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THE QUILL 11 PICKING A FOOTBALL TEAM FROIXI THE HEROES OF FICTION To pick a football team from the heroes of fiction was not a job for one man. To do this job. a group of experts was chosen. Everyone knows, of course, that there is no one alive today who is as smart as a football player thinks he is. To aid these gentlemen in their task a secondary group was selected to choose and submit names of likely candidates to THE ex- perts . Careful consideration was given by these professionals in the game of second guessing to all candidates. For a player to be selected to the team a three-fourths ma- jority was needed. Now that we know how the team was chosen, let us look at some ofthe players' names and the reasons of the experts for selecting them. Letis look, first, at the names of the backfield men, better known in football circles as the uglory boysn. At left-halfback is the fabulous Frank lVIerri- well. No explanation is needed for this man's presence on the team. At right-half- back the hexpertsn, believing they would need more speed in their backfield, selected the Roman God Mercury. For a fullback, after careful consideration and considerable discussion, the Uexpertsf, picked Hercules. The quarterback, and also captain, was a unanimous choice. To the task of guiding the backfield presented above was named Captain Horatio Hornblower. Now let,s take a quick look at the line. The usuper brains were able to agree on only three candidates. Two of these are tackles and the other is the center. First the tackles: at left tackle another unanimous choice is the great Paul Bunyan, the giant of the North Woods. After receiving the announcement of his being chosen to the team, Paul said he was very flattered but that he would not leave home to play ball without his Blue OX. Discussion among the Hexpertsi' was heated, but they finally agreed that Paul was too valuable a man to lose, therefore Paulis ox was given the po- sition of right tackle. After the selection of the tackles was completed, the search for a center ended almost as soon as it started with the choice of Pecos Bill. The Hexpertsi' believed, and most people will agree, that with three such players in the line there wouldnit be need or room for any more. With the completion of the team, the brains began screening the names of like- ly candidates for the position of coach. These men worked night and day for weeks without leaving the conference room but could never agree on a candidate wort-hy of the job. At length, the list oi nominations from the second group produced no one and the experts could think of no one. The only alternative was to turn to the common people to help. The call is still out, so if you have any ideas for a worthy man, please get in touch with the experts im- mediately. 'George Heselton, ,52 IF tWith Apologies to Kiplingl If you can keep your thoughts when all about you Are whispering, fooling, and distracting youg If you can trust yourself when teachers doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can speak, but not with fear and trembling, Or being laughed at, check the urge for fun, Or being witty, donft give way to bragging, And yet go on, work hard till all's well done, If you can the names and dates of battles master And in memory the Constitution retain, If you can meet examination and disaster And feel about these two things just the same, If you can in chemistry worry each day through And not nblow-up in that heated atmos- phere, Or you can 'iparlez-vousn and Hcomprenezu too Without insisting your classmates must hear, If you can force yourself to sing do-re-mi, For it will be sung long after you are gone, And hold on to your temper when you get off key Saying to yourself-HI Will Stay Oni , If you can overcome a common temptation, Especially with a diamond in view, To put an end to all this meditation And say, Adieu, and again, HI do , If you can read of the great literary men, Historical biographies and such, And dream of ancient kings and queens, knights, brave men, Nobility-nor lose the common touch, If HVeni, Vidi, Vicin you can say and also mean it As Ceasar did of old and without fear, Yours is G. H. S. and everything that's in it, And-what is more-you'll graduate, my dear. -Lois Lackey, '52
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10 THE I'm well and fresh and yellow, but low, itls true, this ordeal I must go through. It's a shame that such should happen to a lowly ear of corn. -Erwin Houdlette, ,53 DAYDREAMING The sunshine poured through the win- dow. A peaceful air prevailed and the teacher's voice made a soft, drowsy back- ground for it all. I saw a big bug rise, shake itself, stretching one leg - then an- other, till all sixty-odd were unkinked. It crawled across my desk, but the little crea- ture was unable to climb upon the paper I spread before it. So it just sat and looked comically surprised and with a deep sigh it took up life's burden and moved on. I was at this time very interested in what it would do if I tickled its ribs. It just looked at me, being used to such things from its long experience as the mascot of the schoolroom. f'What was Caesarls next move, Dick? the teacher broke in. c'He stretched his leg and winkedf, I replied promptly, watching the little fel- low. I didnlt think it was a bit nice for the teacher to send me out of the room. -Richard Groder, ,55 THE LIGHT BULB The light bulb is a ball of glass That hangs down from the ceiling. It,s quite important in my life Though it hasnlt any feeling. When I come in real late at night And the house is all so dismal, I fumble round for this small ball, Hoping that I won't trip and fall. When at last I find the thing And think I've been so quiet, Out calls my mom with words that sting, 4'Can't you be more quiet?,, I yank the string, The light goes Zing. Oh, heck, I broke The gosh darn thing! -James Ronco, '53 MISTAKEN IDENTITY I walked into my room Without a worry or a eareg I took my seat, put up my books And-oh, I just sat there. My teacher looked around our room, Her eyes, they shone with glee And then she came, right up the aisle QUILL And-handed it to me. 'fFailure Notice was what it said Right at the very top- I wished the floor would open up So through it I could drop. But what was this I saw! I To me it looked so fine- It didn't belong to me at all But to the boy behind. -Harvey Mason, '52 THIS IS BASKETBALL I had been out of school for a week and my gym class had started playing basket- ball during the time of my absence. When I returned I was pushed onto the floor and informed that I was a forward. I guess that I must have been more back- ward than forward, but someone kindly told me just to shoot the ball into the basket. Justl the girl said. Whenever I tried to do this little thing a guard would jump in front of me and start imitating a windmill. During the first two weeks of playing this game I never scored a basket. In despair, the instructor finally made me a windmill -er, a, I mean a guard. I was doing all right until suddenly there was a mad scram- ble and somehow I ended up holding the ball. My old forward days came back to me! I tossed the ball up, and it went through the basket beautifully. The world fell on me when someone told me that that was the other team's side. Everyone started asking me why I did it and what side I was on. All I have to say is that it is only human to make a mistake, and how can I help it if I'm more human than most people? Margaret Bull, '55 THE LONELY SUBSTITUTE On a long cold bench- As hard as can be- That's where they'll always put A little guy like me. All alone-without a friend- It's just a mystery Why they never want to play A little guy like me. But I wonlt quit, no siree- It's against my constitution, And some day I hope they'll shout Time out-substitution! -Michael Murphy, '54
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