Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - Illinois Magazine Selections #1 (1923) [PAGE 7]

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__ ,^.w ^.v**i &^D ai uie annual meet of the i'^'vwuiyvaou litr^ciy oi alumni, Western Intercollegiate Athletic association the regent was forced to sit silently and to *ame fall. The game at first was viewed merely : 7^ &f H» [ ,,vP • (hive passionate students road a hiswith curiosity, but only two years lat r it had suri a very kind one—of his relations passed baseball in popularity. I tie uncle] raduates of his University. In the Intercollegiate, entries were made in hearing, the trustees spent a whole or tl oratory as well as in athletics. Such schools as ernoon In debating the case. They eventually Illinois college, Illinois Wesleyan, and Monmouth decic d that the riot caused by the students was competed. Even in 1892, however, the University unintentional but that the faculty had acted wise- of Illinois had found that the smaller schools wer< 1 in expelling the two captains. They declared it no longer in her class. Illinois carried away to be their opinion that the instigators of the riot every meet with such an overwhelming number of had been unacquainted with the University rules, points that it was growing tiresome. By 1895 defithat iey should be exonerated, and that the two nite steps had been taken toward the establishment fcffic rs should be reinstated. Technically this was a of the present Conference, though Illinois was victory for the faculty; actually it was a humiliat- seeking bigger games as early at 1892. ingjdefeat. The Illini ran a picture of a soldier and Another interesting event was the athletic field a crowing rooster in the first issue after the day held in the spring of the year. This was a decision. strictly intramural affair. Aside from the legitiesigne mate events, there were three-legged races, barrel the campus he received one more insult from the races and pie-eating contests. Local merchants students. The new armory, now the Gym Annex, offered prizes. T a the winner they presented', in ad just been completed, and the floor was ideal lieu of bay leaves, such treasures as salad bowls, for dancing. The regent insisted, however, that buggy whips and carpet slippers. there was an unwritten law that no dances should The rules of sportsmanship had not yet pfebe held in buildings owned by the state of Illinois, sented themselves to the college mind. At every id S in spite of the fact that the inaugural ball at game of baseball, the spectators crowded up to the Springfield was often held in the capitol. very base lines. In the football season, they stood Just at the close of the year, a group of prombeneath the goal posts; and if their own team were inent students entered the new building, accomhaving a hard time holding the line, sympathetic panied by young women and an orchestra. They used beer bottles for candle-holders; and to give (Continued on Page Eight)

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