The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 08, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

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.V TH 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. FO0 CHA Satur E FOOTBALL DA 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. OTBA 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. LEGE er 10 M.