Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-08
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WHEN I.t I. |. COl !. Wit ! | !: /
How, YaIe's Football Hero Co.. D I.
Iapsed After Tigers Defeat ! /.
soorHED BY HIS BROTHER. !.
Coach Tells Remarkable Story q t ,!''
Great Ful,6aeI<'s Hystsr;a Following '.sl
tn. oridiron Battle at Pr'"esten g !
Fortune. Of Game Rested Upon Him !,
One Of the Yale football coached
supplied the facts for the foilowlns
story. which was written for the New
York Evening World by Boseman bul.
ger: Z @ssSS 1. ..s'..4 l% -.
when the great football game -
GENTLY played between Yale and Prince
ton was ended big, haxen nairea Wy 4
drew q heavy blanket around his Dano.
AGED head and shoulders, hid himself
IN a corner Of bus. rested bis elbows
on his knees and sunk his chin ana
Jaws into his hands. Outside thou- !.
sands were cheering for Old Ell. "
Along the streets OF Princeton the
old vehicle rolled with its twenty
silent passengers. At the hotel az
aliehted. and a crowd rushed around
to sing "Boola" and cheer Yale.
Needless Of the victorious yelis, the
hov with the white hair and the big
blanket rushed up the steps. hung
omen the door to his room, fell on the
bed and burst into hysterical 1T OF
weeping. On a chair near the BED sat
a more elderly man-an exact replica
of the young man. Without woro
he soothingly took the athletes teet,
threw them across his knees and silent
" loosened the laces Of his shoes. .s s-
When the shoes and stockings had
been removed the older man, who also
carried an athletic breadth Of shoulder,
reached his hand beneath the shoulders
of the weeping athlete and pulled him
to his feet. '-' ....~>. VI !
brace up, old fellow" he said. Its
all over now. Tell me what came into
you" ~ , III sSs
For minute the boy stammered.
He couldn't say a word. Finally he
threw his arms around the neck Of
his brother and gulped: ~ %$ .}&.>~s% r..
"'Well, we won, anyway" a.. ..',.'f55gs
And with another hysterical spell OF
weeping Ted Coy, acting captain iof
the Yale team, fell across the bed and
buried his face In his hands i5.#s.;
The brother, who had carried the
Yale team to victory eight years ago,
sat beside him holding his hand, and
this IL the way the rest of the team
found the heroes Of 1908 and 1900
when they came to see IL everybody
had been dressed. 49,. Il; h. (:
The strain had told, and this WAS
the relaxation which followed the
greatest game Of 1908 Here was q
man six feet in height and Weighing
100 pounds-the hero Of the day cry
ing ike Z 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 q
score Of 6 to 0 against them he bad
deliberately ordered tho right half
back to take his position ct right end,
and he had gone into the back dsld
determined to carry the bali to VIC
tory. If he had failed the censuring
eyes Of 5000 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 m hour b.
bis side were thrust In tho back
ground. n 4. 51 4 .4s.
he did It all Of his own initiative.
The coaches had absolutely nothing
to say. During the fifteen minutes
which elapsed between the halves tie I:
Yale cohorts had remained In their
dressing room silent. The room Wa 4
6lled with silence and gloom. 4. ;s3
DO you think you can winr'' asked
Walter Camp, the veteran coach.
The other coaches were speoehlssD.
I'VE WIN win" said Captain Coy, I.
and that was al that passed. No one,
had 20 much g suggestion to make. 7;
v When the first fifteen minutes Of The
second half had elapsed and no score
had been made Sherwin Coy. known to
Yale a. Shirt Coy, sat on tn. side
lines painfully quiet. NJ Edwin COY, ths
younger athlete, known to the students
az Ted Coy. then made the change