Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1939 — Page 15

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By JERRY BRONDFIELD CAST OF CHARACTERS . JOAN JOHNSON—A mysterious coed, glamour girl-of the Tech campus. KEITH RHODES—Tech’'s star halfback, headed for All-America honors. DAN: WEBBER—The blocking back who clears Keith’s way; a steady, industrious student. YESTERDAY—Keith shows Joan the highlignts of Tech’s campus. Classes begin and Joan, Keith and Dan have one course together. Keith has a brilJiant idea to cut class, but Joan chills that notion.

CHAPTER FIVE JOAN SAW Keith only in class that Friday. He hadn‘t even called her during the week, but she knew Tech opened with Wesleyan on Saturday, and according to the papers “e=little as she read the sports pages —Coach Bill Slocum had been driving the varsity fiercely. ’ Football had been nothing more than a game to her up until then, but as she walked to the stadium with Marianne, Elaine, and Carol for the opener she suddenly was aware of a new interest. Keith, of course. “Carol bought a paper just before they entered the stadium. It was virtually a football edition, with players’ pictures plastered all over the front page. And splashed across three columns, largest of all, was Keith Rhodes. It was a fulllength action shot with Keith stiffarming an imaginary’ opponent. - She stole another look after they found their seats. “Some stuff, eh?” served. Joan smiled. though Keith is THE varsity.” -She checked his number in the program. It was 28. It took her a little while before she picked him out of the swarm of maroon-jerseyed figures who were scurrying about in pre-game warmups. Keith was Ssding long, spiraling punts downeld. :

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JOAN SAW. So did 50,000 others. Wesleyan kicked off and it was Keith Rhodes who took the ball deep on his own 3-yard line. Straight up the sidelines he went for about 15 yards as his interferers cut down the first three Wesleyan men to break through. Then he cut sharply to the left, stiff-armed a Wesleyan end and reversed his field. At midfield there were only.three Wesleyan men in his path. Keith timed himself in back of the lone Tech interferer who was still with him. The blocker was No. 40. Cutting slightly to the right again, Keith gestured with his free hand. No. 40 cut down two of the Wesleyan men like a scythe, with a long roll block. Keith broke into the clear and then went down heavily as the last Wesleyan tackler spilled him on the 20 with a desperate lunge. | Joan found herself on her feet, screaming. Marianne was pounding Carol on the back. “Yowee, 80 yards!” someone above them howled. “Nice goin’, Keith!” They quieted down as Tech went into a huddle. “Did you SEE that?” Carol asked breathlessly. : “And that No. 40,” exclaimed Elaine. “The way he ran interference. Who was that, I wonder.” She ran her finger down the list. But Joan had already found it. “Dan Webber,” she said. Tech took -it over in four plays, Keith scoring standing up on a reverse good for 8 yards and the touchdown, > = 2 »

JUST BEFORE the half ended Keith scored again. Someone took out the Wesleyan end neatly and Keith breezed wide. He faked the defensive halfback into lunging toward him, sidestepped and went down the sidelines for 38 yards. Joan felt a thrill go through her as he touched the ball down. The Tech players swarmed bout him, pounding him on the head and shoulders. The man who had blocked the end all but wrung Keith’s hand off he pumped it so hard. It was No. 40, but few had noticed him. The score at the end of the game was 26-0. Early in the third quarter Keith crashed over from the 5-yard line on a delayed buck. "and in the fourth quarter Quarterback Johnny White passed to Barney Hughes standing all alone in the end zone. . ~ o 2B took the girls at least 20 minutes to get clear of the great crowd leaving the stadium. As they moved slowly, foot by foot, down the long ramp they listened to the Sunday morning quarterbacks who were already replaying the game. «Great backfield |. . . little weak front, though. ...” - “This Rhodes guy is a sure-pop All-America. . . . Ever see such running?” I “ .. Saw Grange at his best . . . never looked better than Rhodes did today. . . .” : “If they go as smooth all season we'll be undefeated. . ..” « . , Yeah, and did you ever see anyone back up a/line and run interference like that man Webber .. . must be like getting hit with a truck when he ties into you. ...” Joan hardly realized there was anyone but a man named Rhodes on the Tech varsity until the powerfully built man with the irongray hair in front of her mentioned Dan Webber’s name, » # tg UST as she was leaving the dinner table that night a pledge came up and told Joan she was wanted on the phone. “First call I've had since I've been here,” Joan called back to Marianne as she hurried in the direction of the booth under the stairs,

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there was a noticable sparkle in her eye. TD ‘Marianne looked at her keenly. “Okay, spill it . . . what’s up?” Joan plopped into the glider beside her. “Guess what,” she announced. “That was Keith. He called to invite me to dinner at the Gamma house tomorrow afternoon. Howm I doin’?” It was. Elaine Chesbro who naively echoed the sentiment of present. : a » she said, “for a gal who's . only been ‘on campus for less than a: week you're really progressing.

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