1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

494 THE SCROLL.by reducing the defensive line from seven to six players, theforward pass is so hedged about by technicalities that it willhardly change the fortunes of any great game, and althoughthe penalties for rough playing are greatly increased, we canhardly expect the umpires to have any better eyesight thanin the past. If next season the players do not voluntarilyplay a cleaner game, and if the new rules do not work betterthan we expect them to, football is doomed in this country,and the rules committee, the umpires and the college captains,who uphold the existing regime, will have no one but themselvesto blame. Meanwhile, we are interested to note thatthe English "socker" game is gaining favor. — The Independent.THE MOST POPULAR COLLEGE SONG,If all the college men in the country, the graduates of thelast half dozen years and those now in college, were calledupon to vote as to what was the most popular song, it isprobable that the "Stein Song" would win by many hundredvotes. Few college men there are who do not know it, andthousands of them have sung it in all manner of places. Ithas a lilt and a swing to it that satisfies the college youth asfew songs will; its words express much that a college manfeels in that heydey time of his life.College men will tell you that none but college men couldhave written the words or the music of this song. Thewords were written by Richard Hovey, a graduate in theclass of 1885 at Dartmouth, and the music was composed byFrederic Field BuUard, of the class of r888 at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology.Hovey was a graduate of the Washington, D. C, publicschools. His mother was a widow. He was particularlyproficient in ancient languages, besides making a name forhimself in the English classics. He was an editor of collegepublications from his freshman year, and it was said of himthat when he was a senior he wrote nearly everything inmany of the issues of the publications to which he was attached,from the poetry to the alumni notes.Some of the verses he wrote while in college have a leadingplace in the college's books of verse, and among these thereis nothing finer than the song he wrote for his own class, beginningEighty-five, thy name is as a cheer."