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Show PRINCETON HAS PRODUCED I WHY GREAT RUNNERS THE recent eighty-five yard run H Uy "Hobey" Baker, the Tigers' H star halfback, in the gamo H tvith Dartmouth adds one IH more to Princeton's long list ot sensa- H tionaJ runners Last year it was Sam H White, the Tigers' star end. It will bo H remembered that it was White's sixty- H five yard run that beat Yalo, and tho H week before ho ran eighty-five yard3 H and defeated Harvard Princeton naa H bfen doing this ever slncu football was H started at the university. H On tho 1S85 team, on which Henry H Cummlngs Lamar of Augusta. Go., was H the pronounced star. Lamar won a M game, single handed from Yalu, his run H for tho fength of the field turning do- H feat into victory and making of him a H hero. IH Henry Lamar was well known ai:d H popular In Georgia, being of an old and H prominent family, and his record In H his chosen profession was as bright as H his gridiron career. Since the long run H of White a couple of weeks ago much H has been said of sensational plays by IH Princeton players, r.otably that of La- ' H mar. jH Three times ere White made his cot? jH famou3 dnsh Princeton had honored jM sons for similar fine feats. Lamar H was the flist to make such a spectneu- H lar run. lar back In JS85, when Prince- H ton was playing Yale at NerW Haven. ' M Then Herman Suter rnado a famous H run in a game against Harvard at H I Princeton op Nov. 2. 1895. Latr H Arthur Poo of the famous Poo family. jH ail Princeton men and football players. jH ran the length of the field for a touch- H down lu a gamo with Yale at Prince- H ton on Nov. 12. 1898. Princeton won ol H these games. H Recalls Lamar's Run. H Few ot this generation of football H followers aro acquainted with the facts H connected with Lamar's famous run. H The gamo was played In New Haven j H Nov. 21, 1S85. Somo of lhe(most fa- j H mous Princeton and Yalo players of H all tlmo took part In the game. In the ( ' M first half Watklnson, Yalo's left half- M back, dropped a goal from field, which , H counted five points. Tho play was very H oven, both sides resorting to a kicking M game. Harry Becchcr, a grandson of H the great Henry Ward Beecher. was M playing quarterback for tho Blue. ' M Close to the end of the first half he M caught a punt on Princeton's forty- H five yard line and ran through a bro- , H ken field for a touchdown. The acoro i 1 was not allowed for the reason that M Becchcr had gone out of bounds. Parke M H. Davis tells the story of Lamar's f 1 "Only ten minutes are left to play. ' M Yaje starts a steady but slow advanco H Itov.ard Princeton's goal. Peters. Hho j M Yalo captain, call3 for a kick. Tho ball H Is passed to Watklnson, who sends a IH long, high punt down the fiold. Tho H ball strikes tho ground and bounds JH toward tho slda line. Lamar seizes It JH on the bound and with a peculiar lop- ; H ing but swift motion darts between 'H Corwin and Wallace. Turning sharp- , H ly he runs along the southern side line. ' Bull and Beecher mass to tackle or to j ! force him out of bounds With In- , I IH credible swiftness ho turns suddenly H to tho right, and as Beecher leaps to tackle dodges beneath him and thus. H dives Into a clear field Peters, coming H up swiftly from behind. Is overtaking H him. As they reach the last lino Pe- ters dives, but Lamar springs away ' and crosses tho lino for a touchdown. H R. M. Hodge kicks tho goal." , H Kick Wins Gamo. H Lamar's touchdown did not tlo tho H score, but counted only four points, but j ! when Hodge kicked tho goal It gavo H Princeton two points one point more H than Yale and It was by a scoro ot 6 j H to 5 that the Orange and Black won f H the game. H Henry Cummlngs Lamar ("Tllly,M as H he was affectionately known among M his college friends and teammates) was j H a great football player ono of tho best M backs of his tlmo. Ho was a powerful man, fast and a most skillful dodger. H Ho played threo years In the Princeton H back field. The game In which ho mado his famous run was the last he ever M played. He was graduated tho follow- H Ing spring In the class of 18S6. H L,amar met his death as a hero. Na- j turo had endowed him with a brave, i M fearless, courageous spirit. Boating jj H with a lady friend In March, 1S91, La- ! mar attempted to run a dangorous jj IH rapid, using only a slnglo oar to scull . H tho boat. Tho oar broko and the boat I H capsized. Lamar, who was an export H swimmer, easily could havo saved him- IH self, but ho mado a heroic but futllo . i H effort to savo his companion, anM both I H were drowned beforo aid could reach , H thorn. H |