Harding also took delight in trying to make each other’s faces change radically in appearance.

“I think that Harding began to paint my face from the start of the game and that as it proceeded he warmed up to the task, seeing that he was making a pretty good job of it.  He had several mighty able assistants.  The work was done with several hundred Wellesley College girls, who were seated on benches close to the sideline, looking on with the deepest interest and, as it soon appeared, with much sympathy.  I will not forget how concerned they looked.

“By the middle of the second half I guess they did see a spectacle in me for they began to call to me and hold out handkerchiefs.  At first I didn’t realize what they meant for I was so much engaged with the duties that lay in front of me that it was difficult to notice them, but their entreaties soon enlightened me.  They were asking me as a special favor to clean my face with their handkerchiefs, but I replied—­perhaps rather abruptly—­that I really didn’t have time to attend to my facial toilet.

“My nose had been broken, both eyes well closed and my canvas jacket and doeskin knickerbockers were scarlet or crimson—­whichever you prefer—­in hue.  Strength was quickly leaving me and the field swam.  I finally propped myself up against a goal post.  The next thing I knew was that I was being helped off the field.  My brother, Billy, who was highly indignant over the developments, took my place.  This was about ten or fifteen minutes before the end of the game, which then consisted of two 45 minute periods.

“Ames emerged from the game with nothing more than the usual number of cuts and bruises.  At that time we did not have any nose-guards, head-guards and other paraphernalia such as are used nowadays, except that we could get ankle braces, and Ames wore one.  That ankle stood the test during the fight.

“A majority of the other players were pretty well cut up.  After Cowan was disqualified Bob (J.  Robb) Church, subsequently Major in the United States Army Medical Corps and formerly the surgeon of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the Spanish War, was shifted from tackle to Cowan’s position at guard.  Chapin, a brilliant student, who had changed from Amherst to Princeton, went in at tackle.  He was a rather erratic player, and Harvard kept pounding in his direction with the result that Bob Church had a sea of trouble and I was forced to move up close to the line for defensive work.  It was this that really put me out of business.  My left shoulder had been hurt early in the season and it was bound in rubber, but fortunately it was not much worse off than at the beginning of the game.