New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Score, 7 to 5, Comes as
Climax to Reunion
Cheer.
GAY ALUMNI, OLD AND
YOUNG, FLOOD CAMPUS
Sam White, Football Hero, OBJ
ject of Worship-Big Bill
Edwards There.
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Princeton. y. j.. June i0.-Sleek and
we'll fed was the Orange and Black
Tiger that roamed the Princeton cam
pus tonight. The Yale Bulldog had
been seen and conquered. He had gone
back to New Haven with his stubby
tail tucked between his legs, and the
insignia. IS, scratched with the IL
gers claws upon his hide.
The game was the climax OF enthu-
siasm that began as early a. Friday
afternoon. By twos and fours the
members Of the reunion classes came
back. When to-day dawned murkily
there was not one Of the twenty-one
classes holding reunions that did rot
have strong delegation.
The lame, the halt and the blind
came back. Big Bill Edwards was
there, in delicious contrast with the
tiny figure OF Henry Hodges, jr., class
baby of 1911. Walter Idemsn came
all the way from Grand Rapids to see
mis- old classmates, for the first time
in four years. Mike Conner forgot
mis- Orange groves, and remembered
only that he was Princeton man,
and proud TO be one. Jay Schoon-
maker. from Pittsburgh, was there,
and Nose. Taylor Pyne, Paul Van
Dyke, Cyrus Mccormick, Colonel Will
lam Libbey and Charles Scrlbner
Sam White Stlrs Enthusiasm.
But one man deserves spfial men
ton. He is the holder Of One Of the
choicest inches in the Princeton Hall
Of Fame. Sam White, whose name is
anathema to anything even remotely
blue, the man who, single handed,
beat both Yale and Harvard in foot
ball by long sprints that have gone
down in the annals Of American foot
ball as epic, was at the head OF the
class of 1912.
As White passed down Prospect Ave
nue. in the parade 10 the baseball field,
SILVER of excitement trembled
through the crowd ahead of him.
Everywhere like wildfre ran the whis-
per, Gosh, here comes Sam White
There was in this whisper the same awe
that might be felt for an earthquake.
The leaden sky that greeted the UNI
dergraduates and alumni this morning
far from dampened their spirits. Short
" after a normal breakfast hour. the
reunion classes from 1866 10 1915 be-
gan to emerge from their tents, and,
preceded by a band. 10 parade the
campus and TO march up and down
Nassau Street Sandwiches, hot dogs
and beer had to do for lunch.
Seniors Lead Procession.
Class by class. the reunion alumni
lined up, at about 2 o'clock. before
Old Nassau Hall. Seniors leading the
way, they marched across the campus,
yelling as they passed under the arches,
and lined up on each side OF Prospect
Avenue with its stately clubs to wait
for the older classes to march between
them.
First came the men graduated in SO.
Next followed the classes of 1871, 1876,
1881, 1888, 1886, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1895,
1897. They were dressed in citizens
clothes and wore only bits Of ribbon
badges and hat bands TO distinguish
them. But upon their heels. there fell
a riot of color. The class Of 1901 was
the first in distinctive costumes. On.
hundred or more strong and immacu-
late in their white flannel suits, they
were distinctly impressive.
Almost two hundred of the class OF
'o6 followed; each man was dressed
in imitation of the conventional fig
ure of Uncle Sam. At the head OF
this column marched a flag bearer,
flanked by two Uncle Sans. who just
reached his waist. They were two