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disloyal to the girl. "'Then you will quit,' was the command of the umpire, and the big tackle left the field, a substitute taking his place." Lueder, a Cornell tackle, one of the best in his day, mentions a personal affair that occurred in the Penn game in 1900, between Blondy Wallace and himself. Blondy's friends when they read this will think he had an off day in his general football courtesy. Lueder states: "When I was trying to take advantage of my opponent, I was outwitted and was told to play on the square. 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. When Richardson got up, he turned to de Saulles and said: "You fool, why did you tackle me? I lost a chance to be a hero." Yale, by the way, won that game by a score of 18 to 14. Yost relates a humorous experience he had at Michigan in 1901, which was his most successful season at that University. "Buffalo University came to Michigan with a much-heralded team. They were coached by a Dartmouth man and had not been scored upon. Buffalo papers referred to Michigan as the Woolly Westerners, and the Buffalo enthusiasts placed bets that Michigan would not score. The time regulation of the game, two halves, was thirty-five minutes, without intermission. At the end of the first half the score was 65 to 0. During this time many substitutions had been made, some nineteen or twenty men, so that every player Buffalo brought with them had at one time or another participated in the game. "The Buffalo coach came to me and said: "'Yost, we will have to cut this next half short.' "'Why?' I asked. Of course, I did not realize that every available man he had with him was used up, but I felt rather liberal at that stage of the game and said: "'Let them rest fifteen or twenty minutes for the intermission, and then use them over again; use them as often as you like. I don't care.' "About fifteen minutes after the second half had started, I discovered on Michigan's side of the field, covered up in a blanket, a big fellow named Simpson, one of the Buffalo players. I was naturally curious, and said: "'Simpson
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