Show STUDENT LIFE read he thought he could write a letter to a cousin in Mexico thoght he could go to sleep thought he — well he thought he He pictured Ralph Freedam making the long flying tackle and — why he didn’t think anything more about himself because he had heard that foot over ball players who day-dreacould win the game m their star playing usually “grand stand” in a game At last eleven thirty came Why was he so ner- Was not this the same lunch the same fellows in the same place just the same as any other day? Why couldn’t he eat heartily today? At 2:15 the east bleachers were a mass of streaming purple and the west looked one sheet of orange and still the crowd kept coming First Benton cheered then Algo-th- y until it seemed that it was nothing more than an echo bounding first from one mass of humanity and then from the other But when would the teams come? Two twenty came The band played to the tune of a college song and still no team At last someone yelled at the top of his voice from vous? the highest bleacher “Here they come ’’then ten thousand people jumped to their feet with head turned toward the open gate Here stringing one at a time on a good 99 swinging trot right out into the arena came the two teams You see a fellow in shirt sleeves stick in hand in front of each sea of color frantically trying to get the attention of the crowd At last he gets it yes both leaders at the same time and then you hear such Babylon as you never heard before You see each team line up one in purple jersys the other in orange 1 hey run through a series of queer motions that you don’t exactly Then they scatter understand out and you see two sets of fellows try a little kicking Finally one man from each team and another fellow cr two in citizens clothes meet in the center of the field and have a short consultation You hear a queer whistle and then another still different At last one team scatters out in a regular formation and the other forms in line in the middle of the field with the ball set on one end in front of them The whistle blows the men rush the ball flies in the air and the game is on You see them run One and dodge and finally stop team lines up one way and the other team another They crowd first down the field then up again The teams seems very evenly matched First one side kicks the ball and then the other One side tries end runs and trick plays then the other |