“Make it snappy! Just as you’re going to root for the team tomorrow! Everybody in on it! One-two-three-go!
“Yea—Lions! Fight, fight, fight!
Yea—Lions! Fight, fight, fight!
Yea—Lions! Fight, fight, fight!”
“Now the Big Four yell for the team! One, two, three, four!
“T—T—T—T
E—E—E—E
A—A—A—A
M!
Yea—Team!
Fight, fight, fight!”
A different lad led the school next in one of their rally songs which they sang with a will:
“What’s the matter with Lyon High?
Right, all right!
What’s the matter with our team?
Watch them fight!
“No luck for the Eagles; that came last year.
We’ll show them a seat in the distant rear!
What’s the matter with Lions?
They’re all right!”
As may be gathered, this occasion was the last Pep Assembly before the game with the Lions’ most competent enemy, the “Eagles,” of the rival city high school. Again the championship was to be determined. They had lost it the year before. This year the team would “do or die” and the rooters expected to be out in force. Accustomed as they all were to this organized method, of arousing enthusiasm, feeling was not hard to stir this morning, from the very facts of the situation. It might do, as the boys said, to “get a licking once; but never twice!”
Artistically and athletically the cheer leaders tore about, doing their various prepared stunts, rehearsed especially for this occasion. Budd, who was announcing the program so easily, had once been timid about public appearance, but in the course of three years and more at Lyon High, with all its organizations and efforts in the public eye, he had gotten bravely over his timidity. Presently he was announcing a speech from the assistant principal, Mr. Franklin, who was particularly interested in the school athletics and often took part in the faculty-versus-student games. His speech was brief and good.
“You need not be afraid that the team will be over-confident,” said he, among other things. “Last year’s experience will be a reminder to those who were on the team and to the new material as well. On the other hand, neither will they suffer the handicap of being fearful. They have a record of success this fall. Be there to boost them with your confidence. The new men this year are not without experience. The quarterback that came to us from Kentucky ranks along with Freddy Fisher or the boy you all knew as the Don.” Here the speaker was interrupted with loud applause, intended for “Kentucky” and the memories of Freddy and Ramon who had led Lyon High to victory more than once.