Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1911 — Fever’s On. [ARTICLE]

Fever’s On.

“There’s no fever like the football fever,” said George H. Earle, Jr., at a dinner party in Philadelphia. “Let me tell you about a broker’s boy in Third street “A Third street broker sat at his desk the other morning when his office boy entered and said respectfully: “ 'lf you please, sir, my grandfather’s dead and I’d like to get off early to go to the funeral match—l mean the football ceremony—that is— ’ “And then, blushing scarlet, the boy withdrew.”