Good Send Off Given The Team

GOOD SEND OFF

GIVEN THE TEAM

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The largest crowd ever leaving this town for the annual Chicago game, left this morning on two special trains. The first left at 9:30 and the second at 10:30. On each train was reserved a coach for the ladies and faculty members. Nearly a thousand people occupied the two trains, and a crowd of several thousand was at the depot to give the excursionists a good send-off. When the team came to the depot the students lined up in two rows facing each other, and the team ran the gauntlet from the depot to the last coach, which was reserved for the players. As the "Backwoodsmen" passed through they were cheered by six different sections of the line, as soon as one section left off, the other taking it up. The team arrived in Chicago this afternoon and went immediately to the Victoria Hotel, where a half hour was devoted to light practice. The game begins tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, and reports will be received at the opera house.