Show Top picture Sophomores lift ball over heads Freshmen for a big gain Bottom picture Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore Soph Soph- dives over pushball into Freshman ranks t va vat t 7 y N i ia I 4 a i i r h 4 kc Courtesy of the tile Herald Re Republican Sophomores Upset Precedent Defeat First Year Men fen Annual Push Pushball ball Contest Won From Freshmen By 10 1 Score History did not repeat itself last Thursday afternoon when the freshman freshman freshman fresh fresh- man and sophomore classes mixed in inthe inthe inthe the annual pushball contest held on Cummings field The sophomores hoisted the banner of victory defeating defeating defeating defeat defeat- ing their opponents by a 1 to 0 score Because the time duration of the battle was shortened Thursdays Thursday's contest contest contest con con- test had an immense advantage over the one last year Instead of four minute fifteen-minute quarters as was the rule previously the contest was divided divided divided di di- vided into minute fifteen-minute halves Both halves were hard-fought hard and did not lack some spectacular playing The ball however remained on the ground most of the time notwithstanding the fact that practically all the big gains were made when the ball was in the air The freshmen had the ball on the sophomores' sophomores yard ten-yard line at the I end of the first half had it that the freshmen were a sure bet The had barely fifty men in their ranks while the year first-year men had a second and even a third line reposing on the east bleachers I During the first half the play was almost entirely in freshman territory The got the jump at the start but at no time during the first half did they threaten their opponents' opponents goal line Several times during the play the year first-year men had the ball within a few yards of a goal but each time the sophomores rallied The half ended with the ball on the sophomores sophomores' sophomores sophomores sophomores' mores' mores yard ten-yard line A new relay of fre freshmen went In at the beginning of the second half but something went wrong Either the new new men lacked the ginger of their predecessors or else the sophomores sophomores mores just then began to fight The tall raIl was forced down the field to the freshmen's yard twenty-yard line and stuck there until five minutes before the end of the half haIr when the sophomores sophomores sophomores mores pushed it over the line for the only score made in the contest The first half was rough but to the second half certainly goes the honors in this respect Coach Norgren who was umpire told the men that anything anything anything any thing goes but murder and that also came nearly being included during the second half Two or three men Continued on Page 3 UPSET PRECEDENT DEFEAT FRESHMEN Continued from Page 1 left the field with whole shirts The rest left let theirs for the rag pickers The most spectacular playing during this half w was s the diving stunt short enacted enacted enacted en en- acted seVeral times by the sophomores mores It proved effective in scattering scattering scattering scatter scatter- ing the freshmen and making way for fora a sophomore gain 0 0 o |