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When Brown men discuss football their recollections go back to the days of Hopkins and Millard, of Robinson, McCarthy, Fultz, Everett Colby and Gammons, Fred Murphy, Frank Smith, the giant guard; that great spectacular player, Richardson, and other men mentioned elsewhere in this book. In a recent talk with that sterling fellow, Dave Fultz, he told me something about his football career.
I took Wallace's advice and never played a nicer game of football in my life. Just this little reprimand, from an older player, taught me a lot of football." In the Yale-Brown game, back in 1898, Richardson, that wonderful Brown quarterback, received the ball on a double pass from Dave Fultz and ran 65-yards before he was downed by Charlie de Saulles, the Yale quarterback, on Yale's 5-yard line.
He said, 'All right, if you want water on the knee. I said, 'I've got to go if I am at all able. Anyway, I went on down to New York with the team and played in the game. All I needed was to get warmed up good and I went along in great shape." Those who remember reading the accounts of that game will recall that Dave Fultz made some miraculous runs that day and was a team in himself.
I don't think there was ever a better quarterback than Wyllys D. Richardson, Rich, as we used to call him." Dave Fultz is very modest and when he discusses his football experiences he sidetracks one and talks of his fellow college players. Now that I have pinned him down, he goes on to say: "The day before we played the Indians one year my knee hurt me so much that I had to go to the doctor.
Fred Murphy, who was captain of the '98 team at Brown and played end rush, says: "I think Dave Fultz played under more difficulties than any man that ever played the game. I have seen him play with a heavy knee brace. He had his shoulder dislocated several times and I have seen him going into the game with his arm strapped down to his side, so he could just use his forearm.
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