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Are You Whipped Before the Game Starts? Tell the Wide World Your Reply, Indiana
Indiana faces a challenge in the events of this week." ARE YOU GOING TO SUPPORT THE TEAM AGAINST PURDUE SATURDAY OR ARE YOU GOING TO LIEDOWN, QUITTERS BEFORE THE FIRST GUN IS FIRED?"
Page's men go against one of the most dangerous foes of the season in the Boilermakers, traditional enemies of the Crimson, in the last game of the year. BUT THUS FAR THIS WEEK THE TEAM HAS RECEIVED NO MORAL BACKING FROM THE STUDENT BODY WHATSOEVER!
The campus is dead! Coach Page has accusedteam and students of being asleep, of being beaten before the game starts, of not realizing that we go into our hardest game Saturday. A survey of the situation on the campus since the first of the week shows that the Crimson footballmentor was correct in his assertion.
Though the team played one of the best games it has played all season and turned back a strong foe Saturday,the student body remainsindifferent to the fact that the last game looms only two days ahead. With a few notable exceptions, student topics of discussion this week have been on matters of minor importance and a visitor on the campus scarcely would know we had a team. Following the statement by Page Tuesday, The Student reporters verified his words in every case.
WHERE IS THE INDIANA SPIRIT OF OLD WHICH HAS SENT INDIANA TEAMS OUT TO RUN OVER TRADITIONAL FOES BY DECISIVE SCORES? It is high time that we come out of our lethargy and get backof the team with a true spirit of do or die, and not a boisterous “rah rah” sort of enthusiasm that comes from getting the crowd together. What Indiana needs at that game Saturdayis not a bunch of passive spectators but a backing of rooters, determined that we will win, if necessary even a snarling, mad crew of fighters.
Page has pointed out that it is spirit which will win the game. The team may be doped to be better or not so goodas Phelan's outfit, whichever way you choose to look at it.But dope will not win this game. Neither will sitting aboutand meditating that we have a chance put the game on ice.FIGHT, JUST HONEST-TO-GOD FIGHT, WILL WINAGAINST PURDUE!
If we can not get behind the team (and getting whole-heartedly behind it means that we will win the game) thenlet us disband our splendid coaching staff, one of the best ever assembled at Indiana. Let us abandon the team, packthe moleskins and the pigskins away in moth balls or embalming fluid and devote ourselves entirely to the pursuit of dancing, ping-pong and like pastimes, leaving those in other schools who have the manliness and the “intestinalfortitude" to play and back football, admittedly the greatest American college sport.
PAGE ASKS YOU A POINTED QUESTION! AREYOU WHIPPED BEFORE THE GAME STARTS?'' IT DEMANDS AN ANSWER, NOT IN WORDS ALONE, BUT INDEEDS AS WELL! WHAT DO YOU SAY, INDIANA?
