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If a senior were asked to tell of the most enjoyable experience of his college life he would probably describe the summer camp in Alta A Junior in answer to the same ame question might tell of the midnight fight with the 07 class classon on the hill But no matter what his class if he were a member of the 1906 football squad you would hear of the Bennion chicken chick chick- en dinner For a week the team had been looking forward to the big spread in honor of Captain Fred Bennion's birthday The celebration celebration celebration tion was to be on Saturday September September Sep Sep- 29 and on Friday Coach i. i Maddock announced that the i i I team would play a practice game with the team from the Taylorsville Taylorsville Taylorsville Taylors- Taylors ville Athletic Association Of course there is no such team and the story was only another of Maddocks Maddock's jokes but it was taken taken taken tak tak- en seriously by at least one member member member mem mem- ber of the team and by the student student student stu stu- dent reporters for the Salt Lake papers This was soon evident when we met on Main street to take the Murray car Sutherland was there among the first with three charming young ladies who were going along to see their gallant escort cover himself with glory in the game with the Taylorsville Tigers k But Sutherland was not the only dupe of cf Maddocks Maddock's practical joke W e emust not f forget Jensen Roberts and These aspiring youths their pockets bulging with copy paper and their minds filled with thoughts of a big story rode out with the bunch to report their first football game Fred met us in in Murray with a abig abig big hay rack a and d drove us over to his home in Taylorsville Strange to relate some of the fellows from Michigan had never heard of this thriving city but Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin Benja Benja- min was there with a tion He said Theres Salt Lake Ogden Provo Logan then Tay Tay- I might write pages telling of the apples peaches pears and rr plums which we ate and of the football practice ice out on the lucern field but I must reserve reserve the space for more important events As we came in n from practice c tired and covered with sweat Bennion told us to run over a r little way in the field and have a afine afine rh fine plunge in the canal We ran rana a little way all right and then fc some but still no water We crossed one field and then ano another another an an- o other her and were just settling down downto f to a good cross coun country try pace 14 when Ferguson happened to look lookdown lookdown down as we jumped across a ditch He had found the canal Actually the water was was a foot deep and by a little crowding we could stand two abreast After all the trouble we were determined to have our bath ath and so led by Fuzzy we stripped off our suits and took the plunge The water was cold but that didn't matter for after the first wetting we were so numb we couldn't feel it But if we couldn't feel the water we could the mosquitoes s. Imagine a fellow vainly endeavoring to balance himself on one foot while he he- wiped the mud off the other one with a wet towel and then im imagine imagine agine a big two-horsepower two mosquito mosquito mosquito mos mos- quito sticking his bill in between n. n his shoulder blades just out oi of Q reach and you have another of our pleasures down on the farm To cap the climax it was discovered discovered discovered dis- dis covered that Pete Andy and Don Ray hadn't any clothes to put on and had it not been forthe forthe for the timely arrival of Sam with a suit case all three would have been strictly up against it A As it was our friend Pete was vas left out If he he- had only had a sword and shield he would have looked a perfect Roman gladiator as as he stalked majestically across the lucerne field clothed only in his shoes and his everlasting smile And then came the big feed Mrs Bennion's big dining room table fairly groaned beneath its its load of good things to eat We went after that chicken with our coats off and our sleeves rolled up There wasn't a word said Nobody had time to talk For a solid half hour the silence was only broken by the chink of the glasses as they were filled and refilled with fresh buttermilk and by the sound of teeth on chicken bones Then came a little breathing breathing breathing breath breath- ing spell Ashley let out his belt three notches heaped up tip his plate for the time and we all went at it again No pen however fluent fluent no no not even mine can mine can describe that glorious feast The earth will cease to revolve revolve revolve re re- volve Ferguson will grow bald Varley will get a divorce and the coach stay out after nine o'clock all this will come to pass before a football team gets such another feed Then came the speeches Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Cummings told us how torun to torun torun run and farm and Mr Haddock Maddock told us how to get married Barton Barton Barton Bar Bar- ton gave a talk on Socialism and Pitta told how he lie fell from Grace The writer also said a af afew afew f few w words on a similar subject But we cannot outline all the speeches nor have we space to describe the thrilling oratory of these young college men You curious ones who would know more of the wit and arid merriment that bubbled forth around the z F festal boards just ask zt t how it didn't happen in the Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid ask McKenna about that sympathetic cough or Peterson about anything less than one one hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred pounds But all things must end so when we Couldn't eat another crumb with a Hip Hip Hooray for Mrs 1 Bennion and three times three for her husky son we piled into the hay rack and started for home But there was still another pleasure in store for us In Murray Murray Mur- Mur ray lay quite accidentally I assure 1 you we met the Theta U girls who had also been having a glorious glorious glo glo- glorious rious time at a farm on the other side of the valley I need not dwell upon the pleasure pleas pleas- ure that we had for given a r bunch of foot ball boys and the Theta U girls the only possible time to have is the best ever At eleven o'clock we took the car for home and Mrs Bennion's big feed was a thing of history something which will be remembered remembered remembered by us long after other historical historical historical his his- events are forgotten FRED SCRANTON |