The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-12-01
Official Attendance for
Game Given Out Today
is $500.
THE THR0NG IS ORDERLY
None Badly Injured When
Section of Wesleyan
Bleachers Collapses

A happy, jostling, heribboned chry-
santhemum bedecked crowd, flecked
with Gold and Blue here and Orange
and Black there, surged and swayed
| over the streets of Fairmont all the
way from Madison street to South Sidc
Park yesterday. The annual cham
pionship game. the biggest fashion
show of the year and the one big state
celebration attracted, according to the
| official figures given out today, $500.
| Threatening weather and poor hotel
accommodations helped to keep many
away.
Considering the festive character OF
the occasion. it was an orderly crowd.
The police we're not called on in a sim
! gle instance TO. take in charge young
men who had passed over the bounds
| of joViality to rOwdyism.
An hour before noon Main street be-
| gan to be filled with her most brilliant
population of the year. From then I'M
til the time for the game Main street
was the biggest fashion boulevard in
the state of West Virginia. A two
o'clock the bands of the two universi-
ties. aided by the Greater Fairmont
band, started the procession toward
South Side Park. Every one walked
and the procession stepped out Fair
mont avenue in brilliant pageant Of
thousands.
Flowing in through the gates at the
game came the young men and women
of West Virginia, the old grads and
their friends, much of the population
of Fairmont, and every good football
fan from Wheeling to- Charleston. Tier
rfter tier of seats were filled until TIL,
gridiron was bordered with frame Of
faces and hats.
A little excitement occurred just aft
er the kickoff when section four on
the Wesleyan side collapsed with two
hundred persons. Fortunately no one
was injured seriously, the only person
reported injured being Miss Sue Mcln-
tire, who after being taken to hos.
pital, was found to be not seriously
hurt.
The annual snake dance of the stu
dents Of the University, headed by
their band and their cheer leaders in
gold jerseys and white duck trousers
was Of course the feature of the crowds
at the game. A great twisting, howl
NIB yCIlu6 Sll6lIS lllOD IL was
finally resolved itself into the letters
w. V. U. and which the students in the
stands Cheercd and applauded In the
usual vociferous manner.
a solemn rite followed the snake
dance when members of the Phi Beta
Caper society, which is not what it
ought to be. dressed in bath robes and
following their leader in Il Yama Yama
suit and q calico umbrella. gathered in
the center of the held and bowed to
the great god FUNK. The Phi Beta
Capers is a society of those students
who have flunked certain and re-
markable number of times.
On the roof OF the grand stand was
man with a soap box who kept the
attention of the audience divided be-
tween himself and the players. He
pretended that his box was a moving
picture camera and at every play
would rush about on the roof and la
boriously film" the exciting scene.
Last night the streets v'ere gay with
the jubilant University students, al
though not n single Wesleyan support.
err stayed at home chagrined. Every
one was out to celebrate the game and
that they did so jcyfully can be testi-
fed to by every person who was down
town last night. Today the city is
comparatively deserted as the hun.
dreds of fans have left for their homes
in all sections of the state.