“What truer and finer friends can one have than those whom we have met through the medium of football!  And finally as the years tend to narrow this precious list, through death, what greater privilege than to associate with the fellow whose muscles are lithe and whose mind is clean.  Such a man was Francis H. Burr, captain of the Harvard team in 1908.  Words fail me to express my sincere regard for that gallant leader.  His spirit still lives at Cambridge; his type we miss.

“I am proud of the men who worked shoulder to shoulder in bringing about Harvard victories.  The list is a long one.  I shall always cherish the hearty co-operation of these men who gave their best for Harvard.”

It was Al Sharpe, that great Cornell coach, who, in the fall of 1915 found it possible to break through the Harvard line of victories, and hanging on the walls in the trophy room at Cornell University is a much prized souvenir of Cornell’s visit to Cambridge.  That was the only defeat on the Harvard schedule.  But sometimes defeats have to come to insure victory, and perhaps in that defeat by Cornell lay the reason for the overwhelming score against Yale.

[Illustration: 

Whitney Dadmun Harte L. Curtis Dougherty Harris
Haughton Taylor McKintock Weatherhead R. Curtis Cowen Blanchard
King Parson Gilman Mahan Watson Wallace Soucy
Boles Robinson Coolidge Horneen Rollins

HARVARD, 1915]

Slowly, but surely, Al Sharpe has won his way into the front ranks of football coaches.  Working steadfastly year after year he has built up and established a system that has set Cornell’s football machinery upon a firm foundation.

Glenn Warner

Glenn Warner has contributed a great deal to football, both as a player and coach.

Warner was one of the greatest linemen that ever played on the Cornell team.  After leaving college he began his coaching career in 1895 at the University of Georgia.  His success there was remarkable.  It attracted so much attention that he was called back to Cornell in 1897 and 1898.  In 1899 Warner moved again and began his historic work at the Carlisle Indian School, turning out a team year after year that gave the big colleges a close battle and sometimes beat them.

There never was a team that attracted so much attention as the Carlisle Indians.  They were popular everywhere and drew large crowds, not only on account of their being Redmen, but on account of their adaptability to the game.  Warner, as their coach, wrought wonders with them, and really all the colleges at one time or another had their scalps taken by the Indians.  They were the champion travelers of the game.  Their games were generally all away from home, and yet the long trips did not seem to hamper them in their play.  They got enjoyment out of traveling.