Evening star., 1915-03-12
AND BUSINESS MEET
FOR SCHOLASTIC TITLE TODAY
Basket Ball Championship at Stake in What
Promises to Be Well Played Game
Other Gossip of Athletics.

cannot vouch for it. they say he
| would sometimes playfully kick the
boys in the ribs if they did not act
quick enough. l have seen Aleck Moi
fatt at noon practice with the scrub
on University Field come down the
field with the ball like a deer and put
his knee in the stomach of the scrub
who tried to stop him, but with all OF
the rough play years ago if a man lost
his temper he was not allowed to play
II have seen Reddy De Camp down on
the polo grounds in New York and a
\ ale man 100 pounds. to 10 POUNDS
! come down the field like a wild horse,
jump up in the air and come down on
Reddy with his fists and knees doubled
up to try and break him up, but we
had no fatal accidents and few serious
ones. for the men went,on the field with
practically no protection and few even
wore canvas jackets, and there was no
prettier sight than to see Princeton
come out in orange and black woolen
jerseys with the ground frozen and
play forty-tive minutes without stop
ping to catch their breath. There was
no time to get cold, for there was too
much work to do, and it was done,
and no Princeton man ever doubted
that every man on the team was going
to play to the last ounce from start to
finish.
Il have seen Princeton and Yale line
up and the rush lines would fight with
bare knuckles unless the referee caught
them, but no man on either side ever
lost his temper or attempted to strike
back if by any chance he thought the
referee might catch him.
Il am not defending the roughness of
the game at that time. but am trying to
illustrate the wonderful control under
great provocation the foot ball men
had in those days. If you think I eX-
aggerate the facts 1 refer you to the
files of New York Friday morning
papers after the Thanksgiving game at
the Polo Grounds in 1854, Yale VS..
Princeton. The team that the college
of New Jersey sent out thirty years
ago was full of red corpuscles, and you
could sit on the bleachers on cold
day in November and never have a
DUH minute while the game was on.
They do say the sage dean of the grad
uate school at New Haven in 1855
threw his silk hat in the air when Tilly
Lamar won the game in the last few
minutes. and jumped on 1T as it came
down, and said. L don't care if / never
have another hat, but I never expect
to live long enough to see another
play like that
Lamar showed what he was made of.
for a short time after graduation he was
drowned in a flood at Augusta. Ga, try
ing to save human life. Princeton at
that time with less than half the men
to draw from produced Aleck Moffat.
Alf Baker and Tilly Lamar, and / have
not heard Of their superior since, so
agree with President Hibben; let's go
back to the old-fashioned way. l think
today there is too much coaching, and If
Jim Johnson were living he would prob
ably say the team is too much pom
pered.'
princeton has never sent out better
teams than she did in SO, 'S4 and 80 and
I don't think it would hurt to try the
same methods. / am writing to let the
present undergraduates understand what
the foot ball team of the College of New
Jersey could do and did do thirty years
ago. and no. to prolong the foot ball
discussion"
Another interesting incident. illus
trating the roughness of foot ball un
der the old conditions, is told by a
local graduate of Princeton 1t was
back in the 90s, while he was a stu
dent that he invited his uncle to
watch a game between Princeton and
Harvard. In this contest the Harvard
left end and the Princeton right end
happened to be in an especially pug
nacious humor and they went after
each other hammer and tongs" from
the beginning of play till it ended
The uncle was so astoniShed at what
he thought was somewhat of a brutal
exhibition that he remarked:
my, my, what can those two boys be
studying, anyway. l never saw any
thing like it."
Why, they are taking theological