Life, 1925-11-19 · page 37 of 40
Life — November 19, 1925 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes the experience of taking a woman to a college football game (apparently Harvard, based on the opening cheers). The main comic article is a dialogue between an exasperated male companion and his date, "Myrtle," who asks naive questions throughout the game: she doesn't understand why fans yell before play begins, confuses the referee and umpire, and asks why players would cheat. The satire targets both Myrtle's ignorance of sports and the male companion's condescending, increasingly frustrated explanations. The humor relies on period gender stereotypes—the assumption that women find football incomprehensible and tedious, caring more about socializing (mentioning Marjorie White and George's new coat) than the game itself. The page is otherwise dominated by advertisements (Bayer Aspirin, Barbosol shaving cream, Horlick's milk), typical of Life magazine's format.
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