USA Today’s little decorative badge is trying to capture the national mood. How do you think they’re fairing?
I pedaled my bike to campus this morning. Here’s a part of my route, a nice clean path with neat little trees and curves:
And the second part of the route, a slightly wider path, upon which you can go at least four wide:
I found this print today, the first Indiana football team:
They played one game, this week in 1887, in fact. They lost, to Franklin College. That was their season, a tournament to determine the state champion. IU was coached by Arthur Woodward, an economist. A future state attorney general was on the team. Six teams took part in what was the first version of something closely similar to modern football in the state. The Indianapolis Athletic Club invited Butler, DePauw, Franklin, Hanover, Indiana and Wabash to play the October and November series in Indy. Wabash won it all. You like to think some old men in the middle of the 20th century were still reminding each other how they got the job done back in the eighties.
