Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-03-21
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extraordinary success Of the alleged
Larry Bangs on the football field. His
triumphs there were second only to
those which he scored upon the green
diamond. Perhaps the greatest of them
was the last
The Harvard Yale football game in
I.arry's senior year was bloody and
desperate struggle The Harvard team
that year was entirely made up of
heavyweight pugilists of the drst
rank. IL was said that they were
trained on diet of raw meat and
warm blood. The game which resulted
was one of the most entertaining ath-
letic exhibitions ever presented to the
gaze Of the first families of America.
Every time the referee winked some
body was knocked down, and by the
end OF the first half Harvard had
scored eleven black eyes. But Yale
man always plays with an eye single to
the interests Of his college and there
fore the mere fact that the other eye is
.losed up does not destro, his useful
ness 80 it happened tdat while the
Harvard team would have taken bet
ter photograph at the close If the first
half tie Yale eleven looked the like
lier to * in, when viewed by an expert
II must be confessed however, that
upon the feminine part Of the vast sur
rounding throng Harvard had made
very deep impression Nothing 90
perfectly lovely as Buck" Halford's
smuggling had ever been seen bofor
and his headwork was simply marvel
Gus. He seemed to know by secret SUI
pernatural means when the referee was
looking at some bodv else, and the man
who played opposite him could not
have been identified by coroner's jury
composed of his immediate relatives
after play had been in progress twenty
minutes. His face looked more like
strawb berry shortcake than it did like
tenance, yet Buck" had accomplished
it all without SO much as warning
from the referee. 1t is no wonder the
girls thought him clever. Even Flor
enee Lorne admitted that, but she al
ways added, hopefully: lust wait
till Larry Bangs gets hold of him"
Vale had borne the assault of her
enemy remarkably we'll Only one
mar had been permanently retired
from the game and he had been re
stored to consciousness by his own fa-
ther who was celebrated surgeon
and one Of the most interested specta-
tors Of the struggle.
In the midst of this animated scene
Paddy O'Toole had been a conspicuous
figure lie was unquestionably the
best running halfbaclS on any college
team. When the ball was with the
blue. and ground had to be gained,
Paddy got the signal. and in almost
every case il was discovered, after the
other twenty-one men had been re-
moved from his PROSTATE form, that he
had scored the necessary advance. In
this way he accumulated courtplaster
and glory, till the latter encircled his
head like a halo and the former COW
cred his face like mask
lie was the man whom Harvard
feared most, and IN the fifteen minutes
interval while the crimson eleven were
having their knueI1le bones put back
into place by a competent surgeon his
doom was sealed By great good
fortune and the most marvellous endur-
ance he succeeded In staying Off the in
evitablc for fully thirty minutes Of the
second halt Neither side had scored
Nale had pushed the ball TO Harvard's
ten-yard line and still retained it, A
mass play advanced ii three yards
more
It WAS decided 10 send Paddy be-
tween right guard ana tackle for
the remaining distance Nobody
who saw that play will ever forget ii.
Every body was in IL Even the ex-
ports among the spectators could not
tell what had happened, They knew
that q big gain had been made. but it
was impossible to disentangle the run
ner from the mass of strue Cling giants
/ For the first time in her athletic ex-
/ perienee Florence was frightened
She was certain that She saw one of
1 her lovers legs at q distance of three
/ yards from the spot where his body
/ lay. But as that spot was over the
line and Florence was true blue. she
breathed prayer that Larry's body
might be there. and the leather spheroid
with him, for touchdown counts four
and a leg more or less counts nothing
in the game of football
The referee approached and succeeded
in persuading several men to get of
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