Show A NEW DEPARTURE INTHE INTHE IN INTHE THE FLAG RUSH Large Crowd Sees the Contest in if which the Sophomores Win for the First Time in Years Last Tuesday afternoon a few u upper upperclassmen upperclassmen per classmen gathered themselves into a committee committee com com- committee and the following rem remarkable piece of legi legislation lation resulted from their cogitations cogitations cogitations HEED YE LOWER CLASSMEN IEN Rules and Regulations for the Annual Sophomore Freshman-Sophomore Rush Rule 1 1 A rush shall be held at 3 o'clock on the first Thursday after the first Monday l in the the school year Rule II I. I None but reg regularly registered Freshmen and Sophomores may participate in rush Rule III The rush shall take place around a pole which shall be given in in the possession of the Sophomores Rule IV The pole shall not be more than twenty 20 feet in height above th the ground and not less than six feet under underground underground underground ground and shall be smooth no less than 4 ten ten 10 feet from ground up f I Rule V. V The Flag a The flag shall be of canvas about two feet square with witha a one-half one 0 inch rope border ar and d shall have inscribed upon it the numerals of the two classes b The flag flab shall be by Sophomore class c The flag shall be fastened by one corner to pole by a string in su such h a way that it may be readily de de- Rule VI The class having greatest number of hands on the flag at end of contest contest contest con con- test shall be declared winners provided only that if Freshmen fail to take flag from pole t the le decision shall b be to mores Rule VII Rush shall continue for fifteen fifteen fifteen teen 15 minutes A signal shall be given two minutes before time is up Rule VIII Judges of contest shall be selected by co committees from the upper classes Rule IX All changes changes' in these rules or decisions in case of dispute over the same shall be made by the he above named commit commit- tees Ordained this the d day y of September Septem Septem- be ber 1910 1919 THE TI-IE UPPER CLASSMEN These rules were read to the meetings of Continued on page 2 A few Members of Last Years Year's Varsity Around these as a nucleus Coach Bennion will build this years year's team j r t it 4 1 d f r f I I II a at r I i j 1 t c L S i r tr Ii i i 4 1 i 10 Mw lp Capt Tiny Home Tillie Olson Dave Olson Count Christensen Lon Romney Tackle Captain last year Coach of the Freshman Team Guard I Guard Half Back S 5 3 j Jf Continued ed from Page 1 they the Je respective ci classes concerned and ase as- as e iced to by th them m. m On Wednesday a party of Juniors went J s to the telephone companies of the city and V were given a pole and the use of a digging diggin outfit The pole was brought to the University University University sity and set in the northeast corner of Cummings Cummings Cummings Cum- Cum field between the north fence and east bleachers The Freshmen p performed performed per per- r- r formed the labor of setting the pole making making making mak mak- ing a good solid job of it J The committee originally intended to allow the Sophomores to fortify the pole in any way they desired The Sophomores accordingly brought boxes of axle grease to the scene cene of action intending to place two men on top of the pole and then to grease it thoroughly to a point about ten ten feet from the ground But when the Sophomores arrived at the pole at 3 o'clock Thursday the committee decided not to permit permit permit per per- mit the use of any device whatever except the cross pieces previously nailed to the top of the pole and a rope by which a man could support himself Two Sophomores were allowed to go up the pole but were not permitted to Start up before th the whistle blew The flag was fastened to the top of tl the e pole by a nail driven through one cor cor- ner The Freshmen lined up a at a point about four rods from the pole The Sophomores massed round the pole As the whistle blew the Freshmen rushed down on the Sophomores while two of the Sophomores rapidly shinned up the pole The Freshmen Freshmen Freshmen Fresh Fresh- men made macle valiant efforts to get up the pole but as fast as one would break loose and get part way up several hands would reach out of the melee and drag the aspiring party down Finally after ten minutes of fighting fighting fight fight- ing a little Freshman Tommy Harper sprang over the shoulders of the closely packed mass around the pole and succeeded in shinning out of reach before a sophomore could lay hands on him As he neared the top one of the Sophomores stuck ck a foot down to shove Harper off unfortunately striking him in the face with a shoe Harper slid to the ground and the fight stopped at once The judges ordered the Sophomores down clown from the pole and disqualified the o offending offending of of- fending member They then placed the two classes at equal distances from the poles pole and allowed them five minutes in which to finish the contest The dirt combatants again locked horns around the pole Tommy Harper made several at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts to duplicate his previous feat but was closely wa watched ched by the Sophomores and pulled down before he could break away The Freshmen were unable to dislodge dislodge dislodge dis dis- lodge the flag before time was called and the Sophomores were declared winners An amusing feature of the rush was the fact that after hostilities ceased two Sophomores res found a great deal of difficulty it iii it detaching the flag from the pole o- o |