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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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84 On the Banks of the Boneyard strong men couldn't stand all of that nervous tension without reactions of various kinds taking place. One of my friends rested his head in his hands and exclaimed: "My God, what a dramatic finish!" 1 saw an officer from Chanute Field at Rantoul, Illinois, punch an Ohio man in the jaw in resentment for an insult to our team and the whole state of Illinois. I saw an Illinois doctor who was sick in his stomach making a mess of things. You may talk about the great days when the Poe boys were winning games for Princeton back in the 'go's; of Chicago's win by 2 to o over Michigan in 1905; of Princeton coming from behind and beating Chicago 21 to 18 in the last few minutes of play in 1922; or of Northwestern's win over Minnesota in the last quarter by a great score of 32 to 14 in 1931 you may have seen in any athletic contest anywhe I'll still believe that I saw the most thrilling finish, and experienced the most dramatic moment of them all when Illinois won that game at Columbus in 1919. We got out of the stadium only because Johnnie Jones kept his head and his sturdy strength. He secured a taxi and took our perspiring and wilted party back to the rooms of his rich chum "Torch" (t Mathe Finally Johnnie telegr luck dollars more I might have had." pockets great handfuls of money into the middle of his bed—when his emptied, all the other pocket and bed n pread Johnnie fraternities on which to build new houses—money which proud fathers had coonskin worse yet, borrowed to bet on a team couldn boy Johnnie Champaign stateroom with his friend "Torch." Where is tin to say that the spirit of adventure is dead ? The betting on this game became a college scandal; i universities in a class with the ordinary run of gamblers a d I M
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