When we come to enumerating the brothers who have played, it is the Poe family which comes first to mind.  Laying aside friendship or natural bias, I feel that my readers will agree with me in the belief that it would be hard to find six football players ranking higher than the six Poe brothers.  Altogether, Princeton has seen some twenty-two years of Poes, during at least thirteen of which there was a Poe on the Varsity team.  Johnson Poe, ’84, came first, to be followed by Edgar Allen, twice captain, then by Johnny, now in his last resting place “somewhere in France,” then by Nelson, then Arthur, twice the fly in Yale’s ointment, and lastly by Gresham Poe.  I haven’t a doubt but that after due lapse of time this wonderful family will produce other Poes, sons and cousins, to carry on the precious tradition.

Next in point of numbers probably comes the Riggs family of five brothers, of whom three, Lawrence, Jesse and Dudley, played on Princeton teams, while Harry and Frank were substitutes.  The Hodge family were four who played at Princeton—­Jack, Hugh, Dick and Sam.

After the Riggs family comes the Young family of Cornell—­Ed., Charles, George and Will—­all of whom played tremendously for the Carnelian and White in the nineties.  Charles Young later studied at the Theological Seminary at Princeton and played wonderful football on the scrub in my time from sheer love of sport, since as he is, at this writing, physical director at Cornell.  Amherst boasts of the wonderful Pratt brothers, who did much for Amherst football.

Of threes there are quite a number.  Prominent among them have been the Wilsons of both Yale and Princeton, Tom being a guard on the Princeton teams of 1911 and 1912, while Alex captained Yale in 1915 and saw another brother in orange and black waiting on the side lines across the field.  Situations like this are always productive of thrills.  Let the brother who has been waiting longingly throw off his blanket and rush across the field into his position and instantly the news flashes through the stands.  “Brother against brother!” goes the thrilling whisper—­and every heart gives an extra throb as it hungers in an unholy but perfectly human way for a clash between the two.  There were three Harlan brothers who played at Princeton in ’81, ’83, ’84.

At Harvard Lothrope, Paul and Ted Withington; Percy, Jack and Sam Wendell.

In Cornell a redoubtable trio were the Taussigs.  Of these J. Hawley Taussig played end for four years ending with the ’96 team.  Charles followed in the same position in ’99, ’00 and ’01 and Joseph K., later Lieutenant Commander of the torpedoboat destroyer Wadsworth played quarter on the Naval Academy team in ’97 and ’98.