Then
one of the best kickers gave the ball a kick toward the other
side of the field, and there was a rush and an attempt to
get it past the goal. Nobody was allowed to pick up the foot-
ball, or to run with it in his hand. A fast runner and good
kicker who could get the ball a little outside of the line
of his antagonists could often make great progress with it
across the field before he was intercepted. It was allowable
to trip up one of the other side by thrusting the foot before
him. But touching an opponent with the hand would have been
resented as an assault and insult. The best foot-ball players
were not the strongest men but the swiftest runners, as a
rule.
The practice of hazing freshmen during a few weeks after
their entering was carried on sometimes under circumstances
of a good deal of cruelty. One boy in my class was visited
by a party of sophomores, treated with a good deal of indignity,
and his feelings extremely outraged. He was attacked by a
fever shortly afterward of which he died. During his last
hours, in his delirium, he was repeating the scenes of this
visit to his room.
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