“Well, how about it, Walter?”

This victory will go down in Yale’s football history as an almost miraculous event.  Here was a team beaten many times by small colleges, humiliated and frowned upon not only by Yale, but by the entire college world.  They presented themselves in the Yale bowl ready to make their last stand.

As for Princeton it seemed only a question as to how large her score would be.  Men had gone to cheer for Princeton who for many years had looked forward to a decisive victory over Yale.  The game was already bottled up before it started; but when Yale’s future football history is written, when captain and coaches talk to the team before the game next year, when mass meetings are called to arouse college spirit, at banquets where victorious teams are the heroes of the occasion, some one will stand forth and tell the story of the great fighting spirit that Captain Wilson and his gallant team exhibited in the Yale bowl that November day.

Although Tom Shevlin, the man that made it possible, is now dead, his memory at Yale is sacred and will live long.  Many will recall his wonderful playing, his power of leadership, his Yale captaincy, his devotion to Yale at a time when he was most needed.  If, in the last game against Harvard, the team that fought so wonderfully well against Princeton could not do the impossible and defeat the great Haughton machine, it was not Shevlin’s fault.  It simply could not be done.  It lessens in not the slightest degree the tribute that we pay to Tom Shevlin.

Francis H. Burr

Ham Fish was a great Harvard player in his day.  When his playing days were over Walter Camp paid him the high tribute of placing him on the All Time, All-American team at tackle.  Fish played at Harvard in 1907 and 1908, and was captain of the team in 1909.  I know of no Harvard man who is in a better position to pay a tribute to Francis Burr, whose spirit still lives at Cambridge, than Ham Fish.  They were team mates, and when in 1908 Burr remained on the side lines on account of injuries, Ham Fish was the acting Harvard captain.  Fish tells us the following regarding Burr: 

“Francis Burr was of gigantic frame, standing six feet three and agile as a young mountain lion.  He weighed 200 pounds.  The incoming class of 1905 was signalized by having this man who came from Andover.  He stood out above his fellows, not only in athletic prowess but in all around manly qualities, both mental and moral.  Burr had no trouble in making a place on the Varsity team at Guard.  He was a punter of exceeding worth.  In the year of 1908 he was captain of the Harvard team and wrought the most inestimable service to Harvard athletics by securing Percy Haughton as Head Coach.  Hooks Burr was primarily responsible for Haughton and the abundance of subsequent victories.  Just when Burr’s abilities as player and captain were most needed he