The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
AS TOLD BY ROBERT c. FOLWELL
 Head Coach. Navy lAnnapOlis)


 If am any judge of football players, I'd say that Fred Heyman, right end on my 1914 Washington and Jefferson team, was All-American calibre. Yet the critics of the day did not so place him and, if the first judgment I made of him had been true, he never would have gotten the chance that came to him of becoming one of the stars of really great team.
 Regarding his failure to be picked for the All-American, please let me say that Fleming, Spiegel and Cruickshank, three of his teammates, attained that honor. Perhaps the experts would have liked to include him, but felt that to do so would be showing too much partiality for Washington and Jefferson players.
 Spectacular Play
 As to that early mistaken opinion l formed, Heyman disproved it on scores of occasions. In the end, he capped the climax by pulling off the most spec tacular play l ever saw on the gridiron. Incidentally this play was the apex of brilliantly executed strategy-per- haps the greatest the team negotiated in season filled to the grim with sen sational feats.
 In the fall of 1913 when Washington and Jefferson reported for practice noticed in the squad tall, heavy, rangy fellow who looked to be a very good prospect. Notwithstanding his size he was very speedy, too. We tried him out in scrimmage at end and at half back and he did very well. Then sud denly, during the second week of prac- tice, he disappeared.
 Injured Leg
 Word came to us that he had in jured his leg, but we did not learn how seriously. You know how it is when a fellow drops out of the squad like that and never sends you a single word of explanation. The natural in ference was that this lad had found football just a little more strenuous than he liked. reached a conclusion not flattering to his gameness and when, a bit later, I saw him sporting a pair of crutches, 1 concluded he was posing. I dismissed him from my mind completely. I didn't want that sort of fellow on the team.
 Not until the next autumn did I learn how wrongly 1 had rated the boy. When the squad reported he again was on hand. Prepudiced against him at the start, I still was attracted by his speed and strength. Also he showed willingness to work that diSarmed me. He did far more than was asked of him. Coincidentally l discovered that he hadn't been bluffing about his injury the previous year. He actually had suffered broken leg. Of course I gave him every chance possible there after. And Heyman-for it was he soon demonstrated that he would rank with the greatest ends of the season. He was the very man needed to round out our eleven.
 Great Team
 Naturally it seems to me that there never was a team like this 1914 aggre gation. at Washington and Jefferson. II was the elimination of three years of earnest coachin and of equally sincere response from the members of the squad. When you recall that the lat ter was recruited from a student body of only 275, you wonder how it de veloped the power to go out and beat such teams as Pittsburg and Yale and come within an ace of bowling over Harvard-which it really outplayed.
 The answer is that the boys possessed football brains and courage. They hat the wits to carry out perfectly the style of play in which they were coached This called for the employment of C great variety of long and short passes Football writers were good enough tC call it "a revelation of the possibilities of the new game"
 Tough Schedule
 We had a tough schedule-one that l colled for n preat daol Of travelinp Do | ticUlnrly was this true during the lat | ter half of the season when our trips were so long and our games so ire quent that we never had more than 6 day of practice per week at home. In