“The funniest appeal I ever had made to me was made by a player years ago who asked that time be taken out in order that he might change a perfectly good jersey for one of a different color.  It seems he had lost his jersey and had borrowed one from a player on the home team.  When I asked him why he wanted to change his jersey he replied: 

“’Because my own team are kicking the stuffing out of me and I must get a different colored jersey.  At times my team mates take me for an opponent.’

“In a game where it was necessary to caution the players against talking too much to their opponents one particularly curious incident occurred.

“One team, in order to give one of the larger college elevens a stiff practice game, had put in the field two or three ringers.  The big college team men were rather suspicious that their opponents were not entirely made up of bona fide students.  A big tackle on the larger team made the following remark to a supposed ringer: 

“’I’ll bet you five to one you cannot name the president of your college.’  The answer came back, ’Well, old boy, perhaps I can’t, but perhaps I can show you how to play tackle and that’s all I’m here for.’”

The Princeton-Yale game of 1915 was one of the most bitterly contested in the history of football.  Princeton was a strong favorite, but Yale forced the fighting and had their opponents on the defensive almost from the beginning.  Princeton’s chances were materially hurt by a number of severe penalties which cost her considerably in excess of one hundred yards.  Each of the officials had a hand in the infliction of the penalties, but the Referee, who happened to be Nate Tufts of Brown, had, of course, to enforce them all by marking off the distance given to Yale and putting the ball in the proper place.

In the evening after the game, a number of football officials and others were dining in New York; in the party was a Princeton graduate, who was introduced to Mr. Tufts, the Referee of the game of the afternoon.  At the introduction the Princeton man remarked that when he was a boy he had read of Jesse James, the McCoy brothers, and other noted bandits and train robbers, but that he took off his hat to Mr. Tufts as the king of them all.

Okeson, a star player of Lehigh and prominent official, recalls this game: 

“In 1908 I umpired in a memorable game which took place at New Haven between Yale and Princeton, which resulted in a victory for Yale, 12-10.  This was before any rule was inserted calling for the Referee to notify the teams to appear on the field at the beginning of the second half.  At that time a ten-minute intermission was allowed between the halves.  The first half closed with the score 10-0 in favor of Princeton.  At the end of about seven minutes Mike Thompson, who was Referee, following the custom that had grown up, although no rule required it, left the field to notify the teams to return.