“After the game, in talking it over with Walter Camp, he assured me that the decisions had been correct, but that he was very glad he had not had to make them.  In spite of these decisions, I was asked to umpire in a number of big games the next year:  but that one experience had been enough for me.  I never appeared again in that or any other official capacity.  I have been trying for the last thirty-two years to get back the friends which, before that game, I had in both Princeton and Harvard circles, with only a fair amount of success.”

I have always considered it a great privilege to have been associated as an official in the game with Pa Corbin.  I know of no man that ever worked as earnestly and intelligently to carry out his official duties, and year after year he has kept up his interest in the game, not only as a coach, but as a thoroughly competent official.

As a favorite with all colleges his services were eagerly sought.  He recollects the following:—­

“The experience that made as much of an impression upon me as any, was the game with Penn-Lafayette which came just after the experience of the year before which developed so much rough play.  The man agreed upon for Umpire, did not appear, and after waiting a while the two captains came to me and asked if I would umpire in addition to acting as referee.  I accused them of conspiracy to put me entirely out of business, but they insisted and I reluctantly acquiesced.  I told both teams that I would be so busy that I would have no time for arguments or even investigation and any move that seemed to me like roughness would be penalized to the full extent of the rules regardless of whom he was or of how many.  The result was that it was one of the most decent games and in fact almost gentlemanly that I have ever experienced.”

Joe Pendleton has been an official for twenty years.  He is an alert, conscientious officer in the game.  I have worked many times with Joe and he is a very interesting partner in the official end of the game.

In the fall of 1915 Joe had a very severe illness and his absence from the football field was deeply regretted.

Joe always wore his old Bowdoin sweater and when out upon the field, the big B on the chest of Joe’s white sweater almost covered him up.

“A few years ago I had occasion to remove a player from a game for a foul play,” says Joe, “and in a second the quarterback was telling me of my mistake.  ‘Why, you can’t put that man out,’ he said, and when I questioned him as to where he got such a mistaken idea, his reply was: 

“‘Why, he is our captain!’

“In another game after the umpire had disqualified a player for kicking an opponent, the offending player appealed to me, basing his claim on the ground that he had not kicked the man until after the whistle had been blown and the play was over.  Another man on the same team claimed exemption from a penalty on the ground that he had slugged his opponent while out of bounds.  He actually believed that we could not penalize for fouls off the playing field.