The evening times., 1899-11-27
TEE REMARKABLE poEs.
Arthur the Fifth Who Has Played
Football for PRINCETON.

Football for Princeton.
BALTIMORE Nov. 27.-As long as foot
ball is played in America will college boys
tell Of the marvellous feats of Arthur Poe
| For two years in succession have unex-
pscted. sensational wonderful plays by the
\ little fve-foot-six. 145-pound Baltimore
boy snatched victory from defeat for the
Princeton Tigers against the sturdy giants
If Old Yale, which feats. taken together
have never been equaIed in the annals OF
the American game.
| Last year at Princeton, Just when il
| seemed that if either team scored it must
be Yale, this swift little athletic giant,
| successor on the Princeton Varsity of a
long line Of famous POes, snatched the tall
| in miX-up. and by run-long,, sensa-
| tional. and spectacular-made the orly
touchdown of the game
On Saturday, at New Haven, he eclipsed
even his feat of 1898. Less than two min
| utes of play remained in that bruising bat
| tie. The score was 10 to in Yale's favor.
and the adherents of the blue were making
ready for a grand demonstration in honor
of their victory. Time and again the des-
perate Tigers had plunged into the Yale
line with grim determination. Every
Princeton player. except three, had been
| replaced by fresher man, in the vain hope
that the fresher men might batter down
chat sturdy blue line. Poe was one Of the
three that was left and it was we'll he was.
With lightning rapidity had the Princeton
onslaughts been made, but, with the score
10 to 8, and the precious seconds fieeting.
the day seemed lot to Old Nassau.
Suddenly, with the ball near Yale's So
yard line, Arthur Poe fell back, and it was
seen that as last desperate chance the
Tigers had determined to place their reli-
ance on the little hero OF 1898. Princetoni-
ans as they drew their breath, murmured
that Arthur Poe had never tried for field
goal in a game before There was mo-
ment of breathless suspense, anxiety, ray
of hope as the ball scared skyward. 1t
seemed to linger in midair. and then,
straight and true, dropped over the bar of
Yales goal. The score was II to 10. and
hardly more than minute OF play was left.
The blow was crushing one to the conf
dent Blue ''rooters." but the followers of
the Orange and Black had been dragged
from the pit of despair to the pinnacle of
victory. Yale was stunned crushed. and
though the eleven made every use OF the re-
naming minute the victory was Prince
toms.
Arthur Poe is the fifth OF the famous
Poe brothers, of Baltimore. who have play
ed on the Princeton varsity. Every one OF
them so far has won renown on the gridi-
ron and there is still another Poe who it
is expected will do likewise. Last week
when the Tigers were having the final
touches put on in practice ii was Gresham
Poe. on the scrub, who made them play
, their hardest. and who came very near
scoring on the varsity several times by
sensational runs. Gresham Poe is in his
sophomore year and will be heard from
on the varsity later
The famous big six or 1t should be
little six" for all are short OF stature,
are: S. Johnston Poe, "a; Edgar Allan
Poe, 81. captain and quarterback; John p
Poe, jr. halfback: Nelson Poe, 80 quar-
terback; Arthur Poe, 1900, end, and Gresh-
am Poe, 90, substitute.
As is well known. these young gladiators
of the gridiron are sons Of John Pientlss
Poe. former attorney general of Maryland,
who is himself an alumnus of Princeton,
of the class of 1854, and who would proba-
bly, have been on the varsity Of that year
had the game been in vogue. All the Poes
resemble their distinguished father. and
each other All are short and stocky, but
remarkably agile and muscular for such
small men.
The eldest of the Poes went to Prince
ton in 1880 and with the exception OF
few years there will have been Poe at
the university from 1880 until 1902, when
Gresham will graduate. In nearly all that
time a Poe has been among the football
squad S. Johnston Poe made his reputa-
tion chiefly in the game at the Polo
Grounds. in New York, in 'S2. when he
played halfback. The next year he broke
his collar bone and had to quit playing.
being succeeded by Lamar who made one
of the greatest runs in football history,
passing through the entire Yale team.
The secoDd of the pnaS was Edgar Allan
Poe famous as captain. well as quarter
back although one of the smallest men
physically who ever played on big team.
His playing weight was about 132. In
famous game against Harvard in 1889. the
score was against Princeton in the first
half. His generalship caused reversal
of the tide in the second half. and the
Tigers won by a big score. and Princeton
ians sang with great glee, in the banquet
which followed the game. Listen to My
Tale of Poe tr-t
Poe No. 8 is John p, jr.-Johnnie''
Poe as he is called. or Coach Poe, as he
is known among latter-day Princetonians,
because of his value as coach. for which
position he is always in great demand at
his alma mater. He was brilliant half
back. especially on the team of '92.
Poe No is Nelson, who played on either
the scrub of varsity the whole four years
in sc. but he played a portion of cham
pionship game that year. and thus was
classed rs member of the team. He was
a brilliant quarter and half back The
fifth and sixth of the Poe line are respec-
lively Arthur and Gresham. whose feats
are spoken of elsewhere. Since the older
brothers left Princeton they have been
called upon every year for help in coach
ing the eleven, and all have responded.
Besides John p, jr.. Edgar Allen and
Nelson have spent a good deal Of time at
their old varsity. training the squad
Besides their prowess on the gridiron, the
Poes are nearly all wrestlers of ability and
all-round athletes. Arthur. in the spring
of '9S, at the Princeton games won both
the lightweight and middleweight wrestling
championships the same evening. He hard
ly ate anything for day or two before,
in order to get down to the lightweight
fisure-135 pounds-but he succeeded,
and threw both of his men easi-
ly. Gresham Poe is noted wrest-
Ter also, as are nearly all the brothers who
preceded him. They are all pupils OF Prof.
John c. Doyle, of the Baltimore Athletic
Club. whoe instruction in wrestling was
of great advantage to them on
the gridiron, especially in tackling.