“Three times during Odlin’s football playing he kicked goals from the 65 yard line and while at Andover he kicked a placed kick from a mark in the exact center of the field, scoring a goal.”

When Brown men discuss football their recollections go back to the days of Hopkins and Millard, of Robinson, McCarthy, Fultz, Everett Colby and Gammons, Fred Murphy, Frank Smith, the giant guard; that great spectacular player, Richardson, and other men mentioned elsewhere in this book.

In a recent talk with that sterling fellow, Dave Fultz, he told me something about his football career.  It was, in part, as follows:—­

“I played at Brown in ’94, ’95, ’96 and ’97, captaining the team in my last year.  Gammons and I played in the backfield together.  He was unquestionably a great runner with the ball; one of the hardest men to hurt, I think, I ever saw.  I have often seen him get jolts, go down, and naturally one would think go out entirely, but when I would go up to him, he would jump up as though he had not felt it.  I think Everett Colby was as good a man interfering for the runner as I have seen.  He played quarterback and captained the Brown team in ’96.  I don’t think there was ever a better quarterback than Wyllys D. Richardson, Rich, as we used to call him.”

[Illustration:  Barrett on one of his famous dashes]

[Illustration:  Exeter-Andover game, 1915]

Dave Fultz is very modest and when he discusses his football experiences he sidetracks one and talks of his fellow college players.  Now that I have pinned him down, he goes on to say: 

“The day before we played the Indians one year my knee hurt me so much that I had to go to the doctor.  He put some sort of ointment on it.  Two days before this game I could hardly move my leg; the doctor threatened me with water on the knee; he told me to go to bed and stay there, but I told him we had a game in New York and I had to go.  He said, ’All right, if you want water on the knee.’  I said, ’I’ve got to go if I am at all able.’  Anyway, I went on down to New York with the team and played in the game.  All I needed was to get warmed up good and I went along in great shape.”

Those who remember reading the accounts of that game will recall that Dave Fultz made some miraculous runs that day and was a team in himself.

Fred Murphy, who was captain of the ’98 team at Brown and played end rush, says: 

“I think Dave Fultz played under more difficulties than any man that ever played the game.  I have seen him play with a heavy knee brace.  He had his shoulder dislocated several times and I have seen him going into the game with his arm strapped down to his side, so he could just use his forearm.  He played a number of games that way.  That happened when he was captain.  He was absolutely conscientious, fearless and a good leader.”