New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-24
THE CHOICE
Speedy Back Elected Captain OF
Princeton Eleven.
TIGERS HOLD CELEBRATION
Speeches and Monster Bonfire
Give Vent for Enthusiasm
Over Teams Victories.

fRy Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Princeton y. j., Nov. 23.-Talbot Taylor
Pcndlc;on. 'l3. Of berkeley Springs, w. Va.
was elected to-day captain Of the Prince
ton football team for next year. Pendleton
prepared for college at Episcopal High. In
Virginia. and is one Of the most prom-
nent athletes that school ever turned out.
although "Nubs" Harand. another famous
Princeton athlete. Is also n graduate of
the same place.
Pendleton was captain and quarterback
Of his freshman team, and last year played
halibacl< on tho varsity eleven and by his
brilliant open field running In the Lafayette
end Dartmouth games won n place on Wal
ter Camps ali-Amorica football team. He
has played both quarter and half back this
season. playing the former position i'm most
OF the earlier games and In the Yale game,
but he played at half In the Harvard con-
test. While not playing so brilliant game
this season as last. he was stcader In ;he
big games Of the year. and twice he saved
the Tigers from defcat-Cuco I'm the Har-
ward game. when he pulled Huntington
down from behind, and then again in the
Yale game when he tackled Spaldng when
he had apparently been blocked away from
the play.
Pendleton is also baseball player of no
little note and track athlete OF excep-
tional ability. Mike Murphy is said to have
picked Pcndleton az being the only man in
the country who could lower the record for
the loO-yard dash with careful training.
The pent-up enthusiasm Of eight years OF
waiting was certainly let loose at Princeton
tonight. when the biggest and most costly
celebration ever held in Princeton over any
victory on gridiron, diamond. field or track
took place It marked a series of victories
nv Princeton teams which began last
spring. when the Ellis crew was beaten on
Carnegie Lake by many lengths and also
went down to defeat In the annual track
meet and baseball series, and ended last
Saturday at New Haven, when the football
team completed a most successful season
In the words Of big Bill" Edwards, who
was one OF the most prominent figures In
the celebration, II was not only celebra-
ton of what had been done by Princeton
athletic teams in the last six months but
also what was going TO happen this winter
on the Ice and next spring on the diamond
and track.
The big time began with a monster mass
meeting I'm Alexander Hall, the first real
mass meeting the Princeton undergraduates
have had this year. Professor John O.
Hbben presided. and he was followed, In
turn. by Professor Duncan Spaeth. who
was coach of Princeton's crew last spring;
Kcene Fitzpatrick. the trainer who has
had so much to do with Prnceton's sue
I. gfp orriva .
Big Bill" Edwards and, finally, Captain
Eddie Hart, of the football team. No mass
meeting could be held at Princeton without
big BIZ" Edwards, and big BIZ was
I'm his prime tonight, drawing forth tu-
mutuous cheers from the crowd, which
packed Alexander Hall to its greatest ca
pacity.
After the mass meeting the undergrad
yates. headed by a band hired for the oc-
ca sion, marched over to the campus back
OF Nassau Hall, where a huge pile of
boxes wood of all sorts and even small
sheds had been stacked around the historic
old cannon left in Princeton when Wash
Ington won the battle of Princeton.
Before touching off the big blaze there
was a magnificent display of fireworks
which has rarely been surpassed. Thirteen
Ella borate pieces were displayed, depicting
in colors the scores of all the games played
during the season, Sam Whites run in the
Vale game and Captain Eddie Hart. be-
sides an enormous banner with the cham
plonship inscribed in colors. Any number
OF bombs and rockets were shot off, with
the accompanying various colored lights.
The football team saw the spectacle from a
stand erected especially for it, and gold
footballs bearing the inscription THE
Championship Of 1911 - were given to those
players who got in either the Harvard or
the Yale game. Captain Hart touched off
the bonfire to end the celebration, and
there was plenty Of wood on hand to keep
the cannon redhot until morning.
The money to defray the expenses OF the
display was raised from the undergraduates
and alumni and amounted to over $1,000.