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Show Hold Mass Meeting to Force Faculty to Heed Demands for American Game. Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cat, Nov. 21. Despite faculty opposition, oppo-sition, the uprising here against rugby rug-by football continues to grow. Students Stu-dents of all classes, aided by alumni who have come to Palo Alto or the express purpose of waging war on the English game, are determined to reestablish re-establish American football as tho official of-ficial fall sport of Stanford. In line with the movement to force the faculty to heed tho demands of the students for tho American game, prominent undergraduates and alumni have formed an American football committee, and have called a student mass meeting to protest against the retention of rugby. The Stanford quad, scene of many noted student body meetings aud athletic ath-letic rallies, and famous as the place whero open initiations of fraternities are held, has been chosen as the place for the mass meeting, which will be held next Monday afternoon. Many historic combats have taken place on the quad, but never in all its ancient tradition has it been promised prom-ised a more thrilling or more exciting scone as students are cortain will mark the first really big public-demon, stratlon against rugby to be held on tho campus. Banners bearing the legend, "An American game for the American people" peo-ple" and "Let us have real football and a real university," have been prepared by the committee In charge of the affair. The committee itself is a secret organization, as expulsion expul-sion would follow the efforts of the organization to stamp out rugby if tho names of the members were known to the faculty. This modern Ku Klux Klan has planned a definite campaign to convince con-vince faculty members the inexpediency inexpedi-ency of sticking to their present policy pol-icy in intercollegiate athletics. Mem- bers of the 1916 rugby fifteen are signing a pledge not to turn out for athletics next fall if American football is not adopted by the school. Faculty members are receiving form letters from prominent alumni of the insti- tution urging a student vote on the j question, which has been the para- t mount issue of the campus ever since California joined the Pacific coast Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate conference, and adopted the American game. In the meantime every preparation for the big demonstration Monday Is being completed, and supporters of , the movement claim that Monday's mass meeting will result In some A drastic action that will force the fac- jp ulty t- i,lvo In to the students. W |