The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-10-20
PRIEST AND KELLEY
THRILL U STUDENTS
UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY TURNS
INTO w. s. C.-IDAHO FOOTBALL
GAME RALLY.

ldahO spirit was shown at It's best
Thursday morning at the University
eof Idaho assembly when Coach
Thomas Kelley and A. J. Priest o1
Boise inspired the undergraduates
with addresses on football, university
athletics and traditions Mr. Priest
was the principal speaker of the
morning program with an address on
Idaho spirit as exemplified by deeds
of Idaho men on athletic and battle
fields.
Coach Kelley asked for devotion
land backing from the "souls and
hearts Of every student" Only by the
most whole-souled loyalty behind the
team can Idaho students hope to win
from Washington State college at
Pullman Friday afternoon, according
to Coach Kelley. He predicted the
hardest kind of a game and insisted
that unless football players gave
more than their a1l'' the Silver and
Gold cannot hope to win.
Led by Lynn Hershey, the Univer-
ssity pep band played one number and
q clever saxaphOne quartet made up
of Lynn Hershey, Uhlia Powell, Aer-
ling Moe and John Maule played one
number and put on a funny skit for
an encore.
At the close of the assembly Yell
King Ted Turner led a number of
Idaho yells.
In part Priests address follows:
when Dean COckerill suggested an
assembly address 1 did considerable
,Quailing, but I consented when 1 re-
membered that if 1 went crazy on the
streets of Boise after our victory over
Pullman, I might be due for long
visit in B1ackfOOt, while when [ go
crazy up here tomorrow after we have
licked the Cougars I will be in perfect
safety because 1 will have one thous-
and fellow lunatics to keep me COM
'pany. !
although / realize perfectly that
1t is only Thursday, and that we have
had no 1ubrious music, and that no
snappy little extemperaneous invo-
cations have been offered, I neverthe
less, have assumed my present trying
position for the purpose of preaching
q sermon. My text is chosen neither
from the chronicles of the wanderings
of the tribe of Judea nor yet from
the writings of the Harold Bell
Wrights of the days of Cleopatra. 1t
is in fact that old familiar slogan,
idaho Fights" In common with a
great many others / have been con-
vinced for some time that this student |
body is very definitely possessed of a
spirit that deserves to be known by |
the higher word soul and I believe
too that the narrating of only a few
luminous incidents from Idaho ath-
letic history is perhaps one of the
best means for awakening that soul
to a complete realization of it's power
over the hearts and minds of the
men and women of this campus.
"Of course, football is the order of
the day, but I am sure that you will
be interested in more or less historic
exhibitions of Idaho's spirit that have
the performances of Idaho
men and Idaho teams in other
branches Of athletics.
sBut there is another sort of ex-
of the spirit Of Idaho,
hat / wish to dwell on briefly this
morning. At the time of the Spanish
command of Idaho's cadets was a
voung lieutenant of infantry, Edward
R.. Chrisman. Such a hold did he
rave upon the men Of his battalion I
ind so dominated were they by his {
Inc ideal of service, that when {
le went to join the colors he took
With him a larger percentage of men !
rom the Idaho student body than t
ould be enlisted from any other col
ege or university in the United
states
Thinking of this Idahoan of the
I cannot decide whether
lis eyes are blue, or black, or brown I
n gray, and I do not know whether
le is Jew or Gentle, Catholic or
Protestant, but I am sure that his
'hysique is graceful and symmetric-
j and that he can play a brilliant
anne in the backfield for Tom Kel-
ey in the fall and then turn out in
he spring and run his gallant half
nile"
Mr. Priest closed with a thrilling
ppeal for Idaho spirit as demonstra
ed by the "Idaho Fights" slogan
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