The Washington times., 1894-11-30
Hoya, Hoya. Georgetown,
The line up of teams was as follows:
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE GAME.

Who Were There, What They Did, and
How 1t Was Done
The crowd, of about 6 900, was quite worthy
in point of size and enthusiasm of the event
Nearly everybody was in the colors of the con-
testants. but the red and blue very largely
predominated, and it was kismet. There
was, of course a large assortment of the blue
and gray, but somehow the public is not
color blind and knew what chromatic shades
to wear with Columbia in the field and
against the field
Just behind the ropes. on the south side of
the immense crowd, the clique for both sides
had gathered. Many of these were mounted
on the tally-ho coaches, while others held the
ropes or spraWled on the ground and shouted
the battles cries from these more or less
picturesque positions. From the grand stand
ii was impossible to ever guess at what they
were making the din about. There was an
incessant roar of tin horns, trumpets. and
voices. waving of flags, brandishing of sticks.
and 1uttering of handkerchiefs from the be-
ginning to the close of the game. When a
man got knocked down and was carried out
in procession by the pali-bearers and man
or two with buckets of water the only effect
it had on the babel and Babylomonians was
to make the din dinner and the noise noisier.
WAS CONSPICUOUS ENTHUSIAST.
There was one man in this confused and
confusing mass who went wild with enthusi-
asm when a Georgetown kicker was knocked
out of sight in the melee. He wore a cut
down beaver and coat like livery man. He
had the lungs of double inflated stentor and
his 'Rah! Rahl'' for anything and everything
could be heard a mile of. He was standing
on the seat OF wagon and with bandana
on the end OF a stick he was in perpetual mo-
| tion from his feet to the top of the flag for
! about two hours.
| He had a very fair vis-a-vis on the grand
/ stand, youth who wore a blue and gray
boutonniere and who yelled himself hoarse.
/ Richard was not by any means himself at all.
His shibboleth was "Rah, rah, roo, rah, ray;
/ win all night if lose all day."
/ Every inch of standing room along the
ropes was contested by the crowd. and every
now and then, when the players fell down in
/ a lump and rolled under the ropes, they took
! with them all the boys In the neighborhood.
! The policemen were usually not in it. They
4 were at a safe distance from the tangled
/ masses struggling and fighting for new pairs
! of steady legs, silk hats and new oyercoats.
/ broken canes, bruised noses and battered
! deroys emerged by degrees, ana were, in
! time, something like themselves again. 1t
| took about live minutes every time one Of
| these landslides took place to tell where the
man with the pigskin was at orto get the
silk hat and the man together again. This
| speciality took place about two dozen times
during the progress OF the contest.
WITH GRAND-sTASD PATRONS.
On the grand stand there was quite an
other sight. There was very large pro-
portion of ladies in the assemblage there, and
the absence of a streamer red and blue or
blue and gray, was the exception. 1t was
varx aold -huFc
but comfortable. In the center section there
were hundreds of pretty faces looking
through the netting, and along the other sec
tions the girls had massed themselves in
front and crowded into the stalls. There was
n conspicuous absence of flowers, but the
picturesque was made up in the variegated
favors that appeared everywhere as shoulder
knots or corsage pendants.
Red cheeks and blue noses were the colors
worn Us face ornaments irrespective of
Georgetown or Columbia. After about a
half hour of cold comfort the American beau
ties got on their feet and tried it for while.
first on one foot and then on the other. For
the rest of the time about 5000 dainty feet
kept up perpetual tattoo on the boards to
keep the blood in circulation. The red and
blue fluttered most gally. The blue and the
gray was, however, none the less in evidence,
and altogether the colors mingled pictur-
esquely if not at all times enthusiastically
The demonstrations on the grandstand were
not so robust as out in the field and along the
lines. A woman can't shout but she can
scream most delightfully."- on occasions, and
yesterday was one OF the occasions. Women
can't guy each other either in public places
but the winners looked at the defeated in a
somewhat sarcastic style as if to say George
town can't play this game even little bit
There we're several extreme moments of
ecstacy when whole beYies Of red and blues
stood on tip toes and waved handkerchiefs
and flags to the rolling. fallen, tumbling,
fighting contestants on the ground. After
about two hours of laughing, growing. iok-
ing, hurrahing, ETC., the wraps were wrapped
tighter. the toes were given final vigorous
stamp, and the whole red and blue and blue
and gray ribboned army filed into the street
and continued the celebration elsewhere.
Among the interested spectators were the
minister Of Corea, two attaches of the Chi
nese legation. the Argentine minister, Capt.
Edwards. of the War Department.: Capt.
Hitchborne, of the Navy; Congressman Pas
cal and Mrs. Pascal. Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman.
Miss Moore, of San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs.
Coombs, Miss Gunnell Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley
Z. BARN, MIR. and Mrs. George w. Rouzer,
Mr.. Roberts, Father Richards, of George
town College; several other priests, W.
Z. Mattingly, Mrs. ". Clarence Duvall, Mrs.
William B. Hibbs, Mr.. Harry Dempsey Miss
Dempsey, Miss Joyce, Judge Wilson, Judge
Bradley, A. A. Lipscomb, Capt. Oyster, Miss
Mattingly, II. Bradley Davidson, Lisle Lips
comb, R. Edwin Joyce, MI. and Mrs. George
W. Joyce, j. Geary johnson, and others.