Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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and thanked them for their grenerositv. The next eame was to be played in two days and they expected to show the college how badly a Fresh class could be beaten. But in these two days we grew in members. When the next game was called a fair young pitcher was in the box, who had not played before. Kid Smith was making his maiden effort in college athletics, and the Palmetto State need have no fear of a tarnished reputation. The game was hot and close. The players all rallied to the support of the pitcher, and one by one the score piled up till the Sophs saw that new champions had come to college and that their laurels were doomed to fade. The victory thus won was only the prelude of continued success. We soon played the town and then the town and college combined. The victory rested with us in more than half the games. The heavy batting of Weddington and Quarles has not been equaled on our campus since they bade farewell to their comrades of ' 99. The successes of the Fall were more than equaled by the record of our playing in the Spring. The college championship was won without straining our laurels in the least. Foot ball is a game which calls for a quick eye, a ready brain, an active body; but above all the muscles must be firm and the bones not capable of being easily broken. Such combinations are not often met with in our smaller preparatory schools, and it shows some degree of wisdom for a boy, when he comes to college not to be one of the first to enter the fray where the pig skin is the trophy. A man becomes hardened by degrees, and the capacity for enduring pain must also be cultivated. If we pride our- selves on anything it is the soundness of our common sense, so it is no wonder that in foot ball we builded slowly. There was good material in our class, as future events have shown, but we did not wish to over test our untrained man- hood against the experience of well trained players. We were content to stand last in the .series, yet at the end of the season we knew .something of the game and had gained 27