Fordham Plays a Slugging Game For half an hour before the first section of the special pulled out, the Gridley Band played its liveliest tunes.

A part of the time the band played accompaniment to the school airs, which the crowd took up with lively spirit.
There is a peculiar enthusiasm which attaches to the Thanksgiving Day game.

This is due partly to the extra holiday spirit of the affair.

Then, too, there is the high tension that precedes the last game of the season.
With a team that has won every game to that point, yet often with great difficulty, the tension of spirits is even higher.
As the first section of the special rolled in at the railway station the part of the crowd that was "going" began to break up into groups headed for the different parts of the train.
Herr Schimmelpodt went, of course, to the car that carried the team.

The boys wouldn't have been satisfied to start or to travel without him.