Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Paul LeRoy Robeson, '19 Paul Robeson, '19, is considered by most people as Rutgers' greatest athlete. Roby played end on the Rutgers varsity football team for four years. In his senior year he was an end on the Brst all-American eleven, and has been named by many authorities as one of the greatest football players of all time. His football career was not finished in a blaze of glory, but was ended in a rather unsuccessful year. This, how- ever, deteriorates nothing from his value as a player. Roby was also one of the greatest basketball players of Rut- gers, playing varsity center for three years. As catcher on the baseball team for two seasons he made a creditable record and was an excellent weight thrower in track, only having time, however, to win one letter, that in his junior year. In four years Roby un- deniably amassed the best all-round record ever to have been credited to any Rutgers man. He was a member of Cap and Skull, Phi Beta Kappa, Philo, the Glee Club and the Debating Society, and was a class ofricer for two years. His athletic record is probably the best ever held by any one man, for not only did he win ten varsity letters in the four major s orts, but he was also a star in each Branch of athletics in which he participated. H omer Howard Hazel, '25 Football is the one universal topic of conversation among college men. Homer Hazel left future sons of Rut- gers a great deal to talk about when he graduated in 1925. He stands out as the only man ever to make Walter Camp's all-American eleven at two dif- ferent positions in two years, being placed at end in 1923 and at fullback in 1924. Pop, as he was known, first came to Rutgers in 1916, playing on the varsity in his freshman year. He left college at the time of the war, returning in the fall of 1922. He played on four varsity teams, winning his letter in football, basketball and track, inf addi- tion to being a member of the baseball squad. His greatest year was in 1924, when he led the East in points after touchdown with twenty-Eve, and was fourth in scoring, his brilliant running mate, Heinie Benkert, showing the way. In naming him on his mythical team in 1924, Walter Camp rated Hazel as the greatest kicker and passer of the season, and one of the fastest and hard- est running backs. His college record in the shotput has stood since 1924. He was a regular guard on the basket- ball team for two years.

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Robert Arthur Nash, '16 Bob Nash, '16, was one of the lead- ing athletes of Rutgers while he attended this University. He came here from Cornell, where he had played on the freshman football team. He made the varsity in his first year out and in his junior year was one of the news- papers' choices for all-American honors. In'his senior year he made the mythical team as tackle and was one of the best men ever to have played at Rutgers. In his junior year he played regularly at center on the basketball team and repeated this in his senior year. As a trackman he was also very valuable. He won his letter in this sport in his junior and senior years. His main event was the shot put, but he also competed in the discus throw, broad jump and pole vault. He was for a short time the college record holder in putting the shot. He tried out for the decathlon at the Penn relays but was not very suc- cessful. His most notable success, how- ever, was in football. As a member of the 1915 team he helped this team com- pile an extremely enviable recordg one defeat and the rest overwhelming vic- torres. Howard P. Talman, '17 All-American football players and poets are both common, but a combina- tion of the two is a rare occurrence. Rutgers may boast of one in Howard P. Talman, '17. His football ability is proven by the selections of the late Walter Camp, and a small but cred- itable book of verse in his fraternity house is evidence to his literary talents. It is with his athletic skill, however, that this resume is concerned. Talman entered Rutgers in the fall of 1912 and made the football team at left halfback as a freshman. His brilliant work as a ball carrier and all-round player earned him a berth on the first all- American team. He was chosen to cap- tain the eleven in 1915, but he left college in the middle of his junior year, cutting short a promising athletic and all-round undergraduate career. His athletic prowess was not limited to the gridiron, for he won a varsity R as a guard on the basketball team during the 1912-13 season. His football abil- ity was useful on the basketball court, and his leadership was a material factor in the success o the quintet. Talman was also a talented performer in the shot and discus on the track team.