Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
WOMAN WRITER FINDS MANY
THRILLS IN BIG BATTLE, THE
FIRST ONE SHE EVER SAW
She's Positive It's Mans Game Now, but De-
clares Women Are More Than Willing to
Cheer Players-Notes Galaxy Of Feminine
Fashions at Crimson-Bme Struggle.

Honest and true, you just wanted to
run and scream and sing, too, even If
| you couldn't, because life was worth
! living, and 1t isn't every day that
/ brings a Harvard Yale football game.
The young man who took me to the
game being. a football player, with
his nose already broken fighting for
the cause, with one eye In sling, and
not caring what else happened to him,
buclSed the line at the gate for TWEEN
ty yards, and when ! came to found
my pretty new hat slightly awry, my
red Chrysanthemums beheaded my
very unnecessary furs under one ear,
and the sun shining merrily down
upon IT all.
Like Old Roman Arena.
Oh, it was awfully joliyl The sta
dunn doomed up big and imposing,
needing only Nero's box and the place
where the looms came forth to chew
up the Christians to make it look like
the real thing
But my football player told me to
cheer up that something would be
chewed up before the afternoon was
over and he had a sneaking suspi-
ciOn it would he Yale's poor old bull
pup, whatever that means.
Everywhere, both to right and left
were pretty girls and the men who
brought them to the game. Rows
upon rows of maidens that one never
hoped to see except upon the cover OF
a magazine, bright-eyed, red Tipped,
rosy checked damsels, calculated to
make the heart of man do stunts upon
occasions.
n
last word In fashions, for the sun
shine gave everyone "a chance TO wear
their newest and best gorgeous hats,
each one more wonderful than the
ext one, bobbed In unison when the
bands played; plumes nodded, the
forbidden aigrette thrust its royal
fiuffiness upward, outward, backward,
/ according to the within of it's wearer,
sometimes threatening the eye Of the
| man behind, who cared not
It was all in a days football game.
| Gorgeous gowns were enveloped in
| wonderful furs for the day should
have been cold, even II II wasn't, and
| It's violating too much of precedent
not TO wear furs to the Yale Harvard
game
so much for all that. And, OF course.
the game was the thing. But let the
experts tell that. Football is great,
Ask any woman. It's right along next
TO prize fighting; and where is there
woman on earth who doesn't yearn TO
see prize tight?
Sees Extra Sport In Game.
And witness the plus extra we get in
football. twenty-five fighters instead
many legs ana arms and noses and
ears. And twenty-five times as many
precious necks.
It's a great game. they tell me. to
nHIs ha AY-l1 100 Of a
chap ] agree with that. Strikes me il
takes lots of couragt to wallow In the
dirt with eleven times one hundred and
seventy-tiVe pounds of husky humanity
setting upon your neck rubbing 1t in.
TO know that every time you cut and
run with the ball, eleven mad-eyed ruff
fans are going to yank YOU to earth. fall
upon any part of you that comes handy
to keep YOU there.
We're NOT in any danger Of molly
codding any of our boys as long as
football stalks around in the land oh
no! No indeed
And It's a mans game. There's no
use trying TO argue about II. One
womau's college is attempting football.
| hut-with notifications We women
| have taken away everything else from
man, but, mister man. Wen have TO give
you your football. You're welcome to II.
Sees Other Side TO Football
| Wen scream and yell and try to
! root you to victory, but we're willing
| tuck curl into place and bite our
| red lips to make them roster,
| But, on the other side-and there is
| another side TO football, just the same
| as anything else, because my football
| player told me so. He's a corldng chap
and believe him. lie says football has
| taught him TO think quickly, outguess
| the other fellow, act with decision, play
| square and keep his temper
| Now. what better training does any
| boy need?
| OH very well! Anything is perfectly
| all right with me Football IS brutal
and it's dangerous. but yesterdays game
was ripping good one. and | enjoyed
| every minute Of IT,
| Now, all together.
.,Rah! Rah' Rahl Harvard!