Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-08

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~ RINCETON, n. j., Nov. SLOW,
murky clouds from which heavy
moisture dripped lay over Jun
gletown to-day, disappointing thou
sands who had come to see the an
nual battle between the sons Of John
Harvard and the Tigers. There were
good prospects that the sky would
clear before game time, however. and
the dampness failed to weaken the
enthusiasm of the throngs that poured
In for the annual battle.
Harvard ruled favorite in the bet
ting at odds of 10 to Z, and many sup
porters of the Crimson were confident
enough to bet to that Princeton
would be smashed before the attack
of the Harvard eleven. This money
was eagerly snapped up by the Tiger
tribe.
Holiday Spirits in Air.
The holiday spirits were in the air,
and the Princeton villagers and the
Princeton students greeted the once
a-year visitors much in the same way
as a certain gentleman of BIBLICAL
times greeted his returning offspring
with open arms. The houses, stores
and buildings were ablaZe with the
commingled Crimson color of Har
ward and the Orange and Black of
Princeton, huge banners We're stretch
ed across the village Streets bands
hammered out glee songs, and pen
Rants or ribbons fiuttered everywhere
Persons unacquainted with college
football customs might have gained
the impression at certain times dur
ing the morning that a large number
of lunatic asylums after first deco
rating their masculine inmates with
crimson or orange and black ribbons
as suited the choice of the inmates
had set them loose in this community
with orders to act just as frisky and
froliCsome and carefree as they de
sired
Princeton's annual big football
game, in its own bailiwick serves
also as a class reunion-for men who
were college chums ten, twenty forty
years ago. Back in this old town
where they used to make life unhappy
for the villagers, and incidentally i'm
bibed bit of learning, they forget the
dignity of added years They are just
as rah-rah boys again, and how they
did rah-rah to-day as they jostled
along arm in arm, along the crowded
streets, shelving the rah -rahing for
certain periods while they greeted
some of theri classmates or sang the
almost forgotten songs of their alma
mater
"old Grads" Recognized.
Several times some of the "old
grads" recognized some old, bald
headed, spawned, be-spectacled gem
tleman in the crowd as one of the
men who in the years that are past
made football history at Old Nassau
or at Cambridge. With wild shouts
of JOY they rushed" him, as they did
in his hero days of long ago, grabbed
him from the meshes of the throng,
lifted him to their shoulders and
rushed him UP and down the street,
as enthusiastically and almost as en-
ergetically as they did in the days Of
the past when his gridiron prowess
brought never-dimming glory to his
college
The crowd to-day, perhaps the
greatest that ever damned its way
into the Princeton field was one in
which Princeton grads and rooters
outnumbered the Harvard clan by
about to 1. 1t was a wildly enthu-
siastic crowd, one that generates its
enthusiasm all during the year and
then loosens 1t at this annual game
in Princeton. And the loosening was
like the firing of battery of a hun
dred 14inch guns for two hour
period.
The largest part of the crowd came
to town only short time before the
game started, in automobiles, on troll