The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-26
HOW YALE CELEBRATED.
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x,v u.vys Conn Nnv IS After two
.,,. sorry wears yalc came upon fairness ana
,o,oic,re SATURDAY afternoon She sned 'he
GODS ~ mourning and put on wedding gar
ant, 81 Z, A sony The shncklc. ~ captivity
,c,s broken and beaten into loud voiced c''n-
.. For the triumph lad been a LONG TUNE
coming Yale rose 20 the occasion IN me "h"V'-
u,uled old 'ashloned way Of N" inl" deino'-
r,cy Tho triumph was organized ot fs"I'
80, a, chaos when the referee called Tor the
game 10 end. The pervldIne genius OF the
d.ron-,rition. 1, must be acknowledged
vas not far from the ignohle passion NJ re-
vcnre.
All the morning fair words were on Yale mems
lrs for Harvard The couriesieso f Ne" maven
were everywhere thrust on Harvard men iGie
men gave ~ seats NJ tables III the oH~efcro"deh
restaurants Ia men with crimson ros"ttes in
their button holes or crimson cock feathers IN
their hats Men who had walked clear down
10 State street from Temple street 20 find a seat
on AGAR bound TO the Yale Field wore constantly
u.,,inp IN 10 b.ckon TO Harvard men who stood
with disconsolate girls beside them on the curb
ing Of uppar CHAPEL street and were giving up
,heir seats 10 them ard the girls But deep
down in every Yale heart was a wound taat
,anLled II was the score of Il 70 o made by
Harvard on tho Yale Field two years ago In
the ears Of many and many a man OF the iaie
throngs OF yesterday the Harvard chantot that
desolate day was still ringing The story had
been handed down for the two years to succeed
ing shoals Of much-impreSsed freshmen-how
,he Harvard Glee Club had started the chant
in b fat that ran -one, two, three. four up to
seventeen. had sung II in front OF Osborn
Hall. in the New Haven House corridors. in Gus
Traeger's back room and NJ the station No.
body said much about II, but somehow nobody
wanted 10 hear any such music as that In New
Haven again The only echo OF Il was an in
SEPARATION TO revenge.
The game was over A man with a derby
hat and a long black coat had Tin out into the
field waving his arms. and blowing a whistle.
McClung. the umpire. had nodded at him shortly
and Owed into the steaming eleyens as a BAN
tam might jump into a flock Of Shanghai fowls
n, the feed box. The tense ranks loosened. out
from both side lines came a stream Of coachers.
A red wave rose and dashed down the stand
on the west and a blie wave rolled down from
the east stand and went pilins over the fences.
All individual sound. were lost in a confused
roar that on the Yale side was almost n scream.
The great mass Of men In the middle OF the
field was circling and singing around the play
ers The crowd was increasing with men who
came bounding from the fences.
In out Of the midst of IL rose the titanic
form Of skim Brown. the captain. His par
ents named him Gordon. But in 'Ps there was
d mighty guard called skim Brown. His
PARENTS named him Alexander but at 81.
Paul's school. whore he did mighty things
before he came to tale. there had been before
his time a great football PLAYER called Skim"
Brown. and the nickname passed. az il has now
passed again and will pass hereafter. wherever
n (, ap,ad Droup ahal show himself worthy
to bear IL. Capt. Browns mud-colored shock
OF hair protrIded above a crimy gray blanket
which had been whirled around him by the
trainers. He sat upon the shoulders Of four
men. Boomer, and Coy. and Hale and Sharpe
and all the rest, similarly swathed, rose on
other shoulders and moved away In a mass OF
humanity that was like a glacier in its slow
compact movement. They same 10 the gate
at the corner of the tleld. There stood coachers
and other sradlates ot influence VINO, WIN
tude to stand back and iet the team get TO The
dressing rooms The team, swinging on the
shoulders Of their bearers. ziczaSged through
the gate like banners carried above a highly
emotional sunday school Procession moving
M a narrow church aisle. They were gone.
The multitude might not follow. II turned 10
90 back 10 the substitutes. Only the Harvard
team. surrounded 10y an intensely silent body
Of sympathizers from the Harvard stand.
Out Of the momen,arily waning tqmllt
came the strains of music from the north"hst
Yale band can" tumbllnS out into the en-
closure. They marched, PLAYING down 70 the
each man began TO foot again a soon as he
struck earth on the inside OF, the high fence,
The last man threw the bass drum over, ahead
Of him. scrambled up and launched hlm-elt
after II, grabbed II up without stopping and
fell in line. banging away.
From the thousands in the lanes outside the
fence, who had been prevented 10y the police
from climbing over 10 TAX" part IN the first
outburst and from other thousands who were
stll standing on the sides OF the ampltheatre
rose a wild cheer Of recognition and approval:
The police were overW hclmed. They grabbed
a LEG here or a coat tail there. There, was once
Of the sea. The. police might have learned
from his example. Everybody who started
mans territory. in another's. The band had
not passed the south goal posts before II was
fol o. ed by thirty plat3ons eisht VIDE, dancing
and singing with the band
Boula, OoO!t, booli. Doola!'
The line langtlencd every minute. Though
Tho band marched on. newly forming ~rlntoons
fell in 50 fast that the rear rank was always
IN The sane bSla a% ,b irS T pr f%r!y T msn idc an ID
arms As always in such d~incins marches.
the procession became a great snak" whose
with an irresistible sweep. Hats, tnn Died 81
and fell into the mud. Not 2 head turned
lin, gripped their shoulders as they sripred
his and danced, sInEtGg.
"Ronla. 30 % uu'll, hOp,1''
The hsuu f.tr I"l straight down the Hlr-
ward Ter 90 AID B.. -.-S On" north end ON the
bottO- ter, % ''' harvard N"i no. hundreds
Of fait'fIi Wps'o'r II tho crimson We're stu
stardIn- white ! 'T' Wendell and lie liep-
tenants uT.,l tU'l, VITA plI0E "hITa"'crl~iI'
81 Harvard yic1 4 has h"eu lHlrlV Ergt"u. with
me .,rl' Ii4ns that lnsutr"h ~" defeated
team 70 SHOW b.. G.'.' qualities IN tho last ten
r. tufo- ul 'l" . .' 10 r"IC'ItIon~ Of the Hlr-
Ntri ,tf,ri-. i., gently vpIci with a COmll.-
IGo band vg. coIi"y' 'lv red in rio face.
T.. I"td"r. who uul" D g1"at brow rnegaphoue
stead # % baton. loaded for the exit gate.
hkuuurpd MON lean ed forward from the fy ing
ranks behiLd and turned leader and band
bodily To the south and told them to march
on. They marched "a the south eud again
and then came straight across from goal Io~t
TO goal post.
TIE procession, or the darCe. whichever it
shouldhe called. now Glledthc w'o'' great area
son" limos were moving M IN" field ana some
down and some across. Sometimes two ranks
,ollIdod. each lost individuals 10 the other IN
the confusion and then danced on. Nobody
u pod The band. Now and then those on the
hleacher- heard "A snort ot the biE horn or u
shril blast # tho Cornet, hut for the most UHrt
the only thing distinctly audible was tho faith
fnl boom Of the bass drum. which made tho
time 10 which the great mob thrObbed.
The crowdlng through the entrances TO
the grounds rather brpk" up tho procession.
II formed again in the tumble Of trolley cars
and carriages IN chapel street In the first