Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-04
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW ;, FRANCE, ,1Auu
Caldwell of Princeton
ON THE TRAM ROLLING I

YIN HE TRAIN HOLLING toward New haven last
Saturday travellers wearing the Yale Blue the Dart
mouth Green read of Charley Caldwells death in the
morning papers.
81 have a feeling" a man commented that Princeton
is going to be very hard to beat today Those kids will
win for Caldwell"
The Tigers whom Caldwell had coached SO brilliantly
since 1945 playing unpredicabe in Provi-
dence. They in the mud, TO- and when Yale and
Dartmouth wound up in 14-14 tie the young men of
Nassau of them sophomores took the Ivy League
lead
At the time of his death of cancer Caldwell was
the only Ivy League alumnus coaching Ivy League
school. Technically he hadn't coached the Tigers at
all this fall but they his boys and he remained the
coach in name although Dick Colman did the work.
He frequently talked of watching Princeton play this
season but week after week passed and Caldwell
fading SO fast
TWO OTHER GREAT COACHES had preceded Cad-
well at Princeton, One Bill Roper, the other
Fritz Crisler But Caldwell turned out to be greater
then Roper and CriSler. For thing he broke
the Yale jinx.
wel-bui pleasant if retcent man-Caldwell
Sc when he ded-he the only coach to win six con-
secutive big Three" football championships In dozen
seasons his teams 10 games lost 80 and tied three
When Caldwell had the horses, Princeton played
of the most interesting football in the Nation His
teams, particularly the unbeaten Tigers of so and 81
were Joy to watch. Unlike all except very few major
coaches, Caldwell did not hop the and splitT band
wagon.
instead, ne STUCK by the ola single wing Ola single
wing? No, you'd hardly recognize the antique by the
time Caldwell finished with it, He made the single wing
exciting ohense with buck aterals, men in motion
split ends ankers and many other variations that
Cadwers single wing and more original, lin
fact, than the T in its several forms.
Il, WHEN CALDWELL HAD Dick Kazmaier going for
him, Princeton treat to watch Not that Kazmaer
the whole show, although he came close to being it,
This riplethreat All-American ably coached and
uno rted nv his a To
the face of the Ivies at time when 1t con-
sidered fashionable to poke fun at these colleges and
for that matter, at Eastern football in general.
Princeton, during Kazmaiers era, probably
good football team any in the country except that
it lacked depth. This due to stiff entrance exami
nations primarily, although the ban spring practice
ION which Caldwell openly frowned) didn't help. No
point in discussing how Princeton at its best stacked
with the richly endowed football colleges Let us
just say the Tigers played Interestingly team
Last Saturday fault could be found in the play Of
the top Ivy teams perhaps but you must admit they
we'll matched Brown which had shaded Yale, 212O
bowed by only TO to unbeaten Princeton while unbeaen
united Dartmouth needed a touchdown pass with 10
seconds left to tie Yale.
Well more than touchdown pass from yards out,
actually Yale pulled boo boo the final seconds when
an end Bill MacLean substituted for the second time in
the fourth quarter, period which he did not start.
1t Yale 15yard penalty and instead of having
the ball from prohbitive 40 yards out the Dartmouhs
had first down the Eli 25 Although its happened
4
made this Coach Jordan Oliver of Yale certainly
knows of the rule but should young MacLean Anyway
three plays and placement kick later it 1414 tie
GETTING BACK TO THE late Charley Caldwell. it
was Joe College stigma he used to say that cost
him major league in baseball Although Caldwell
was not garrulous man, once in while he talked Of
his trail with the Yankees in 1925.
At Princeton he had been quite pitcher and hitter.
The Yankees signed him and Caldwell figured in three
brief bullpen assignments neither winning nor losing
81 College. Worse was an Ivy Lacquer Other
wise think could have made it, Charley commented.
II fancied that I could hit. did in college. Not
once did the Yankees let me take batting practice"
Caldwell came up the summer husky-legged
coegian from Columbia Pitching in batting practice,
Charley hit Way Ppp the veteran first baSeman in
the head According to song and story Ppp complained
of headache and Manager Miller Higgins assigned the
clumsy German kid from Columbia to first base.
That was the end of Pipp, If the legend is true. OF
Caldwell too as Yankee. 1t the beginning for Lou
Gehrg.