1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 23lackers become the attacked, there is always the possibility that thehalfback in possession of the ball, when about to be tackled willpass it twenty yards or so to where the flying half slightly to the rearbut free of the scrimmage is waiting to receive it, and he will make adodging run for a touch-down and five points are added amid thefrantic cheers of his schoolmates. Even the latest Norfolk-jacketed,monocled, staring, younger son, who has come out to wrest a fortunefrom the "colonies", will wave his stick and emit a strange hoarsenoise—until he suddenly remembers himself and subsides again intoshocked silence. Then as in the American game a free kick is tried,which if successful adds one more to the score.It might be taken from this description that the Canadian game isfaultless—not by any means—it has many faults; the most prominentof which are the heeling back, and the hazy conception of any definiteformation.Canadian football is interesting, exciting, and highly spectacular.Compare in popular interest, the Toronto-McGill game last fall,where Toronto sadly beaten in the first three quarters, came frombehind in the last quarter by brilliant end runing and won 26 to 22,to the Princeton-Harvard or Yale-Princeton games, where an inferiorteam won by a single score and that a fumble. Which wouldyou prefer to witness?And so when the young man from N'Yawk drifts up to sampleCanadian Club and Old Mull in their native fastnesses, so to speak,and warmed by the cup that cheers, condescendingly explains to thehospitable "Canuck", what a damnfool game your football is, maythe Canuck be pardoned for permitting a slight superior smile torest upon his visage. I think so.JAMES MULLINS, Dartmouth,PHI BETA K1\PPA, MOTHER OF FRATERNITIESThe first Society of American origin with a Greek-letter name was*BK founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary inVirginia. Before that time a Society known as P D A existed there.Scarcely anything about it is known, but these letters are understoodto be the initials of Latin words.The College of William and Mary was opened in 1693, and, exceptingHarvard University, it is the oldest collegiate institution inAmerica. Among those who were educated at William and Marywere Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and John Tyler;Benjamin Harrison, Carter Braxton, Thomas Nelson and GeorgeWythe, all Signers of the Declaration of Independence; PeytonRandolph, first President of the Continental Congress; EdmundRandolph, Attorney General and Secretary of State; John Blair,Justice, and John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States SupremeCourt. The list of others is much too long to be quoted here.'14.