Show STUDENT LIFE The battle is over the shinguard and headgear are things of the past the voice of the knocker is no longer heard the yelp of the quarter-hac- k has given place to the moan of wintry winds and — the championship is again in possession of the ’Varsity The team developed by Maddock heat us fairly squarely We have no cause to complain Although the score doesn't indicate it we put up a good fight as good a fight as was possible under the circumstances We have no desire to come forward We don’t think with explanations It necessary The condition of the Aggies at the time when thev were compelled to enter the big game of the year was such that a blind man could see they were fearfully handicapped The men were too badly beaten up to play their style of ball as it should be played The tandem formations lacked the driving force necessary to make them gain yards The lT of U plays a style of ball that puts up a large score or doesn’t score at all We hoped to prevent them from scoring by breaking up their formations back of the line The crippled condition of the men rendered this impossible There was however one thing that tended to lessen the bitterness of defeat and that was the support given the defeated team by the Agricultural College roofers Football we are told is played to develop college spirit We agree in a way but add that that college spirit tastes 7 better if it is washed down with the chaser of victory than if it is shaken up with the ice of defeat and gulped down V ho that saw that demonstration on the occasion of our defeat who that heard the cheers that continued to urge on the defeated players the cheers that showed no signs of lessening even though the score did pile up can say that although our crop of “goose eggs" is large we haven’t accomplished something? A school that can muster six hundred rooters who are willingo to ogo a hundred miles to cheer for an already defeated team for we were not blind and could not but see what our fate would probably be has indeed accomplished the object football is supposed to accomplish But to the game After the first few downs it was evident that the Our line Aggies were plunges lacked spirit The men frequently broke through but always alone and straight up and in this condition were easily handled by the ’Varsity backs Bennion Wade and Russell did star work for the University Wade's quartVrback run was good for big gains and this in addition to his ability to run men stamps him as a quarter of extraor-dinar- v abilitv Bennion ' aside from his line plunging kicked two field goals one of them from the fifty-yar- d line a feat unparalleled in the Bennion could make good West with a bigger team Russell made more ground than out-class- ed al-wa- mf vs |