The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-02
NEW ERADAWNS AT OLD NASSAU Leaders for Football
 Forces. SELECT BOARD Or STRATEGY Henry, King and Booth Have
 Superb Records. Former Stars of the Orange and Black Eleven are Well Qualified
 by Experience to


 Orange and Black athletics, says The Philadelphia Ledger.
 Football has been established on a firm basis In the future there will be es. consisting of three members and any additional memb bers that the three selected may deem wise and proper to appoint Looking over list of former gridiron stars who have added luster to Princeton's grfdiron glory by their personal prowess and scholarship at- tainment. 1t appears to the writer that no better selections could have been made to inaugurate their new football policy than Philip King. '93; w. c. Booth. 1900. and Howard Henry. '04. All were peers in their respective po- sitions during their undergraduate days exceptionally brainy football players.
 Every one of the three men selected as Princeton's board of coaches has had experience in coaching since grad than any of the three. having had a wide experience as head coach at Wis consin for several years following his graduation. While he devoted all of elevens her was remarkably successful. He developed some great teams at Madison, Wis. and when an active fig ure In Western football was consid- cred one of the ablest in that sertion. Or late years Kings business in Wash ington has prevented him from devot- ing much time to football. What little coaching he, has done has been at Princeton, where he has appeared spas- medically since leaving Wisconsin
 In view of Kings re-entry into the gridiron lfmelight 1t might prove of in- terest to recite some football history or his undergraduate career Great player that he was, perhaps the great est in his position of his day. King was graduated from Princeton without hav- ing played on a Tiger eleven that de- feated Yale. He played his first var sity football in the fall of 1890, at half back, Edgar Allen Poe playing his last year at quarterback for Princeton the day game with Yale in 1890 was played at Eastern Park. Brooklyn. and the Or ange and Black was overwhelmed. 32 to 0.
 In 1891 King was placed at quarter baS-, where he finished his underg- raduuate career. That year Yale de- feated Princeton IF to 0. King was elected captain for the following year. when the Tigers develops a great combination, only to bow :4in to the proWess of an even greater iate team by a score of IF to 0. This was the end of Kings Princeton football career as player, and 1t must have been a great disappointment to him to have left Old Nassau without having eXperi- enced the extreme pleasure or playing King explained one of the best eleyens ever developed at Princeton. but. in that year ls92) Yale met the Tigers in New York with one of the greatest teams ever coached at New Haven. Vance Mccormick, also great quar- terback anu general, was the Yale lead- CT that marshaled the Blue forces against those led by King. The Yale Hinkey. ends; Wallis and Winter. tackles; Hickok and Sanford. guards; Stillinan. center; Mccormick. quarter back; Laurie and Pop" Bliss. half backs. and Butterworth. fullback.
 This was a wonderful Yale team. The Blue never had two better ends than Hinkey and Greehway, while Wallis and Winter were the best pair of at the same time: Yale and other col leges may have tackles quite as good, but no pair their equal ever played at the same time on the same eleven. adamant center trio. while the back field was lightning fast and powerful: Laurie Bliss was wonderful end running, open rield back. while his today Butterworth Is still revered at New Haven as the greatest fullback product ever produced by the Blue. As to line-plunging back he certainly has had few equals, if any superiors.
 King Demon.
 Arrayed against this wonderful Yale combination. King led an eleven we'll worthy of the Blues steel and had the Blue not been exceptionally strong in 1892, Princetons would have SHon cas- fly. King played quarterback, and was a demon in defense. He was hard as iron and m every play. Had running with the ball from a direct pass been permitted in his play, he would have been a marvel Short, powerful and speedy, IL would have been almost i'm possible to have stopped him on guar terback runs. Morse and Johnny Poe were the halfbacks the former of the plunging type and the latter an open: field wonder, fast as lightning and hard to stop In a broken field. ''Shep" Ho- mans was the best kicking fullback of his day, but erratic as ground gainer. He had succeeded the great snake" Ames in the position, the lat ter having played his last game In 1899. On the ends were Trenchard and Ran dolps. a superb pair. hut hardly the equal to Yale's ends Langdon Lea, one old Nassau, was paired with Harold, another powerful man. who entered Princeton from Franklin and Marshall. At center rush was Ballet. as good a Tigers. who came to Princeton from Lehigh. At one guard was Beef" Wheeler, along with Jesse Riggs. considered the greatest guards ever Hall played the othel guard. This was a remarkable eleven, and played a high order of football, but Yale proved the better team in the annual game of 1892
 
 field defeated z to 0. Another bitter disappointment to King was the defeat of Princeton by Pennsylvania earlier In November of 1892, at Mannheim, this city. by d score of 6 to 4.
 Booth and Henry Cere not so unfor- tunate as King. both having played on teams that conquered Yale. Both had the extreme satisfaction of having played their last Intercollegiate games against the Blues that resulted in sen sational victories for the Tigers. Booth was good center, undoubtedly the best since the days of Ballet and Gayley. Booth was strong defeEsiyely and an accurate passer. He participated in two brilliant one-man victories over Yale. in 1898. and 1899. the former at Princeton and the latter at New Ha- yen Arthur Poe was the hero of both conquests Iu 1898 Poe picked up fumhled pass. and, while both eIevens were struggling in a mass play speed ed up the field for 4 touchdown hardly before the greater part of the struG- gling players knew where the ball was This was the only scnve of the game. the Orange and Black winning by to 0.
 The succeeding year at New Haven witnessed one of tho most sensational battles ever fought on an American gridiron. This was Booths last year, and also of Big Bill' Edwards who was captain, Brilliant individual feats marked the contest. With Princeton leading Al Sharpe kicked a remarkable goal from field from the forty-two- -yerd line giving Yale the lead by 10 to 5 points It then looked like a New TIa- ven victory Win less than thirty