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Show UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS ji SN "BOWL fIGHT," FRESHMEN WINNING I - ,WM mJ--f---y' " lit PHILADELPHIA, P.?.pic 21 The freshmen of' the Univor5$y,. of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania have boon drolaj'ed'' the winners win-ners in tho struggle for fighting honors. hon-ors. They won three ."of the fo.ijr scrimmages between sophomores anrt freshmen, and tho other contest was a tie. Clearly the class o(l315 possesses pos-sesses superiority as a crapping machine. ma-chine. The last struggle was, tho forty-second annuaL "bfi fight" About 400 freshmen wejr pitted against 2o'' sophomores. 3jc fight took place on Franklin flpUJfwhcrc the big-'footbnl games anfcifylaved. Tn the first half the so&oniorcs tried to catch the t freshmen's ''howl man" and put him in thoir big wooden bowl. Tho freshmen fresh-men won by a trick They Introduced their bowl man, whoso purpose was to cioss the field to the g3al, wearing a red sweater. No other freshman was so attired, anil he wna a consplc uous figure Just before time was called the bowl man was surrounded by his companions, and he pulled ofl the red sweater, showing a blue cue underneath. At the same time a dozen other freshmen pulled off their bluo sweators and showed red ones underneath. under-neath. Naturally the sophomores woro confused, and while they "were chasing tho men in red sweaters the real bowl man wa'kod uiiniolcstc I y across the field, and 'the game "wa qB jni won. In tho second half the classes Mi ar- were to fight for fifteen minutes, an I Sl m vhqn time was called tho class that ,f lr had- tho most hands on the bowl. Si tfj?5 which had been left In the center of jM 5i the. field, was the winner. The fiesh- fiiftn men, having superior numbers, vera flra abe 'to drag most of the sophomorca Sly awa.y from the bowl until the last jTJf minute of play, when one freshman tjft' was; loft with each sophomoi-6 In wM1 spite of the superior number? tho ilgK sophomores hnd twcntv-elght yhands fWC?!! on the bowl to thirty for tho fofeshiner: flS5ei whn the fight, ended. No riR wa 'JgS.'S er(ously hurt, though theyc were yiw manj minor injuries ( J?'', |