Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-04
HOW HARVARD CELEBRATED.
Extract From Harvard Boys Letter te
His Mother In Iowa.

4 La
His Mother In Iowa.
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. "a.
NV Dear Mother.-I got the papers
YOU sent. but / am rather late in ac-
|noledging.
Last Friday the Harvard and Yale
law school teams played foot ball here
resulting in a score of "a to In our
favor. The laws turned out almost
en- masse. The law school has lots
of spirit, but 1t is all for the law
school and not for Harvard college.
We sang and yelled a plenty. There
wasn't a single Harvard man on our
team. The players came from every
where and from all sorts of colleges.
Even distant Leland Stamford was
Represented The representative OF each
college knew his college yell of course
and as each yell was given 1t was fol-
lowed UP with the name of the college
I think some yells were sprung that
people here never heard of before.
The great game was, yesterday and
So. 900 people, wild with enthusiasm,
make quite an imposing sight. The
gridiron is completely surrounded by
grand stands as high or higher than or
binary houses 1t wasn't a very good
day but / tell you our spirits were
high Both sides expected to win, put
1t was difficult for the Yale sports to
find Harvard money without giving
odds of to /. Harvard had the game
almost from the crack Of the gun. Our
boys cleary out-played Yale and we
knew the game was ours within five
minutes of the kick off. You have
10, 10 q q
largest score Harvard ever made in any
game with Yale and with one exception.
The largest score ever made by any
team against Yale.
When the game was over pandem-
onium broke loose The Harvard fell
lows danced and yelled all over the
field. then out and up the street to the
Yard. There they yelled for everything
and everybody. They went to supper,
but most of them kept on yelling and
many suppers went untouched. After
supper we all went to the city and that
was about the worst ever saw. They
divided into squads of three or four
hundred each and took charge of the
theaters for that evening. Here they
yelled and sang and made cracks at the
stars. who had to do just what the
fellows told them to do. At one Of the
theaters a lady attempted to sing, but
the boys made her get up on a table
and give the Harvard yell before they
would let her sing. When a lull in the
fun came, some one would make
crack that set them all agoing again.
Beer flowed freely and very little was
wasted, SO that by II O'clock a good
many of the fellows were ripe for
lark. Down Washington street they
went, the craziest bowling mob that
ever was seen. We all got home by
] o'clock and the only damage was
to street cars. The boys took possess
sion. They took the conductors
whistles from them, took down the bell
ropes and cash registers, broke the
electric lights and rode in darkness
The conductors couldn't be heard for
the yelling: they didn't try to collect
fares, and as the motormen couldn't
hear any signals and the boys wouldn't
let the conductors go forward, we had
dizzy ride all in the dark. The police
We're absolutely powerless. but as they
had seen Harvard celebrate before they
took it good naturally.
After l o'clock they had lots of BUSH
ness. Then the hoodlums and muck
ers took it up and they smashed things
generally; they always follow the col
1ege boys in their ja,nborees and the
damage they do is laid to the students.
They smashed plate glass and in one
case picked UP a horse and cab bodily
and carried them away. / took Beulah
to see the game. / was lucky enough
to draw seats right in the middle of
the side grandstand-seats that could
have sold at $50 for the two. Tom got