INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION ™ The College Football Historian ™ Expanding the knowledge and information on college football’s unique past—today! ISSN: 1526-233x [Octber 2010 Vol. 3 No. 9] circa: Jan. 2008 Tex Noel, Editor (
[email protected] ) http://www.secsportsfan.com/college-football-association.html All content is protected by copyright© by the author. Football Days post for a goal from the field. Years ago Lafayette and Pennsylvania Memories of the Game and of the State College were waging a close Men behind the Ball © 1900 game at Easton. Suddenly, and without being noticed, Morton F. Jones, Lafayette's famous center- By William H. Edwards rush in those days, left the field of play to change his head gear. The This anecdote will be a good one for ball was snapped in play and a fleet Parke Davis' friends to read, for how Penn State halfback broke through he ever stayed out of that talk-fest is Lafayette's line, and, armed with the a mystery—maybe he did. ball, dodged the second barriers and threatened by a dashing sprint to Now that Yost and Sanford have score in the extreme corner of the retired we will let Parke continue. field. As he reached the 10-yard line, to the amazement of all, Jones "A few years ago everybody except dashed out of the side line crowd Dartmouth men laughed at the upon the field between the 10-yard football which, bounding along the line and his goal, thereby ground at Princeton suddenly intercepting the State halfback, jumped over the cross bar and gave tackling him so sharply that the to Princeton a goal from the field latter dropped the ball.