1897.]
Speaking, it is after the game with Buckuell has been played.
We reach our objective point and then the rest is a farce. This,
surely, should be our Thanksgiving game if we desire to end our
season in a creditable manner.
The Orange and Blue in a recent issue bemoaned the fact that
college teams, were so frequently and so heavily padded, Why, if
this is the sentiment of the student body of our sister institution,
should not measures be taken to adopt a set of rules, mutually
agreeable, in which the qualifications of a player shall be clearly
set forth and in which arrangement shall be made - for strict ad
herence to them.
IT has frequently been said that “ the unexpected always hap
pens, ’ ’ and certainly the old adage was not disputed by the re-
sults of the Buckuell-State game. Of course it must not be in
ferred from this that State did not expect to win, for the very
contrary is true. Yet the person who, before the contest, would
have dared to predict a score greater than that of the season of
’95 would have been looked upon as a dreamer. Indeed, there
were not a few on both sides who were expecting a repetition of
last year’s programme. Such wild notions as these were caused
by the comparative records of Bucknell and State during the part
of the season just spent. The former, with but a few exceptions,
had made up to that time a very creditable showing, as far as
scores went. State, on the other hand, had been less fortunate,
having won but a single game. The mistake in judging the rela
tive strengths was that while Bucknell had played with teams
more nearly in her own class State had hotly contested with U.
of Pa., Princeton, Eafayette, and Cornell, against whom she
could at best make but a mediocre record. In fact, the spirits of
her supporters drooped considerably after the game with the Ith
acans, so that they were totally unprepared for the sudden revul
sion of feeling attendant upon the next contest. Strangely
enough, for once, the element of luck did not enter, and State
won solely and entirely upon her merits.
ONE of the most successful and at the same time one of the
most pleasing entertainments which it has been our good
fortune to enjoy was that given in the College chapel on
the evening of November twenty-seventh by the Boston Eadies’
Editorial.
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