The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-12-14
HINKEY TRIES TO
GET 'iY" AWARDED
TO HERO OSBOURN

Boston, Dec. l4-Looking over the
Harvard-YaIe program at the Sta
dunn, on the day of the game, one
found the name Of &c. S. Osbourn,''
listed among the substitute tackles of
the Eli squad.
The appearance of the name Of this
heretofore unmentioned Eli resulted
in specu1ations as to his ability, and
against the Crimson team. As the
game progressed and Way and Gates,
the Yale tackles, were being fooled
repeatedly by HarvaFd's delayed-pass
plays, the specu1ations changed to
demands that Osbourn be sent into Nthe
game to turn the tide of battle. These
demands came from older Yale men,
who were not familiar with the play
ers of the Yale substitute squad, and
knew nothing concerning C. S. Os-'
bourn. t
Osbourn was not sent into the game,
despite these demands, and for the
very good reason that his appearance
odds. not only with the rules govern
ing ard-Ya1e-Princeton relations
but with the more general intercolle-
gate regulations well.
Behind the appearance of Osbourn's
name on the hotel register and on the
football program, and behind his non
appearance in the Yale lineup, is "a
story-a3 story of unself1sh loyalty and
hard, grue1ling endeavor. all done
without hope of recognition or re-
ward-a story that has served as an
inspiration to may Yale undergrad
yates, who know the particulars, and
one that demands the respect of every
college man or follower of collegiate
athletics story which will have a
happy ending by awarding a ''Y" If
Frank Hinkey's efforts in Osbourn's
behalf are to bear fruit.
1t was from Frank Hinkey's lips
that the story was learned. Yes,
Frank aHinkey, formerly known as the
silent Captain later as the sSilent
football failure has been unjustly
charged. Hinkey is not always 81
lent; neither is he noisy. He occa-
siona11y becomes reminiscent, how
ever, and he was in SUCH a mood
when he told the story of C. S. Os-
bourn.
l.eThere is one thing 1 would like to
do before say good-by to Yale, and
that is to secure some suitable reward
for this fellow Osbourn.'' began the
Yale football coach.
'sYou don't know him, Ell? Well I
didn't know him for a while, but I've
made his acquaintance. and he's stood
for my sometimes ungentIe remarks,
and has accepted my apologies times
without number for the rather strong
language every coach sometimes uses,
and he's one of the really big fellows
now taking Yale courses.
cit was when was helping Howard
Jones with the Yale team three years
ago that first noticed him. At Yale
the ineligibles wear gray sweaters,
which are known among the football
6ot 1nf lett he
name typifying the wearers as foot
ball outcasts for the season.
well, when the varsity and ine1igi-
bic teams of that year opposed each
other on my first practice, saw this
rangy chap in the Scarlet letter bust
ing up my plays and making things
generally bad for the regulars both on
the offence and defence, and I began
wondering why he wasn't on the var
sity side OF the line helping them.
When. the scrimmage finished, went
to him and asked him the why for of
the scarlet letter. He told me he
was a graduate of a Southern college
and was Ineligible for the varsity, but
that he loved Yale and, wanted to~he1p
in any possible way.
ST made further inquiries from fell
lows who knew him. 'C1eon Scott
Osbourn,,. they said was his name, and
informed me he was of an old noun
taineer family ha1Hng from Shenan-
doa.h Junction, West Virginia. 1t
seems he entered Washington and
Lee University several years ago, TAX
ing an arts course and, playing a
whir1wind game on that leading
Southern college eleven for four sea-
sons. Following his graduation he en-
tered the Yale Theological School,
from which he will go to India as a
student missionary.
teHere he was reporting every af-
ternoon for the second and ineligi-
BILE teams; day after day taking the
battering that the men of all such
eIevens must take, all for the love of
Yale and the love of the sport and
without the remotest chance of play
ing to the applause of the thousands
or winning any reward. can tell
you I warmed to him right away
TS Tvors ThinkinU