across the field to back Toler up, had been able to get the ball on the bound and on the dead run, thus having in front of him all the Princeton team except Toler; whereas the Yale team was depleted by the fact that Wallace, Corwin, Gill (who had come on as a substitute) myself and even Harry Beecher from quarterback, had run down the field to within a few yards of Toler before he muffed the ball.  We all turned and watched Lamar run, being so petrified that not one of us took a step, and, although the scene is photographed on my memory, I cannot see one of all the Yale players making a tackle at Lamar.  Hodge, the Princeton quarterback, kicked the goal, thus making the score 6 to 5 and winning the game.  The outburst from the Princeton contingent at the end of the game was one of the most heartfelt and spontaneous I have ever heard or seen.  I understand that practically all of Lamar’s uniform was torn into pieces and handed out to the various Princeton girls and their escorts who had come to New Haven to see the game.

“The Yale-Princeton game in the fall of 1886 was a remarkable as well as a disagreeable one.  We played at Princeton when the field at that time combined the elements of stickiness and slipperiness to an unbelievable extent.  It rained heavily throughout the game and the proverbial ’hog on ice’ could not have slipped and slathered around worse than all the players on both sides.  There was a long controversy about who should act as referee (in those days we had only one official) and after a delay of about an hour from the time the game should have begun, Harris, a Princeton man, was allowed to do the officiating.  Bob Corwin, who was end-rush, only second to Wallace in his ability, was captain of the team.

“Yale made one touchdown which seemed to be perfectly fair but which was disallowed; and later, in the second half, Watkinson for Yale kicked the ball so that it rolled across the goal line, whereupon a crowd, which was standing around the ropes (in those days there was practically no grandstand) crowded onto the field where Savage, the Princeton fullback had fallen on the ball.  The general report is that Kid Wallace held Savage while Corwin pulled the slippery ball away from him, and that when Harris, the referee, was able to dig his way through the crowd he found Corwin on the ball, and in view of the great fuss that had been made about his previous decision, was not able to credit Savage’s statement that he (Savage) had said ‘down’ long before the Yale ends had been able to pull the ball away from him.  The result was that the touchdown was allowed.  Thereupon the crowd all came onto the field and we were not able to clear it for some 10 or 15 minutes, so that there was not time enough to finish the full 45 minutes of the second-half of the game before dark.  This led to some bitter discussion between Yale and Princeton as to whether the game had been played.  This discussion was settled by the intercollegiate committee in declaring that Yale had won the game, 4 to 0, but that no championship should be awarded.  It is interesting to note, however, that all the gold footballs worn by the Yale players of this game are marked ‘Champions, 1886.’