Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-30
ON PHE GRIDIRoN.
Jim Hogan the First Irish Captain at
 Yale.

Jim Hogan the First Irish Captain at
 Yale.
 The recent election of James Joseph Hogan as captain of tue Yale football team for the coming year has been re ceived at Yale with more enthusiasm by the undergraduates than any such choice for many years, says New Haven correspondent in the New York Sun. There is a strong feeling here : that Captain Hogan has won his iau- rels honestly and is entitled to all the glory that is coming to him.
 An Irish lad without. friends to aid hiIa, or wires to pull, he has captured the greatest athletic prize of the course, and the Yale 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 fast three years on the team for Yale, Hogan is popular with everybody be cause of his personal qualities.
 During his two and a half years at Yale, Captain Hogan has been so busy that he has scarcely had time to make many close friends. He earned 8 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 roommate. "and he has followed this plan ever since knew him." It. 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 edu- cation as we'll as 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 of Exeter.
 He finally chose Yale.as it was
 
 greatly in favor of the Blue. His roommate. Cooney of the Princeton eleven. went to the New Jersey col Iege. After three years he and his former roommate met for the first time on the Yale gridiron at the Yale Princeton game this year, and Coon ey was matched to play directly op-t posite Hogan The greeting between q ASsa or ia YI vs of the game that the spectators did not appreciate.
 Hello old man." said Hogan, as the teams lined up. and Hogan, who was playing right tackle. found Himself op- posife his old-time chum, who was playing the left position ~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" re- piled Cooney. Do you know that when we broke up at Exeter stole yolr straw hat as a souvenir? It's been on my mind ever since, and if I live through this game I'll meet you afterward and buy you another, but it needn't be straw one"
 You'll not need any hat when this game is oyer," laughingly replied the Yale tackle as he plunged into the game as the ball was kicked off.
 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 sea- sons. Possessed of a dogged deter mination when once he makes up his mind; the Yale officials have learned that he can be depended upon in an emergency 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 Mur- phy called the players together and gave them little advice. As they turned to leave he looked around at Hogan. saying:
 .tGo in there and do something If you can I never yet had an Irishman on the team that amounted to anything"
 Hogan was angry at his speech. and after the game the man who played op- posite him ou the Harvard side was heard to say that the Yale man must have had 1t in for him especially. be- cause he hammered him straight through .he game as if he were settling grudge. Of long standing.
 At the election following the game for 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 tae new Yale captain has maintained very hirh stand in his class since en- tering Yale. \ large amount of Mh's time has been given over to tutoring and other ways of earning money. but for all this his scholarship standing has been surprise to his professors.
 When he first entered college he asked permission 10 take extra work and then consulted President Hadlev about the advise bility of dnishinv his course ial three years instead of foar His nropositliou was not considered tenable at 1rst hv the university osIlr