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

~ RINCETON, \. 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 1 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 witha the
| commingled Crimson color of Har-
\ ward and the Orange and Black of
| Princeton, huge banners were stretch
| ed across the village streets, bands
| hammered out glee songs, and pen
nants 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 fTisky and
| frolicsome and CarefTee as they de-
! sired
Princetons annual big football
game, in it's own bailiwick, serves
also as a class reunion-for men who
1 We're 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 raining 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 gen
! tIeman 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 anu
! rushed him up and down the street.
1 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
I about 8 to /. 1t was a wildly enthu-
I siastic crowd. one that generates it's
enthusiasm all during the year and
! then loosens 1t at this annual game
/ in Princeton. And the loosening was
, like the firing of q battery of a hun
/ drad li-inch guns for a two-h hour
period
} The largest part of the crowd came
/ 10 town only a short time before the
! same started, in automobiles on troI