“The next year Chummy’s parents wouldn’t let him play, but Chummy was game—­he simply couldn’t resist—­it was a case of Love Before Duty with him.  He played on the Yale team the next fall, however, but not as Eaton, and every one who followed football was wondering who that star player ‘Adams’ was and where he came from.  But those on the inside knew it was Chummy.

“Frederic Remington,” says Vernon, “was a member of our team.  We were close friends and spent many Sunday afternoons on long walks.  I can see him now with his India ink pencil sketching as we went along, and I must laugh now at the nerve I had to joke him about his efforts.

“Remy was a good football player and one of the best boxers in college.  Dear Old Remy is gone, but he left his mark.”

Other men, equally prominent old Yale men tell me, who were on the team that year were Hull, Jack Harding, Ben Lamb, Bob Watson, Pete Peters and many others.

Walter Camp, as Yale gridiron stories go, was not only captain of his team, but in reality also its coach.  Perhaps he can be called the pioneer coach of Yale football.  It is most interesting to listen to old time Yale players relate incidents of the days when they played under Walter Camp as their captain:  how they came to his room by invitation at night, sat on the floor with their backs to the wall, with nothing in the center of the room but a regulation football.  There they got together, talked things over, made suggestions and comparisons.  And it is said of Camp that he would do more listening by far than talking.  This was characteristic, for although he knew so much of the game he was willing to get every point of view and profit by every suggestion.

In 1880 Camp relinquished the captaincy to R. W. Watson.  Yale again defeated Harvard, Camp kicking a goal from placement.  Following this R. W. Watson ran through the entire Harvard team for a touchdown.

Harvard men were greatly pained when Walter Camp played again in 1881.  He should have graduated in 1880.  This game was also won by Yale, thus making the fourth victorious Yale team that Camp played on.  This record has never been equalled.  Camp played six years at Yale.

John Harding was another of the famous old Yale stars who played on Walter Camp’s team.

“It is now more than thirty-five years since my days on the football gridiron,” writes Harding.  “What little elementary training I got in football, I attribute to the old game of ‘theory,’ which for two years on spring and summer evenings, after supper, we used to play at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N. H., on the athletic grounds near the Middle School.  One fellow would be ‘it’ as we dashed from one side of the grounds to the other and when one was trapped he joined the ‘its,’ until everybody was caught.  I learned there how to dodge, as well as the rudiments of the necessary football accomplishment of how to fall down without