Show Recall Old Times Plaster Cast on Hand Helps Grid Attack Praise Ha Harvard v rd s Halfback By Dy JOE WILLIAMS Special to The Telegram NEW YORK Nov 3 Sitting 3 Sitting around with the Old of 16 the he other night You night You were wrong when you referred to that 1916 team as one of the great Yale teams of all aU tune time corrected correct d Mr Tad Jones the coach It was scarcely that But if you had called itne it one ne of the most o t courageous us Yale teams of all time tune you would have been completely correct Mr Ir Jones had just received a wrist watch from the Old and he was recalling incidents of the he period In which the players now grown to middle age dignity figured It was very evident this was one of his hll favorite groups Perhaps Perhaps Per- Per haps laps the fact that It was the first college ollege team he ever coached stirred his ils sentimentality The year before Mr Ir Jones took charge the were pretty ter ter- ter- ter They were beaten by Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Washington and Jefferson Colgate Brown and Harvard As a matter of ot truth they were massacred by Harvard The score was 41 They just did beat Lehigh Le- Le high by a point But Dut the first year Mr Jones wa sin charge the beat everybody but Brown And lAnd I want to tell you fellows here and now said Mr Jones buckling on his new wrist watch Mr Jones was in charge the for you This was was as news even to the Old themselves Mr Jones asked them to recall what he ho had bad said in the dressing room between halves of ot the Brown gameWell game Well VeIl It If you dont don't remember Ill I'll tell teil you went on Mr Me Jones We had Brown beaten 6 Q at the half and I told you fellows to take it easy in the second halt half to save yourselves for the Princeton and Harvard games on the following Saturdays I broke up your concentration concentration con con- and your Int intensity of ot I spirit I asked you to let down m and you did It w was s a costly mistake Pollards Pollard's Dash to Touchdowns I I Contributes to Yale Letdown i Mr Mac Baldridge the congressman congress congress- man from Omaha raised a point of ot j order Tad If It you dont don't mind my saying sayin so so a fellow by the name of Fritz ritz Pollard had a lot to do with what you call our letdown that afternoon All he did was run for three touchdowns I dont don't think any of ot us has laid Wd a hand on that ne negro o yet et Mr Jones shuddered Please dont don't mention Pollard I can still see aee him racing across our goal line I wouldn't be surprised 1 if he wasn't just Juit about the best ball baU carrier any of ot us ever saw The of 16 were the first from New Haven to beat a Harvard team coached by Percy Haughton The victory came caine after eight straight years ears of frustration This in Itself distinguishes the Yates of or 16 18 In Ia the history of ot Ell Eli 11 foot loot ball ballI I think I can tell you something some ome- thing about the advance nce tiona for lor that game that ml might ht Interest Interest interest in In- terest you said Mr Jones In Ia those days day Percy used to equip his hU linesmen with tight skin gloves of hard bard leather Jeather which reached well up the tore forearm arm Purportedly this was to protect the linesmen's hands and wrists and I suppose it did But the effect on the opposing linesmen was not at all pleasant To be frank about it it the effect was like being hit by a pair of brass Well Vell the day before the name game ame ameI I called on Percy and told him I I had ordered a similar set of gloves for the Yale linesmen which lInesmen which was the truth truth and and that if It he be insisted on using wing the leather coverings co I was going to use them too Why If you feel we shouldn't use we the gloves answered Percy we we just wont won't use them thorn I never knew you had the slightest objection objection tion 3 assured him we had a avery avery avery very positive objection and so the equipment was wu discarded by both sid sides u. u Mr tr Larry Fox For the barrister who was recently mentioned In the gazettes gazettes gazettes ga ga- ga- ga for the conspicuous part he be played in the reorganization of or Universal Universal Uni Uni- versal enal nudged Mr M. Tim Callahan the America AU-America center and chuckled I 1 notice Tad Isn't telling anything anything any any- thing about that plaster paris parts cast castI I wore on my right hand all aU during the game I was wu supposed to have havea a bad hand but there wasn't anything anything any any- thing thins wrong with it it and when I hit one of those Harvard hed he'd drop like Uke a ton of brick I dont don't think are You you telling me anything new about that cast do you vou ou roared Mr Callahan This was enough to make an In Innocent In In- bystander er gasp In shocked oa OIl P Pigs PaCt t I Yale Aces Recall Great Old Times Continued from Preceding Page amazement I mean the revelation that hat the once went in for leather eather thongs and at least one of the molded his fist in plaster paris pads with mayhem aforethought Didn't those gentlemen have any reverence for the dear old ivy that crawled along the sacred walls Someone mentioned Pudge one of the old old of ot 16 I told the fellows to go goeasy goeasy goeasy easy with him He was pretty close to 50 then They lined up with tolerant amusement and Pudge came tearing into the line Une He did this a second time and a third time ime Cupid Black sitting over there here In the corner was our cap cap- tam ain Cupe came caine to me and said This old guys guy's roughing us up Why cant can't we fight back bacle I told him to go ahead and fight tight back On the he next play Pudge smashed through Cupe and Mac Baldridge and flattened both ot of of them Baldridge Baldridge Baldridge Bal Bal- dridge came up with three broken ribs Cupe Cups came up to me again a badly bruised and chastened young man Get that old so and nd so off oft the field Hes He's ruining our team |