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...Into Champaign, Ill., thousands of football enthusiasts were pouring-on trains, on motor cars, on trolleys, on legs. Illinois' silver and gold, Michigan's maize and azure were everywhere. The two universities were going to play. "Red" Grange was going to play. Huzzahs and jeers...
Noontime and the game some two hours away. "Where do we eat?" Eating places in Champaign are few. Some are mere "greasy spoons." No matter, men must eat. Every place was crammed with yammering students. Sweaty waitresses, coughing waiters sloshed their soup bowls down in the few table houses. Counter men yelled their orders through the aperture. Cooks slid steaks across the grill into plates, and called them done. Roasts were rare that day. No one was particular. Restaurateurs were happy, were economizing, were profiting...
Frontal sinusitis? Meningitis? Inflammation of the skin muscles? Typhoid fever? Hesitating "noes." "Have you boys been eating pork?" "Last I had was at Champaign. It was kind of rare, shredded in my teeth...
...Judge not all men by the actions of one," was the gist of Dean Charles M. Thompson's remarks; and Sheriff John Gray of Champaign County concluded the University's defense in this wise: "I'm not an orator, but just a hick sheriff, but I know in 500 raids I've conducted on gambling and booze joints I've never found a student. . .The trouble (if any) nowadays is that old bozos of my age don't set the right example...
...certain pride of its own, unite naturally objects to playing Harvard on terms that are satisfactory to smaller colleges; namely, in the Stadium without the possibility of a return game. It has, however, made the concession that the return game may be played at Chicago instead of in Champaign...