The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

| bina tions of red. blue and orange ana
black, and defed the scorn OF her par
tfsan friends. who called for a bold
declaration Of faxoritisfrl With one
exception Juliette accompanied her ia IL
ly-ho In majestic lonliness. This ex-
eepfion was an up-to-date young
woman who had been let into the
secret, and who understood before-
hand that should either Jack or Fl a,ak
make descent on the taliy-ho after
the game she was 70 beat a flasty re-
treat Thus Jailiette felt reasonably
alone and ready for anything
Inc minutes that preceded the zt,-
peafanee Of the teams dragged fright
fuzzy About her was ali animated
spectacle, such as can Be seen nowhere
Oh earth except at a college football
! game vet the tulnlt that ragged on ev-
! ea'E aanu was fairly tame compared to
flerssoWn pfrturbed state White and
red swept her cheeks in swift moving
ebb and tide. her hands shook. and
Wnen at last the athletes appeared, she
caloked on a bonbor, and had TO sub
mt TO g vigorous pounding as a relief
measure. Juliette's eyes, strained
through the lenses Of opera glasses.
sought out her gladiat0rs. She found
Them Jack the elegant. polished Ja&S,
was engaged in the Princeton ranks iii
eieEating the bail on the toe of a rs
reputable shoe, quite in harmony with
a disreputable costume, while Frank
shocKingay unlike the Frank Of her
dreams, was groveling on the ground
near her. with his arms clasp affection
lately around the Dval-shaped pigskir
Their appearance was a dreadful blow
to the exaltation of romanticis1n in
which she was reveling. and she found
added distress in the fact that they
grew more villainous with every pass
Ing moment But when the teams
lined up for the mighty annual tussie
the anxious excitement of the moment
overcame every other emotion.
The pandemonium raging to right
and left seemed a. fitting accornpani-
rlent TO such va struggle. Having To-
Gated the positions of her champions
in the two lines Of combatants, Juliette
newer let one or the other escape her
vision.
The legion of wild-eyed friends. par
-isans that walled in the field, did not
claim her attention a moment, all
though their combined antics mace a
living picture, wonderful and beautiful
to behold
Back from the white-lined stretches
where the battling athletics were ar
rayed, thousands upon thousands en-
tered into the savage spirit of hostility
in a dozen picturesque ways. The air
was darl1ened with the hilarious toss
ing of college colors and rent with the
yolleying of college slogans. Flags,
bunting, hats, canes, handkerchiefs and
embleuns flashed over heads in defiant
proclamation, voices supplanted in all
the keys of the vocal scale, the demon
stration of waving arms and the body
and soul of the vast assemblage was
devoted alone to the cheering on of the
contesting forces.
Little groups of collegiahls scattered
here and there hurled strident and
chOruSed defiance into the camp of
their enemy; were cried down from a
dozen different quarters and sustained
in as many more; horns blared distress
ing accompaniment to the whirlwind of
voices; rattles and whistles added small
noises to the Jproar, and always, like
the growing of fierce winds, there was
a monotone of hoarse volume-tfie or
binary coTnning5ed shouts and CONVEX
sation of the army of spectators. The
bright costumes of a mighty colony of
sisters and sweethearts, enhanced by
dainty decorations of college colors.
and the abundance of the latter in the
hands of collegiate braves added ar
tistic brillancy to the confusing enseln-
E1le.
1t was a festival OF. color. and at any
other time the riotous glory of 1T all
would have attracted Juliette to the
games utter exclusion But now she
watched the players with a trance-like
They had struggled thirty
minutes without scoring point, and
so fierce was the resistance on both
sides that the prospects for a blank
were excellent. What she should do in
the event of no point being scored
J0liette did not know. Such a con-
tingency had not entered into her cal
When the second haif open
ed she was hopeful, but anxious.
With all the ignorance of the game
she appreciated the efforts of her suit
ors to gain her hand, Never knights
of old battled more valiantly than did
these two men that she might be won.
Each was a tower of strength to his
side With the dainty maid perched
on her ralIy-Ilo off yonder at the stake,
it is small wonder that their muscles
became as steel, that they excelled
their companions in the play as might
tigers among kittens, that whenever
chance brought them in opposition it
reminded an onlooker of an ''irresis-
tibae force meeting an immovable
body" albeit one or the other gave
way in the end.
And now the game drew near close.
Twenty-Five minutes of the forty-five
allotted to the half had rolled away.
and in the next twenty minutes point
must be scored or the dismally uns2tis-
factory blank be drawn by both sides.
For another five minutes the struggling
eleven seemed fairly stationary, so de-
termined and desperate was the fight.
Then slowly and certainly the Prince
ton men began losing ground; were
forced back yard by yard, were over
whelrned and beaten down by the mass
plays that "Old PENIS" athletes sue
cessively put in operation. and driven
nearer and nearer the white goal posts
so close indeed that the followers of
yellow and black seemed TO feel the
dark pall of defeat hanging low above
them. Chill silence settled in their
ranks and the banners dropped, while
from the grandstand and field the glad
acclaim of the Pennsylyanians rose in
mighty tumult All the r'asse6 '''0''-
sands rallying under red and blue
united in frantic, maddened exp e>slC-tS
of joy. Sore threats were forgotten,
tired arms rejuvenated and they rose
as one to urge on the downfall of the
Tigers
Still further the Princeton line re-
treated. and now the tide of battle
rolled almost to Juliette's feet. She
discarded the opers-giasses 10 watch
with colorless face the seemingly GER
tain conclusion of PENNSYLVANIA tao
tics.
A few more short rushes would carry
the ball over Princeton's line and the
repeated failures of the Tigers TO
check the onslaughts before left little
hope that they could stay defeat here.
Frank was the Pennsylvania fufS
back. and Julliette, narrowly watching
the play. saw that he was given the