The sun., 1903-12-13
HOGAN'S FOOTBALL LAURELS.
YALE STUDENTS PROUD OF TIE
NEW VARSITY CAPTAIN.
The Big Athletic Prize OF the Course Won
by an Irish Lad without a Puil-WOrk.
Ing His Way Through COllege--A
Friendly Greeting ON the Grldron.

OF Jne 1ale 1OOJDall team Tor the coming
year has been received at Yale with moro
enthusiasm by the undergraduates than
any such choice for many years. There
is strong feeling here that Capt Hogan
has won his laures honestly and is entitled
to all the glory that is coming to him.
An Irish lad, without friends to aid him
orwires to pull, he has captured the greatest
athletic prize Of the course, and the laa
students are proud to point to his election
as strong proof that the democracy OF Yale
is not dying out. Aside from what the new
captain has done in the last three years On
the team for Yale, Hogan Is popular with
everybody because of his personal quail
ties.
During his two and a half years at Yale
Capt. Hogan has been SO busy that he has
scarcely had time to make many close
friends. He earned large part of his
expenses, and this work, combined with
the extra work that he took in order to
shorten his course, and his athletics have
made him the busiest man in the college
Jim eats, drinks, sleeps, studies and
plays football by schedule" said his room
mate to-day, "and he has followed this
plan ever since knew him.
1t Is this systematic arrangement of his
time that has enabled him to rank high in
his classes and take care of much outside
work.
Hogan prepared for Yale at Exeter and.
it Is said, was expecting to enter Harvard
when Mike Murphy the Yale trainer, who
was friend of his family in Torrington
advised him to enter Yale. Hogan was
desirous Of working his way through and
was anxious to enter the university which
could aid him best in gaining an education
as well as a livelihood
He was the captain Of the football team
at his preparatory school and also manager
OF the baseball association, being one OF
the most popular men that ever went out
from Exeter He finally chose Yale as
it was nearer home and his mother was
greatly in favor of the Blue.
His roommate, Cooney of the Princeton
eleven, went to the New Jersey college.
After three years he and his former room
mate met for the first time on the Yale
gridiron at the Yale Princeton game this
year and Cooney was matched to play
between the two men was one Of the side
plays Of the game that the spectators did
not appreciate.
i1tuo, oiA IlHil, sdu nOBdIl' dS tue
teams lined up, and Hogan, who was playing
right tackle, found himself opposite his old
time chum, who was playing the left posi-
ton, I'm mighty sorry to have to punish
you the way shall before the game is over"
well. Jim, I'm glad to see you" replied
Cooney DO you know that when we
broke up at Exeter stole your straw hat
as souvenir? It's been on my mind ever
since and if I live through this game III
meet you afterward and buy you another,
but 1t needn't be straw one.'
You'll not need any hat when this game
Is over" laughingly replied the Yale tackle
as he plunged into the game as the ball was
kicked of.
For the last two years Hogan has been
one Of the greatest fighters on the Yale
team. He has indomitable courage and
unlimited pluck which have stood him in
good stead both seasons. Possessed of u
dogged determination when once he makes
up his mind, the Yale officials have learned
that he can be depended upon in an emer-
gency.
just before the players went on the field
last year at the Yale-Harvard game in this
city, when it was generally feared that the
Blue was going to be punished, Mike Murphy
called the players together and gave them
a little advice. AS they turned to leave
he looked around at Hogan, saying:
go in there and do something if you
can. never yet had an Irshman on tho
team that amounted to anything"
Hogan was angry at his speech, ard after
the game the man who played opposite
him on the Harvard side was heard to say
that the Yale man must have had it in for
him especially. because he hammered hin
straight through the game as if he were
settling grudge of long standing
At the election following the game for a
new captain Hogan was backed by large
following of football men, but when he was
approached on the subject he declined to
have his name considered,
In spite of all outside diversions the new
Yale captain has maintained a very high
stand in his class since entering Yale. A
large amount of his time has been given
over to tutoring and other ways of earn
ing money but for all this his scholarship
standing has been great surprise to his
professors.
When no first entered college he asked
permission to take extra work and then
consulted President Hadley about the
advisability of finishing his course in three
years instead of four. His proposition Was
not considered tenable at first by the uni
versty officials, but when the reports of
his first terms work came In they changed
their minds and full permission was given
him to undertake it
Finally, after consultation, Hogan de-
cded to take extra law school work with
his undergraduate studies, take four years
for his B. A. del gree and shorten up possibly
two years in his law course. He has won
several prizes during his course and has
Just received the John Bennett scholar
ship. the income from S. 600 for two years
This scholarship was given to the uni
versity by the class of 81, in memory uF
one of it's members and is annually awarded
to student "of strong and sound charac-
ter, marked ability and high standing IN
the college world and in the estimation of
his classmates" Mason Trowbridge OF
Chicago last year was the first winner OF
this scholarship and Hogan is the second,
When at preparatory school he used to
walk twelve miles to churche every Sunday.
and during his college course he has main
tanned this same ale glance to his early