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قراءة كتاب Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

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Football Days
Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

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Harvard, 1915
The Greatest Indian of Them All
Learning the Charge
Billy Bull Advising with Captain Talbot
Michigan's Famous Team
Columbia Back in the Game, 1915
Close to a Thriller. Erwin of Pennsylvania Scoring Against Cornell
Crash of Conflict. When Charge Meets Charge
Ainsworth, Yale's Terror in an Uphill Game
Two to One He Gets Away—Brickley Being Tackled by Wilson and Avery
Snapping the Ball with Lewis. "Two Inseparables"—Frank Hinkey and the Ball
Marshall Newell
McClung, Referee, Shevlin and Hogan


CONTENTS

I.—PREP. SCHOOL DAYS. 1-17
My First Glimpse of a Varsity Team—The Yale Eleven of 1891—Lee McClung—Vance McCormick—Heffelfinger—Sanford—Impressions made upon a Boy—St. John's Military School—Lawrenceville—Making the Team—Andover and Hill School Games.
II.—FRESHMAN YEAR. 18-29
The Freedom of Freshman Year is Attractive—Catching the Spirit of the Place—Searching for Football Material—The Cannon Rush—Early Training with Jack McMasters—Tie Game with Lafayette at Easton—Humiliation of being taken out of a Game—Cornell Game—Joe Beacham's Fair Admirer in the Bleachers—Bill Church's Threat Carried Out—Garry Cochran's Victories against Harvard and Yale.
III.—ELBOW TO ELBOW. 30-41
Dressing for Practice—Out upon the Field—Tackling—After Practice, Back to the Dressing-room—How a Player Finds Himself—The Training Table—Team Mates—A Surprise for John DeWitt's Team.
IV.—MISTAKES IN THE GAME. 42-53
If We could only Correct Mistakes We All Made—Defeats might be Turned into Victory—The Fellow that let Athletics be the Big Thing in His College Life—The '97 Defeat—No Recognition of Old Schoolmates—My Opponent was Charlie Chadwick—Jim Rodgers the Yale Captain—The Cochran-De Saulles Compact—Cochran Injured—His Last Game—Ad Kelly's Great Work—Mistakes Caused Sadness—Cornell Defeating Princeton at Ithaca in 1899—No Outstretched Hands at Princeton for our Homecoming.
V.—MY LAST GAME. 54-67
A Desire to Make the Last Game the Best—On to New Haven—Optimism—The Start of the Game—Bosey Reiter's Touchdown—Yale Scores on a Block Kick—Al Sharpe's Goal from the Field—Score 10 to 6, Yale Leading—Arthur Poe's Goal from the Field—Princeton Victory—The Joy of Winning—The Reception at Princeton.
VI.—HEROES OF THE PAST—EARLY DAYS. 68-92
Treasured Memory of Those who have Gone Before—Where are the Old-time Heroes?—Walter Camp—F. R. Vernon—Camp as a Captain—Chummy Eaton—John Harding—Eugene Baker—Fred Remington—Theodore McNair—Alexander Moffat—Wyllys Terry—Memories of John C. Bell.
VII.—GEORGE WOODRUFF'S STORY. 93-101
His Entrance to Yale—Making the Team—Recollections of the Men he Played With and Against—The Lamar Run—Pennsylvania Experiences.
VIII.—ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS. 102-124
Old-time Signals—Fun with Bert Hansen—Sport Donnelly—Billy Rhodes and Gill—Victorious Days at Yale—Corbin's 1888 Team—Pa Corbin's Speech when his Team was Banqueted—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Camp, Head Coaches of the Yale Football Team in 1888—Cowan the Great—Story of His Football Days—He was Disqualified by Wyllys Terry—Tribute to Heffelfinger—Going Back with John Cranston.
IX.—THE NINETIES AND AFTER. 125-163
The Day Sanford Made the Yale Team—Parke Davis—Sanford and Yost Obstructing the Traffic—Phil King—The Old Flying Wedges—Pop Gailey—Charlie Young—An Evening with Jim Rodgers—Vance McCormick and Denny O'Neil—Dartmouth and Some of Her Men—Dave

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