State Col
Vol. 11, No. 12
State 6-W. U. P. 0.
It was the greatest thing that ever
happened in Pittsburg, in so far as
“Old Penn State” is concerned
Words are inadequate to describe the
playing of State’s team and the con
sequent feelings of State’s students
and alumni, who either attended the
grand Thanksgiving Day struggle,
or received the tidings by wire. No
State eleven has ever fought more
manfully, or fearlessly, for the
honor of “the White and Blue,” and
Captain Yeckley.and his ten stalwart
comrades will go down emblazoned
in State’s proud gridiron history,
as men deserving of the highest
praise and commendation. With
tremendous odds against them, they
went upon that Exposition Park
gridiron where W. U. P. had never
experienced anything resembling de
feat, then with the real “State”
spirit, the best spirit, in any college
anywhere, “Our Eleven” played
such football as Pittsburg has never
seen before, so that W. U. P.’s
veterans with all their experience,
speed, weight, and support, were
completely outplayed. All honor,
too, for the other members of our
Varsity squad, who clenched their
fists upon the sidelines, and then
when State’s powerful offense had
swept W. U. P.’s forces close to the
coveted line, these loyal men waved
their blankets wildly and implored
their comrades to make those re
maining yards, which meant so
much for “State.” And finally
with a grinding plunge, “Mac” was
.over the line, with Yeck, and Mc-
Gee, and Cal hehind ! For a mo
ment, State’s whole squad was a
quivering heap of joyful blue jer
seys, for those men on th£ side-lines
had fallen jubilantly upon the regular
STATE COLLEGE, PA., DECEMBER 7, 1905.
players and everybody was hug
ging everybody else, for the sake of
good “Old State.” It was a sight
never to be forgotten by a State
man, while down at the other end of
the gridiron, State’s four hundred
“grads” and undergrads had fairly
rolled themselves together in one
huge shrieking mass of tiiumphant
‘‘White and Blue.”
Cheer leader Farrington’s work
was peerless, likewise that of Band
master Davis, and every instant of
that memorable battle heard either a
State cheer or the strains of the
cadet band booming encouragement
to the Varsity Although State’s
students and ex-students numbered
only four hundred against fully two
thousand W. U. P. men, yet even
the Pittsburg papers conceded that
State’s cheering oudassed that of
W. U. P. The fact is.that Thanks
giving was a “State” day in Pitts
burg. There was nothing else to it,
and if Teddy Roosevelt had been
there,he would surely have donned
streamers of "White and Blue.”
All honor, also, to our coaches, and
those who have worked conscien
tiously all season for the best in
terests of the team.
At 2.15 the W. U. P. squad of
over 30 giants in “Blue and Gold”
sweaters ran upon the gridiron with
Captain “Joe” Thompson in the
lead. The din was something awful.
State’s squad was delayed by the
crowds and did not appear until 2.32,
but then there arose a mighty shout
of welcome. The atmosphere was
intensely frostv, with the tempera
ture at the 20 mark, and a howling
west wind sweeping up the gridiron.
This unfavorable weather kept the
crowd to 10,000, while a bright
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legian.
THE GAME
Price Five Cents
The Strike.
The disagreement between the
faculty and the body of 800 students
has been peaceably settled. It re
quired however, the intervention of
the Board of Trustees and the
Alumni Association.
The remote cause of the strike
was the general feeling among the
students that they should have a
more liberal system of rules regard
ing their attendance at classes.
The climax was capped, however,
when about a month ago the
faculty posted a notice forbid
ing the students using any of their
six per cent allowed absences within
twenty-four hours before or after a
vacation. The Seniors and Juniors
sent in a petition asking several
changes to be made. The faculty
refused to grant anything and ob
jected to the wording, claiming that
the petition was in the form of a de
mand. A few days later an ulti
matum was sent to the faculty. It
stated that unless the students re
ceived a favorable reply to the pre
vious petition they would take inde
pendent action on Monday, Nov. 27.
No reply was given and accordingly
after a long mass meeting on the
date stated the students in a body
refused to attend classes.
Up to last Tuesday the faculty
refused to give audience to a com
mittee of students as long as they
remained in revolt. The day pre
vious the students held a mass meet
ing and by a secret ballot it was
found that nearly three-fourths of
the students wished to continue the
strike. On another secret ballot only
seventeen men refused to stand by
the decision of the majority.
On Tuesday morning the follow-
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