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Show HOW FAR YALE MOPPED Not One on Present Football Squad Has Played on Championship Team. SERIES OF DEFEATS Captain Will Go Through College Col-lege Wtihout Playing on a Pennant Team. H New Haven, Conn., Nov. 22. How far Vale football has sunk of recenf H years la shown in thp fact that no H body on the present squad has played on a championship team, or a team which went through the scnson with H ' out a defeat Captain Ketcham will probably go through college without H playing on a championship team, a H rare experience for a YtJq captain. H Football when fortunes were differ- H cnt was recalled recently here at the H dinner Riven by William H. Corbiu H to the Vale eleven of 'SS. Corb'n H was center and captain of that team H : Around the board were cracks of 11 4 twenty five years ago. many of them H looking fit to Jump on the field H again at a moment's notice. The ruiler snapped the ball with H a his foot in those days, exerting pres H j sure on it to make It bound into the H Quarterback's hands Up to that h year word signals were used, but Cor- H bin and his men devised a system j, of sign signals which was used in H the Princeton game. Words wer? h still used, but they were a bluff. Pull- H ij ing the visor of the cap meant i Hj A kick. EJterythlng ( orbin did with his left hand in touching different Bj ;j parts of his uniform meant a play on that side of the Jne Thi rlta teni worked well, and then weri LbbbbbbbI LssT missed signals Old Time Records. W il If Although injuries hampered the i i l i work or the team it made ;,Jv points IHl rl.it! I to niinori' n none i 'riiiri ton was a I Wi.ll favorite over Vale. On the same day j ill that Yale played Wesleyan Princeton I J If mei Harvard Walter Camp and '. Corbm attended the Harvnrd-Princo v ton game. When tin y returned to lal New York that evening there was a ji1 irk.Tram from Mrs. Camp telling thnt ale had beaten Wesleyan 105 to 0, This appealed to a graduate 1 bach, ho hunted up r.ome Princeton met) S i B pnd got down a few bets at long odds -! before the Yale-Weslcyan result ,? 4 reached town The next day when the news was printed Primeton was I r not such a big favorite, fflr Officials weren t us strict ,in no Ab Mr. Corbln naively observes, "It was often a cas' of give and take In the Yale-Penn g'ime somebody swat-ted swat-ted QUI, the Yale left tackle, now a minister, in tho jaw. and knocked out two teeth Picking them up he show ed the in to the umpire and ex-"l ex-"l claimed. 'Now wllT you put him . I off?" ' .', It wasn't a heavy team that Corbin had. though doubtless a gomi deal heavier now. The team averaged on ly 162 pounds and the weight was d!s tributed as follows Ends. Lon Stragg 160. and Kid Wallace. 160; tackles. Bill Rhodes. 164. an I nis GUI, 170; guards tJawg Woodrufi 18.1, and Pudge K Heffelflnger 192; center. Pa Corb:n; 186; quarterback. Wirt Wurtemherg 138, halfbacks. Bum McClung. 151, and Billy Graves. 164; fullback. Bill Bull, 161. Gifford Plnchot was a sub-I sub-I -, stitute. |