Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1905-03-10
DISPLAY OF COLLEGE SPIRIT
1t 1t Highly Developed Among the
Students of the Oregon Agri=
cultural College.

The Corvallis correspondent of the
Evening Telegram sent the following g
dispatch to his paper Tuesday:
can amusing incident, and onet that
might have caused trouble during the
0. A. C.-Dallas game, not heretofore
reported, was the fact that the Dallas
rooters brought with them to Corvallis
an illuminated banner bearing the
inscription, Dallas, Champions of
Oregon 1t was evidently the inten-
tion to unfurl this banner at the con-
clusion of the game, as twas brought
into the hall snugly wrapped up. But
the unexpected result of the game
spoiled this part of the programme,
and crowd of college boys, learning
of the presence of such a banner,
attempted to secure it. The cooler
heads present, however, persuaded
the boys to desist, and the banner re-
turned to Dallas intact. Had Dallas
won and then Haunted their banner in
the face ofthe students, there certainly
would haYe been something doing" "
The writer Of the foregoing para
graph, whoever he is, is just plain,
ordinary, everyday liar. He isn't
even a skillful liar. The banner
mentioned in his dispatch is a flag or
pennant bearing the word "Dallas, "
and contains no other wording what
ever. This crimson pennant is the
Dallas student banner, and the
basketball players have carried it with
them on many trips, never thinking
Of Haunting it in the faces of the
students of any college. No school
but Corvallis has ever attempted to
destroy 1t. 1t appears that the Oregon
Agricultural College is the only school
in Oregon where this college spirit"
as it is called, has been developed to
the point Of rufianism, and both
attempts to secure the Dallas pennant
have been characterized by the most
shameless actions. College spirit
among healthy, active young men is
we'll enough in its place, but when the
term is used to cover up acts that
would otherwise be punishable as
misdemeanors or crimes against the
law, it is time for this spirit" to be
subdued somewhat.
The OBSERVER cares little about this
rivalry existing among college boys,
but it has often wondered why the
Dallas College team recognized the
o. A. @. team at all in making up its
schedule of games for this year, after
the disgraceful scenes that occurred
in Corvallis year ago, after o. A. G. /
had been defeated by the Polk county
when large crowd of visitors
from Dallas were attacked and pelted
with stones and mud by a mob of
students and town hoodlums Just as
the train was pulling out of town.
There is no particular harm in a lot
Of college boys scrapping over the
possession Of a school flag, so long as
they keep within the bounds of
tecency, but this does not Justify a
town in permitting gang of hoodlums
to assault peaceful visitors from
neighbor town and escape unpunIshed. |
A repetition of these disgraceful
actions was attempted this year. but
cooler heads" as the Corvallis
correspondent says, persuaded the |
boys to desist." The cooler heads, as
t happened, we're on the shoulders of
me or two well-known business men
If Dallas, who called in a Deputy
Sheriff of Benton county, and it was a
oaded revolver in the hands of this
'tficer that served as a "persuader."
corvallis hoodlums have no particular
lse for a Sheriff with a loaded gun
ince the occurrence of a certain tragic
vent in that town a few months ago.
The Corvallis basketball PLAYERS
AVE visited Dallas twice within the
lst two years, and on both occasions
hey were treated with every courtesy
y the students of Dallas College.
among whom this college spirit is
OF quite so highly developed,) and by
ne citizens Of the town. The visitors
ccompanying the team were accorded /
lie treatment that is due from one
eighbor to another, and every effort
as put forth to make their brief STAY
Dallas pleasant and enjoyable. In
turn, the Dallas visitors TO Corvallis I {