CROIX DE GUERRE AWARDED TO 5 YALE AND 2 PRINCETON MEN

Yale has been represented by 29 graduates and undergraduates in the work of the American Ambulance Field Service in France, according to an article by A. Piatt Andrew, A.M. '95, in the Yale News.

Of these men, the following five have been awarded the Croix de Guerre for valor, under fire:

Robert Bowman, volunteer in section No. 1 since February 19; 1916, rendered service constantly day and night from August 20 to 30 in a zone particularly bombarded. His ambulance as well as the wounded whom he transported were struck by fragments of shells.

John Clark with section No. 3, received the award for intrepidity of service during the period from the 22nd of June to July 2.

Luke C. Doyle, also of section No. 3, safeguarded night and day for a fortnight with the utmost contempt of danger, the removal of many wounded over a mountain road swept by the enemy's fire.

Carroll Riggs, of section No. 2, showed noteworthy endurance, courage and calm in accomplishing the evacuation of a great number of wounded under an intense and uninterrupted bombardment.

William H. Woolverton, of section No. 1, was rewarded for superintending the removal of the wounded without any hesitation under almost incessant bombardment. At one time in a particularly exposed spot, he stopped his car and picked up some wounded men.

President Hibben, of Princeton, has recently received a letter from A. Piatt Andrew, P. 1893, A.M., Harvard '95, congratulating him on the gallant showing made by Princeton men in the American Ambulance Service. Of the 35 Princeton men in the Field Service of the American Ambulance enumerated in the Princeton game number of the CRIMSON, two have been awarded the Croix de Guerre for valor under fire. The two men who were so cited are Herbert Pell Townsend 1910 and Stanley Dill 1916.

Townsend, who enlisted as a volunteer in March, 1915, had never hesitated to risk his life, and had been of the greatest assistance in directing the retirement of the wounded under continual fire of the enemy. He was designated in the citation as "brave, loyal and of rare modesty."

Dell, also spoken of as a volunteer driver of devoted loyalty, was cited for showing great coolness and bravery by making a dangerous trip in broad day-light to bring back to an ambulance from a first aid station an officer who had been severely wounded.

Yale Line of "Tremendous Strength."

Sol Metzer, the coach of the Washington and Jefferson football team, in an article in the New York Times, says in regard to the Yale team:

"The Yale team is as powerful in material as any eleven I have ever seen. From end to end it is a line of tremendous strength, one which should play a stonewall defence against any running attack. Its backfield is as good as any I have seen in years when it is going strong, as the backs I have witnessed--Legore, Carey, Bingham and Smith--are well set up, have a drive that carries them forward when tackled and are exceedingly difficult to down in the open. On a dry field the attack is at its best. On a wet turf it lacks the punch and brilliancy that marks its work on firm footing, due to the principle folowed in advancing the ball off tackle or around the end.