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did not know until some time after the game that 

 Andover had hired Yankee Sullivan, John C. 

 Heenan, and Awful Gardner, famous prize- 

 fighters, and had given them easy courses in 

 theology to keep them in school. They had tried 

 to work in Molyneux, the nigger who went to 

 England to fight Jackson, and they put pipe- 

 clay on him ; but it cracked and fell off the first 

 five minutes of play, and the Southerners of both 

 sides drew the color-line. 



"We had some outside assistance, too, for we 

 did n't intend to be behind in good works. So 

 we had introduced to the membership of the 

 Junior Class the three strongest men in town, all 

 blacksmiths, Jim Ellison, Charles Lane, and 

 Adoniram J. Towle. True enough, they had n't 

 been in the Academy long enough to get much 

 of a mastery of Latin or Greek, and intended 

 to return to their anvils as soon as the game was 

 over. 



"I was playing right guard against Yankee 

 Sullivan, and in the first line-up I got one in the 

 jaw that nearly floored me. I knew then what 

 was up, and the next time the ball was put in play 

 I dodged his left and put in a counter of my own, 

 and there was a hole in the Andover line through 

 which our right half-back made a run of forty- 

 five yards to a touchdown right between the 

 posts. After the goal was kicked and we went 



