Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1913 — Old Folks at the Game. [ARTICLE]

Old Folks at the Game.

Then, too, there are the older people. After all, the most interesting thing about a Yale-Harvard football game crowd is not the pretty girls and the snappy, clean-cut boys who squire them. It’s the old chaps, gray and wrinkled maybe, and a bit worn by line bucking of a kind they don’t experience at college: but still game and ready as ever to sit for hours on the hard bleachers and thrill from crown to toe every time the old team charges, and shiver with apprehension when the line bends and breaks and the hostile backs crash through. And, of course, there are accompanying the older men certain persons, who—well, who have seen more games than Miss DebutaMe, with her bunch of violets or American beauties, and who are just as competent to discern whether a play Is Inside of tackle. —New York Evening Post.