HE annual class contests for the football championship of the University produced the usual bunch of stars (performers and otherwise) and the usual bunch of ambitions, charley horses, broken noses, and blasted hopes.
     For three successive years the class of 1915 had been the undefeated champions and they were the ruling favorites again this year. The Freshmen had their customary strong team and put up the hardest scrap of the series against the Seniors.
     The first game between the Juniors and Seniors was played the day before Thanksgiving vacation. In point of numbers, the Juniors had the advantage with nearly three full teams on the field, all fitted out in borrowed uniforms. The Seniors, on the other hand, had only a little band of thirteen men from which Coach Fouts could select his team. The game itself was productive of more thrills than any varsity contest ever staged. After seesawing up and down the field for three scoreless quarters, the ball was finally lugged across the Junior goal for two touchdowns. The Senior backfield was more inconsistent in its lapses into ineffectiveness than was that of the Juniors, while the Junior line displayed startling sieve-like qualities at the crucial periods. The combination of these two tendencies proved the undoing of the Juniors, and gave the Seniors the long end of the 14 to 0 score.
     The Sophomores and the Frosh displayed great preliminary ambition and practiced assiduously for two full weeks after indulging in Thanksgiving revelries. By that time they evidently felt that they had sufficiently atoned for their lapse in training.
     The game developed into a contest between the opposing backfields, an argument in which the Freshmen proved to be the more potent. They scored in every quarter but one, while the Sophs could muster only one lone touchdown. From the science displayed in this game Coach Stiehm and Dick's bunch of aspirants could well take lessons. Cut backs and crossed signals were the marvel of the bleachers and the terror of the opposing gang.
     The championship game now resolved into a battle between experienced teamwork of a rather ragged variety and individual prowess. The Seniors, without the services of their captain who was out of the game on account of parental objections and a broken nose-and with four recruits in the line-up were swept off their feet for the first few minutes. They came back with a punch, however, and succeeded in getting two touchdowns. 14 to 0 was the tune of the last victory for that undefeated, four times champion class of 1915. For the first time in the history of class football one team had successfully annexed the championship for four straight years.