English poem
Today’s Results
by Ring Lardner
This is another Saturday And many different teams will play. It is my duty to predict Which teams will win and which get licked; And also for to prophesy One single, solitary tie.
It looks to me as if the best Two teams in this here middle west Would give the Springfield fans a treat When Wittenberg and Earlham meet, And that school looks beat to me Which turned out Birch, the referee.
East Lansing bugs will see the game Between the Ags and Notre Dame ’Twill be a battle, but I am Obliged to favor Notre Dame. However, I’ll remain quite calm If M.A.C. beats Notre Dame.
The Purple boys must step a few To win their conflict with Purdue, Which hasn’t had much luck of late And by this time is desperate. I think Ohio State’s fast pace Will be a lot too fast for Case.
The Gophers will surprise this scribe If they don’t trim the Badger tribe, But they’ve surprised this scribe before, And perhaps they’ll shock this scribe once more. I’ll back them, though, for one thin dime, For class has got to tell some time.
I’m picking Stagg’s Maroons to tie Macomber’s men—I won’t tell why. But if they don’t, believe me, boy, ’Twill be no romp for Illinois. The Wolverines will brace and down The Quaker team from Quaker Town.
I think that W. and J. Will soundly trounce Ock’s team today. (Ock’s team, I might explain to thee, Is really Washington and Lee.) I believe that Amherst has a lot On Frankie Abbott’s Alma Mat’.
I say Cornell is in a class Above the rustic Ags from Mass., And that the Harvard gang’s defense Will stop the boys from Providence, And that a Tiger’s toe will do Some fatal damage to the Blue.
And if the teams that I have picked To win do one and all get licked; If victories are scored by Penn, Purdue and Yale and so forth; then Be sure to pan me; do not fail, I love to get a lot of mail.