Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-26
Football Heroes Reach
Madison Early This
forming.
Met at Northwestern by
Throng of Howling
Students.
Comments of milwaukee
and Chicago Press
on Game.
Madison. October "a.

Of the varsity yell and the hiss Of es-
Gaping steam from the great passenger
engine that drew their train into Mad
ison, Capt Pat O'Dea and his great
badger team, with Coach King, Man
ager Fisher and the scrubs dropped |
from Pullman attached to |
the Northwestern passenger at
1874 this morning and pressed |
home soil with their feet after week s |
absence in which west had shown eas1
that all of the tricks and hard plays
and passes and great punts were
not eastern secrets.
The team was met at the station by
about 100 enthusiastic students who
had been awakened from sweet sleep by
Democrat reporters at the midnight
hour with the unexpected news. The
first intimation that the team was to
arrive this early was communicated to
the Democrat by long distance tele-
DIOuG
the message stating that the boys had
arrived at Chicago at 10 and caught the
1915 train over the Northwestern
straight for Madison. The statement
was somewhat confusing but was sub
Stimulated at midnight by the asSO-
ciated press, which stated that
the team had passed through Chicago
with all of the boys we'll.
Waking the Students.
| The Democrat reporters then began
the waking of the men at the frater-
nifty houses but it was a hard and
rather thankless task. Many Of the
students took the matter as a hoax or
new form of hazing and went back to
bed but oyer one hundred gathered
in the street near the varsity and came
down into the city with wild yells and
the blowing of horns.
There was not long wait Had
there been, one student, in nightcap
and bed-gown might have frozen his
highlander legs. But he danced and
kept warm by rubbing one
highlander against the other. The
train was on time and, as it
ratified into the station the team was
| discovered in the Pullman with over
coats on backs and grips in hands
waiting for the motion to cease There
was grand rush for the car platform
Everything movable was swept along
Horns footed and then
gu! Rah. Rah!
wis. Con, Sin!
gu! Rah! Rah!
wis! Con. SIM
gu! Rah! Rah,
Evils! Con! SIM
"Boo-oo-oo-oo,"
1t nearly took the train off it's wheels
| but it was a welcome yell to the men
in the coaches who grasped fifty hands
as they descended and were escorted by
the shouting throng Of happy boys to
the carryall. here, the yell was re-
peated three times three, with more
| tigers.
Hauled Them Home.
The boys envied the horses attached
to that carryall The idea of
horses being allowed to haul such pre-
cious freight as Pat O'Dea and his men
was CALLING.
Lets haul 'em ourselves!'' shouted
the man in the band wagon.
That's it! That's it! Take the
horses OUT" yelled the hundred.
And they did take the horses out. 1t
required but a moment. Then, a score |
of willing hands grasped the |
pole and a score more whirled |
the wheels and pushed |
behind. They were off-off with rush
and by the time the other carriages had |
turned about had headed into King
street. The will and the muscle was
there and in ten minutes the carryau |
and its freight of Drawn had passed the
capitol on its way to the university.
Twenty minutes more and the boys
babe their heroes good night with
mighty cheers: The hour of reception
was done.
The other students-well, the other
students won't speak to themselves
this morning.
All Of the men are home save Andy Il
O'Dea, Roy Chamberlain and Cochems
in Boston; Lyle, in Rochester; and
Wilmarth, in Chicago. The men, with
the exception of Comstock, are in good I
condition. Comstock does not look
we'll but says he will be all right in a
few days
The team and substitutes, under COM ;
mand Of Coach King, Trainer Andy :
ODea and Capt. Pat O'Dea, stopped ;
off at Niagara Falls Monday and ar r
rived in Chicago at 10 o'clock. The +
following dispatch from W. S. Kies Y
tells of the enjoyment of the journey: r
Detroit, Oct. 23.-The team are all +
well and happy and no effects of the 4
hard game Saturday are noticeable. Q
The men are enjoying the trip and b
arose this morning at five o'clock to Y
get good sight of Niagara Falls. The a
Wisconsin yell and songs make their G.
presence felt along the line. The many II
congratulations which the men are re- fl
,eiving evidence the effect their show 7
ng in the east has made. A stop was e.
made in New YORK Sunday to allow o.
he men to see the city. Peele, Cham q