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It was a long list, containing the names, ages, heights, and weights of thirty-six players and substitutes, and was immediately the center of interest to all. "Thunder!" growled Joel ruefully, as he finished reading the list over Blair's shoulder, "it's a thumpin' long ways down to me!" "Harwell, Harwell, Harwell! Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell!"
Presently the head of the procession, but dimly visible to him through the mist, turned in at the gate, the monster flag of royal purple, with its big white E, drooping wet and forlorn on its staff. They were cheering again now, and Sydney whispered an accompaniment behind the collar of his coat: "Erskine! Erskine! Erskine! Rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah! Erskine! Erskine! Erskine!"
"Glory, glory for the Crimson, Glory, glory for the Crimson, Glory, glory for the Crimson, For this is Harwell's day," sang the throng. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" thundered the big drum. "Tootle-toot!" shrilled the fife. "Now, fellows, three times three, three long Harwells, and three times three!" shouted the master of ceremonies hoarsely. "Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell! Harwell!
Eustace contingent gives them a royal welcome, and West and Cooke and Somers and others take their places in front of the seats and lead the cheering. "Rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah, Hillton!" The mighty chorus sweeps across the campus and causes more than one player's heart to swell within him. "S-E-A, S-E-A, S-E-A, Saint Eustace!"
He felt a lump growing in his throat, and to keep down the tears that for some reason were creeping into his eyes, he let drive at a ball that came bumping toward him and kicked it so hard that Selkirk had to chase it half down the field. "Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell! Harwell! Harwell! Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell!"
The cheering, which had ceased as the boats left the start, now began again as they approached the finish of the first quarter of the course. "Rah-rah-rah; rah-rah-rah; rah-rah-rah, Hillton!" rang out from the right bank. "S, E, A; S, E, A; S, E, A; Saint Eustace!" replied the left bank with a defiant roar of sound that was caught by the hills and flung back in echoes across the water.
"College boys!" exclaimed Susie Sharp in an impatient undertone. "College boys, and the worst of their kind. They're noisy nuisances!" "So far as any other guest has been able to discover they haven't any manners," Belle added. Then, espying the girls and their guests the rah-rah-rah boys came briskly up the veranda. "Good evening, Miss Meade!" called one of them, lifting his hat.
And through it all the cheers went on, the college songs were sung, and the hearts of youth and age were happy and glad together. Then the cry of "Here they come!" traveled along the field, and the blue-clad warriors leaped into the arena at the far end, and the east stand went delirious, and flags waved, and a tempest shook the bank of violets. "Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Yates!"
Rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah, rah-rah-rah! Erskine! Erskine! Erskine!" It was repeated over and over, and might, perhaps, have been sounding yet had not the Robinson players, sturdy, brown-clad youths, ambled onto the field. Then it was Robinson's turn to make a noise, and she made it; there's no doubt about that. "Rah-rah-rah! Robinson! Rah-rah-rah! Robinson! Rah-rah-rah! Robinson! Robinson!
"Why, it talks!" cried one of the rah-rah-rah fellows, in mock astonishment. "Just like a human being!" added a third. "Wonder what these animals are doing here?" propounded another.
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