The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15
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Rahl Rail- Rah,
Hallabaloo; Hallaballool
We're the people of U. of U.

There is wild jubilation in all the
shadows of Moroni. The conquering
legion of the q. of U. has overcome the
gladiators of the south. The frantic
faring. of a hundred bright colored
flags, the tumultuous din of 500 threats
shouting in unison, and peal after peal
of ecstatic delight from the bleachers,
testified yesterday to the tremendous
skill that overthrow the southern giants
and placed victory with the red and
white banners of the university.
The battle between the doughty ath
letes was firm and furious and no such
football conflict as this has ever be
fore ragged on a gridiron in this neck
of the woods. Six hundred people sat
on the bleachers and stood in tangled
lines around the railing that encom-
passes the gridiron, and during the
whole game they curbed not their wild
enthusiasm.
The god who pursue; the destinies of
the pigskin fashioned the day as the
pigskin hero himself would have done.
There were no cOmbative ZepnyrS TO
daily with the Napoleonic forelocks
of the players, and the sun did not beat
down with fierce and remorseless
splendor upon the faded November
grass of the griGiron. A spOngy campus
was under the feet of the heroes and
the softness of cerulean sky glim-
mered gloriously above them.
Before the referees whistle shrieked
over the campus, the bleachers were
transformed, as by magic, into a. black
mass. The red and white of the uni
versity Haunted everywhere; the blue
and white of the southern athletes
fiared back defiantly. The inevitable
small boy peopled the branches of the
overhanging trees.
A CONTRAST.
The first half was a hard, vigorous
struggle, in which neither of the teams
developed any marked superiority over
the other. The men from the south
land were huge of bone and mighty OF
Drawn, and for a while they crashed
through the Varsity line at will.
The red and white retaliated with
brilliant end plays and superb tackling.
Porter, Trip and Gilmer flashed round
the ends like skyrockets, and Odell,
who stood like a Spartan warrior in
the background, kept whirling the ball
into the enemy's territory by his timely
punts.
Trip startled the talent and every
one else by his magnificent tackling
and end plays, and scored the most
brilliant run made by the Varsity IL.
The bucking of the Provo II was al
most invincible. Miller drilled through
the line like a javelin. and occasionally
climbed clear over the canvas forms of
the Varsity men. Larsen did all the
gallant end work for the Provoites.
and every few minutes his blonde head
was seen unwinding itself from the
canvas mass and careering down the
field.
The Provo men came to grief in the
handling of the famous criss-cross,
which they seemed to hold UP their
sleeves as an emergency resource.
Twice during the first half the fake
was worked, and Larsen twice van
ished down the field like an 'unloosened
boomerang. Narian battled for the
red and white like a Trojan. Stringfel-
low and Van Colt were bulwarks of
interferences against which the enemy
banged in vain.
With an average preponderance of
weight against them of 16 pounds, the
Varsity nine played a game that was
nothing if not gallant and superb. It
was q victory of modern football sci
ence over the mere physical superiority.
THE LINE IT'D