Twin-City herald., 1933-12-16
Campus
Personalities
By Nellie Dodson

For those of you who are interested
in football, read this and get a kick
out of it, the rest Of you skip down
the page bit. AS you know, we have
over at Minnesota young man known
as FRANCIS "PUG" LUND. He has
gained reputation of being blonde
whirlwind on the gridiron, of being
able to take more punishment and
beating than any man on the Mime
sofa team, and come out of it with
scarcely curly hair of his head rum
pied. He has been patted and
thumped on the back until he is prac-
tically stoop- -shouldered from we'll
wishing. When he is pointed out on
the campus, students stare at him in
that open-mouthed, awed manner with
which they used to regard CLAIR
ENCE MUM. People have begun to
forget that "Pug" is just human
being like anyone else, but last Thurs
day at convocation Minnesota students
found out that pug, after all, is
Just curiy-haired, blonde kid with a
capacity for BLUSHING which the
average sophisticated modern young
man lacks entirely.
1t began when ROY OEN started
telling funny stories on different mem
bers of the team. Roy was speaker
on the Letter Day program, and be-
sides passing the torch of leadership
to Lund, he enlivened the program a
bit by well-told, actually funny little
personal stories which had taken place
during the season. Finally, after get
ting in few good-natured digs at diff
ferent players, he came to pug. He
cast a sidewise glance at Lund, and
grinning broadly, said:
81 didn't know the secret of Pug's
great playing until the final game Of
the season. Say, wasn't that a swell
picture of 'Pug's' girl in the paper?"
Well, bless me. have never in all
my days, seen a human blush as Lund
did! The students howled with mirth,
and "Pug" got redder and redder. The
louder and harder the audience
laughed, the redder he got! (The
whole school knew that "Pug's"
sweetheart from his home town had
come down to see her honey play in
the Wisconsin gameD Finally, the
audience was in one grand uproar, and
"Pug" was as crimson as boiled lob
ster. He looked like a small boy who
had been caught with his fingers in
the jam jar. When things quieted
down somewhat, he raised his eyes
just tiny bit, and gave Roy still
blushing, but thoroughly good-natured,
grin.
That incident endeared "Pug" to
the hearts of Minnesota students more
than anything which could have been
done or said in his favor. They found
out he was really human. They found
out he had a girl and could blush
when he was kidded about her, in
stead of trying to look unconcerned
and nonchalant in keeping with his
position in the spotlight. In that mo-
ment, practically every girl in North
rop Auditorium, felt fleeting twinge
of envy for that girl in Rice Lake,
Wisconsin. Oh, we'll
But the big surprise of the day
was ROY OEN. A year ago when
Roy received the torch of football
leadership from WALLY HASS, he
was nervous, fidgety, and when he
made his acceptance speech he stum-
bled over his words. Thursday he was
poised, calm, delivered his speech and
told his stories in well-modulated,
pleasant voice. The responsibility of
leadership, of having a team look up
to him, has made man out of an
awkward kid. ...
The second big surprise of the day
was the applause JACK HARPOLE
got when he went up to receive his
sweater and his gold football from
DEAN FORD. Jack got bigger hand
than any member of the team with
the exception of Lund and Oen.
I hear that WARREN GRISSOM
will join the ranks of book-weary col
lege nuts, next quarter. Congratula-
tions, old dear, Wen be glad to see
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In QUESTIONABLE sent out at CO.
lumbia University, students were
asked: What do you intend to do
when you get out of college?" One
brother in the School of Chemistry
wrote as his answer: "T'm going to
get in bed and sleep in peace for the
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