Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-01-14
WHEN TED COY WEPT
How YaIe'S Football Hero COL
Iapsed After Tigers Defeat.
SOOTHED BY HIS BROTHER.
Coach Tells Remarkable Story of the
Great FuIlbacks Hysteria Following
the Gridiron Battle at Princeton.
Fortunes of Game Rested Upon Him.


the Gridiron Battle at Princeton.
Fortunes of Game Rested Upon Him.
One OF the Yale football coaches
supplied the facts for the following
story, which was written for the New
York Evening World by Bozeman Bull
ger:
When the great football game re-
Gently played between Yale and Prince
ton was ended big, flaXen haired boy
drew a heavy blanket around his band
aged head and shoulders, hid himself
in corner of bus, rested his elbows
on his knees and sunk his chin and
jaws into his hands. Outside thou
sands were cheering for Old Eli.
Along the streets of Princeton the
old vehicle rolled with its twenty
silent passengers. At the hotel all
alighted, and a crowd rushed around
TO sing "Boola" and cheer Yale.
Needless of the victorious yells, the
boy with the white hair and the big
blanket rushed up the steps, flung
open the door to his room, fell on the
bed and burst into n hysterical fit of
weeping. On chair near the bed sat
more elderly man-an exact replica
of the young man. Without a word
he soothingly took the athletes feet
threw them across his knees and silent
ly loosened the laces of his shoes.
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
"Brace up. old fellow" he said. Its
all over now. Tell me what came into
you
For a minute the boy stammered.
! He couldn't say a word. Finally he
threw his arms around the neck Of
his brother and gulped
well we won, anyway"
And with another hysterical 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 If everybody
had been dressed.
The strain had told, and this was
the relaxation which followed the
greatest game Of 1908 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 n
score Of 6 to 0 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 censurins
eyes Of 5000 students would have beer
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 were thrust in the back
ground.
He did it all Of his own initiative
The coaches had absolutely nothing
TO say. During the fifteen minute,
which elapsed between the halves the
Yale cohorts had remained in theil
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 speechless.
I'VE Will wln,p 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 tc
Yale as shirt Coy, sat on the side
lines painfully quiet. Edwin Coy the
younger athlete, known TO the students
as Ted Coy. then made the change
which swept Princeton off the field
On the first down he tore through the
Princeton line for seven yards The
| 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 was
apparent The brother on the side
lines began pounding the coaches on
|"e backs. He had come all the way
! from Minneapolis to see his brother
save the day for Yale.
! On and on went Acting Captain
! Coy, and finally the score was tied
! With ten minutes left in which to
play. Ted Coy kept up his ripping and
| grinding at the Princeton line. The
brother by this time was wild Moth
ing could stop Ted. Whether it was
brute strength or whether it was the
lack of strength on the part of Prince
ton. Yale's acting captain was endowed
with some kind of primeval instinct
which told him to go ahead, and he
went.
McFadyen, the big center of Prince
ton, says that on one occasion he
grabbed Coy around the knees. and.
though he weighed more than 200
pounds. he was dragged for eight yards.
1t seemed that nothing could stop The
hero of the day. When nobody else
could stop the plungeS of the young
terror, Captain Dillon of Princeton
dived head forward against him and
was knocked senseless He had to be
taken from the field in the arms OF