Show WARFARE OF CLASSES modern football mere play to tales old sophomore struggle theo organization and development of intercollegiate athletics now absorb much of theo energy that used to be given to the furious internecine warfare of classes from time immemorial there waorree mighty games of football on the kneeww haven green in which whole classes engaged the freshmen posted their formal challenge on theo bulletin of lyceum and the supercilious accept-ance of the ssoopphhoommoorersea named the day for tthhoe struggle cgoommee cried thae class of C6O0 and like sacrifices in their trim to theo fire eyed maid of smoky wmaarr all hot and bleeding will wo offer you and tho of 58 cheered bhiigs mates with tthhoe boblo lines let them come on the baseborn crewl each soil stained churl alack I1 what gain they but a skull A sod for their baso backI1 on the bloody day appointed feiiddeess massed in heavy column with na-poleoonniicc ttaacct tceiiss while the new haven fathers surrounded thhoe field when tthhoe rroouunnd1I leather ball was kicked men clashed together in frantic shoving dusty roaring chaos theo one sideo striv-ing to 1kiicckk theo ball to the chapel street fence itheo other to force it to tthhoe steps of the ssttaattechhoouussee swift runners hung upon the outskirts to seilzeo theo ball chance directed to tahbeeiirr feet and hurry it amid full gazing UaPpplause to the goal but it was in theo middle press where deeds were uncrowned where shirts be-came streamers and rib squeezed rib until they crackecdd that tthhoe hbeerrooeses of war and the college bully were to beo found arora this titanic struggle the degenerates of today have evolved the emasculated game which they call foot ball a wretched sort of parlor ppaastime I1 judge henry E howland in scrib nneerraa |