“The story of my run in 1898 is very simple.  Yale tried a mass play on Doc Hillebrand, which, as usual, was very unsuccessful in that quarter.  He broke through and tackled the man with the ball.  While the Yale men were trying to push him forward, I grabbed the ball from his arms and had a clear field and about ten yards start for the goal line.  I don’t believe I was ever happier in my life than on this day when I made the Princeton team and scored this touchdown against Yale.

“In the second half McBride tried a center drive on Booth and Edwards.  The line held and I rushed in, and grabbed the ball, but before I got very far the Referee blew his whistle, and after I had run across the goal line I realized that the touchdown was not going to be allowed.

“Lew Palmer and I were tried at end simply to endeavor to provide a defense against the return runs of de Saulles on punts.  He, by the way, was the greatest open field runner I have ever seen.

“My senior year started auspiciously and the prospects for a victorious eleven appeared especially bright, as only two of the regular players of the year before had graduated.  The first hard game was against Columbia, coached by Foster Sanford, who had a wealth of material drawn from the four corners of the earth.  In the latter part of the game my opponent by way of showing his disapproval of my features attempted to change them, but was immediately assisted to the ground by my running mate and was undergoing an unpleasant few moments, when Sanford, reinforced by several dozen substitutes, ran to his rescue and bestowed some unkind compliments on different parts of my pal’s anatomy.  With the arrival of Burr McIntosh and several old grads, however, we were released from their clutches, and the game proceeded.

“After the Cornell game the Yale game was close at hand.  We were confident of our ability to win, though we expected a bitter hard struggle, in which we were not disappointed.  Through a well developed interference on an end run, Reiter was sent around the end for several long gains, resulting in a touchdown, but Yale retaliated by blocking a kick and falling on the ball for a touchdown.  Sharpe, a few minutes later, kicked a beautiful goal, so that the score was 10 to 6 in Yale’s favor.  The wind was blowing a gale all through the first half and as Yale had the wind at their backs we were forced to play a rushing game, but shortly after the second half began the wind died down considerably so that McBride’s long, low kicks were not effective to any great extent.

“Yale was on the defensive and we were unable to break through for the coveted touchdown, though we were able to gain ground consistently for long advances.  In the shadow of their goal line Yale held us mainly through the wonderful defensive playing of McBride.  I never saw a finer display of backing up the rush line than that of McBride during the second half.  So strenuous was the play that eight substitutions had been made on our team, but with less than five minutes to play we started a furious drive for the goal line from the middle of the field, and with McClave, Mattis and Lathrope carrying the ball we went to Yale’s 25-yard line in quick time.