Football Days eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 400 pages of information about Football Days.

Football Days eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 400 pages of information about Football Days.

A third trio of brothers were the Greenways of Yale.  Of these, John and Gil Greenway played both football and baseball while Jim Greenway rowed on the crew.  Another Princeton family, well known, has been the Moffats.  The first of these to play football was Henry, who played on the ’73 team which was the first to beat Yale.  He was followed by the redoubtable Alex, who kicked goals from all over the field in ’82, ’83, and ’84, by Will Moffat who was a Varsity first baseman and by Ned Moffat who played with me at Lawrenceville.  Equally well known have been the Hallowells of Harvard—­F.  W. Hallowell, ’93, R. H. Hallowell, ’96, and J. W. Hallowell, ’01.  Another Hallowell—­Penrose—­was on the track team, while Colonel Hallowell, the father, was always a power in Harvard athletics.

When we come to cite the pairs of brothers who have played, the list seems endless.  The first to come to mind are Laurie Bliss of the Yale teams of ’90, ’91 and ’92 and “Pop” Bliss of the ’92 team, principally, I think, because of Laurie’s wonderful end running behind interference and because “Pop” Bliss, at a crucial moment in a Harvard-Yale game deliberately disobeyed the signal to plunge through centre on Harvard’s 2-yard line and ingeniously ran around the end for a touchdown.  Tommy Baker and Alfred Baker were brothers.

Continuing the Yale list, there have been the Hinkeys, Frank and Louis, who need no praise as wonderful players—­Charlie and Johnny de Saulles—­Sherman and “Ted” Coy—­W.  O. Hickok, the famous guard of ’92, ’93 and ’94 and his brother Ross—­Herbert and Malcolm McBride, both of whom played fullback—­Tad Jones and his brother Howard—­the Philbins, Steve and Holliday—­Charlie Chadwick and his younger brother, George, who captained his team in 1902.  Their father before them was an athlete.

In Harvard there have been the Traffords, Perry and Bernie—­Arthur Brewer and Charley the fleet of foot, who ran ninety yards in the Harvard-Princeton game of 1895 and caught Suter from behind—­the two Shaws,—­Evarts Wrenn, ’92 and his famous cousin Bob who played tennis quite as well as he played football.

[Illustration:  HOBEY BAKER WALTER CAMP, JR.  SNAKE AMES, JR.]

Princeton, too, has seen many pairs of brothers—­“Beef” Wheeler, the famous guard of ’92, ’93 and ’94 and Bert Wheeler, the splendid fullback of ’98 and ’99 whose cool-headed playing helped us win from Yale both in Princeton and at New Haven—­the Rosengartens, Albert and his cousin Fritz and Albert’s brother who played for Pennsylvania—­the Tibbotts, Dave and Fred—­J.  R. Church, ’88, and Bill Church, the roaring, stamping tackle of ’95 and ’96—­Ross and Steve McClave—­Harry and George Lathrope—­Jarvis Geer and Marshall Geer who played with me on teams at both school and college—­Billy Bannard and Horace Bannard—­Fred Kafer and Dana Kafer, the first named being also the very best amateur catcher I have ever seen.  Fred Kafer, by the way, furnished an interesting anachronism in that while he was one of the ablest mathematicians of his time in college he found it wellnigh impossible to remember his football signals!  Let us not forget, too, Bal Ballin, who was a Princeton captain, and his brother Cyril.

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