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Show SOPHOMORES WIN IN L. D. S. COLLEGE RUSH ; New Torm of .Sport I3 Adopted at Church School to Test Supremacy as Between the Classes. The "college rush" between the sophomores sopho-mores and freshmen of the L. D. S. university uni-versity yesteniay afternoon resulted In a decisive victory for the second-year students. stu-dents. The game of "college rush" Is new to local sport circles, so far as settling set-tling the question of supremacy between the two lower classes in high school and college is concerned. Flag rushes and push-ball contests have been the old stand-bys in former years, but the local church school authorities decided to adopt a new method of procedure be-t be-t ween the two classes, and the "college rush" was seleel e.1 ss the most likely means of furnishing the most sport anil interest to both participants and spectators. spec-tators. Jn the "college rush," the students of tho two organizations line up on each side of a designated line and the sophomores sopho-mores attempt lo pull, carry or otherwise escort all the freshmen possible over the line Into second-year territory. The Infants In-fants may do the same thing to the sophomores, and the side pulling all the men of the other sido over the line is declared the winner. When t he whistle blew, the freshmen started with n rush mid for a lew moments mo-ments had everything their own way. but the sophomores soon overcame the advantage ad-vantage and were far In the lead. The officials discovered, after the game was well under way, that many of the bov? were not following the rules, nnd were going back into the game after they had been oflieiully declared out. With the c'onsent of the leaders of the two classes, the game was started over, and It lasted more than an hour ln-fore, the Inst freshman fresh-man was put out of the garno. Tho ofllcials tn charge of the contest were A . C Van Huron, George Rvuear-wou, Rvuear-wou, liobhle Ulchnrdson and Deo Kporry of the Deseret gymnasium and several members of the high school faculty. |