The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
YALE AAS Two new MASCOTS
one - 4 BJLLDOG AND THE
OTHER MS COLONIAL Guard.

. The, Made Their Debut AZ the Naic.PrIuce.
ton Football Game and Won Instant
fa,or-Thr Old Handsome Dan and
Pop smith Two Other Famous Mascots.
! NEW HAVEN. Dec. O Yale has a new
| mascot. The recent success Of the Varsity
football team is regarded as conclusive
| proof that the new Handsome Dan and
his Colonial guard are more potent factors
| in bringing luck than was the rabbits foot
10 defeated Presidential candidate. Pop
| smith. the old shoemaker who has served
as mascot for the last twent y-fve years.
and even the old Handsome Dan who
! hourished on the topmost wave of Yale
popularity for half dozen years, have
now, in the words of the boys, got TO go
way back and sit down"
| Tn" new mascot or rather the pair
| for there are two-made their fir, appear
ance on the grounds AT the Yale Princeton
game. A small boy dressed in Colonial
costume. leading by one hand monstrous
bulldog while in the other he carried a
| TIN tiger whose tail he continually twisted
was the signal al that game for tremendous
| applause from the supporters Of the Blue.
| The idea was so popular and the result Of
| tn. game SO satisfactory TO the Yale men
that il was decided that hereafter nj foot
ball contests this pair of mascots shall be
in evidence.
| The boy is the son of Mike Murphy. the
Yale athletic trainer, and WAS taken up a.
Yale men in the past took up Murray Han
| niDal and others who have become his
toricsl Yale figures. Young Murphy wore
velvet knickerbockcrs. a b.uc swaiIowtail
| coat and high cooked hat
Handsome Dan. a big. serious looking
| English bulldog, years old, was reSpen-
| dent in blue blanket and was kept from
| attacking the Princeton team only be-
cause he WAS held In check by strong
leash. He is owned by +. B Schley, "a. 5.
The original Handsome Dan. who be-
came 80 distinguished that brand OF to-
bacco As well as countless dogs of all de
| grees was named for him, houri-hed at
| Yale from abou, 1859 TO 1897 Then the
sad news came that he had died in Englau
| whore his owner, Andy Graves, go, S.
had taken him on a trip
Graves was a member Of the crew q
| q? ard al aii-round athlete. His dog first
| appeared at Springfield at the Yale -Hsr-
ward game duru.g his first year il college.
| The dog created stisAtiou at his debut
I on the gridrOi. more beCause few of the
players or Coacfcrs dared to venture VII hin
| 100 feet Of him than on account Of his beauty
! one Yale man described him as a cross
IfN"ftIl uiIlkaNbl az u Il non "a llts
| and explained hat h. vas called Handsome
| simply under the law of compensation.
| Certainly from all accounts he Was the
| lornelieet brute that ever matricuated at
Yale. He became regular attendant
! at all Yale athletic events, a surely To lie
| depended upon as Pop Smith
After lis death he was stuffed ard brought
! back TO New Haven. where in the trophy
room of the Yale gymnasium he Low staI ds
a silent guard, In CONNER ting on Ills
| death. Charles Hopkins Clark, a member
| OF the class OF II, said that while the death
Of Handsome Dan would hc considered
| blow by many Yale men, there would be
| genuine relief among hosts Of others who
knew the dog. by reputation. The only
reason that Harvard PLAYERS had been
| able To go home whole aft er a Yale Harvard
game was because Handsome Dan was
! always taken to the games with a leash ard
fortunately, the leash held Mr. Clark also
told Of an experience that party Of friends
had with the dog III the Adiroudacks.
One day party was organ lied TO ascend
a mou tain. Dan started with the party.
but became discouraged half way UP and
was left by his friends securely tied TO a
tree To await their return.
The day passed. but The party. strange
to say, was the only one on the mountain
that afternoon. On the return the members
Of the party found ban awaiting them and
later they learned that scores Of people had
| climbed the mountain 70 Where Dan was
stationed, but not one Of the climbers had
had the hardihood 10 pass him by to pro-
coed further. Dan imagined ne was sta
toned as guard Of the pass and he did his
duty faithfully
Returning from his mountain trip Dan
was placed in the baggage car while his
kecrers took through sleeper. On ar
irving al Albany Dams friends were an
noyed 10 he awakened in tho early hours Of
the morning and 10 I've asked 10 come out
! on the platform and take the dog out OF
the baggage car. No one dared 10 approach
| 10 take out the baggage and the railroad
officials said that IL would hc netessary
either to abandon the car or to have some
one call OF the dog
Mike Murhuy. Yales trainer, has cause to
remember Hlndsome Dan.
Yes, said Mike to-day, Il shant forgot
him in hurry. II" vas about the ugliest
brute tina, ever lived and tried hard to
kill him.
IF kicked him once did it hundred
times. for whenever ] got bit excited on
the side lines and endeavored to coach a
man, that brute would surely make dive
for my trousor legs and then it was case of
which would hold out The longer. the cloth
or the dog Handsome Dan generally came
out victorious.
we finally had his teeth all pulled out
He was such a fend that he would bite
anything and every thing in sight. Even
then he didn't let up, but would grab ne
Just the same and set his Jaws and you
couldn't bulge him without crowhar"
Pop Smith. who so long has held the post
Of honor IA mascot still did duty this fall.
but he is getting 50 old that tho students
fear he will soon he unable To go on jaunts
with them For that reason perhaps as
much as for any other and In order to have
a new mascot broken in. the dog was
adopted
Pop Smith is now ~ and he has seen ser
vice with the Yale boys since 1875 The
Yale men who remember him in thus" days
say he looked then jus, a. he does today
that he hasn't aged a bit
He IL a little old man with long white
heard and walks with a cane. For a long
time before the boys formally adopted
him he used Ia run -hoemakcr's shop In
the western part Of the CITY, ard every after
noon. rain or shine. when the students went
out to practice he would close up his shop
ard be on hand He always attended
all the games ard would follow the coaches
and trainers all over the field
He soon attracted the attention OF the
students and they invited him to 60 with
/ them on their trips until II became settled
thing that no game or practice could proceed
| till Pop Smith was on hand When Will
liam REYNOLDS came TO have charge Of the
Yac field about twenty years ago. Pop
Smith took him mp and Mike Murphy, who
came soon after, was also adopted by Pop
Hannibal. iale's colOred orator and candy
vendor, although not really in the class Of
mascots has 30 we'll known figure at
every Yale athletc event that he II dcserv-