The Southern California
Rev. Selecman to Speak
Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, December 7, 1916
No. 43
BE UP AGAINST OPEN
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Trojan Squad Working to Baffle Arizona With New, Open-Field Formation
Can You Mend a Broken Neck?
Boy Scout Class is Taught How
First aid to a man who has sustained a broken wrist, a sprained knee, and a cracked skull is being demonstrated to the boy scout class by Scout Master D. W. Pollard. Mr. Pollard is seen standing at the
extreme right. Both the “good Samaritans” and their victims are members of the new class organized by Bernhard Oertley, and candidates for the rank of scout master.
WORKS WELL IN SCRIMMAGE
Comes From the East, Where It Has Been Used With Much Success
Phoenix football fans will have an opportunity of seeing some spectacular, open-style playing next Saturday, December 9, when the Trojans meet the University of Arizona on the lat-ter’s field, in the game which will ring down the curtain on the 1916 season.
All this week the Trojan eleven has been working on an open formation which is expected to completely baffle the Arizona defense. From this formation almost any play can be started, and it is impossible for the opposing team to know what to expect, whether a line buck, an end run. or a forward pass.
In the practice scrimmages this week, the play has worked with great success. Even with the knowledge of wliat play is to be worked, the team on the defensive always is unable to keep their opponents from advancing the ball.
This formation has been worked with a great deal of success by cerT tain eastern universities, and Coach Cromwell thinks that it should gain niucli yardage against the Arizona team.
WEARY CAST SLEEPS BETWEEN CUES, BLACK COFFEE INEFFECTIVE
Play Is Typical of Empire Period Which Came Shortly After Revolution
USHERS TO BE IN COSTUME
Costuming and Stage Setting Is Not Small Feature of Evening’s Performance
Everything from how to tie a bow knot to how to repair a broken neck is included in the boy scout director's court, recently installed at U. S. C. by Mr. D. W. Pollard. So says Bern-hard Oertley, Y. M. C. A. president, who was instrumental in bringing the new course to the university. Thirty-five men are registered in the class, according to Oertley.
Mr. Pollard, who has had a great deal of experience in boy scout work both in this city and elsewhere, has already given his class some instruction in the rudiments of military tactics and first aid. He will emphasize
the latter subject particularly, according to the Y. M. C. A. president. He will then take up the matter of camp pitching, camp sanitation, camp cooking, best methods in “hiking,” going into the matter of the distances boys of various ages can walk without exhaustion, knots and cordage, rough carpentering and athletic training. All this he intends to teach to his class in the one year that the course is given.
Those who complete Mr. Pollard’s class, says Oertly, will be fully qualified to go into boy scout work with the rank of scout master.
MANY SELECTIONS
TO BE RENDERED!
The College of Music will hold its public recital in the chapel at 3:45 this afternoon. The program, which will be in charge of Miss Lillian Back-strand, is composed of the following numbers: “Prelude in C Minor,” by Kachmainnoff, Miss Dorothy White;
I Hid My Love,” by D’Hardelot, Mis-; Madeline Webb; a piano solo, "Soaring,” by Schumann, Miss Mel-zena Stephens; “A Spirit Flower,” by Campbell Tipton, Miss Marion Fur-I'er; "Nocturne in D flat,” by Aren-ski, Mrs. Lillian Ayers; “Love’s Epi tome Miss Wisl Cub
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SOCIOLOGISTS PRINT
by Mary Turner Salter and Margaret Dick; “The Maiden’s by C'hopin-Liszt, Miss Mabel r; "Etude,” by Arenski, Mr. Casebeer; “The Lass With the ite Air,” by Dr. Arne, Miss *>iu-11.11 McQuinn; “Lotus Land," by Cyril Scott. Miss Lucy Smith; organ Miss Florence Benedict.
Basketball Squads of Varsity Lose to Foothillers, Score of 30 to 20
Two Trojan basketball squads spent a rather unfortunate evening at Hollywood on Tuesday night, the varsity team losing to the Foothillers by a score of 30 to 20, while the second team was defeated 30 to 24 by the Hollywood scrubs.
The defeat is no cause for discouragement, however, as the Hollywood team is composed of experienced players, and is regarded as the best "prep” team in Southern California. | The Trojan team, on the other hand. ! is still in the process of construction, 'and has not as yet hit its real stride.
Former S. C. Student Is Author of Important Treatise On Road Fatalities in California
“One hour of sleep last night” was the report of the junior play cast on Wednesday. The night might have been spent in quibbling over the proper hand with which to receive a snuff box, or in admiration of the pale blue and rose costumes of the Empire period; but the cast says it was spent in work that was too hard to talk about. Before the end of the night certain members learned to sleep between cues. A midnight lunch of black coffee and sandwiches was served. All this happened after a day of drudgery at the Gamut club, where the cast is now rehearsing. Miss Cloyde Dalzell, the coach, entertained the members of the cast at dinner last night.
The play is typical of the Empire period which came shortly after the Revolution. An individual touch is given to the play by Dolly Todd, a Quakeress. Her character is portrayed by Ella Mayo, leading lady.
Much attention has been given to the stage setting and costuming. Harvey Wendt, as James Madison, and Harold Brewster, as Aaron Burr, are typical gentlemen of a past age. The “First Lady of the Land” is a comedy, in which two of the principal characters live happily ever after.
At the very door of the theatre the play-goer will be put in touch with the atmosphere of the play. Junior girls in Quaker costumes will usher.
That Los Angeles county is guilty of sixty per cent of the yearly highway accidents occurring in the state of California, is one of numerous interesting statements in the latest publication of the Southern California Sociological society. “Causes of Fatal Accidents on Highways” is the title of the society’s monograph for December .and it is the w'ork of William Smith, a graduate student in the department of sociology.
Mr. Smith, who completed this thesis in the sociological seminar last summer, lias all but exhausted (Continued on Page 4)
HAL' HUGHES IS
MADE SERGEANT
Corporal Hughes is now Sergeant Hughes. Fast has been the upward progress of Sergeant Hughes since lie left the name of plain Hal Hughes behind him. He received his latest appointment at the hands of Captain Baum, instructor in advertising in the University. His appoiument will be confirmed by Major McReynolds by December 9.
The organization to which Sergeant Hughes belongs is Company 21, Coast Artillery, a reserve force for the protection of the Los Angeles harbor.
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