Plucky Persian Plays Football

Sayad, the Persian football player here, is attracting a great deal of attention, both among the students and the coaches, by his peculiar and almost ridiculous behavior on the gridiron. He crouches on the ground like a cat, and springs forward into the plays like a fierce tiger. However, with all his aggressiveness, he "goes up against the real thing" when he lines up against the mighty Cunningham, and the fight between Persian and American is laughable in the extreme. Cunningham weighs over 200 pounds, and is the best center rush Michigan ever had, while Sayad strips at barely 180, and looks like a mere boy alongside the ' ' Doctor. ' '

The other evening the Persian became particularly ferocious, his black eyes glowed, and his swarthy skin took on a darker color, all because his repeated onslaughts were repulsed by the good natured "Doctor. " The Persian broke out with the threatening menace :

"I am very rough when I get mad, so look out, I will use you rough. "

This occasioned a burst of laughter from the coaches and the "side lines." The plucky little Persian shook his fist in the face of the big center, and play was resumed. Cunningham enjoyed the joke more than anyone else, and says it would not be such a joke if the Persian had a little more "meat, " as he was as tricky and lithe as a cat.