Show r s I EA EARLY FOOT- FOOT fo foI BALL ALL I I The following bit of mongrel verse is copied copied from the first volume of the U Uni University ni- ni Chronicle of the issue of January 9 I 1893 93 The ne editorial remark following it it is also copied from the same The two clippings clippings are interesting as giving a glimpse of what was possibly the first I year year ear of football at the U. U of U. U Hew the Farmers Beat the Dudes Dades at Football Ill I'll I tell you how the farmers do And how they won the victory too Of course course it will be nothing new They win one every day or two CHORuS CHORDS Boom ta to ra rum boom ba ray Boom ta to ra rum boom ba ray Boom ta to ra rum boom ba ray Boom ta to ra rum boom ba ray Through gh the summer tl they ey grow wheat And And nd other things dudes like to eat And And nd when they run they are so fleet No wonder that the dudes were beat half the game till they could play And nd all at once found out the way The The he dudes as well give up the day The he farmers won with easy sway The The he U. U of U Us U.'s s came here from Salt Lake Feeling eeling sure to to make a fake fake But ut found the A. A C. C Us U.'s awake end And nd their fine playing did not take Now ow t the e. e boys have gone away W Ve e w will meet them them a another o her day 11 And nd well we'll 11 we always have them say A. A Cs C.'s took th the prize aw away y When the time spring-time comes again fP- fP We will be up and at it then To show that farm farmers rs still are are re men t tAnd And dudes in the st len are soup jl just then I will tell you something more Some had not seen seen a ga game e before Well We'll hold our own for evermore j With the boys from Salt Lakes Lake's shore W. W WW W. W r F For or the information of the poet we will say that the University of Utah team Y never pretended to be invincible It was organized last fall by a few lovers of football football football foot- foot ball who play the game for the sport f that it affords and in all their contests are prepared if fortune should happen to tobe tobe tobe be against them to accept the defeat as An attack in comic valentine valentine valentine valen valen- tine style s such ch as the above does not injure injure in- in jure juie them |