from Old Penn, April 25, 1903.
There are many who do not like the rougher element in athletics, which finds its vent in bowl fights, cane rushes and such diversions which are peculiar to sophomore and freshmen classes, and have been from ancient days. There are others who are so constituted that they enjoy them. The former class would not have liked the bowl fight that took place on the old athletic field on Tuesday afternoon. It was a real fight, unquestionably exciting, and for the first time in several years, and the second in the history of the contest, the freshman class won a decisive victory over the sophomores. The first half was very quickly decided by the sensational high dive, head foremost over the picket fence, of Frederick R. Yost, the bowl man, who was rushed through the sophomore lines by his class. The second half was fiercely contested, the number of individual wrestling matches going on at one time in the field being larger than usual. When the count of hands on the bowl was made at the end of the second half, thirty-six freshmen and only eighteen sophomore hands were found, which gave the decision to 1906. In these "fights" any student using clenched fists is generally forced out of the University. The contest is one of wrestling, and it is very seldom that any serious injuries are sustained by the participants. The contest this year showed evident plan and generalship on the part of the freshman class.