The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 08, 1908, Page 8, Image 8
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The football days have come again,
the gladdest of the year;
One side of Willie's nose is gone, and
Tom has lost an car;
Heaped on the field, the players jab
and punch and claw and tear,
They knock the breath from those be
neath and gouge without a care;
They break each other's arms and
legs, and pull joints out of place,
And here and there is one who gets
his teeth kicked from his face.
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The freshman and the sophomore, be
smeared with grime and mud,
Go gallantly to get tlhy ball and quit
all bathed in blood;
The senior knocks the junior down
and kicks him in the chest,
The high school boy is carried home
and gently laid to rest,
While here and there a crowded stand
collapses 'neath its weight,
And forty people get more than they
paid for at the gate.
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CAROLINA
vs.
:LESTON COL
day, Octob
IOLLEGE PARK, 4 P.
YS lb
0 brave, 0 happy, careless days I
How deep the mothers' joy
What time she thinks of all the things
they're doing to her boy!
How proud she is to know that he is
on the team; how sweet
His face appears to her since it is only
bloody meat!
With honest pride she lays away his
amputated ear
And puts his eye in alcohol to be a
souvenir.
-Chicago Record-Herald.
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