Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. [ARTICLE]

THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.

(A la Thomas Hood.) I remember, I remember, The field whence 1 was borne. The crowded stands, the shouting mob, The raucous auto horn. • The side-lines running down the field, Amain from goal to goal, Were thronged with blanketed recruits. ■ .I-—-T-T-That would each play extol. # I remember, I remember, The flags of varied hue, The death-like stillness In the al t Before the whistle blew; And callow youth and winsome maid— The ‘Old Grad" —back again— The favored minions of the 'Tress," The “fav’rite colors" men. I remember, I remember, The tossing of a coin, The oval sailing hi*?h in air,— A kick anent the groin; A jab, a gouge, a jolt, a crunch,— A whizzing, whirring roar,— The plaudits of the multitude,— A bucketful of gore. ==- ~ I remember, I remember, A fierce and bloody fray,— surgeon’s corps, the ambulanoe That carried me away; A broken nose; a splintered ana. Two eyes of darkest jet. Some fractured ribs, a missing ear,— The rest, —oh, I forget!