Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-26

{ the weeping athlete and pulled him
his feet.
Brace up, old fellow" he said. ''It's
I'll over now. Tell me what came into
ou''
For minute the boy stammered.
lie couldn't say a word. Finally he
brew his. arms around the neck Of
his brother and gulped:
- well, we won, anyway"
And with another historical spell of
weeping Ted Coy, acting captain of
the Yale team, fell across the bed and
buried his face in his hands.
The brother, who had carried the
Yale team to victory eight years ago.
sat beside him holding his hand, and
this is the way the rest of the team
found the heroes of 1908 and 1900
when they came to see lie everybody
had been dressed.
Strain Had Told.
The strain had told, and this was
the relaxation which followed the
greatest game Of 1905 Here was a
man six feet in height and weighing
100 pounds-the hero of the day-cry-
ing like a child. The fortunes of the
game had rested upon his shoulders.
With no one to guide him he had seen
the weakening of his team With a
score of 6 to against them he had
deliberately ordered the right half
back TO take his position at right end.
and he had gone into the back field
determined to carry the ball to vic
tory. If he had failed the consuming
eyes of 1900 students would have been
upon him. He felt that they would
have accused him Of putting himself
in the limelight, while the men who
had fought valiantly for an hour by
his side We're thrust in the back
ground.
He did It all of his own initiative.
The coaches had absolutely nothing
| to say. During the fifteen minutes
which elapsed between the halves the
Yale cohorts had remained in their
dressing room silent. The room was
| filed with silence and gloom.
"Do you think you can VIM" asked
Walter Camp. the veteran coach.
The other coaches were speeches..
"We will win." said Captain Coy
and that was all that passed No one
had so much as a suggestion to make
When the first fifteen minutes of the
second half had elapsed and no score
had been made Sherwin Coy. known t,
| Yale as shirt" Coy, sat on the side
lines painfully quiet. Edwin Coy. ths
younger athlete, known to the student.
| II Tod hn han crf
| which swept Princeton off the field
On the first down lie tore through the
| Princeton line for seven yards. TIL,
Tigers were ripped apart as if they
had been made of tissue paper Again
| he took the ball. and again the rip
ping and tearing of the Tiger line wa:
apparent. The brother on the sid'
lines began pounding the coaches CT
the backs. He had come ali the wa!
from Minneapolis to see his brotLe,
save the day for Yale.
On and on went Acting Captain
Coy, and finally the score was tied
| With ten minutes left in which T.
play, Ted Coy kept up his ripping an,
grinding at the Princeton line. Tn
brother by this time was wild Moth
ing could stop Ted. Whether it wa
brute strength or whether it was til
lack of strength on the part of Prince
ton. Yale's acting captain was endowe,
with some kind OF primeval iastinc
which told him to go ahead, and IN
went
McFadyen. the big center of Prince
ton, says that on one occasion IN
grabbed Coy around the knees and
though he weighed more than 20
bounds, he was dragged for eight yards
1t seemed that nothing could stop tn
e hero OF the day. When nobody els
could stop the plunges of the youn
: terror, Captain Dillon of Princeto
dived head forward against him an,
was knocked senseless. He had to b
) taken from the field in the arms o
the trainers. That was the last straw
and in the next plunge the indomitabl
! Coy tore through the line and acros
the line for a touchdown and-th
game.