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...University of Pennsylvania the next night, before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept 300 cops busy untangling traffic and quelling the mob. Pennsylvania's President George McClelland suspended three riot leaders, said sternly: "With thousands of veterans crying for a chance at a college education, there is no room on the nation's campuses for the current epidemic of disorders...
...they hang for the rest of the ride. As this handy appendage is frequently the collar of another Eli who in turn is hanging over the side of the car, it is possible to make the mile and a half trip to the Bowl without ever actually touching the trolley...
...swings Tarzan-style from Yale to Yale in an effort to collect his fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...
Numerous small boys on the street contribute to the confusion by calling "scramble," a cry calculated to bring a hail of currency from the passing trolley to be "scrambled" for by the eager bystanders, the resulting fracas being about as mild and gentle as a Boston College-Georgia Tech football game...
Actually, it is much quicker to walk to and from the Bowl, but any individual reckless enough to try it might get caught in a "scramble" or run down by a fast-charging trolley...