Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-25 | Page 7 | Cupid Black's Fame Reaches Far, Indeed

CUPID BLACK'S FAME REACHES FAR, INDEED A good story Is going the rounds of how "Cupid" Black, former Yale football star, was recognized by a German submarine sub-marine commander. Black, who piloted the Newport naval training station team last year and is accounted one of the greatest centers in the business, wag so famous that he was known oven In Germany. - Black was a member' of the crew of the Abraham Lincoln, which was attacked at-tacked by a submarine, and another member mem-ber of the crew is authority for the statement state-ment that when Black asked the captain cap-tain -of the submarine for permission to leave the raft to which the crew had been transferred to go aboard the Lincoln, the captain responded in faultless English, En-glish, "Certainly, 'Cupid' Black, you may go." "How did you know my name?" queried Black. "Saw you play football In New Haven three years ago," tho German answered.