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...greater class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...
...another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
Almost everybody turned out to the oak-covered slope where a semicircle of seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...
...lineups: HARVARD TABOR Anderson, g rfb. Leo Rogers, rfb' lfb. Roubsud Buttrick, lfb rhb, Lawrence Willett, rhb chb, Kirkbride Dean, chb lhb, Bean Armstrong, lhb ro, P. Gomes Joyce, re ri, Maunsell Beer, ri of, Browne Pollak, cf li, Knight Vollenweider, ii to, Tassinari Noble, le to, Tassinari...