Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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UX GLEBANAQEQQ- fog'-QPALERE FLAMMAM HOW SILLYFIRJIQHESOLSK AN EGG T A FTER CAREFUL research I found that Rugby football began with the kicking of an infl ated pigls-bladder, back in the Middle Ages. They have civilized the bladder into a leather ball but, apparently, nobody ever thought of modifying its nonsensical contours. And Columbus and Humpty Dumpty notwith- standing, to the contrary, you cannot make an egg behave in a logical manner. A soccer ball is round, a baseball is round, a basketball is round and so are golf balls, hand- balls, ping pong balls, polo balls, billiard balls and marbles. Lawn bowls are merely a trifle lopsided and there is a reason for that. Even a hockey puck is round, if you look at it in the right way. Only this rugby football thing per- sists in remaining an oblate spheroid, with all the idiosyncrasies of conduct for which the spheroid family is so justly celebrated. lt does not roll, like other balls-at least, not much. It hops, and usually it hops in the other direction. It is expected to do practically everything that all the other sporting balls, combined, are expected to do, and several things besides that no round ball in its right mind would think of attempting. That a thousand football coaches come forth, eager and starry-eyed, every September, with brand- new sets of blackboard charts designed to con- trol the conduct of this insane egg bears testi- mony to the unquenchable optimism of the human race. We set out to drop-kick, place- kick unt throw and carr the ludicrous GEORGE H. ASKWITH 4-D Many tales of exploding balls can be re- counted, even among these leather eggs. In a Canadian College game about ten years ago, a kicked ball went limp just as it dropped into the arms of the safety man. He grabbed it by the slack of the pants, and having both hands free for straight-arming, went the route to a touch- down. Another time a drop-kicked ball col- lapsed in the air and settled across the goal-bar. The kicking team claimed that the part hanging inside constituted a Held-goal, the defenders asserted that the outside half was a missed goal. They claimed a touchback. The referee, being quick in the seat of the intellect and much ,attached to his life, declared both teams offside and ordered the play made over again. No one can remotely estimate the number of football results that have hinged on the avid eccentricities of the ball. It is an every-game experience to see punts hop right up to the goal line and then hop away and snuggle down to rest, bringing woe and maybe a touchdown to the miserable defenders. Sometimes it seems as though, throughout a game, the ball was deliberately taking sides. However, the ball for all its cussedness is not always on the side of the unrighteous. Years ago when Helds were one hundred and monstribsity, high, wide and hahdsome on thirty thousand square feet of turf or -T Q mud, every Saturday or week day K-. A ,,.- t kfgfxa' f and then wonder that the rest of W lffffe wk fx? ' the week is too short to explain ' ! QQ K 5 Z mxll Q., the inexplicable things that happen. j E p t x Amt Footballs began acting queer 'X Ml' 'll right at the start. During the first 7 K -- B-,EZ - X Yale-Princeton squabble in 1873, the ball got XX N195- K X stepped on or kicked two ways at once. lt N ' said, Ol and collapsed. It was half an hour X N03 or more before the New Haven sports shops 'jgfis could be made to produce another example of X ' the rare genus. The ball, however, was one of the round, rubber things that blew up with a brass key. alz 5 . .,..,... , .....,........,.... ..,.n..'u11nil5E f' 1 le

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UX GLEBANAGEQQ QEPALERE FLAMMAM PYRAMIDS HE GREATEST mystery, and oldest chronological records in Egypt, if not in the world, are the Pyramids - about seventy of which are still stand- ing in the Valley of the Nile. They belong to a pre-historic age, are among the earliest monu- ments of man, and stand on hard rock about one hundred feet above the overflow of the Nile. Even the earthquakes of forty centuries have failed to move them from their Hrm foundations. Pyramids were evidently erected as tombs for powerful kings or gods. The ancient ISABELLE MITCHELL 4-E feet five inches wide and three feet eleven inches high, situated fifty feet above the base. It appears to have been cut after the pyramid was built. On entering this passage one may descend several feet before progress is halted by a granite plug, which closes up the entry entirely. By taking a short detour to the right and clambering through a narrow hole, torch Egyptians believed thought that the pre- servation of the body was necessary to en- sure an entrance to the second world. The most elaborate precautions were taken to preserve kingsandgods. Gods totheEgyptianswere cattle and alligators. Many pyramids have been opened contain- ing the embalmed bodies of these ani- mals. Although it seems preposterous, these simple animals often explain the pre- sence of the huge mountains of stone which stand along the Nile. The largest pyra in eternity, but they in hand, about stifled with dust, one em- erges into the pass- age ascending to the king's and queen's chamber where no- thing is to be seen ex- cept the empty, lid- less sarcophagus of the once mighty, but now unknown build- er of this vast sepul- chre. With the aid of a few Arabs one can ascend to the top of the Pyramids. From any of them a niag- nificent view may be seen. I have a clear picture of what I would see, and of what I would think from this strategic point. Beneath our QA 5 lr - ...fg deux as n V' 31 . :ffl A I lffi. , ' I I .L Er., , -..W - yi' 1- ..., -. '.'f?,.a,- vi. ,.'.- P --Q' f--- , i. ffjlp -f ' -- my ,A+ ,x , , aw -ttffe''f?i?vff34QTQf.,,--ffe '7 A ' e 5. ---. :lf ' .,..:-ff? if'Lf f7 f fe . I , 2- 'V T ff Eu' M- . A 1 , 'ig-, 5912 Zi ' ft ' E.. ,,f.. r I -.-- frvzidf' of . I 5-'fHXafe,4?gi2eiQ.,-Q 11 , fi '- ..:j-xg, feet repose the dead of f mid, known as Cheops, orty centuries. The covers an area of more than thirty acres, and rises to a height of four hundred feet. It is made of huge stone blocks, some being from twenty to thirty feet long. This pyramid con- tains enough material to build a city twice as large as Ottawa, including all public edihces. It is recorded that forty thousand men Iaboured for twenty years to complete this monument. But how the huge stone blocks were carved and put in place with the crude instruments of the day remains a mystery to the world. The entrance of the Cheops Pyramid, which was originally closed, is a narrow passage three majestic Nile meanders to the north, to the west stretches the desert with its drifting sands and its waving palm-trees. The wind moans around the astounding height of the pyramid. Far down on the sands below, tiny specks are approaching. They are camels carrying more casual observers. How many generations these pyramids must have seen! How many famous men! I envy them their knowledge. They must have enjoyed seeing men like Napoleon marching in their shadows. And yet while more generations pass, they stand in the Valley of the Nile, silent, unmoved, and watchful. 424k '

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UX GLEBANAGXQQQ- ten yards long and games lasted seventy min- utes, there was an obscure wing on an obscure prep school team which, to the admiration of all beholders, had held a bigger opponent scoreless for sixty minutes and now found itself possessed of the ball on its own five yard line. All its kickers were injured and the obscure wing, who had never kicked a ball in his life, was called on to do a forlorn hope behind the goal. It was a very windy day and the obscure wing kicked the ball quite a long distance straight up in the air where the gale was at its best. It carried the ball to midfield where the kindly egg did a high hurdle over the safety man's head and hopped on down the sloping field to the five yard line, a net gain of a hundred yards. The fact that the opposing coach, doubling as umpire, called the play back merely goes to show that the best-intentioned egg is powerless in the face of man's inhumanity to man. There is one, however, which bids fair to stand at the head of the list forever, for it is inconceivable that my oblate spheroid will evei be able to equal it. Dartmouth was the victim. Down at the Polo Grounds, Dartmouth Univer- sity was having a good chance to beat the Princeton team. This game was tight for three periods with Dartmouth a shade better. In the fourth period, Princeton set their kicker to drop-kick from the forty-five yard line. He was an excellent kicker, but he foozled this one completely. It barely cleared the Hnger-tips of the Dartmouth line and did a nose-dive to the ground not more than twenty yards from its point of departure. It went lurching drunk- enly ahead for another fifteen or twenty yards and, in a sudden burst of joyous exuberance, leaped over the Dartmouth cross-bar. That moment was probably the high crisis in Bill Langford's long and brilliant career as a foot- ball referee. He said the darn thing was a field- goal. Dartmouth protested that it was not. It simply could not be, it was manifestly an act of insanity and that the ball ought to be sent to an institution. Langford pointed out that the rules made no provision for insane conduct on the Part of the ball-they merely specified that if, when drop or place kicked, it passed over the cross-bars or uprights, it scored a field-goal. A ball with a Dartmouth bias might have done important things to the final result of the game which was a Princeton victory. Later other incontrovertible authorities rallied round and nA,Sf ALERE FLAMMAM saved one of the best referees from results that might have descended on him out of Dart- mouthis wrath. Thereafter, the rule carried this added reservation, In no case shall it count a goal if the ball, after leaving the kicker's foot, touches the ground before passing over the cross-bar or uprightsf' Thus the rules are closing in a little to cramp the style of the delightful old egg. And now the coaches, in their crusade to dehumanize football and make the world safe for coaching systems, are beginning to tinker a little with the size and shape of the ball. It is something to view with alarm! Half the charm of the game lies in the spontaneous nuttiness of that old oblate spheroid. Before they get through they will have it converted into a safe and sane cube with carrying handles. Or, maybe, they will abolish the ball entirely and play the game on blackboards. T-Q-qQ+ AT THE DENTlST'S by MARY BRUCK, 5-A I sat there, all a-quiver. A story in my lap. I could l1Ot hide a shiver. When, Next! came, with a tap. I rose with knees a-shaking, And blundered to that room. From head to foot still quaking, I went to face my doom. A white form loomed before me- The cause of all my fear. A faintness then came o'er me, For he was coming near. Then, in the chair, he placed me, My mouth, he opened wide, When with a bib he'd graced me, He poked around inside. Next, he began the drilling. I kept my eyes shut tight. He said, Just that small filling Is all we'll do to-night. 4126?