Judge — October 20, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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The acrobat who lost his ticket, but who is willing to take it out in trade, —_ The 100 Best Tricks in Football X.—The Varsity Crab or Thun- der Salute. This play is so called be- cause all of the contestants come from the mountainous regions .of Florida and may be play number of persons up to si special parlor car accommoda- tions on Saturdays and the Fourth of July. members of both teams gather ina circle, with the referee The house divided against itself just has to stand it. and his two small brothers in the center. They all take hold hands and count up to 30 or 40, and the first one to drop his potato is “it,” and must let the captain of the opposing team take his swifty out on the golf course for no less than twenty minutes during the foot- ball dance that night. When all of the players ha finished b ast, they run to the other side of the cage, and after this concoction has been allowed to stand in a moderate temper- ature for about twenty-four hours you can give it to your best friend, and he'll never tell you, Some people like to add a touch of bit- ters and a pinch of lemon, but the results are usually the same,unless the inquest is held too soon after the sun crosses the meridia The idea of the play is to get all the members of the opposing team ine tated in a gentle- manly way, and the most common method cmployed is for each player to start swapping stor with his opponent at the begin- ning of the quarter. The home team having attended training table three meals a day for the last week, has a supply that would knock a traveling salesman cold in five minutes, and before th 1 of the first down get to laughing so n't do a thing. re rolling around on the greensward in semi-hys- terics, knickers, and what-nots, the first baseman grabs the ball, hops on his bicycle and gallops down the field for two or three field-goals and a victory for the dear old Black and Blue team. —Ricnarn S, Watracr comicbooks.com