The sun., 1907-11-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BUT IN THE GREEK FASHION
AND PROPERLY SIMPLEFIED.

Rival Fraternlties struggAe on the Horace
Mann Training Field while Supporters
EuurH the HelIenlC Alphabet At Zach
Other-Ebota Theta Pt won the Game.
Sing. o Muse. the wrath Of Colnmbia's
faculty, and so on through several books--all
In pentameter. For has not football. the
forbidden. been played on MOrningside
Heights, though under the official banl
Every man who read his Sum carefully yes
terday morning knows that IL has;b but the
bare statement OK the fact that the Beta
Theta Pts got out and walloped up the
Delta Tau Deltas on Friday afternoon
scarcely meets the needs OF situation that
goes far TO justify the manner in which
the classics have just proved that the youth
of our universities do not study them too
closely
What few Delta Tau Deltas and Beta
Theta Pts were seen around the campus on
Saturday morning wore that hunted look.
for they were far from being certain that
the faculty would not regard their game
as an inTraction Of the rule prohibiting
intercollegiate and interclass football at
the home Of Simple Spelling. None OF the
undergraduates who took their degrees In
their hands so boldly was in training. and
in consequence number Ofthem didn't feel
on Saturday morning sufficient enthusiasm
for the pursuit of learning to pursue it
very far in the class room. Those who
still pursued pursued family.
That the match will be regarded as pro-
test against the prohibition of foo tball
nobody doubts. On the other hand. the
men who took part in IL are ready with a
defence II they are brought up on the
carpet they will argue that they didn't
break any rule fOrbidding a football game.
because they only played half game.
That they were too tagged out TO play any
longer is only detail. Anyhow' II Z was
nobody in the Brander Matthews camp can
consistently object.
Won Saltza, who used to play sure enough
football when Columbia had what was
called an eleven. captained the Beta Theta
Pts and the young Greeks under his COM
mand licked the Hellenes who reUnesented
the Delta Tau Deltas. II to 5. Won Saltza.
in fact was the Achilles of the match, and
IL he had a vulnerable heel Thetis had
neglected to tell anybody about 1t. Tor he
il was who made both touchdOwns for the
ambrdsial locked heroes who followed his
battle cry. But there were honors enough
to go around. for every one OF the Greeks
| who rushed forth to the fray regarded
himself as an Ajax defying the faculty
| thunderbolts Of Zeus ". NJ. Butler. and
| all the Athenian historians who stood where
| the side lines would have been IL there had
! been any side lines said that the slaughter
was worse than that at Thermopylse.
The thronR OF non-combatants was
| large and most enthusiastic. To be sure
the gridiron (the Horace Mann Training
! Field was not much bigger than a good
I size swimming tank, there weren't any
sided lines, and the fact that no football
has been played at Columbia N two years
resulted in some pretty weird attempts
| TO conform 10 the new rules. But IL was
| at all events a great big kick at authority,
| and as such to be uproariously encouraged.
So the Greeks went at it hammer and
| tonRs, and when Won Saltza scored first
there rolled out from the Beta Theta Pi
contingent this academic din;
socrstesl HemlOck!
HO POllOll
Nerxes, ATtemlsl
Oii YOI Vol
But the Delta Tau Deltas were not dis
couraKed by the achievement Of Achilles
Won Saltza. They went back at the Beta
Thetas hammer and tongs and by dint Of
nanful wallopa managed to score touch
down themselves. At that their clan as
sailed the sounding skies with a classic
| shout that sounded like this:
Aphrodite' Hunt
ARamemnOn' Zeus
Anabasisl NenOphOn'
Oh the very deuce!
But Achilles was still to be reckoned
| with and before long he made another
| touchdown right under the walls Of Troy.
| 80 to speak. And at that "A Greek sherO
named McCulloch, who led the Delta Tau
| DeItas brake out into a great cry and
continued upon il for a considerable space.
| Learned scholars present said that he
was repeating the catalogue Of the ships.
However that may be It la certain that
I while thus employed he made many gestures
I and cast his n0seguard upon the earth
| and danced upon IL, though not joyfully.
Subsequently he reviled another Greek
| hero named Mccartney. who bad fallen
| before the impetuous charge OF Achilles
/ Won Saltza. and when Mccartney would
have made explanation he retorted upon
him. saying -Agon prophasin. ouk eride-
ketai. cute phiha.'
scholars on the outskirts Of the fray
said later that this meant
war and friendship admit OF no eX-
But Hero Mccartney had his chance
| later, for IL chanced that when the ball was
passed toward him by Hero Bostrom, who
played at qparterback; Hero McCulloch
| let it fall to the ground. where Il was seized
| tiDon by one of the Beta Theta Pts. There
| upon that Hero Mccartney was wroth and
| approaching that Hero McCulloch he OBJ
served pointedly in the hearing Of several
| other heroes:
-Adunaton pOlla teknomenon anthropou
panta kalos poiein!N'
Trouble was at once looked for by the
| scholars, who realized IN the course OF nftoer
| minutes or so that Hero Mccartney hac
! said to Hero McCulloch: 1T is impossible
| for a man who attempts many things TO dc
/ them all we'll
II is indeed possible that blows nigh
have been struck had not Hero McKeown
| who Mas at quarterback for the Beta ThetS
Pts, shouted aloud at this instant:
omega, omicrOn. gamma. Euridpus
| melanos."
| All the Delta Tau Delta heroes knew
| at once that this was the signal for for
ward pass, and Hero Mccartney and Hero
! McCuIloch consequently postponed the
settlement of their private differences FOL
the purpose Of heading on the common
peril.
And so the battle ragged mp and dowI
the field until the referee said ~Chronos''
and put up his watch. Not many Of th'
heroes were seriously injured. though Here
Mccartney sprained his aorist in tryinI
to hurdle the line. The decisions OF tn
referee were not all received In a mild spiri
and one hero in objecting even went so far n
to make accusatives Of Specification agains
the governing official. He said. did thi
hero, that the referee was rotten as to hi
decisions.
The coach Of the Delta Tau Deltas wa
not at all discouraged by the defeat in
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