The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
AS TOLD BY GILMORE DOBIE
 Head Coach. C0rnell.)

Many years ago l saw crucial western conference game. Two elevens battled to a finish in a slippery morass of mud. One of these teams outclassed the other in the sheer ruthlessness of it's power; but that other possessed, among the eleven brains that manipu- lated the separate cogs of its machin" cry, one brain touched by the magic gold of pure genius. This mind not only dominated the ten that worked with it, but also the eleven ranging themselves desperately against it. minds which ached with desire to de- stroy, to annihilate, groping futilely for means of so doing.
 Nowadays you hear a lot about psy- chology. In those days. outside of col lege classrooms, it wasn't such a fluent subject of discussion. Not SO many ex- perts had discovered the pecuniary ad- vantages of correspondence courses in the science. But if any honest-to- goodness psychologist could have dropped in on the Chicago-Wisconsin football game at Madison, Wis, Octo- Der 9, 1905, he would have witnessed Q practical demonstration of it that would have left him humble.
 Eckersall Games Graetest
 For Waiter Eckersall, the greatest quarterback that ever ran back a kick, was pitting his quick-thinking, analyt- ical brain against the bulk and strength of the most powerful aggregation in the conference that year, and the result was n lesson ih psychology tba: neser has been beaten.
 Alonzo A. Stagg, Maroon c"ach, had taken to Madison a team as well coached as it was possible for 1t to be. It was equipped with the t;.,tst ensenl- tie of plays the "Old Fox" could de wise. But the condition of the rain- swe[t field favored the huskILc Badgers an,l it is probable that without Ecker- sal; to execute his strategius tLey would have failed.
 I wish that someone could write the story of that game as it should be writ tsn-not as it looked from the stands, but as it really developed in the houlder-to-shoulder impacts of the struggle. It would be the greatest gridirOn epic ever set down, Out-r.val- ling fiction with its chronicle of aulau- inus, brilliant achievement. Others may think diffe. 'ntiy, but I hold that the tactics used against Wisconsin by Eckersall that drenclIed October after noon were the finest ju the history of the game. There never was anything like. i' before very likely there never will be anything like it again.
 I sat in the stands, scout .oc the Minnesota eleven. A student of the game myself, the struggle had developed far past it's initial stages before I caught the drift of the campaign which the ingenious lieutenant of the crafty Stagg was launching against the Bodg- CTS. Then 1 perceived his intent and sat back to witness the advancing stages of plot as artistically and as infallibly developed as any conception in the pages of Edgar Allen Poe.
 Before the game Wisconsin had been the favorite. Its chances were con sidered to have been bettered by the pouring rain, which made a quagmire of the field, a new one. Curely the speed of Eckersall the great running quarterback, would be lost in the, mud and Chicago would be deprived of it's greatest asset.
 But when the great genius like the Maroon star is concerned you always must reckon with some hidden reserve which he has ready to tap for an es- pecially needed occasion. Practically everyone that braved the weeping skies believed that his efficiency wiuld be crippled. And yet-well, Eckersall was Eckersall
 Dazzles Opponents
 Nor had the game been under way two minutes before he proved this all important fact. Tucking the ball un- der his arm, in one dazzlingly supreme strategy he stood the Wisconsin eleven