The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-27
BROWNS DASHING PLAY
J'RoTES roo MUCH FOR THE CAR.
Isle INDIAN com BIHITION.
Tho Varsity Boys Ontpoint the Hardy
AboriRines nv "a to Ie-Thousands Mus.
ter at Mauhnttnn Field and Cheer the
Rivais-Fuitz Kicks Four Pretty Goals.

10. the poor Indian. lie got pounded and
punched and Kicked and thumped and lam
basted and bumped yesterday. In the vernacu-
lar OF tho day, he didn't have a thing done to
him. and 10 crown II all the Browns beat him by
hscore of "a to l2. tall happened In tho house
of his friends. too. for II is not too mucn 10 say
that two thirds Of all tho people who gathered
in and around tho Manhattan Field TO see tho
Carlisle Indians play the Brown University men
wanted TO see the Indians win. They believed
the Indians would win.
Though the red mon had the more beef they
seemed to DO outweighed, though the better
~sluggers they were outslugged, though the bet
ter runners they were outrun aad though tho
better kickers they Just held their own at kick
ing. The sporting men explain all this by say
Ing tho Indians were stale. meaning by that
that they had played football so much Recently
that they were played out, which is probably q
correct diagnosis of their case. With all that
they didn't on any occasion resort to tho rnse of
fake injuries to get rested. as every body who
watched the game believed that the university
men did. and believed II so thoroughly that on
one occasion hundreds OF them stood up and
Kissed and yelled. FAKE" and "Play ball"
The crowd In tho field didn't look much like
the crowd that gathered last Saturday to SEQ
the Yale-PTinceton game. 1t didn't number
moro than Q, 1900 at any time. The crowd at tho
Macomb'h dam bridge and on Deadhead Hill
seemed to be fully as great. and looked like the
Saturday crowd except for the absence Of colors.
There was no color to relieve the line of black.
There was an absence of ~tallyho's In tho field,
and also an absence of enthusiasm. There was
probably as much enthusiasm in comparison
with the size of tho crowd. but there wasn't
enough to make M for the empty seats. 1t was
ten minutes after Q o'clock when there was one
wild whoop that rose and fell and then rose
again and died away. and as 1t died away the
eleven university men trotted to the field.
and began rolling and tumbliug about and
falling on a. ball. Occasionally they would
kick 1t as II they would drive 1t clear
up on Dead Head Bluff. and when
they did it a third of the crowd
would yell Brown! Brown! Br~own-Brown-
Brown,' Ten minutes now passed. and then
came another shout. It was echoed back from
the bluff. Every man. woman, and child in the
grounds leaped I'D and down and Joined in It,
aud the people on the blum could be seen doing
the same thing. 1t grew and grew as the red
shirted warriors OF Carlisle trotted out, their
long hair streaming behind them.
with a little bunch of scalps at their belt at their
belt,
With n little bunch OF scalps at their belt,
screamed the crowd. II there were any Brown
adherents on the ground at all they had forgot
ten themselves for the moment and Joined in
the noisy welcome Of the men who were after
their scalps. iEuratively speaking. Instead of
tumblinE about after practice balls in the regu-
lation fashion, the Indians gathered near the
gate at which they had entered the ground.
They were accompanied by 4 white man in uni
form. who seemed to have charge of them, and
under his leadership they sang . song TO the
tune OF Good Night, Ladies': We're Going to
Leave You Now" The chorus of 1t ran like
this:
p.r.ttv -aui r,. otanc .,.h .tz-- ..-
Nerrily we II rush along, under the white mans goal
Tho moment they began singing there was
quiet but the last note had hardly died away
when the shouting was resumed and it beg
cared all that had gone before 1t. For the
moment IL was almost possible to think
that the crowd of last Saturday was on
deck again. Tho cheers would half die
out and then would be taken up again.
When the crowd on the ground had
tired it would be stirred up by the noise of the
multitude on Deadhead Bluff that was waited
down on the fogRy air, and which sounded in
the distance a good deal like the applause of the !
Roman multitude. Nothing would do but the |
Indians must sing again. and they repeated the
song.
Before the scramble began on the field be- |
tween tho opposing teams there was o scramble
Just as wild rs any that was seen later. It was
up on the bluff. Contractor Leary, who Is build
ing the speedway overlooking Manhattan Field
and the Polo grounds, had kept all but q few
people outside the gates he has at the entrance
to the new road. The Indians had Just finished
their song the second time and the crowd in
the grounds had just begun It's final yell be-
fore the opening OF the game when Mr..
Leary ordered the speedway gates to be thrown
open. Instantly there was the widest kind Of
a rush of deadheads. They fought, and swore.
and tumbled each other over in the mud to get
choice places. Such a rush as that on the
grounds would have filled the m~anagemenrs
heart with Joy. Half as many persons particle
pated in 1t as there were all told on the grounds.
The scramble wasn't more than half over when
the Indians. having won the toss. headed of
for the west side of the field. which they had
chosen. while the ball was put In place for the
kickoff.
The adherents OF the Providence men, In the
mean time, had recovered their presence of
mind and were singing q defiant air. the chorus
of which was:
What tn. what tn. what tn do we care
II they don't care a d. for us.
This was really very unkind, for the Indians
hadn't said n word that would justify the
Brown men in thinking that they didn't give q
damn for them. There was another mighty shout
rs the kick or was made and a mightler ono when
the Indian who caught the ball was downed in
f~ '" 'S ~ An'a bAhb Lc q
10 retire. From this to the end there wasn't
anything but fun. Fun in football. tho average
crowd thinks, Mt least, 10 the maximum OF
small hurts with a minimum OF serious ones,
and II was ideal fun hero because there
wasn't n serious hurt, and from start TO
finish there were not n dozen scrimmages that
didn't leave. q player temporarily under tho
weather, and there wero times when there were
three or four MINDLESS ones rolling around at
the Same time. For instance, after one OF tho
Browns long runs tho Held was strewn with
dead Indians" AS one man put II. II there
had been n few bows and arrows around and IL
the Browns had worn tho old fashioned
Etraigh 4 brimmed hats it would have looked
ike the front yard Of a Puritan home on an old
fashioned Thanksgiving Day.
This particular run started away up near the
centre. The Brown man who got the ball had
shaken loose from tho crowd and was running
practically alone. Lone Wolf was his nrst Vie
tim, Lone made a desperate Jump at him and
his hold slipped. Keriump he came down,
landing square on his stomach with a noise that
could be heard almost TO the bluff. He stayed
whore he fell. Tho next Indian that tackled
met The same fate. lie slippod, aud there was
rather the mud. the next minute, and tho
fDurtA man WIN mazda a wild laap in T, ~. III.