Judge, 1922-11-04 · page 22 of 36
Judge — November 4, 1922 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a satirical page from *Judge* magazine dedicating a football-themed jab to three college coaches/figures associated with rival universities: 1. **Tad Jones** (Yale) - shown training a bulldog with tricks involving tearing holes in colored trousers, likely mocking his coaching methods as crude or destructive. 2. **Bob Fisher** (Harvard) - joked about wanting to turn Yale's bulldog into a "hot dog" (destroyed) and Princeton's tiger into a "parlor rug" (defeated/humiliated). 3. **Bill Roper** (Princeton) - humorously portrayed as determined to prevent the tiger from being "roasted" on the gridiron—meaning he'll protect Princeton's football team from defeat. The satire targets college football rivalries of the era, mocking coaches' methods and competitive pride through animal mascot wordplay. The "pigskin" reference is football itself.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
To Tad Jones of New Haven, who_has_ been teaching his Bull Dog a lot of new tricks, the principal one of which is to tear holes in Red and Yellow and Black trou- sers Please Pass the Pigskin! To Bob Fisher of Cam- bridge, whose ambition is to make hot dog of the Bull Dog and a parlor rug of the Tiger To Bill Roper, that prince of Princeton, whose pride it is to see that the Tiger shall not be roasted upon the gridiron