Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Donald G. Starck, '20 We point with pride to the record of our freshman football team last fall. The man who led the yearlings in their gallant efforts was Donald Storck, '20. Storck's life at Rutgers was rather short. He left here in his sophomore year to go to West Point. While he was here Don played left end on the football team and did his job with distinction. To keep himself busy in the springtime, he used to go out and pitch a few innings of baseball of fine quality. He was such a good pitcher that professional scouts were watching him, and when he finished his army training he was offered a tryout with one of the leading Big League teams. He turned down the offer, how- ever, and went into business in Newark. It was from that city that Head Coach Rockafeller brought Storck to guide the destinies of the Rutgers fresh- man football team. He has won the confidence and admiration of all the men who played under him, and has prepared some of the finest potential football material that Rutgers has had in some time. Too much emphasis can- not be placed on the point that the men who will be the backbone of the team for the next few years received their training from Storck. We look forward to his return as yearling coach next year, and wish him lots of luck. Herbert Henry Meyers, '23 Herb Meyers, '23, was the best hurdler ever developed at Rutgers. Strangely enough, he won his first medal when he competed with the East Side High School relay team at the Rut- gers Interscholastic Relays. In 1920 Meyers became the Middle Atlantic States champion and record holder in both the 220-yard low hurdles and the 120-yard high hurdles, when he ran the former in 24 515 seconds and the latter in 15 415 seconds. He repeated these victories in 1922 and 1923. He was also the Metropolitan champion in the senior outdoor 220-yard hurdles in 1921, and in the 120-yard high hurdles and 100-yard low hurdles in 1922. One of the remarkable achievements of this speedy Rutgers star was his establishing a world's record in the 100-yard indoor hurdles, by negotiating the distance in the fast time of 119110 seconds. Be- fore he left the classic halls of Old Queens Herb made two Rutgers records which still stand, by covering the 220- yard low hurdles in 24 5110 seconds and the 120-yard high hurdles in 15 415. The most remarkable feat accomplished by this young man, how- ever, and the one to which we point with the most pride, was his splendid victory in capturing the Junior National Championship in the 220-yard outdoor low hurdles in 1922.

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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.

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Roasrrs Edwin Bogert Roberts, '28 Edwin Bogert Roberts, '28, is one of the best all-round athletes ever to have been developed at Rutgers. Eddie's athletic prowess was very slight upon entering college, and his fame was hardly greater at the end of his first year, for he had failed to make any of the freshman teams. But how he made up for it later! His develo ment was extremely rapid, so that his iilnal record was very creditable. He was, without doubt, one of the best forwards any Rutgers basketball team has ever had. His cool, collected attitude on the court characterized him to perfection. In lacrosse he was absolutely nonchalant, but was a pillar of strength. In his junior year he was on the second all- American team, and in his senior year, during which he was captain, he was adjudged one of the best stick wielders in the country. In his senior year Eddie decided to make a try at football. His success may be determined by looking up the records. Here one will End him mentioned as one of the stars of the 1927 season. Elmer Gladstone Bracber, 'I 8 To the men in college now, the World War seems an abstract some- thing that they heard a lot about in their very early teens. It is hard to realize that men left college and even high school in order to enter into that great struggle. One of the men who certainly deserves a place in Rutgers' Athletic Hall of Fame left college at the end of his junior year and joined the United States Infantry. Toady Bracher did about as much for Rutgers in an athletic way during the three years that he was down here as any man possibly could. He played baseball and basketball along with the squad, and was a halfback on the foot- ball team. He played in the good old days when Rutgers was right at the top in every line of athletic activity. Bracher was also a bright light socially. He was on both the Sopho- more Hop and Junior Prom committees and was all lined up for Cap and Skull. It is unfortunate that the War cut short such a promising career.