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Updated: May 13, 2025
The Army had the ball and the fullback punted it to the center of the field. The Navy quarter tried to make a fair catch, but it slipped from his fingers. The Army center had run down under the kick and was close to the ball when it fell to the ground. The Navy men were so close behind that they would have piled on top of him if he had stooped to pick up the ball.
In a game between Penn' State and Dartmouth, Fred Crolius, of Dartmouth, says of Smith: "Andy Smith was one of the gamest men I ever played against. This big, determined, husky offensive fullback and defensive end, when he wasn't butting his head into our impregnable line, was smashing an interference that nearly killed him in every other play.
Sam was just ahead of him seemingly getting ready to bowl over the scrub fullback, who was racing down the field, eager-eyed, to tackle Tom. "If Sam disposes of him I will make a touchdown," mused Tom, and then Sam and the fullback came together. Sam went down in a heap at the first impact, and the fullback who was Henry Everett came on, scarcely hindered.
The fullback looked at him blankly. "My run?" he faltered. Diemann came between them. "Better lie down and rest a bit, my boy; you can talk later." Then, turning to the others: "You see," he whispered, "he's wandering a little yet." Two Pioneers and an Audience. "The Mother sits beside the bay, The bay goes down to wed the sea, And gone ye are, on every tide Wherever men and waters be!"
So far as he knew, every fellow was in the pink of condition, Jack was telling himself as lie worked at something up in his den that morning. He had been chiefly concerned about Big Bob; but this last little interview with the fullback gave him renewed confidence.
Phil King, Princeton's quarterback, was so amazed at the performance that he was too spellbound to tackle his comrade. Down the backfield the player sped towards his own goal. Shep Homans, his fullback, took in the impending catastrophe at a glance and dashed forward, laid the halfback low with a sharp tackle, thereby preventing a safety.
As Tom was panting from his long run, the other halfback was sent at the line with the ball. He did not gain much, and then the fullback was allowed to try. He gained a few feet. "We'd better kick," whispered the captain to Sam, who was giving the signals. "No, keep the ball," advised the coach. "I want the boys to have practice in bucking the line. Let Fairfield try again.
Walbridge and Barclay were a great team in themselves, backed up by Bray at fullback. It was this same team that, later in the fall, beat Pennsylvania, without the services of Captain Walbridge, who had been injured. It was not long after this that Princeton played Cornell at Princeton. I recall the day I first saw Joe Beacham, that popular son of Cornell, who afterwards coached West Point.
Was it only a fancy, or was it true that Sam had not made half a try to throw off the interference of the fullback? "You were easy," laughed the scrub lad. "I thought I was going to have trouble with you, Sam, but you were easy." "Aw, my foot slipped, and I fell, or you wouldn't have gotten me," asserted Sam, but to Tom's ears, somehow, the words did not ring true.
One often finds that the goody-goody boy of fifteen becomes the college fullback at twenty, that is, once thrown on the world, the really normal get back their birthright of character. I think it likely that now and then a feeling of inferiority is bred in this way, a feeling that may cling and change the current of a boy's life.
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