Not So Long Ago .... Peerades

PEERADES WERE concerted drives on the city in special trains, rather than a dribbling of several hundred autos. Hardier spirits went by freight, blind baggage, or milk train out of the June, but the masses piled into a special at Norwich (83.7 a to Boston) and sang and played cards to Concord. There the band performed on the platform preparatory to a collection for expenses, while the rest gobbled apple tarts and burned their tongues on coffee in the station restaurant.

Then on to Boston for a noisy procession from the North Station to the Adams House, where the opulent hired rooms and others slept in them, seven to a bed. Healey's, Charley Worth's, the Hayward, the Woodcock, the American House furnished meals and music. Boston had theaters in those days: the Colonial, Hollis, Majestic, Plymouth, Old Howard. Games \yith Brown or Penn were at Braves Field. Penn in Boston, 7-3, when Joe Emery caught a forward pass; in Philadelphia, 7-7; and again in Boston, 0-7.

In the last Princeton game Barney Ger- rish's placement field goal wasn't enough when one of our passes bounced into the unexpectant hands of Driggs who ran 63 yards for a 7-3 Tiger win. The New York peeraders were a smaller crowd in a bigger town, but called forth editorials in TheDartmouth against giving Wah-Hoo-Wahs in the Grand Central. Singing waiters in New York resorts brought tears to the most cynical with their rendition of "Frivolous Sal".

1918 was a bad football year. Fat Spears gave his services and the Athletic Council gave old equipment to the S. A. T. C. team. We won the home games from Norwich, Middlebury, and Portsmouth Marines, and lost to Syracuse in Springfield, Brown in Boston, and Penn in Philadelphia. For the Syracuse and Brown games the team took army trucks to the June to catch the 6 o'clock train on the morning of the game. The Penn trip was more luxurious, leaving at six Wednesday morning and ending with a Thanksgiving dinner at Keene's Chop House with Jigger Pender and Fat Spears in civilian glory and the team in ill-fitting olive drab. No peeraders accompanied the team that year.

igig was a good football year. After wiping out Springfield, Norwich, and Mass Aggie, we beat Penn State in Hanover 19-13, then took on Cornell in New York by a 9-0 score when Jim Robertson drop kicked a field goal from the 50-yard line and Swede Youngstrom blocked Shiverick's punt and recovered for a touchdown. Swede blocked another punt the next Saturday in Hanover, in the last two minutes of the game, and we tied Colgate 7-7 when the ball for the extra point bounced off the upright and over the bar. The following week we succeeeded in beating Penn 20-19 at the cost of a broken leg for Jim Robertson, a broken collar bone for Laddie Myers, and a bad knee for Youngstrom. Brown trimmed us 7-6 at Braves Field, where we were hampered by having no one left in the squad who could punt.

For the Stay-at-Homes Direct wire reports from an out-of-town game, with Amos Blandin on the receiving end and Fat Hardie, with cigar, feeding the multitude.