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The glorious history of'U' class battles
The rise and fall of inter-class rivalries
Inter-class rivalries are
rare on today's campus. But
generations ago, freshmen
and sophomores would annu-
ally go head-to-head to see
which class was the stron-
gest, fastest and most limber.
Once a year, University
freshman and sophomore
men faced off in a tug-of-war
challenge across the Huron
River.
The contest, first held in
1890, remained a staple on
campus through the 1970s,
drawing crowds as large as
7,000.
The tug-of-war was a part
of the spring games, which
picked up popularity in 1917.
Prideful sophomores and
egocentric freshmen took
up posts on either side of the
Huron River to see which
class could drag the other
into the water.
The rules were simple: No
one could stand in more than
two feet of water. The first
team to successfully pull the
other into the water was the
winner. Often, the contest
lasted hours.
In 1913, captains of varsity
sports like football, baseball
and track acted as referees to
the rising underclassmen.
Before 1890, the sopho-
more class annually chal-
lenged the freshman class
to a football game during
the fall Greek rush. But the
student council deemed the
activity too hostile, and the
sophomore council suggested
the tug-of-war and a rugby
match instead.
The council was also
searching for a way to pro-
mote class spirit and rivalry
while avoiding the humilia-
tion of previous traditions.
Until 1906, the goalofevery
sophomore was to kidnap the
toastmaster - the freshman
who served as master of cer-
emonies at the spring fresh-
man banquet - then cut his
hair, further humiliate him
and return him too late to
fulfill his role.
Often freshmen would
retaliate, and the classes
would continually clash for
the remainder of the semes-
ter.
Other spring activities
included a pushball contest,
in which each class tried
to maneuver a massive ball
across a field; a military-
style relay obstacle race, and
a boulder contest in which
freshmen tried to sneak a
marked boulder onto a soph-
omore-guarded campus.
KATHERINE MITCHELL
- Information for this story
was gathered from documents
in the Bentley Historical Library.
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Deer slain on'U'
property will go
to feed needy
WHERE: Fresh Air Camp,
5644 Doyle, Pinckney
WHEN: Wednesday at
about 9:30 a.m.
WHAT: A man wandered
onto University property
with a shotgun and killed a
deer there, the Department
of Public Safety reported.
Police arrested the hunter
and confiscated his gun. The
deer's remains have been
donated to feed the needy.
Schwinn swiped
from bike rack
WHERE: East Quad Resi-
dence Hall
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WHEN: Wednesday at about
4:30 p.m.
WHAT: A red Schwinn
LeTour bicycle valued at
$150 was stolen from a bike
rack, DPS reported. Police
have no suspects.
Concerned caller,
alerts police to
lounge loiterer
WHERE: Mary Markley
Residence Hall lounge, 1503
Washington Heights
WHEN: Wednesday at about
2 p.m.
WHAT: Police were sent to
investigate reports of a tres-
passer, possibly a resident's
boyfriend, loitering on the
couch, DPS reported. When
officers arrived, the man had
already fled.
Kenyan music
and dance
WHAT: A concert featuring
Kenyan music and dance.
Tickets are $5 with a valid
student ID and $10 without
WHO: Internationally
renowned Kenyan band
Jabali Afrika
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt Cen-
ter, Video and Performance
Studio
Presentation on
sexual politics
and Hebrew
director of the Center for
Jewish Studies at the Grad-
uate Theological Union in
Berkeley, Calif.
WHEN: Today from 11 a.m.
to noon
WHERE: Mason Hall,
room G333
CORRECTIONS
" A caption on page 1B of
yesterday's Daily incorrectly
described the photos on the
page. Clockwise from top, the
photos depicted a Wii video
game controller, a PlaySta-
tion 3 and crowds gathering
around the Nintendo booth at
the Electronic Entertainment
Expo, a video game trade
show. The expo photos were
taken by Forest Casey.
The state recently slashed
funding for the Ann Arbor
Film Festival because the
films contained depictions
of sex acts, a violation of the
fesival's guidelines.
>>FOR MORE, SEE PAGE 5A
Even though no Ameri-
can cable networks
have picked up Al
Jazeera English, the Eng-
lish-language version of the
Arab news network, it will
be viewable worldwide on
the network's website.
It took 25 firefighters
and two family members
to rescue an Austrian
farmer whose 1,764 pound
cow called Lulu fell on him,
Reuters reported yesterday.
The farmer was airlifted to
the hospital.
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