The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18


understood thing at Stanford that dlass hat must
not be stolen and voc betide the thiefsaf plug. ON
the eve Of the ugly.
The fun now grows fast and furca1s. Despit-i
the obstacles thrown in the way by the seniors, the
juniors continue to march auadward Now the
seniors hasten forfify the quad approaches. for
precedent has given them the right choose any
one approach and custom DEGREES thar the juniors
must storm and carry this chosen bridge adnzitl
themselves bested. ON rush the juniors and straght
into the senior crowd they plunge Fists fly, not to-
inic punishment, but squash any hats (which are
still in evidence
Fierce Rusf, on the Quad
The juniors gain the quad and the eircu.is beguH1
The seniors withdraw for moments consultation
and then down the arcade they come with centes
rush or flying wedge. Both parties arc trodden
underfoot and rolled off the arcade to tho ground
below but NO one is ever seriously hurt. After al
regulation portion of the quad has been trzversed
lower class looking further conquests, starts
for that Mecca of homesick undergrads the campus
.postofice. Here, the steps, the seniors await,
them and the fray recommences. Come on. YOU'D
Juniors" they howl. Well finish things rght this
time. And the juniors come on and the seniors are
often the to cry for quarter.
There's time good old stanford fsIIors
It's the beginning OF his junior year.
lie passed the freshman hunH<ins stasesand drh-
With its memories fond and dear
He's no longer one of the boys
He's good junior and the fact is known to aus
When he first steps into corduroys
So the jolly juniors sing they march away with
their hammered and bedraggled plugs set upon their
heads at all angles With clothing and dented
plugs they present sorry~s the outsider, but
to the undergrad the spectacle is to be appreci-
ated, be he freshman. sophomore or senior. .-
This is the real class rush Stanford but fresh
and sophomore toll for supremacy yet another
feld-that of footballs They have a new. style %
ball never heard of outside the Stanford sport cur
riculum Of the undergrad 1t.is game, but
rush. The faculty has said that there shall be
rush, and there none; but in spite Of the dictum
this game is played annually, or will be- as this year
saw the first scrimmage
II you ever witness this football scrimmage you will
see two hundred husky and wildeyed sophs out look
ing FOR scalps Of freshmen. Down at the other end
Of the long field IS still larger horde OF entrants
Somewhere there is football. 1t makes differ
just where it is. for wherever it IS there will
the freshmen be found When the signal sounds
the opposing squads mix. Now the surge Of
heads moves this way and now that Now someone
is down. Now freshe comes out nursing injured
member. and a soph follows him with head
This is kept up with unabated vgor until both sides
ready to call'quits If any time side could
have put the ball on the other side Of their opponen
goal line that class deemed the superior, but fun
and result considered the point Of the contest
This brand new sport was promoted by mysterious
upper cassmen The wise insider mods his head and
says Faculty work IF there Is anything that re-
senbles football in that game. the that is able
to see it has better eye for football than havc,~
says the expert coach
No one knows who originated the rush. No one
cares But everyone enjoys the fun and it has aeeor
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