Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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21 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 1904. role of full-back. “ Who is he?” and “Where did he come from?” were the questions, but no one knew. Nevertheless they gave him a loud applause as the two teams lined up for action. Almost breathless, they heard the shrill note of the whistle as it announced the final and death struggle of the day. The new man in the white sweater did not make many gains in the first fifteen minutes of play but he was game to the core. The two teams kept up a hard line bucking near the center of the field, but it was the same old story. Michi- gan began her march again. With a bloody nose, the new full back was playing desperately, and not until the “Yost Machine” had almost gained the coveted goal did he show his best fighting form. With new life and vigor he started from Chicago’s five yard line and by line-plunging carried the ball to the middle of the field . The rooters went wild and for blocks could be heard that old yell, “Chicago, Chicago, Chicago go, go Chicag, go Chieag, go Chicago go.” Could victory be possible? It seemed almost too good to be true. The referee announced only two minutes to play to the captains as their respective teams were struggling in the cen- ter of the field . Something phenomenal must be done. Trem- bling and bleeding the new full-back started toward Michi- gan’s goal. Onward he plunged, down after down passed with Michigan’s goal in danger. Fifteen yards to gain and the time almost up: “14-64-87” rang from the quarter-back as he passed the ball to Valpo’s full-back of ’03, who plunged through Michigan’s line, hurdled over their goal defender and planted the pig-skin between the goal posts amid cheer after cheer, as the Chicago rooters clung to each other and wept for joy. Graduates of 1904. Rudolph A. Bartholomew Bruce L. Jones W. Arthur Hall Auretta Hoyt Agnew Genevieve Freeman Baum Flora C. Cobb Gordon Bennet Norris Carlton H. Sweney H. Leigh Lawrence Ross M. Brown Ethel Ann Gardner Arthur E. Louderback

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20 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 1904. The Team of “Naughty Six.” By W. ARTHUR HAUL. “Chicago, Chicago, Chicago go, go Chicag, go Chicag, go Chicago go,” rang into the cold, gray sky and echoed and re-echoed from bleacher to bleacher as their occupants fairly went wild yelling, shrieking, and waving pennants. A mighty battle was about to take place, the fiercest of the year. The wind whistled and howled; all the elements indicated a life and death struggle. The day for the annual battle on the gridiron between Chicago and Michigan had arrived. Michigan had the best team in her history and Coach Stagg’s proteges had survived the season without a defeat. It had been a long time since Michigan had suffered defeat at the hands of Chicago, but the Maroons had sworn vengeance and were prepared to fight till death. All eyes were turned toward the north gate of Marshall field as the first Maroon players entered. The excitement grew intense. The people arose to their feet as they watched their favorites silently march to the battle field. Yell after yell rent the air, but suddenly a stillness passed over the crowd as the last player wearing a white sweater with a red V entered. He was a new player, unknown to Chicago rooters. This quiet spell lingered only a minute, then the team was given one last, grand ovation as it passed through the wire gate onto the gridiron. The wearers of the Maize and Blue were already on the field so the two teams lined up for the last struggle of the year. The referee blew his whistle and the game was on. Chicago received the kick-off, started the ball down the field and went to within seventeen yards of Michigan’s goal. The fight was hard and fierce for a long time, with little advan- tage to either side. The first half was almost up and Michigan grew desper- ate. It seemed as if an immovable object was in contact with an irresistible force, but Michigan kept hammering away un- til Chicago finally began to weaken. Her full-back, who had been hurt by a severe blow in the head during the fore part of the game, was playing poorly. The Maroon’s goal was in immediate danger. Could they hold out until time was called was the question. Only two more yards and all would be over. Silence held the west bleachers, while the east went wild. Only one more yard. Could it be possible for Michi- gan to gain it before time was called? No, once luck had favored Chicago and time was called with defeat staring them in the face. Affairs looked gloomy for Chicago as the second half was about to begin, but consternation prevailed among her supporters as the boy in the white sweater appeared in the

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22 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 1904. FROM THE COLLEGES. Bloomington, Ina., Apr., 1904. Editor High School Annual: And, through the Annual, to all who have the success of the V. H. S. at heart, I am glad to comply with your re- quest for a description of the university and its work, al- though if I should undertake to do the suoject justice I fear I should overtax the capacity of the Annual and crowd out even those very entertaining and necessary articles, the advertisements. Indiana University is located on the Monon railroad at Bloomington, a very old town with many characteristics of the South. In the next year however, we are to have a rail- road directly to Indianapolis, and even now the students walk out to see the workmen do the grading, very much as the normal students walk out to the cemetery at Valparaiso. The university is regarded as the State University in other parts of the state more than in the northern part. It is the goal toward which most high school students who have not already reached their limit are looking at the time of their graduation. And no matter what the line to be followed is, the university offers its aid without tuition, in languages, history, mathematics, science, law, and medicine. The campus is fifty-five acres in extent, covered for the most part with the natural timber. There are five large buildings, and ground is now being broken for the largest one of all. Besides these, there are two gymnasiums, a power plant, a heating plant, and a pretty Tittle stone ob- servatory. The chemistry department occupies two and one-half floors in Wylie Hall, and has twelve separate laboratories, besides store rooms, scale rooms and a room for the office library. I just figured up and found that it would take four years, doing this work alone, to finish all the work offered in the chemistry department. This includes theoretical and practical work of every sort, the equipment is ample for all they undertake, and eight professors and assistants are at hand to help the student in every way. The department of physics is equally well equipped and has the advantage of a new building. The work is divided between two departments, physics and the department of mechanics and astronomy. Here also the work offered would take the student’s entire time for four years if he so desired. Of course this is not expected, the idea being to allow each one to select as nearly as possible what he wishes. Many go out from these departments to fill positions in other colleges. The special pride of the head of the physics department is his first-year work, and he is certainly not excelled anywhere in the quality of the work and the method of presentation. To quote the head of the chemistry department, who is per- haps a little jealous: “That physics lecture room is a regular palace.” The chemistry lecture room, which has been through one very bad fire, is not at all palatial: but when they had some pictures taken recently for the St. Louis exposition, it was some satisfaction to the chemistry professor to find that the photographer had, as he said, “made the chemistry room look like a palace and the physics room like 30 cents.” The plans for our own laboratories in the new building are not yet completed , but it is the desire to profit by the ex- perience of others as much as possible, and to do the work in such a way that, no matter where the student goes afterward, that work will not need to be done again. To do this, the best laboratory equipment obtainable with the funds at our command is to be supplied. If possible, I want to have a physical laboratory in the basement and a chemical labor- atory in the upper part of the building, in addition to a reg- ular recitation room. But about athletics, well that is Indiana’s pride. Her teams always have to be beaten first by some little college, and then they start out and win from nearly everything that they tackle. The regular gymnasium work, football, base ball, in-door and out-door track meets, all are entered upon with an enthusiasm that is absolutely irresistible. On state occasions the band is usually present, and at each good stroke the strains of the Indiana song swell out and are caught up by the entire student body. It is little one cares if