Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-24
Techs Showing This Year
Not Nearly Up to Standard
of the Blue and Gray, but
- Then the 'Dope" Has
Been All Wrong This Year
EXPECT 1000 TO
SEE THE STRUGGLE
Oh, Yes, the Annual Fashion
Show Will Be a Feature of
the Afternoon! Grim War
riors in Last Secret PrGc-
tice This Afternoon

In and about the corridors of the
two city high schools to-day there was
a strained hush. Somehow or other
the boys did not talk quite so loudly
as they usually do and the girls-of
the one school-failed TO giggle their
usual giggIes. 1t was the same hush
that falls when two grim, low-lying
battleships strip for action on a dull
gray sea; the same hush that falls
when armies face each other, waiting
for the word to fire; the same hush
that falls every year on the day before
Thanksgiving in and about the Central
and Technical High schools.
To Decide That Question
For tomorrow the football warriors
OF the two schools-one eleven, the
Blue and the Gray; the other, the Ma
room and the Gray-meet at Island
Park to decide that momentous ques-
ton of the year
Not, shall the nation prepare for de-
fense?
Not, will the Latin teacher funk"
us?
No none OF these-but,
Tech or Central
Which?
And so in and about the corridors
of the two city high schools to-day
there was a strained hush.
But Tomorrow, BedIam
But tomorrow bedlam will break
loose. The hosts of the rival institu-
tlons will make up for that strained
hush of to-day-and don't you forget
it! Instead it'n be strained throats
and strained relations between Sister
Sue and Brother Bill whose sympathieS
lie in opposite directions Fully 1000
cheering, football mad, Thanksgiving
Day celebrators are expected at Island
Park when the whistle blows for the
kickoff at $50 in the afternoon.
Quite n Fashion Show, You Know
Perhaps nearly as interesting as the
game itself, VIII be those 1000 people.
For many and many a one of those
thousands will wear the seasons regu-
lation short skirt and fur trimmed
garments-and what could be more
interesting than this? Especially when
blue sweaters, and red, decorated with
the gray letters of the two schools are
wrapped snugly about pretty chins
that peek out above the upper rim OF
fur, Ell?
The odds to-day were in favor of
Centrals winning the big battle. Cen
trail has walloped Steelton all over the
lot, and Tech hasn't. Central has won
all but one of the games it played this
year-and Tech hasn't. Central has
Harry Rote-and Tech hasn't
Rote, with his clever running and
punting and handling of the team is
expected to lead his team to victory
by the football dopesters. But doesn't
1t seem to you that the dope" has
been wrong several times this year?
What the Teams Have Dave
Harry Rote, captain of the Central
High football team scored LA points
for his team this season exclusive of
the Thanksgiving game with Tech.
Rote tailed these points for his team
in the first nine games by making 1S
touchdowns, a goal from field. and by
kicking 81 goals after touchdown. His
all-around playing stamps him as the
best offensive as well as defensive
PLAYER in this part of the State.
While Rote was doing this, his team
mates added 10 more points. while
but points were made against the
team during the season. In the first
contest of the season, ]. Swank, right
end on the Lancaster High team,
scored touchdown on forward pass,
and Dudley kicked the goal.
Nine players took part in Coach
Smiths scoring machine. Following
CAPTAIN Rote's brilliant performance
came fullback HoutZ. who scored "a