Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-20
UNIVERSITY NOTES
UpdercInss Night Activities Won by
Freshmen for First Time In Years

FRESHMEN for First Time In Years
The annual events of underclass night
occurred Monday night under the direction
and jurisdiction of the Boulder society,
The scene of the events was the campus
OF the university The dummy PUSHES
took place on the front campus. The first
rush was similar to that held for many
years past. The sophomores were given
the dummy between seven and eight
O'Clock. and hid st. They could not bury
1t or place it more than three feet above
the ground. The rush lasted seven
minutes, and was won by the sophomores.
The dummy was held by them through
out the rush concealed by one of their
number dressed as girl among a num-
her Of sophomores co-eds. The sophs
were in the cage all during the rush. not
knowing that ii was going on. The second
rush. known as the tree rush." was an
innovation Five footballs were placed in
!he crotches OF five different trees with
sophomores and freshmen an equal dis
lance from the trees. At IL given signal
both classes rushed for the trees to gain
possession of the dummies. Victory in
this rush went to the sophomore who
held three of the five dummies and tied
for fourth. Each dummy counted five
points for the class holding Il az the end
of the seven minutes
Following the dummy rushes. the kcg
rush took place in the cage. In this. two
teams of ten men each picked from the
Two classes attempted - force the l5eg
from place in the center into each
DINERS terrtory. The rush lasted live
minutes ana was won ny the freshmen to
whom hftccn points were credited, Ten
added points were given them by the
Boulder society az penalty because one
! freshman wac hindcred by byst3udcrs.
The boxing and wrestling followed. The
lboxing wa, for the bes. two out OF three
,rounda In the lightweight matches
Nahoncy. 80. and Dyke. -, were the
contestants. lin tho first round Dyke Sc
cu,ea fall, by the use of the body
scissors Mahonev did not return to the
bout because of an injury. to his side.
In tic lightweight boxing Ponta % out
fought Hank" Bostwick 100 and was
given a straiebt decision
THE r,id,lIeweiob+ evapts ,vsro bo,b
won LA. tho sonbororae Lance. 80
dafe.tcd Orrien 90 in tue str.ioht
falls Bu,.ns 40 had tbe bo,+er Of
suoe- 'o2 in a hard fought boxinc
bout Of three full rounds
or thc boovyu.igb, n,,,ch.. IT,.
res:,l, Of tho .ven,ngs avon,s ,-os,oa
land in the westlins pand 90 and
;,ouou .o2 fougbt a psrd match IN
.ho P;r,t rou,L p,,d,e sho,,Idor as
injured I'm, no M, I'm :, r,uckv ricbt
and finished the match Will. RoweI,
rot a fan in tho first round in the
second and third Rand had the fresh
man all but down With -, inch ~. two
snar, when tho u,hist1e h1ev, fo, tho
ana or IN. round Tho match went
m .be freshmen In tho beavvwe;ght
boing Hallway ,o2 tnockad ont smith
second ronnd althou,h he finished ont
tbo fret Hallway ,yas an agyrossiye
boxer. so much so that he struck
Smith while the referee was warning
him about cJincbine The winning. OF
the heavyweieht events gave the vic
tory to the freshmen nv score OF
72ib to 53%
In the period of general hostilities.
which started at 400 the freshmen,
100 in number. remained concealed on
Rock Point where they were imme-
diatelv after drill period at , O'Clock.
The sophomores. who numbered rs.
were unable to find but one lone
freshman. stuart Greene. at his room.
He counted one point as a captive.
The freshmen's score Of 72k was
counted as follows: Tree rush ~, keg
rush IL and penalty 10, 1eight weight
being 10 light weight wrestling. 10.
heavy weight wrestling 10. heavy
wrestling boxing 10.
The sophomores points were rec
koned as 53la as follows: CaptlVes 1.
frst dummy rush 10 tree rnshes i'h'
middleweight events ~
Inc boulder society uirecteu Tue
events OF the hieht' ana Ut to'iuhu
acter as reteree IN the wrestling anu
po%lhe matches numerous iias"is II.
shapshots OF the eNen's III 'ne N"e
Were taken o! w. - DUN -" '"u
D. H. MACLEOD ~
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