Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William Hanford Edwards
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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 |
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